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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

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  • 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

  • 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

  • Narrow Road to the Interior

    And Other Writings

    by Matsuo Basho ...
    Translated by Sam Hamill ...
    Series series Shambhala Classics
    A masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature—part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritual awakeningBashō (1644–1694)—a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is renowned in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

    A novel

    by Haruki Murakami ...
    Translated by Philip Gabriel ...
    Series series Vintage International
    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of the most revered voices in literature today gives us a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages.“Mesmerizing, immersive, hallucinogenic.”—Entertainment WeeklyColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the remarkable story of a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Haiku

    An Anthology of Japanese Poems

    by Stephen Addiss ...
    Series series Shambhala Library
    A poetry collection honoring the haiku—complete with poet biographies, translator commentary, and Japanese artworkThis celebration of what is perhaps the most influential of all poetic forms takes haiku back to its Japanese roots. Beginning with poems by the seventeenth and eighteenth-century masters Basho, Busson, and Issa, the anthology goes all the way up to the late twentieth century to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Harp of Burma

    by Michio Takeyama ...
    Translated by Howard Hibbett ...
    Harp of Burma is Japan's classic novel of pathos and compassion in the midst of senseless warfare.Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize and the basis for the critically acclaimed film The Burmese Harp by Ichikawa Kon, Harp of Burma shares a powerful human story about Japanese soldiers on the front lines in WWII. Losing a desperate battle against British forces in the tropical ... Read more

    $10.69 USD