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For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness - th...

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Twenty Plays of the N¿ Theatre

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When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogu...

Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmar...

The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers f...

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In this eloquent and wholly absorbing memoir, the renowned scholar Donald Keene shares more than ...

Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, a Puppet Play

For more than thirty years, the acclaimed novelist Shirley Hazzard and the renowned scholar of Ja...

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