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In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
Category: Classics | Series: Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature Ser.
A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates... Were it not for shadows, there would be n ...Show more
Taiheiki a Chronicle of Medieval太平記 by Helen Craig McCullough (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature Ser.
An epic saga of samurai warfare in medieval Japan This celebrated literary classic has delighted generations of Japanese. In its pages, you will find a vivid contemporary description of the fourteenth-century intrigues and battles that led to the destruction of the Hojo family, the military overlord ...Show more
The Tosa Diary by Ki no Tsurayuki
Category: Classics | Series: Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature Ser.
The Tosa Diary represents the oldest extant Japanese prose fiction and the beginnings of the great tradition of diary literature. Written in 935, the book is the record of an arduous 55-day 200-mile journey by sea from Tosa, where the author had served as a governor, to Kyoto, the capital. Narrated in t ...Show more
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