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The Pillow Book
Sei Shōnagon
4.02 average rating, · 10.4k ratings
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Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
Daidōji Yūzan
4.02 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan
Shigeru Mizuki
4.27 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Black Box
Shiori Itō
4.46 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa
Robert Hass
4.32 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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Lonely Planet Japan
Lonely Planet
4.07 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
Ono no Komachi
4.38 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi
William Scott Wilson
4.11 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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The Bells of Nagasaki
Takashi Nagai
4.23 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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Understanding Japan: A Cultural History
Mark J. Ravina
4.30 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
David Pilling
4.09 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
Ivan Morris
4.05 average rating, · 970 ratings
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Japan
DK Eyewitness Travel
4.12 average rating, · 701 ratings
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Japan
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Another Kyoto
Alex Kerr
4.15 average rating, · 684 ratings
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Mishima: A Biography
John Nathan
4.03 average rating, · 633 ratings
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Hiroshige
Hiroshige Utagawa
4.16 average rating, · 522 ratings
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Japanese Prints
Gabriele Fahr-Becker
4.28 average rating, · 523 ratings
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