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Describes how each class of old Japan lived: their food, clothing, and houses; their beliefs and fears. This work also takes account of certain important groups that fell outside the formal class structure, such as courtiers in the emperor's palace at Kyoto, the Shinto and Buddhist priests, and at the other extreme, the actors and the outcasts.

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First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works of Rabelais.

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Beloved by generations of Chinese readers, The Dream of the Red Chamber is China's equivalent of Romeo & Juliet

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Centuries before Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji" was already acknowledged as a classic of Japanese literature and the past century has seen this book gain worldwide acceptance. This edition contains the complete translation of all six books of "The Tale of Genji".

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A thrilling story of rebellion against tyranny

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A modern classic in Japan, Botchan is as widely read today as when it was first published, occupying a place in the canon similar to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or The Catcher in the Rye

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A company of Japanese troops are losing a desperate campaign against British forces in the tropical jungles of Burma. In the midst of the overwhelming challenges they face, they discover the power of music to make even the toughest situation tolerable.

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This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan during WWII.

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These private recollections of longtime Japan resident and Japanese culture expert Donald Richie capture the personalities of the Japanese people with insight and humor.

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This text represents Kuan-Chung Lo's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 AD. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, loyalty and treachery, victory and death that is as important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West.

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This text represents Kuan-Chung Lo's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 AD. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, loyalty and treachery, victory and death that is as important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West.

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"The Sakuteiki", or "Records of Garden Making," was written nearly one thousand years ago. It is the oldest existing text on Japanese gardening. This work provides both an English-language translation of this classic work and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese gardening.

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Noh plays live on as a magnificent artistic heritage handed down from the high culture of medieval Japan. This book contains translations of nineteen plays and summaries of sixteen more, together with a revealing introductory essay that furnishes the background for an understanding and appreciation of the No as a highly significant dramatic form.

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Focusing on samurai, this book is intended for martial arts readers as well as to readers of Japanese literature.

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A vivid contemporary description of the fourteenth-century intrigues and battles that led to the destruction of the Hojo family, the military overlords of the nation, and made it possible for the Emperor Go-Daigo to reassert the power of the throne.