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  • Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

    Enriched edition. Intricate Diaries of Heian Court Life

    by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, Izumi Shikibu, Murasaki Shikibu, Everett Lockmere ...
    Translated by Annie Shepley Omori, Kochi Doi ...
    The Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan offers a captivating exploration into the intricacies of Heian period literature and culture. This anthology brings together a collection of diaristic narratives crafted by three eminent figures of the era: Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, Izumi Shikibu, and Murasaki Shikibu. Their writings traverse the emotional and political landscapes of the Japanese ... Read more

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  • The Diary of Lady Murasaki

    by Shikibu Murasaki ...
    Translated by Annie Shepley Omori, Kochi Doi ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: History
    Derived from the journals of an empress's tutor and companion, this unique book offers rare glimpses of court life in eleventh-century Japan. Lady Murasaki recounts episodes of drama and intrigue among courtiers as well as the elaborate rituals related to the birth of a prince. Her observations, expressed with great subtlety, offer penetrating and timeless insights into human nature.Murasaki ... Read more

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  • Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

    The Sarashina Diary, The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu, The Diary of Izumi Shikibu (Illustrations)

    by Various, Kochi Doi, Annie Shepley Omori ...
    The poems in the text, slight and occasional as they are, depending often for their charm on plays upon words of two meanings, or on the suggestions conveyed to the Japanese mind by a single word, have presented problems of great difficulty to the translators, not perfectly overcome.Izumi Shikibu's Diary is written with extreme delicacy of treatment. English words and thought seem too downright a ... Read more

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  • Japan Through European Eyes: Six Books by Lafcadio Hearn

    by Lafcadio Hearn ...
    This collection includes: Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan First Series, Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan Second Series, In Ghostly Japan, Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation, Kokoro, and Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. According to Wikipedia: "Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (27 June 1850 26 September 1904), also known as Koizumi Yakum after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best ... Read more

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  • The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Illustrated

    by Murasaki Shikibu ...
    Series Book 2 - Eastern Treasures
    A lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court of tenth century Japan, Murasaki Shikibu is best known as the author of ‘The Tale of Genji’, the greatest work of Japanese literature and the world’s oldest novel. Celebrated across the world as an enduring classic, it deals with universal human concerns with a timeless voice. It preserves a lost world of ultra-refined and elegant aristocrats, whose ... Read more

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  • The Tale of Genji

    Abridged

    by Murasaki Shikibu, Royall Tyler ...
    Translated by Royall Tyler ...
    An abridged edition of the world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall Street Journal)A Penguin ClassicWritten in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel—and is certainly one of its finest. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an ... Read more

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  • Comrade Loves of the Samurai

    by Ihara Saikaku ...
    Translated by E. Powys Mathers ...
    In Comrade Loves of a Samurai, the theme of homosexual love between the samurai is explored.To the old Japanese such love among samurai was quite permissible. The sons of samurai families were urged to form homosexual alliances while youth lasted, and often these loves matured into lifelong companionships. Saikaku describes Japanese love scenes of all kinds with a frankness that has made him a ... Read more

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  • The Tale of Genji

    by Murasaki Shikibu ...
    The Tale of GenjiCHAPTER ITHE CHAMBER OF KIRIIn the reign of a certain Emperor, whose name is unknown to us, there was, among the Niogo and Kôyi of the Imperial Court, one who, though she was not of high birth, enjoyed the full tide of Royal favor. Hence her superiors, each one of whom had always been thinking—"I shall be the one," gazed upon her disdainfully with malignant eyes, and her equals ... Read more

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  • The Book of Tea

    by Kakuzo Okakura ...
    Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism—Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, ... Read more

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  • The Zen of Tea

    by Okakura Kakuzo, Andras Nagy (editor) ...
    This book is a compilation of material on the Japanese Tea ceremony and Okakura Kakuzo's classic book the Book of Tea. ... Read more

    $2.95 USD

  • Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan

    by Richard Gordon Smith ...
    Series series Arcturus World Mythology
    This enthralling collection brings together over 50 ancient tales from Japanese folklore, gathered and retold by 19th century traveler and naturalist Richard Gordon Smith.During his journeys around Japan, Smith recorded ancient Japanese myths and legends in his personal diaries. The result is a fascinating collection of historical legends from all over Japan, with themes including ghosts, ... Read more

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  • The Tale of Genji

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Murasaki Shikibu ...
    Translated by Royall Tyler ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **The world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall Street Journal)A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper**Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD