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  • The Practice of Not Thinking

    A Guide to Mindful Living

    by Ryunosuke Koike ...
    **THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Offers a variety of Buddhist techniques to help us feel calmer every day . . . Nothing has changed . . . and everything has changed . . . I feel calmer and more centred' Sunday Times**What if we could learn to look instead of see, listen instead of hear, feel instead of touch? Former monk Ryunosuke Koike shows how, by incorporating simple Zen practices into our daily ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Spider's Web

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. ‘Rashömon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as ‘The Nose’, ‘O-Gin’ and ‘Loyalty’ paint a rich and imaginative ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Essential Akutagawa

    Twenty-Two Short Stories by Japan's Master Storyteller

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Richard Medhurst ...
    "Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible." —Chris Power, The GuardianRyunosuke Akutagawa (1892—1927), often called "the Father of the Japanese short story," wrote more than 150 works during his brief but prolific career. Widely regarded as Japan's master storyteller, he blended modern sensibilities with timeless ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Rashōmon

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ...
    "Rashōmon" (羅生門) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū.The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku. Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950) is in fact based primarily on another of Akutagawa's short stories, "In a Grove"; only the film's title and some of the material for the frame scenes, such as the theft of a kimono and the discussion ... Read more

    $1.18 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rashomon and Other Stories

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    " Rashomon and Other Stories" has had a profound impact on both Japanese and international literature. The stories "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" were famously adapted into the 1950 film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, which brought Akutagawa's work to a global audience and won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Akutagawa's exploration of the human condition, ... Read more

    Was $2.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    For fans of Shōgun: The best stories by the father of the Japanese short story—including the two that inspired Kurosawa's classic samurai film about the subjectivity of truth—featuringan introduction by Haruki MurakamiRyünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rashömon"and ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • In a Grove

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ...
    "In a Grove" (藪の中 Yabu no Naka) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; it first appeared in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly Shinchō. Akira Kurosawa used this story as the basis for the plot of his award-winning movie Rashōmon."In a Grove" is an early modernist short story, as well as a blending of the modernist search for identity with themes from historic Japanese ... Read more

    $1.18 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To the Monster I Love, Vol. 1 (novel)

    by ryunosuke, Gesoking ...
    Translated by Laura Sitzer ...
    Series Book 1 - To the Monster I Love
    Bardium is a tightly guarded city where magic, miracles, and illusions aren’t allowed. Here, in a dimly lit room, a young boy named Norman is being interrogated. He’s asked about Unlaw—supernatural monsters who gain abilities from unstable emotion. Four of these beings, all beautiful women, are now hunting each other down, and Norman must sate their desires while dealing with other oddities ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Rashoumon

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ...
    "Rashōmon" (Japanese: 羅生門) is a short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū. A man considering whether or not to become a thief meets a woman stealing hair from corpses. Their conversation explores the morality of theft.The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku. Despite its name, it provided no direct plot material for the Akira Kurosawa movie ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In a Grove

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ...
    "In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanity's ability or ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In a Grove (Golden Deer Classics)

    by Golden Deer Classics, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ...
    "In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanity's ability or ... Read more

    $0.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus