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  • In the Shelter of the Pine

    A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan

    Traducido por G. G. Rowley ...
    de Ōgimachi Machiko ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • In the Shelter of the Pine

    A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan

    Traducido por G. G. Rowley ...
    de Ōgimachi Machiko ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • An Imperial Concubine's Tale

    Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan

    de G. G. Rowley ...
    Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was an imperial concubine named Nakanoin Nakako, who in 1609 became embroiled in a sex scandal involving ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

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  • Japanese Death Poems

    Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death

    de Yoel Hoffmann ...
    "A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." —Tricycle: The Buddhist ReviewAlthough the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Nihongi

    Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697

    de Yasumaro no O ...
    The Nihon Shoki, translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second oldest book of classical Japanese history. The book is also called the Nihongi (The Japanese Chronicles). It is more elaborate and detailed than the Kojiki, the oldest book, and has proven to be an important tool for historians and archaeologists as it includes the most complete historical record of ancient Japan. The Nihongi ... Leer más

    $2.67 USD

  • The Diary of Lady Murasaki

    de Murasaki Shikibu, Richard Bowring ...
    Traducido por Richard Bowring ...
    The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace - the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalries between the Emperor's consorts, with sharp criticism of Murasaki's fellow ladies-in-waiting ... Leer más

    $10.69 USD

  • Wild Ivy

    The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin

    de Hakuin Ekaku ...
    Traducido por Norman Waddell ...
    A fiery and intensely dynamic Zen teacher and artist, Hakuin (1685–1768) is credited with almost single-handedly revitalizing Japanese Zen after three hundred years of decline. As a teacher, he placed special emphasis on koan practice, inventing many new koans himself, including the famous "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" This English translation of Hakuin’s intimate self-portrait ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Tales of Moonlight and Rain

    de Akinari Ueda ...
    Traducido por Anthony Chambers ...
    First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 film Ugetsu.The title Ugetsu monogatari ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Japanese Tea Ceremony

    Cha-No-Yu

    de A.L. Sadler ...
    The tea cermony—known as cha-no-yu, or literally "hot water for tea"—has touched nearly every aspect of Japanese life.First published in 1933 as Cha-No-Yu, or The Japanese Tea Ceremony, this classic remains the gold standard for books on the five-centuries-old tea ceremony, which is itself "an epitome of Japanese civilization." Abundantly illustrated with drawings and photographs showing every ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike

    Readers of medieval Japanese literature have long been captivated by its romance and philosophy. In this volume, two acclaimed thirteenth-century classics, The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike, are presented in translation. The Ten Foot Square Hut (the Hojoki) takes its title from a four and half mat sized Tearoom, the size of the hut in which the hero of the story, Chomei, lives. It ... Leer más

    $10.69 USD

  • The Tales of the Heike

    de Burton Watson, Haruo Shirane ...
    Traducido por Burton Watson ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each

    A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

    A new edition of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry.The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD