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1	The Tale of Genji more books like this by Murasaki Shikibu, Kencho Suematsu (Translator) add to wishlist THE TALE OF GENJI, the world's first novel, was written around A.D. 1000 and has often been called Japan's greatest literary achievement. The author of this story of a Japanese prince and his many lovers was Shikibu Murasaki, the brilliant young governess to the Empress. The novel was read aloud at court and became wildly popular; its appeal has ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world more books like this by Haruki Murakami add to wishlist The contemporary and the mythic collide in a hard-boiled tale of computers and conspiracy theories, unicorns and ancient lands. Winner of the Tanizaki Literary Prize. see all copies from $5.46! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Kitchen more books like this by Banana Yoshimoto add to wishlist Juxtaposes two tales about mothers, trans-sexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.30! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Box Man more books like this by Kobo Abe add to wishlist In Abe's bizarre, satirical fable, a man chooses to give up all the trappings of normal life and seek anonymity by retreating to a cardboard box that he carries on his back, becoming an observer but never participating in the contemporary world he views from his refuge. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era more books like this by Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S Terry (Translator) add to wishlist When a Zen priest saves Musashi after the Battle of Sekigahara and confines him in solitude to train and discipline his mind and spirit, Musashi attempts to become the greatest samurai in Japan. see all copies from $13.78! new only from $21.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	A wild sheep chase more books like this by Haruki Murakami add to wishlist A haunted tale by a twenty-something Japanese man, about the quest for a mysterious sheep with a star on its back. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Silence more books like this by Shusaku Endo add to wishlist A novel of faith and doubt set in medieval Japan. Endo relates the history of the Japanese Christians who were persecuted after the rise to power of the samurai in the 17th century, and in particular the plight of Japanese priests who were forced to choose between their identity as Christians and as Japanese. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.76! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Dance dance dance more books like this by Haruki Murakami add to wishlist Sexual violence, metaphysical dread and hard-boiled detection - welcome again to the parallel universe of Haruki Murakami. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic thirteen year-old drop-out with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beachcombing poet, an uptight hotel ... see all copies from $3.94! new only from $8.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Flower Master more books like this by Sujata Massey add to wishlist Rei Shimura, a Japanese-by-way-of-California antique dealer, winds up tangled in her third mystery when her meddling aunt signs her up for an ikebana class. Shortly after her aunt and a guest lecturer get into a serious verbal tiff during class, Rei finds the lecturer dead--with her aunt's pruning shears stuck in the speaker's neck. Trying to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Samurai's Wife more books like this by Laura Joh Rowland add to wishlist In 17th-century Japan, imperial investigator Sano Ichiro and his wife Lady Reiko look into the murder of a court minister. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Acts of worship : seven stories more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist Nineteen years after Mishima's ritual death in 1970 at the age of 45 comes this collection of his short fiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Crazy iris and other stories of the atomic aftermath more books like this by Kenzaburo Oe (Photographer) add to wishlist Edited by one of Japan's leading and internationally acclaimed writers, this collection of short stories was compiled to mark the fortieth anniversary of the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here some of Japan's best and most representative writers chronicle and re-create the impact of this tragedy on the daily lives of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Makioka Sisters more books like this by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki add to wishlist This tale of domestic oppression centres on the once prosperous, now declining, Makiota family which is struggling to marry off one of their daughters. A portrait of a family and society striving to preserve their self-respect in the face of change, as innovation and tradition clash. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist -- Los Angeles Times see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	Sun & Steel more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist This is the personal testament of Japan's greatest novelist, written shorty before his public suicide in 1970. Through Mishima's finely wrought and emphatic prose, the mind and motivation behind his agonized search for personal identity is revealed. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.64! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Lizard more books like this by Banana Yoshimoto add to wishlist In these six stories, the author of "Tugumi" and "NP" explores themes of time, healing and fate, and how her urban, sophisticated, independent young men and women come to terms with them. The stories are a blend of traditional Japanese and contemporary popular culture. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist -- The New Yorker see all copies from $3.28! new only from $13.97! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The waiting years more books like this by Fumiko Enchi add to wishlist In the late 19th century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among the hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up for sale by their families she must select a young girl to be her husband's mistress. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.19! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Beauty and sadness more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist The double nature of eros and love, the perennial themes in Kawabata's work is at the core of this novel. nowwhere else does he so clearly set out his preoccupation with the way sickness, decay and mortality are endlessly revealed at the heart of love's promise of immortality. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Ghost in the Shell Volume 1 more books like this by Masamune Shirow (Illustrator), Dark Horse Comics (Illustrator) add to wishlist The beautiful and deadly Major Kusanagi and her crack team of Japanese internal-affairs operatives are sent to investigate a government factory with questionable labour practices. As it turns out, their labour practices aren't the only thing to be questioned. see all copies from $2.85! new only from $76.95! \| first editions
21 view cover	The decay of the angel more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist The final volume in the "Sea of Fertility" series. The dominant themes of the story cycle are brought together as Honda discovers and adopts a 16-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir. Is Toru destined to die young, as did each of the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Coin Locker Babies more books like this by Ryu Murakami, Stephen Snyder (Translator) add to wishlist As two orphans grow up--one to become a pole vaulter, the other a rock star--their bizarre lives begin to spiral drastically out of control. Their strange circumstances, while alienating them from most people, bring them closer together as they hunt for the mothers they believe have abandoned them. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	After the Banquet more books like this by Yukio Mishima add to wishlist With vast psychological acuity and an unblinking vision of the stratagems of marital warfare, the author tells of the shrewd but charming Kuzu who must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.01! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	NP more books like this by Banana Yoshimoto, Jane Rosenman (Editor) add to wishlist A celebrated Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind a collection of stories written in English, N.P.. But it may never be published in Japan: each translator who takes up the 98th story chooses death, too. After her boyfriend commits suicide, Kazami is compelled to discover the truth behind the 98th story. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	When I Whistle more books like this by Shusaku Endo add to wishlist 'When I Whistle' is a rich and absorbing novel set in two worlds- the world of pre-War Japan and the contemporary one of a big hospital with its professional rivalries. Ozu, a middle-aged businessman, has a chance encounter which brings back haunting memories. As Ozu recaptures the past, the reader is caught in the spell of a simpler and more ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.50! \| first editions \| SVS

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