 | A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics by Donald Richie
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.99 A delightful approach to the Japanese way of thinking feelings, or feeling thoughts. An approach, I mean, to the Japanese form of writing essays. The collage of an intellectual flanneur.
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 | Japanese Literature Reviewed by Donald Richie
Buy used from: $6.44 Richie is not a literary historian and translator as Donald Keene, nor a cultural critic as Shuichi Kato, nor even a great literary critic as Hideo Kobayashi. He is a reviewer, and a very well one: sharp, intelligent, humorous, sensible, lively, full of insights. Most or all of these pages were written for the Japan Times pages, where one can still find Richie on Sundays.
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 | Tokyo by Donald Richie
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $8.46 Not a guide, but an essay on the life of a city the biggest in the world, the most modern in many senses, and one that has nothing to do with Western big cities. Richie has lived in Tokyo for 60 years now.
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 | The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 by Donald Richie
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $9.85 A fascinating account of an essential writer. (I was about to say "an essential American writer", but sounds so strange...
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 | Japan: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $3.35 A wonderful introduction to Japanese diversity and to cotemporary Japanese writers.
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 | A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos by Donald Richie
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $8.91 There's much more than Kurosawa in Japanese movies, and here's some information about.
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 | A History of Japanese Literature: From the Manyoshu to Modern Times by Shuichi Kato
Buy new: $43.76 / Used from: $31.79 An abridged version of Kato's three volumes history.
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 | Form, Style, Tradition by Shuichi Kato
Buy used from: $5.49 Maybe the best long essay on Japanese art I have read.
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 | A Taste of Japan: Food Fact and Fable What the People Eat Customs and Etiquette by Donald Richie
Buy used from: $1.48 A collection of articles written for the newspaper, but by Richie, and very useful if you don't know much about Japanese food and unless you are a long time resident in Japan (and an aventurous one), you don't.
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| A Poet's Anthology: The Range of Japanese Poetry (Reflections) by Makoto Ooka
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $10.99 Ooka is the best, most widely readen and most influential critic of Japanese poetry.
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| The Colors of Poetry: Essays in Classic Japanese Verse (Reflections) by Makoto Ooka
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 | The Pleasures of Japanese Literature by Donald Keene
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 | Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day by Donald Keene
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| Sources of Japanese Tradition, Introduction to Oriental Civilizations Series by Ryusaku; Wm. Theodore De Bary; Donald Keene (compiled by) Tsunoda
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| Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake by Edward Seidensticker
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| Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake by Edward SEIDENSTICKER
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 | Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 (Modern Library Chronicles) by Ian Buruma
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 | Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies by Ian Buruma
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 | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
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 | Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower
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 | Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) by Ivan Morris
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 | Japanese Culture, 4th Edition (Updated and Expanded) by H. Paul Varley
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 | Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Buy new: $62.00 / Used from: $46.50 The most comprehensive anthologie of Japanese Anthology I've ever known, carefully selected and edited, with many pages never translated before.
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 | Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900
Buy new: $92.00 / Used from: $48.30 With the previous volume, one most comprehensive anthologies of Japanese Anthology I've ever known, carefully selected and edited, with many pages before translated before.
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| The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan by Ivan Morris
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 | Contemporary Japanese Literature: An Anthology Of Fiction, Film, And Other Writing Since 1945
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 | Mistress Oriku: Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) by Matsutaro Kawaguchi
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 | Dream Messenger by Masahiko Shimada
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 | Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs by Joan Sinclair
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 | Grotesque (Vintage International) by Natsuo Kirino
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 | Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by K¯ojin Karatani
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 | Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money (Writing Architecture)
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 | Darkness in Summer (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) by Takeshi Kaiko
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 | Five Modern Japanese Novelists by Donald Keene
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 | Modern Japanese Diaries by Donald Keene
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 | World Within Walls by Donald Keene
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 | Dawn to the West: Poetry, Drama, Criticism by Donald Keene
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 | Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century by Donald Keene
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 | Travelers of a Hundred Ages by Donald Keene
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 | Japanese Literature: An Introduction for Western Readers by Donald Keene
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