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The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan

The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan more books like this

by Edward G Seidensticker (Translator)

This diary of a Japanese noblewoman portrays difficult elements of the Japanese social hierarchy, revealing her discontent as a subsidiary wife.

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Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake

Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake more books like this

by Edward Seidensticker

This sequel to "Low City, High City: Tokyo From Edo to the Earthquake", carries the story of Tokyo forward to the present, showing it rising not only from the disaster of the earthquake, but a second, time from the catastrophe of 1945, to become the biggest and richest city in Asia.

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Low City, High City more books like this

by Edward Seidensticker

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Izu Dancer and Other Stories

Izu Dancer and Other Stories more books like this

by Yasunari Kawabata, Yasushi Inoue, Edward Seidensticker (Translator)

Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, in 1958, The Izu Dancer, a story about a young man's travels through the Izu Peninsula, introduced Kawabata's prodigious talent to the West. Since its first printing, Kawabata, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize, has been recognized as one of Japan's most distinguished writers. Also included in this ...

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Some Prefer Nettle more books like this

by Junichiro Tanizaki, Edward G Seidensticker (Translator)

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Kafu the Scribbler; the life and writings of Nagai Kafu, 1879-1959 more books like this

by Edward Seidensticker

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Snow Country more books like this

by Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator), Yasunari Kawabata

The story of the doomed love affair of a wealthy sophisticate, Shimamura, and the geisha Komako, at a mountain hotspring resort in western Japan, one of the snowiest regions on earth.

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Tokyo Central: A Memoir

Tokyo Central: A Memoir more books like this

by Edward Seidensticker

Edward Seidensticker's translations have introduced two generations of English-language audiences to the masterpieces of classical and modern Japanese literature. His patient rendering of novels ranging from the eleventh-century Tale of Genji to works of such modern masters as Junichiro Tanizaki, Yukio Mishima, and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari ...

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Sound of Mountain more books like this

by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G Seidensticker (Translator)

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Lou-LAN and Other Stories

Lou-LAN and Other Stories more books like this

by Yasushi Inoue, Edward Seidensticker (Translator), James T Araki (Translator)

Six stories in quest of the hidden treasures of Asia's past from Japanese historical fiction writer, Yasushi Inoue.

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Kafu the Scribber more books like this

by Edward Seidensticker

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Very Few People Come This Way: Lyrical Episodes from the Year of the Rabbit more books like this

by Edward Seidensticker

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Beauty of Japan: Pictorial Journey to Cultural and Scenic Japan more books like this

by Anzai E Tatsuo, Gakken, Edward Seidensticker (Foreword by)

In their long history, the Japanese have produced many cultural treasures. The unique sense of beauty that is solely Japanese, based on a sense of harmony with nature, has resulted in magnificent objects that are sometimes restrained, sometimes exuberant, and always harmoniously meshed with supreme beauty. 150 color photographs; 30 black-and-white ...

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Genji Days more books like this

by Edward G Seidensticker

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This Country, Japan more books like this

by Edward G Seidensticker

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Guides to Japanese Culture more books like this

by Hyoe Murakami (Editor), Nihon Bunka Kenky Ujo, E. G. Seidensticker (Editor)

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This Country, Japan more books like this

by Edward Seidsticker, Edward Seidensticker

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Low City, High City: Tokyo from EDO to the Earthquake: How the Shogun's Ancient Capital Became a Great Modern City, 1867-1923

Low City, High City: Tokyo from EDO to the Earthquake: How the Shogun's Ancient Capital Became a Great Modern City, 1867-1923 more books like this

by Edward Seidensticker

This book looks at the metamorphosis of Japan from a country with little contact with the outside world to one brimming with Western ideas and technologies. Seidensticker focuses on Tokyo in the years between the Meiji Restoration and the earthquake of 1923 to illustrate this change. He shows how Tokyo, which was called Edo until 1867, emerged ...

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New Leaves: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Edward Seidensticker more books like this

by Edward Seidensticker

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The Snake That Bowed

The Snake That Bowed

by Edward Seidensticker

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Japan more books like this

by Edward Seidensticker

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Low City, High City: Tokyo from EDO to the Earthquake more books like this

by Edward Seidensticker

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Shining Moments: Tanka Poems in English more books like this

by Edward G. Seidensticker, Keiko Kaneda (Illustrator), Neal H. Lawrence

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Snow country ; and, Thousand cranes more books like this

by Yasunari Kawabata

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The tale of Genji. The Uji chapters more books like this

by Murasaki Shikibu, Edward Seidensticker, Shunsho Yamamoto

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