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A History of Tokyo by Edward Seidensticker
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
"This is a freaking great book and I highly recommend it...if you are passionate about the history of 'the world's greatest city,' this book is something you must have in your collection."--JapanThis.com Edward Seidensticker'sA History of Tokyo 1867-1989 tells the fascinating story of Tokyo's transform ...Show more
Gossamer Years - The Diary of a Woman in Tenth Century Japan - the Intimate Diary of a Female Courtier by Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator); Dennis Washburne (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A self-portrait devastating in its honesty...written passionately and without a thought to how readers might judge her actions.--Donald Keene Gossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an unnamed noblewoman in Tenth-century Japan--the same period as Murasaki Shikibu's celebrated Tale of G ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Thomas J. Harper (Translator); Edward Seidensticker (Translator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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 no ...Show more
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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, ...Show more
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classics
About Dennis Washburn's translation "Washburn's version of Murasaki Shikibu's masterpiece is lucid and engaging, irresistibly drawing the reader further and further into the story and the exquisite world it creates for us of Japan's Heian court. A fresh and invaluable Tale of Genji for those of us reun ...Show more
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