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  • Later Essays

    by Yone Noguchi, Edward Marx ...
    Series series Noguchi Project Editions
    Yone Noguchi's delightful, groundbreaking essays of the 1920s and 1930s, previously available only in hard-to-obtain periodicals, are collected here for the first time in this Noguchi Project Edition. The 22 essays range across Japanese poetry, No drama, art, autobiography, travel, and international relations. The essays are edited and introduced by Edward Marx. ... Read more

    $5.00 CAD

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  • Japan Through European Eyes, Six Books

    by Lafcadio Hearn ...
    This collection includes: Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan First Series, Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan Second Series, In Ghostly Japan, Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation, Kokoro, and Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. According to Wikipedia: "Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), also known as Koizumi Yakum after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, ... Read more

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  • The Book of Tea

    by Kakuzo Okakura ...
    Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism—Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, ... Read more

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  • The Home and the World

    by Rabindranath Tagore ...
    Translated by Surendranath Tagore ...
    Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable pressures of the home and world reflect the conflict in India itself, and the tragic outcome foreshadows ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Book of Tea

    by Kakuzo Okakura ...
    For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life: aesthetically austere, socially aristocratic, and imbued with spirituality. The Book of Tea was originally written in English and sought to address the inchoate yearnings of disaffected Westerners. In a flash of inspiration, Okakura saw ... Read more

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  • Lafcadio Hearn's Japan

    Fascinating Stories and Essays by Japan's Most Famous Foreign Observer

    by Lafcadio Hearn ...
    This collection of writings from Lafcaido Hern paints a rare and fascinating picture of pre-modern JapanOver a century after his death, author, translator, and educator Lafcaido Hearn remains one of the best-known Westerners ever to make Japan his home. Almost more Japanese than the Japanese—"to think with their thoughts" was his aim—his prolific writings on things Japanese were instrumental in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (Complete)

    by Lafcadio Hearn ...
    'The books which have been written of late years about Japan have either been compiled from official records, or have contained the sketchy impressions of passing travellers. Of the inner life of the Japanese the world at large knows but little: their religion, their superstitions, their ways of thought, the hidden springs by which they move—all these are as yet mysteries.' This invisible life ... Read more

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  • The Zen of Tea

    by Okakura Kakuzo, Andras Nagy (editor) ...
    This book is a compilation of material on the Japanese Tea ceremony and Okakura Kakuzo's classic book the Book of Tea. ... Read more

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  • The Book of Tea

    by Kakuzo Okakura ...
    The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo (1906), is a long essay linking the role of tea (Teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life. Addressed to a western audience, it was originally written in English and is one of the great English Tea classics. Okakura had been taught at a young age to speak English and was proficient at communicating his thoughts to the Western mind. In his book ... Read more

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  • Kwaidan

    by Lafcado Hearn ...
    Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief study on insects. Hearn declares in his introduction, that most of these stories were translated from old Japanese texts (probably with the help of his wife, Setsu Koizumi). He also states that one of the stories - Yuki-onna - was told to him by a farmer in Musashi Province, and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Rabindranath Tagore - Creative Unity

    by Rabindranath Tagore ...
    Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who was a gifted Bengali Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as a philosopher, social and political reformer and a popular author in all literary genres. He was instrumental in an increased freedom for the press and influenced Gandhi and the founders of modern India. He composed hundreds of songs which are still sung today as they include the Indian and ... Read more

    $2.05 CAD

  • Giribala & Other Short Stories

    "We live in the world when we love it."

    by Rabindranath Tagore ...
    In this volume we venture to the East. To met a writer who speaks a common language of love and mysticism which continues to convey valuable insights into universal themes in contemporary society. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who was a gifted Bengali Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as a philosopher, social and political reformer and a popular author in all literary genres. He was ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD