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  • The Practice of Not Thinking

    A Guide to Mindful Living

    by Ryunosuke Koike ...
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Offers a variety of Buddhist techniques to help us feel calmer every day . . . Nothing has changed . . . and everything has changed . . . I feel calmer and more centred' Sunday TimesWhat if we could learn to look instead of see, listen instead of hear, feel instead of touch? Former monk Ryunosuke Koike shows how, by incorporating simple Zen practices into our daily ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Spider's Web

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life of a Stupid Man

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • 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

  • In a Grove (Golden Deer Classics)

    by Golden Deer Classics, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ...
    "In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanity's ability or ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In a Grove

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ...
    "In a Grove" (藪の中 Yabu no Naka) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; it first appeared in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly Shinchō. Akira Kurosawa used this story as the basis for the plot of his award-winning movie Rashōmon."In a Grove" is an early modernist short story, as well as a blending of the modernist search for identity with themes from historic Japanese ... Read more

    $1.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In a Grove

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ...
    "In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanity's ability or ... Read more

    $1.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Akutagawa

    Twenty-Two Short Stories by Japan's Master Storyteller

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Richard Medhurst ...
    "Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible." —Chris Power, The GuardianRyunosuke Akutagawa (1892—1927), often called "the Father of the Japanese short story," wrote more than 150 works during his brief but prolific career. Widely regarded as Japan's master storyteller, he blended modern sensibilities with timeless ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Hell Screen

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Series series Little Clothbound Classics
    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Kappa

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell ...
    Akutagawa’s magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own—poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic, and wittyThe Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval-shaped saucer on top of its head, which hardens with age ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • To the Monster I Love, Vol. 2 (novel)

    by ryunosuke, Gesoking ...
    Translated by Laura Sitzer ...
    Series Book 2 - To the Monster I Love
    EVERYBODY, PARTNER UP!A month after the Jim Adamworth incident, Norman and his four Unlaw settle into their new lives at the Elementary Detective Agency. However, just because life at home is peaceful doesn’t mean the city of Bardium has gotten any less chaotic. Lonsday and Eltiel team up to take down the Mad Bomber, and along the way, discover the existence of anti-Unlaw weapons. Meanwhile, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Anthology Of Japanese Literature

    by Kn-nosuke Natsume,Ryunosuke Akutagawa,Murasaki Shikibu ...
    Three classic Japanese works with an active table of contents. Works and authors include:"Botchan" By Kin-nosuke Natsume"Rashomon and Other Stories" By Ryunosuke Akutagawa"Selections from Genji Monogatari" By Murasaki Shikibu ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD