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  • 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

  • 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

  • New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics

    by Richard Bullen, Allen Carlson, Koji Yamasaki, Mara Miller, Hiroshi Nara, Akiko Takenaka, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Michiko Yusa, Cheryl Crowley, Meera Viswanathan, Roy Starrs0, Mikiko Hirayama1, David Bell2, Peter Leech3, Matthew Larking4, Steve Odin5, James McRae6, Robert E. Carter7, C. Michael Rich8, J. Thomas Rimer9, Timothy Unverzagt Goddard0, Carol Steinberg Gould1, Stephen Addiss2, Yuriko Saito3, David E. Cooper4, Graham Parkes5, John C. Maraldo6, Jason M. Wirth7, Professor A. Minh Nguyen8 ...
    This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Japanese Woodblock Prints

    Artists, Publishers and Masterworks: 1680 - 1900

    by Andreas Marks ...
    Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, are the most recognizable Japanese art form. Their massive popularity has spread from Japan to be embraced by a worldwide audience. Covering the period from the beginning of the Japanese woodblock print in the 1680s until the year 1900, Japanese Woodblock Prints provides a detailed survey of all the famous ukiyo-e artists, along with over 500 full-color ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Art of Haiku

    Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters

    by Stephen Addiss ...
    In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku is cause for celebration—but it can also compel us to go back to the beginning: to look at haiku’s ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Japanese Haiku

    Its Essential Nature and History

    by Kenneth Yasuda ...
    This is the most authoritative and concise book on Japanese haiku available: what it is, how it developed, and how it is practiced in both Japanese and English.While many haiku collections are available to Western readers, few books combine both translated haiku with haiku written originally in English, along with an analysis of individual poems and of the haiku form itself. Written by a leading ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Sky Above, Great Wind

    The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan

    by Kazuaki Tanahashi ...
    The delightful and often funny poetry of Zen’s quintessential free spirit, Master Ryokan—in a fresh translation by a beloved American Zen figureRyokan Taigu (1758-1831) was a monk in the Soto lineage of Japanese Zen who spent a good part of his life as a hermit, writing poetry, playing with children, and creating simple and exquisitely beautiful calligraphies—sometimes using twigs as his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • On Love and Barley

    Haiku of Basho

    by Matsuo Basho ...
    Translated by Lucien Stryk ...
    Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • 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

  • The Sound of Water

    Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets

    Series series Shambhala Centaur Editions
    Over 200 of the best haiku poems from Japanese literature, translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators and now in one giftable volumeThe haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. This illustrated collection includes haiku by the great masters from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • No Beginning, No End

    The Intimate Heart of Zen

    by Jakusho Kwong Roshi ...
    In No Beginning, No End, Zen master Jakusho Kwong-roshi shows us how to treasure the ordinary activities of our daily lives through an understanding of simple Buddhist practices and ideas. The author’s spontaneous, poetic, and pragmatic teachings—so reminiscent of his spiritual predecessor Shunryu Suzuki (Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind)—transport us on an exciting journey into the very heart of Zen and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Intro to Haiku

    An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki

    by Harold Gould Henderson ...
    Harold G. Henderson was, from 1927 to 1929, the Assistant to the Curator of Far Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art. In 1930 he went to Japan, where he lived the following three years. On his return to this country he joined the faculty at Columbia University, where he taught Japanese and initiated a course in the history of Japanese art. He retired in 1955. His published works include ... Read more

    $4.99 USD