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Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
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Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S Terry (Translator)
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.
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Haiku
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Beauty and sadness
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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.
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Temple of Dawn
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The third book in Mishima's landmark The Sea of Fertility sequence, this novel tells the story of one man's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.
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The decay of the angel
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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?
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When I Whistle
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'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 ...
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Essays in Idleness, Tsurezuregu
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Kenko, Donald Keene (Translator), Nishikawa Sukenobu (Illustrator)
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Secret Rendezvous
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A man's frantic search for his vanished wife leads him to a sinister underground hospital. He encounters a sex-obsessed mix of patients and staff in this erotic satire of modern medicine.
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A Net of Fireflies: Japanese Haiku and Haiku Paintings
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Essays in Idleness
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Kenko
The World Literature series reproduces the greatest books the world over with only the highest production standards. History, philosophy, psychology, political theory, fiction, and ancient texts are now accessible to everyone at an extremely affordable price.
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Japanese poetry : the uta
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Arthur Waley (Compiled by)
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The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu
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Net of Fireflies
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Haiku: Autumn - Winter, Index
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Japan sinks
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One Hundred Poems from One Hundred Poets: Or Ogura Hyakunin Ishu
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Anthology of Japanese literature to the nineteenth century
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Teach us to outgrow our madness : four short novels
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Kenzaburo Ķe, John Nathan
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Modern Japanese Haiku: An Anthology
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Japanese peasant songs
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Japanese Folk Plays - Ink S
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Selected Poems
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Fires on the plain
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The bamboo broom; an introduction to Japanese haiku
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Anthology of Japanese Literature
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