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  • The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    by Kyoko Iriye Selden, Mark Selden ...
    This collection of factual reports, short stories, poems and drawings expresses in a deeply personal voice the devastating effects of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Islands of Protest

    Japanese Literature from Okinawa

    by Steve Rabson, Professor Carolyn Anne Morley, Professor Amy C. Franks, Lin Loh Shi, Aimee Mizuno, Takuma Sminkey, Kyoko Selden, Dr. Alisa Freedman, Dr. Victoria Young0, Dr. Masaki Kinjo1, Professor Jon Holt2, Robert Tierney3 ...
    Literature is an important vehicle to further knowledge of other cultures, and English translations of Okinawan literary works have had a major impact on the field of Okinawan studies. Yet the riches of Okinawa's literature have yet to be adequately mined. Islands of Protest attempts to address this lacuna with this new selection of critically acclaimed modern and contemporary works in English.The ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Funeral of a Giraffe: Seven Stories by Tomioka Taeko

    by Taeko TOMIOKA, Kyoko Selden, Noriko MIZUTA ...
    The first collection of short stories by award-winning scriptwriter-poet turned fiction writer, Taeko Tomioka. In an objective style reminiscent of Japanese puppet theater, Taeko deconstructs the discourse of the nuclear family and heterosexuality in gendered Japanese culture. Her stories focus on ordinary people who take life as it comes, living from day to day without the intervention of ego or ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction

    Twentieth Century Short Fiction

    by Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye Selden ...
    This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought. "Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983)

    by Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye Selden ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 1982. The authors deal with the experiences of modern women with penetrating sincerity and honesty, but their philosophic profundity in understanding modern life, their intellectual capacity to view their experience in a historical and social context, and their mastery of the art of fiction render the traditional category of 'female school literature' totally ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • The Search for the Beautiful Woman

    A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty

    by Cho Kyo ...
    Translated by Kyoko Iriye Selden ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blackened teeth long were markers of loveliness.For centuries, Japanese culture was profoundly shaped by China, but in complex ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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  • The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

    Edited by Jay Rubin ...
    This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new finds. From Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Totto-Chan

    The Little Girl at the Window

    by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi ...
    Translated by Dorothy Britton ...
    Series Book 1 - Totto Chan, The Little Girl at the Window
    This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars for classrooms, and it was run by an extraordinary man-its founder and headmaster, Sosaku Kobayashi--who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.In real life, the Totto-chan of the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai

    by Osamu Dazai ...
    The Setting Sun is a poignant exploration of postwar Japanese society, focusing on themes of decline, identity, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. Osamu Dazai critiques the disintegration of the traditional aristocratic class while examining the psychological struggles of individuals caught between the past and an uncertain future. Through the lives of characters such as ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Tatami Galaxy

    A Novel

    by Tomihiko Morimi ...
    Translated by Emily Balistrieri ...
    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE*An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library–esque time loop novel from one of Japan’s most popular authors.Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on the verge of dropping out. After ... Read more

    $11.99 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

  • The Emissary

    by Yoko Tawada ...
    Translated by Margaret Mitsutani ...
    Winner of 2018 National Book Award in Translated LiteratureLibrary Journal Best Books of 2018Yoko Tawada’s new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her “brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness”Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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