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And Then by Soseki Natsume
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
"And Then," ranked as one of Soseki Natsume's most insightful and stirring novels, tells the story of Daisuke, a young Japanese man struggling with his personal purpose and identity, as well as the changing social landscape of Meiji-era Japan. As Japan enters the 20th century, ancient customs give way t ...Show more
I am a Cat - Three Volumes by Soseki, Natsume
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
"A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action..." --The New Yorker Written from 1904 through 1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
$14.99 AUD
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
Izu Dancer And Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
As six Izu travellers journey together, intimacy develops and friendship overcomes class differences. Capturing the shy eroticism of adolescence, The Izu Dancer paints a charming picture of the times.
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Horror | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
This collection of Japanese supernatural stories is a classic work in the field of Japanese horror. Known primarily as an early interpreter of Japanese culture and customs, the famous writer Lafcadio Hearn also wrote ghost stories--"delicate, transparent, ghostly sketches"--about his adopted land. Many ...Show more
Romance Of The Three Kingdoms Vol 1 by Lo Kuan-Chung; C. H. Brewitt-Taylor (Translator); Robert E. Hegel (Introduction by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death, forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese culture and continues to fascinate modern-day readers. In 220 EC, the 400-year-old rule of the mighty Han dynasty came to an end and three kingdoms contest ...Show more
The Heike Story by YOSHIKAWA EIJI
$37.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
The Heike Story is a modern translation of a Japanese classic. Kyoto in the twelfth century was a magnificent city, but crime, disorder, and lust were rampant. The people were abused by the nobility, while armed Buddhist monks terrorized court and commoner alike. In despair, the Emperor called upon ...Show more
The Tale of Genji: The Authentic First Translation of the World's Earliest Novel by Murasaki Shikibu
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel--The Tale of Genji was written a thousand years ago and is one of the enduring classics of world literature. Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel--and af ...Show more
The Tosa Diary by Ki no Tsurayuki
$16.99 AUD
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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