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1	Anthology of Japanese literature from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century more books like this by Donald Keene (Editor) add to wishlist The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in this book. An introduction by Donald Keene places the selections in their proper historical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.70! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 more books like this by Professor Haruo Shirane (Editor) add to wishlist "Traditional Japanese Literature" features a rich array of works dating from the very beginnings of the Japanese written language through the evolution of Japan's noted aristocratic court and warrior cultures. It contains stunning new translations of such canonical texts as "The Tales of the Heike" as well as works and genres previously ignored by ... see all copies from $31.95! new only from $35.95! \| SVS
3	The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan more books like this by William R LaFleur add to wishlist see all copies from $4.12! new only from $28.43! \| first editions \| SVS
4	World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867 more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist -- Kirkus Reviews see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
5	Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection more books like this by Marian Ury (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! new only from $19.77! \| first editions
6	Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 more books like this by Professor Haruo Shirane (Editor) add to wishlist This is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa, one of the most creative epochs of Japanese culture. This anthology, which will be of vital interest to anyone involved in this era, includes not only fiction, poetry, and drama, but also ... see all copies from $9.90! new only from $15.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	History of Japanese Literature: The First Thousand Years more books like this by Shuichi Kato, David Chibbett (Translator) add to wishlist This history of Japan's literary heritage traces the development of Japanese literature from the seventh to the mid-16th century, emphasizing the historical and the social context of the literary works discussed and the relationship between Japanese works and Western and Chinese literature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.55! \| first editions
8	The Tale of Genji more books like this by Amy Sickets, Murasaki Shikibu add to wishlist - Presents the most important 20th century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature - The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism - Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index - Introductory essay by Harold Bloom see all copies from $2.71! new only from $2.71! \| SVS
9	Classical Japanese Prose: An Anthology more books like this by Helen C McCullough (Editor) add to wishlist This volume brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese prose dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, a period during which the pre-eminent cultural and aesthetic values were those of the Heian court. It contains 2.2 works representing all the major indigenous literary forms, either complete or in generous excerpts, ... see all copies from $5.34! new only from $39.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Introduction to Japanese Horror Film more books like this by Professor Colette Balmain add to wishlist This book is a major historical and cultural overview of an increasingly popular genre. Starting with the cultural phenomenon of Godzilla, it explores the evolution of Japanese horror from the 1950s through to contemporary classics of Japanese horror cinema such as Ringu and Ju-On: The Grudge. Divided thematically, the book explores key motifs ... see all copies from $27.62! new only from $27.62!
11	Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist In Japan, the diary has acquired the status of a literary genre comparable in importance to the novel and the literary essay. Donald Keene, hailed in the "New York Times Book Review" as "the century's leading expert on Japanese literature," presents a collection of pre-modern Japanese diaries that is both a literary history of this seminal genre ... see all copies from $2.17! new only from $5.97! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production more books like this by Professor Haruo Shirane (Editor) add to wishlist Bringing together scholars from across the world, Haruo Shirane presents a fascinating portrait of The Tale of Genji's reception and reproduction over the past thousand years. The essays examine the canonization of the work from the late Heian through the medieval, Edo, Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei periods, revealing its profound influence on ... see all copies from $22.95! new only from $32.50! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Languages of Japan more books like this by Masayoshi Shibatani add to wishlist This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ significantly. Professor Shibatani has therefore divided his study into two independent parts. The first is a most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $33.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Glass children : and other essays more books like this by Daisaku Ikeda add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Volume 2: From 1945 to the Present more books like this by Professor J Thomas Rimer (Editor), Professor Van C Gessel (Editor), Professor Amy Vladeck Heinrich add to wishlist In Volume 2 of Columbia's comprehensive anthology of modern Japanese literature, thoughtfully selected and carefully translated readings portray the vast changes that have transformed Japanese culture since the end of the Pacific War. Beginning with the Allied Occupation in 1945 and concluding with the early twenty-first century, these stories, ... see all copies from $5.97! new only from $48.53! \| SVS
16 view cover	Intro to Japanese Court Poetry more books like this by Earl Miner, Robert H Brower (Translator) add to wishlist The poetry written by the Japanese imperial court between A.D. 550 and 1350 is regarded as one of the great literatures of the world. This volume introduces readers to that literature, offering at once a condensation, a reorganization, and an extension (to A.D. 1500) of "Japanese Court Poetry" (1901). (Poetry) see all copies from $4.50! new only from $17.79! \| first editions
17	Essays in Idleness, Tsurezuregu more books like this by Kenko, Donald Keene (Translator), Nishikawa Sukenobu (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.21!
18 view cover	One Hundred Poems from the Japanese more books like this by Kenneth Rexroth (Translator) add to wishlist Now in its 23rd printing Rexroth's famous anthology of classic Japanese poems. The sound of the Japanese texts is reproduced in Romji script and the names of the poets in the calligraphy of Ukai Uchiyama. With a translator's introduction, notes on the individual poets and an extensive bibliography. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 more books like this by W G Aston (Translator) add to wishlist The Emperor said: -"When Heaven establishes a Prince, it is for the sake of the people.... [T]he people's poverty is no other than Our poverty; the people's prosperity is none other than Our prosperity. There is no such thing as the people's being prosperous and yet the Prince in poverty." -from "Nintoku" From its early stories of gods, monsters, ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $22.17! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Uncovering Heian Japan-PB more books like this by Thomas Lamarre, Thomas Lamarre, Rey Chow (Editor) add to wishlist The poetry of the Heian court of Japan has typically been linked with the emergence of a distinct Japanese language and culture. This concept of a linguistically homogeneous and ethnically pure 'Japaneseness' has been integral to the construction of a modern Japanese nation, especially during periods of western colonial expansion and cultural ... see all copies from $14.54! new only from $18.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko more books like this by Professor Donald Keene (Translator), Kenko Yoshida add to wishlist Written sometime between 1330 and 1332, the "Essays in Idleness" hardly mirror the turbulent times in which they were born. Despite the struggle between the Emperor Go-Daigo and the usurping Hojo family which rocked Japan during these years, the Buddhist priest Kenko found himself "with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever ... see all copies from $12.25! new only from $28.17! \| first editions
22	Japanese Court Poetry more books like this by Robert H Brower, Earl Miner add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00! first editions
23 view cover	Singing Heart: An Anthology of Japanese Poems (1990-"1960) more books like this by Kenkichi Yamamoto, pse, William I Elliot (Translator), Nishihara Katsumasa (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $17.47! new only from $17.47!
24 view cover	Ancient tales & folklore of Japan more books like this by Richard Gordon Smith add to wishlist The stories are transcribed from voluminous illustrated diaries kept by the author during almost nine years in Japan (collecting exhibits for the British Museum) during the latter part of the nineteenth century. In total, there are 57 different ghost stories, telling tales of love and passion, revenge, strange ghosts and eerie gods, mountains, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.04! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist This is the first book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by the world's authoritative translator and scholar of Japanese culture and literature, complete with an appendix, glossary, index, a selected list of translations into English, and an introduction. see all copies from $19.93! new only from $72.95! \| first editions

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