Kojiki: Fully Revised Edition

Yasumaro

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• The classic story of Japan's origins--now in a fully revised and reader-friendly edition. The Kojiki is Japan's oldest surviving text, chronicling the... Lees meer

Japan's Infamous Unit 731

Gold

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in China during WWII. Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia ... Lees meer

The Wild Geese

Mori

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• This modern classic, written in 1913, was the source for the highly acclaimed film, The Mistress In The Wild Geese , prominent Japanese novelist Ogai ... Lees meer

The Gossamer Years

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• Kagero Nikki , translated here as The Gossamer Years , belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu. This remarkabl... Lees meer

The Heike Story

Yoshikawa

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• A page-turner by Japan's most popular writer of the immediate post-war era! Set in Japan's turbulent 12th century, this fast-paced novel recounts the ... Lees meer

The Water Margin

Naian

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• **Named by Men's Health : "50 Books Every Man Should Read Before Turning 50"** Based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions, The Wat... Lees meer

Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 1

Kuan-Chung

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics | nr. 1
• This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese cultur... Lees meer

Harp of Burma

Takeyama

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• 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... Lees meer

Shogun

Sadler

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• Uncover the true history behind the critically acclaimed FX/Hulu series "SHOGUN" in this epic biography of the man who unified Medieval Japan. For 700... Lees meer

Tale of Genji: A Reader's Guide

Puette

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• "Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasaki's wondrous world will certainly find Puette's guide most helpful." -- The Japan Times This ... Lees meer

A History of Tokyo 1867-1989

Seidensticker

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• "This is a freaking great book and I highly recommend it...if you are passionate about the history of 'the world's greatest city, ' this book is somet... Lees meer

Chinese Ghost Stories

Hearn

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• Chinese Ghost Stories offers a selection of entertaining Chinese tales of the fantastical and paranormal. Author Lafcadio Hearn had a great affinity f... Lees meer

Darkness in Summer

Takeshi Kaiko

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• This intensely modern novel ... provides vivid insights into the alienated condition of a certain type of Japanese whom we may so often glimpse in the... Lees meer

And Then

Natsume

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• A stirring and insightful novel from an author Japan Quarterly calls "a Japanese writer of genius." From beloved author Soseki Natsume, And Then tells... Lees meer

Sumo

Benjamin

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• "The most entertaining and irreverent guide to sumo." -- James Fallows, The Atlantic Sumo is a fresh and funny introduction to the fascinating world o... Lees meer

Japanese Plays

Sadler

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• Classic works from Noh, Kyogen, and Kabuki theaters Nothing reflects the beauty of life as much as Japanese theater. It is here that reality is held s... Lees meer

I Am a Cat

Natsume

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meij... Lees meer

Japanese Folktales

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• Be transported to a realm of magical kingdoms, mysterious beings and mythical lands. Japanese Folktales is the most complete collection of Japanese st... Lees meer

Dream of the Red Chamber

Xueqin

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• "One of the great novels of world literature...to the Chinese as Proust is to the French or Karamazov to the Russians." --Anthony West, literary criti... Lees meer

The Tale of Genji

Shikibu

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel--written a thousand years ago and one of the enduring classics of world litera... Lees meer

The Noh Plays of Japan

Waley

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English. The classic Japanese plays can be read for their great literary merit... Lees meer

Five Women Who Loved Love

Saikaku

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• "Five charming novellas ... which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth."-- The New Yorker First published in 1686, this collection of five no... Lees meer

Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 2

Kuan-Chung

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics | nr. 2
• This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death, forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese cultu... Lees meer

The Tale of Genji

Shikibu

• Paperback | Engels | Tuttle Classics
• "What Waley did create is literary art of extraordinary beauty that brings to life in English the world Murasaki Shikibu imagined. The beauty of his a... Lees meer