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  • The Silver Spoon

    Memoir of a Boyhood in Japan

    by Kansuke Naka ...
    Translated by Hiroaki Sato ...
    Winner of the 2017 - 2018 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Translation PrizeJapan's most beloved memoir from the early twentieth century, "an extraordinarily beautiful evocation of the world of childhood."Perhaps the most admired childhood memoir ever written in Japan, The Silver Spoon is a sharp detailing of life at the end of the Meiji period (1912) through the eyes of a boy as he grows into ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. ‘Rashömon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as ‘The Nose’, ‘O-Gin’ and ‘Loyalty’ paint a rich and imaginative ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • On Love and Barley

    Haiku of Basho

    by Matsuo Basho ...
    Translated by Lucien Stryk ...
    Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Sound of Water

    Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets

    Series series Shambhala Centaur Editions
    Over 200 of the best haiku poems from Japanese literature, translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators and now in one giftable volumeThe haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. This illustrated collection includes haiku by the great masters from ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Haiku

    An Anthology of Japanese Poems

    by Stephen Addiss ...
    Series series Shambhala Library
    A poetry collection honoring the haiku—complete with poet biographies, translator commentary, and Japanese artworkThis celebration of what is perhaps the most influential of all poetic forms takes haiku back to its Japanese roots. Beginning with poems by the seventeenth and eighteenth-century masters Basho, Busson, and Issa, the anthology goes all the way up to the late twentieth century to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Japanese Haiku

    Translated by Peter Beilenson ...
    by Basho, Buson ...
    Series Book 1 - Peter Pauper Press Classic Haiku
    Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Beloved translator Peter Beilensons goal was twofold: to craft a book of haiku accessible to anyone, and to render his best guess at what the poets would have written in English. His translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional impressions ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Third Eye

    by T. Lobsang Rampa ...
    The story of Tibet at the turn of the century as seen through the eyes of a boy. T. Lobsang Rampa was preordained to be a Tibetan priest, a sign from the stars that could not be ignored. When he left his wealthy home to enter the monastery, his heart was filled with trepidation, with only a slight knowledge of the rigorous spiritual training and physical ordeal that awaited him . . . . This is his ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Japanese Haiku: The Four Seasons

    Translated by Peter Beilenson ...
    by Basho, Buson ...
    Series Book 2 - Peter Pauper Press Classic Haiku
    Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Beloved translator Peter Beilensons goals were twofold: to craft a book of haiku accessible to anyone, and to render his best guess at what the poets would have written in English. His translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Modern Japanese Literature

    From 1868 to the Present Day

    Edited by Donald Keene ...
    A collection of plays, essays, poetry, and reportage compiled by "the 20th-century's premier scholar of Japanese literature" ( Slate).Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The River of Heaven

    The Haiku of Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki

    by Robert Aitken ...
    “In this, his final work, American senior Zen Roshi Robert Aitken lovingly ties together two threads, Zen practice and haiku.” —Spirituality & HealthKnown to many as the study of quiet stillness and introspection, Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself through brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness of expression. In River of Heaven these concepts and pillars lend themselves to an exploration of ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Crackling Mountain and Other Stories

    by Osamu Dazai ...
    Translated by James O'Brien ...
    Series series Tuttle Classics
    Crackling Mountain and Other Stories features eleven outstanding works by Osama Dazai, widely regarded as one of the 20th century Japan's most gifted writers.Dazai experimented with a wide variety of short story styles and brought to each a sophisticated sense of humor, a broad empathy for the human condition, and a tremendous literary talent.The eleven stories in this collection of Japanese ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Wild Geese

    by Ogai Mori ...
    Translated by Sanford Goldstein, Kingo Ochiai ...
    This modern classic, written in 1913, was the source for the highly acclaimed film, The MistressIn The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love, set against the background of the dizzying social change accompanying the fall of the Meiji regime. The young heroine, Otama, is forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. She is surrounded ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD