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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXJPN108)		  
The Art and Culture of Japan  •  Nelly Delay
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 160 PAGES
Lavishly illustrated, this handy pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series introduces the art, architecture and culture of Japan. With 165 archival and modern illustrations and a section of original documents. (JPN51, $12.95)		   The Art and Culture of Japan
Tokyo, A View of the City  •  Donald Richie
GUIDEBOOK •  1999 •  PAPER  • 142 PAGES
A wonderfully impractical guide to Tokyo -- Richie's home for the last 50 years, and a city he describes with affection as "an illogical, subtle, brash, teeming and utterly human place." Richie structures his essays as a geographic tour of the city, starting from its core at the Imperial Palace and branching out to surrounding neighborhoods. He digresses boldly, stopping frequently to consider the culture, history and fabric of the city. With evocative black-and-white photographs by Joel Sackett. (JPN90, $25.00)		   Tokyo, A View of the City
In Praise of Shadows  •  Junichiro Tanizaki
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2010 •  PAPER  • 73 PAGES
This essay by the great Japanese novelist, first published in 1933, offers tremendous insight into Japanese aesthetics. It's an earthy meditation on traditional Japanese art, architecture and design. Most illuminating. (JPN19, $16.00)		   In Praise of Shadows
Tokyo Map  •  Borch Maps
2005 •  MAP
A folded, laminated map of Tokyo at a scale of 1:17,000. Two Sides. 26x20 inches. (JPN102, $7.95)		   Tokyo Map
Kyoto Map  •  Periplus Maps
2003 •  MAP
Designed for the traveler, this convenient map includes detailed information on Old Kyoto -- an invaluable guide for exploring the city on your own. It shows different sections of Kyoto and surrounding areas at a variety of scales, ranging from 1:12,000 to 1:500,000. Two Sides. 20x38 inches. (JPN27, $8.95)		   Kyoto Map
Japan, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Jeffrey Angles
ANTHOLOGY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
This marvelous anthology, organized geographically, is both an introduction to Japan and to its contemporary writers. Donald Richie underscores Japan as a small place of great diversity in his appreciative foreword. (JPN187, $14.95)		   Japan, A Traveler's Literary Companion



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70 Japanese Gestures  •  Hamiru-aqui   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A clever guide to body language and slang in Japan as demonstrated in 70 witty black-and-white photographs and explanatory text. (JPN193, $9.95)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Japan  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Dazzling illustrations, architectural cutaways and color photographs, along with useful local maps, give this guide to Japan's many attractions a distinct edge. (JPN130, $28.00)
 		  
Fodor's Tokyo's 25 Best  •  Fodor's Guides   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN JUNE  •  A shirt-pocket map and practical guide. (JPN05, $11.99)
 		  
Japan Bilingual Map  •  Kodansha International   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This full-color double-sided map includes the entirety of Japan at a scale of 1:500,000, as well as individual maps of Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, Nagoya and Fuji-Hakone. (JPN209, $14.95)
 		  
Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook  •  Yoshi Abe   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy palm-sized guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (JPN136, $8.99)
 		  
Old Kyoto, A Guide to Traditional Shops and Inns  •  Diane Durston   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Wonderful, elegant essays on carefully chosen shops, often in out-of-the-way neighborhoods. (JPN24, $22.00)
 		  
A Traveller's History of Japan  •  Richard Tames   • HISTORY  •  A lively and concise narrative history of Japan and its transformation from Shinto, Shogun and Samurai traditions to 20th-century powerhouse. (JPN09, $14.95)
 		  
Inventing Japan, 1853-1964  •  Ian Buruma   • HISTORY  •  A favorite writer with keen insight about Japan, Buruma offers an admirably succinct, dramatic history of Japan's transformation from feudal state to host of the 1964 Olympics, with a focus on World War II. (JPN139, $12.95)
 		  
Kyoto, A Cultural History  •  John Dougill   • HISTORY  •  A rich portrait and guide to the gardens, monasteries, art, history and culture of Kyoto, once Japan's capital, founded 1,200-years ago. (JPN178, $19.99)
 		  
The Book of Tea  •  Kakuzo Okakura   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A graceful, witty meditation on Japanese aesthetics and culture as reflected through the tea ceremony. A celebrity and cultural ambassador, Okakura was a curator at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. (JPN21, $9.95)
 		  
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan  •  Christopher Benfey   • HISTORY  •  The fascinating tale of a tightly-knit group of late Victorian travelers, scientists and adventurers dedicated to the idea of Japan. (JPN138, $16.00)
 		  
Unsui, A Diary of Zen Monastic Life  •  Giei Sato   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The daily life of the monastery as depicted in 97 watercolor sketches. Giei Sato looks back at his time as an apprentice with warmth and grace. (JPN145, $22.00)
 		  
Japanese Art  •  Joan Stanley-Baker   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Concise, thoroughly illustrated and comprehensive, this handsome book in the "World of Art" series is a fine survey of Japanese art from the prehistoric period to modern Japan. With 167 illustrations. (JPN08, $19.95)
 		  
Japanese Garden Design  •  Marc P. Keane  •  Haruzo Ohashi   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An illustrated introduction to the aesthetics and meanings of Japanese gardens. It relates the social, religious and historical contexts to landscape and garden design. (JPN52, $30.00)
 		  
Shibori, The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing Tradition Techniques Innovation  •  Yoshiko Wada   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This book introduces techniques perfected by the Japanese in relation to shibori. (JPN78, $48.00)
 		  
Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles  •  Matilda McQuaid  •  Cara McCarty   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A celebration of recent trends in Japanese textile art. (JPN79, $29.95)
 		  
The Art of the Japanese Garden  •  Michiko Kimura Young  •  David Young   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An illustrated profile of aristocratic gardens, graveled courtyards, Zen and other Japanese gardens, featuring 250 color photos. (JPN181, $55.00)
 		  
The Gardens of Japan  •  Teiji Itoh   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This beautifully illustrated overview of the history and tradition of gardens features 75 color photographs and astute essays. (JPN38, $60.00)
 		  
The Unknown Craftsman, A Japanese Insight into Beauty  •  Soetsu Yanagi  •  Shoji Hamada  •  Bernard Leach   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961) presents Japanese crafts, their integral place in Japanese society, and the role of the craftsman in this an excellent overview of the foundations of the Mingei (folk-craft) movement. With 76 illustrations. (JPN116, $35.00)
 		  
Geisha, A Life  •  Mineko Iwasaki   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The memoir of a celebrated Geisha, rich in details of life in Kyoto's Gion Kobu district. Iwasaki was the chief source of information for Arthur Golden's best-selling "Memoirs of a Geisha." (JPN131, $16.00)
 		  
Confessions of a Mask  •  Meredith Weatherby  •  Yukio Mishima   • LITERATURE  •  An unsettling portrait of society in Post War Japan that tells of the coming of age of a complex, tragic figure who, among other things, struggles with his homosexuality. (JPN18, $12.95)
 		  
Memoirs of a Geisha, A Novel  •  Arthur Golden   • LITERATURE  •  The runaway best-selling novel about a geisha in the celebrated Gion district of Kyoto. A major feat of literary impersonation, the novel is rich in period detail and ceremony. (JPN45, $15.95)
 		  
Out  •  Natsuo Kirino   • MYSTERY  •  In this well-received mystery, Masako Katori, a middle-aged wife and mother working the night shift at a Tokyo factory, strangles her abusive husband. (JPN196, $15.00)
 		  
South of the Border, West of the Sun  •  Haruki Murakami   • LITERATURE  •  Murakami stirs jazz, neon-lit streets, out of the way shrines, hustle and bustle and wonder into this lyrical tale of love in contemporary Tokyo. (JPN213, $14.95)
 		  
Tale of the Heike  •  Helen Craig McCullough   • LITERATURE  •  Japan's most famous war tale about the fall of the Taira (Heike) clan and the victory of the Minamoto (Genji) during the end of the 12th century. (JPN75, $29.95)
 		  
The Lady and the Monk, Four Seasons in Kyoto  •  Pico Iyer   • LITERATURE  •  Deeply romanticized, this short novel is nonetheless redolent in the places, sights and sounds of modern day Kyoto. Iyer writes with infectious charm the story of a young American man and his affair with a bored Japanese married woman. (JPN32, $14.95)
 		  
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon  •  Shonagon Sei  •  Ivan Morris   • LITERATURE  •  Exquisite short essays and vignettes of Japanese court life in the Heian period. (JPN76, $17.00)
 		  
The Samurai  •  Shusaku Endo   • LITERATURE  •  This historical novel by one of Japan's best-known modern writers is set in the world of the 17th-century Samurai. A Roman Catholic, Endo explored Christianity and morals in his many novels and stories. (JPN157, $14.95)
 		  
The Tale of Genji  •  Murasaki Shikibu  •  Edward G. Seidensticker   • LITERATURE  •  The unabridged version of one of the most famous works of Japanese prose. This is the story of Genji, a romantic man in the Heian court, as written in the 11th-century by Lady Murasaki. (JPN73, $29.95)
 		  
Thousand Cranes  •  Yasunari Kawabata  •  Edward G. Seidensticker   • LITERATURE  •  This novella by the great Kawabata may be Japan's best-known literary work, a story of love, grief and redemption. Kawabata's prose is as economical as the tea ceremony itself, and very beautiful. (JPN34, $13.95)
 		  
The Art of Setting Stones & Other Writings from the Japanese Garden  •  Marc P. Keane   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  In these lyrical essays Kyoto-resident and landscape architect Marc Peter Keane takes eight gardens of his adopted home as a point of departure for reflections on nature, religion and aesthetics. (JPN124, $16.95)
 		  
 
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