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- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020 How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem? Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon? Why are so many things in Japan the opposite...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Shinako has been ousted from her marriage by her husband Shozo and his younger lover Fukuko. She’s lost everything: her home, status, and respectability. Yet the only thing she longs for is Lily, the elegant tortoiseshell cat she shared...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast – a kirin. One evening a man staggers...
A Geisha’s Journey: My Life as a Kyoto Apprentice
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
This is the story of a contemporary Japanese teenager who, in a search for an identity, became fascinated with the world of geisha, and discovered in herself the will and the commitment to embark on the many years of...
- Location(s): Mount Fuji
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Heir to Mt. Fuji’s spirit kingdom, Sora yearns to finally take on the sacred kami duties. But just as she confronts her parents to make a plea, a ghostly army invades the mountain. Barely escaping with her life, Sora...
- Location(s): London, Nagasaki
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s and post WW2
In his highly acclaimed debut, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 20th Century
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn’t totally unexpected. But the circumstances...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
The son of lower-class goldfish sellers falls in love with the beautiful daughter of his rich patron. After he is sent away to study the science of goldfish breeding, with strict orders to return and make his patron’s fortune,...
- Location(s): Tokyo, London, Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s to 1990s
A novel written from the points of view of three women with the subject, besides telling the stories of how they grow up and meet, the nature of the self, or of identity. It takes its title from Straw...
- Location(s): Kumamoto
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
The year is 1903, and tenacious and spirited Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan, becoming the protégée of Shinonome, the oiran, or the highest-ranking courtesan. Through Shinonome’s teachings, fifteen-year-old Ichi begins to understand...
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