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The Samurai’s Daughter: The Shogun Quartet #4
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s
In the brave new Japan of the 1870s, Taka and Nobu meet as children and fall in love; but their relationship will test the limits of society. Unified after a bitter civil war, Japan is rapidly turning into a...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family’s summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener....
The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Cracked doesn’t always mean broken. Grieving her mother’s death, Mari Lennox travels to Kyoto, Japan to take photographs of Yanagi Inn for a client. As she explores the inn and its grounds, her camera captures striking images, uncovering layers...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): WW2
A classic story about a magical miniature family’s adventures in wartime Japan In a dusty library, in the quietest corner of a house in a Tokyo suburb, live the Little People: Fern and Balbo, Robin and Iris. Just a...
- Location(s): Japan, Corsica, Hawai'i, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950 - 2012
The deep traditions and values of Kaito Tanaka’s Japanese heritage are severely tested when he returns home to Honolulu from duty in Vietnam to find his wife Hana in the grip of progressive mental health challenges. As Hana’s condition...
- Location(s): London, Paris, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s / 1980s
THREE CITIES. TWO WOMEN. A STORY OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS… London, 1875. Bel has secured a design job at the newly opened Liberty store, where Japonisme is all the rage. When Hiro, a fellow designer, travels with her to...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji...
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1939 onwards
It is Tokyo in 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows early signs of promise at the national obsession of sumo wrestling,...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 10th century
The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world’s first novel-written a thousand years ago and one of the enduring classics of world literature.Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks...
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte...
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