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JAPAN: SHIKOKU ISLAND
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Embracing Defeat, Japan in the Wake of WWII
• John W. Dower
HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 676 PAGES
A social and political history of Japan during the postwar occupation, mixing analysis, reporting, popular culture and straight-forward narrative history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, it's an eye-opening account by a leading scholar of Japanese-American relations at MIT. With 80 photographs and illustrations, including some terrific cartoons and other cultural artifacts from the period.
(JPN54, $19.95) |
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Everyday Life in Traditional Japan
• Charles J. Dunn
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2008 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
Filled with photographs and black and white illustrations, this book evokes traditional Edo Japan (1603-1868) with marvelous detail. A vibrant portrayal of all walks of life: authentic samurai, farmers, courtiers, priests, outcasts and merchants.
(JPN331, $16.95) |
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The Gardens of Japan
• Teiji Itoh
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
1998 •
HARD COVER
• 244 PAGES
A beautifully illustrated overview of the history and tradition of Japanese gardens featuring 75 color photographs, accompanying essays by professor Itoh (with Donald Richie) and a guide to 50 of Japan's best-known gardens.
(JPN38, $60.00) |
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Hiroshima
• John Hersey
HISTORY •
1989 •
PAPER
• 152 PAGES
This classic book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, first published in 1946, puts a human face on the unthinkable. Hersey explores the tragedy through interviews with residents, scientists and politicians.
(JPN20, $7.95) |
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Japanese Culture
• Paul Varley
HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 383 PAGES
A popular introduction to Japanese history and culture for undergraduates, expanded for this fourth edition. In this admirably succinct book, Valery traces cultural trends from the emergence of Japanese civilization through the present age, touching on religion, gardens, tea ceremony, the visual arts, theatre, literature and cinema. With black-and-white photographs throughout.
(JPN84, $24.00) |
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The Japanese Tea Garden
• Marc Peter Keane
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2009 •
HARD COVER
• 296 PAGES
Almost every Japanese garden is influenced by the tea garden. In this beautifully designed volume, Keane describes the history, design and aesthetics of tea gardens from T'ang China to present day Japan, with over one hundred photographs, garden plans and illustrations.
(JPN422, $59.95) |
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The Makioka Sisters
• Tanizaki Junichiro
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 530 PAGES
The story of a merchant family in prewar Osaka and the struggle of four beautiful sisters to maintain their position in society after the death of their parents, also made into a delightful film by Ichikawa. Janichiro evokes old Osaka and the relationship amonghte sisters in rich detail.
(JPN41, $16.00) |
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Memoirs of a Geisha, A Novel
• Arthur Golden
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 434 PAGES
The runaway bestseller by a middle-aged white academic who, in this lyrical first novel, effectively impersonates Sayuri, a formidable geisha in the celebrated Gion district of Kyoto in the years before WWII. A major feat of literary impersonation, the novel is rich in period detail and ceremony. Sayuri's rise from humble rural beginnings to practically goddess-hood is all the more poignant because of the contrast with her not-so-pretty or talented sister, also sold into servitude, who becomes instead a prostitute in a bad part of town.
(JPN45, $15.95) |
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Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
• Nobuyuki Yuasa
• Basho Matsuo
LITERATURE •
1967 •
PAPER
• 178 PAGES
These marvelous prose-and-poetry sketches by the famous poet wanderer Basho (1644-94) invoke the mysteries of the cosmos manifest in the Japanese landscape. The haiku included are acknowledged some of the best ever composed. He concludes his masterpiece with: "In this little book of travel is included everything under the sky -- not only that which is hoary and dry but also that which is young and colorful, not only that which is strong and imposing but also that which is feeble and ephemeral."
(JPN91, $14.00) |
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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-East Asia
• Shimba Tadao
FIELD GUIDE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 512 PAGES
This comprehensive guide, featuring 800 color photo-graphs, up-to-date range maps and identification, covers the birds of not only Japan but also neighboring mainland Korea, Northeast China and Eastern Siberia.
(JPN264, $40.00) |
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South of the Border, West of the Sun
• Haruki Murakami
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) stirs jazz, neon-lit streets, out of the way shrines, hustle and bustle and wonder into this lyrical tale of love lost and found, marvelously set in contemporary Tokyo.
(JPN213, $14.95) |
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Untangling My Chopsticks, A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
• Victoria Abbott Riccardi
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
The appetizing memoir of Victoria Abbott Riccardi's experiences in Kyoto, where she studied the ancient culinary art of kaiseki, the ritual which precedes the Japanese tea ceremony. Riccardi writes with a good-natured humor that could only come from someone who has fought the uphill battle of learning the local language from scratch, and a wide-eyed appreciation for all that she learned about Japanese culture, history, and, of course, food. She includes 25 recipes for traditional and less traditional Japanese dishes.
(JPN135, $19.00) |
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Ways of Forgetting, Japan in the Modern World
• John W. Dower
HISTORY •
2011 •
HARD COVER
• 240 PAGES
• COMING IN JUNE
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Dower (Embracing Defeat) takes a probing look at key moments in the relationship between Japan and the United States in the 20th century, focusing on Japanese perceptions of our complex history.
(JPN417, $26.95) |
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