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  • The Shortest History of Japan

    From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse - The Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation

    by Lesley Downer ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    Discover the aesthetic traditions, political resilience, and modern economic might of this singular island nation. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Courtesan and the Samurai

    The Shogun Quartet, Book 3

    by Lesley Downer ...
    1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love ...Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, its famous pleasure-quarters.There she is forced to become a courtesan.Yozo, brave, loyal ... ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • The Last Concubine

    The Shogun Quartet, Book 2

    by Lesley Downer ...
    Japan, 1865, the women's palace in the great city of Edo.Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine.But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. Rescued by a rebel warrior, she finds unknown feelings stirring within ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • A Geisha for the American Consul (a short story)

    by Lesley Downer ...
    Two cultures. One man and one woman. One moment in time.Cultures collide when Okichi, a beautiful geisha, is sent to work for the American envoy in Japan. Age and pride meet youth and grace. How will she survive in a home where no one speaks her language, where she understands nothing and she must submit to a strange barbarian's will? ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Women of the Pleasure Quarters

    The Secret History of the Geisha

    by Lesley Downer ...
    From critically acclaimed author and Japanese scholar Lesley Downer, an enchanting portrait of the mysterious world of the geisha.Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, by geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini's Madama Butterfly to Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Shortest History of Japan

    From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse―The Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation

    by Lesley Downer ...
    Narrated by Lucy Rayner ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country that has long had a complicated relationship with the outside world.Even at the nearest point, Japan—an archipelago strung like a necklace around the Asian mainland—is considerably farther from Asia ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Red Chamber

    by Pauline A. Chen ...
    In this lyrical reimagining of the Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber, set against the breathtaking backdrop of eighteenth-century Beijing, the lives of three unforgettable women collide in the inner chambers of the Jia mansion. When orphaned Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to take shelter with her cousins in the Capital, she is drawn into a world of opulent splendor, presided over by ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Geisha in Rivalry

    by Kafu Nagai ...
    Translated by Kurt Meissner, Ralph Friedrich ...
    Geisha in Rivalry, first published as Udekurabe in 1918, has a secure place among Kafu Nagai's masterpieces.Set against the backdrop of Tokyo's Shimbashi geisha district, a company of vivid characters play out their drama of illicit love, shady intrigue, and unrelenting rivalry. In the forefront are the geisha: some powerful and spiteful like the imperious Rikiji, some crude and obvious like the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Concubine's Daughter

    A Novel

    by Pai Kit Fai ...
    An epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughter's journey to their destiny.L otus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price, making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running away…When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nightless City

    Or the History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku

    by J.E. De Becker ...
    Organized sex in Japan has always been big business, and nowhere was it more politely offered than in the Yoshiwara Yukwaku (red light district) of Tokyo.The appeal of the Yoshiwara was its women, all the surroundings being a frame for display of their charms. The Nightless City provides us with a fascinating picture of a "floating world" that was as transient as a butterfly. Today its teahouses, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Geisha

    A Life

    by Mineko Iwasaki ...
    A powerful and intimate memoir of a real-life geisha, Geisha, A Life reveals the hidden world of Kyoto’s traditional arts, Japanese tea ceremonies, and cultural secrets through the eyes of Japan’s most renowned and pioneering geisha.“No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Equal of the Sun

    A Novel

    by Anita Amirrezvani ...
    *“Gripping.” —The Washington Post * “ A story of intrigue and action…[whose] scheming and parricide rival A Game of Thrones.” —San Francisco Chronicle*Based loosely on the life of Princess Pari Khan Khanoom, Equal of the Sun is a riveting story of political intrigue and a moving portrait of the unlikely bond between a princess and a eunuch.Iran in 1576 is a place of wealth and dazzling beauty. But ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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