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Kūkai

Kūkai

Kūkai, Yoshito Hakeda

Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings

Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings

Sōseki Natsume, Michael Bourdaghs

The Frontier Within

The Frontier Within

Kōbō Abe, Richard Calichman

The Typographic Imagination

The Typographic Imagination

Nathan Shockey

The Dawn of the Warrior Age

The Dawn of the Warrior Age

Royall Tyler

The Textual Townsman

The Textual Townsman

Thomas Gaubatz

John Okada

John Okada

Frank Abe, Greg Robinson

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Ruth Benedict

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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

Literature of the Lost Home

Literature of the Lost Home

Hideo Kobayashi, Paul Anderer

Imagining Harmony

Imagining Harmony

Peter Flueckiger

Tales of Tears and Laughter

Tales of Tears and Laughter

Virginia Skord

Drawing on Tradition

Drawing on Tradition

Jolyon Baraka Thomas

Engaging Japanese Philosophy

Engaging Japanese Philosophy

Thomas P. Kasulis

Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

A Fictional Commons

A Fictional Commons

Michael K. Bourdaghs

Essays on Miyazawa Kenji and Endo Shusaku: Religious Experiences in Japan’s Literature

Essays on Miyazawa Kenji and Endo Shusaku: Religious Experiences in Japan’s Literature

Kazumitsu Ito

The Siren’s Lament

The Siren’s Lament

Jun'Ichiro Tanizaki, Bryan Karetnyk

Conversations With Kazuo Ishiguro

Conversations With Kazuo Ishiguro

Brian W. Shaffer, Cynthia F. Wong

Bushido: the Samurai Code of Japan

Bushido: the Samurai Code of Japan

Inazo Nitobe, Alexander Bennett