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Natsume Soseki is the person on the 1000 yen note. I Am a Cat (wagahai wa neko de aru) Is perhaps the most famous of Japanese literature.   I Am a Cat I
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Natsume Soseki, Aiko Ito (Translator), Graeme Wilson (Translator)
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Charles E Tuttle Co; ISBN: 0804816212 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.48 x 7.19 x 4.36
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Part 2 I Am A Cat II
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Natsume Soseki, Graeme Wilson (Translator), Aiko Ito (Translator)
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Paperback Vol 002 (December 1979)
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3 Botchan
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Natsume Soseki, Alan Turney (Translator), Soseki Natsume
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Kodansha International; ISBN: 0870113674 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.53 x 7.17 x 4.36
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The River Ki
by Sawako Ariyoshi, Mildred Tahara (Translator)
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Chushingura
by Donald Keene(Translator)

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(April 1997)

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Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Ronin, is the most famous and perennially popular of all Japanese dramas. Written in the eighteenth century as a puppet play, it is now best known through Kabuki theater performances.
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Lafcadio Hearn's Japan : An Anthology of His Writings on the Country and Its People
by Lafcadio Hearn, Donald Richie (Editor)
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1 Ed edition (November 1997)
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  Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
by Donald Keene(Editor). Paperback (December 1988)
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This sweeping, fast-paced narrative combines the panoramic spectacle of a Kurosawa epic with a vivid evocation of 16th-century Japan, as it tells of three men who dream of uniting a nation where rival warlords battle for supremacy. Yoshikawa is the author of the international bestseller Musashi....
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Taiko : An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
by Eiji Yoshikawa, William Scott Wilson (Translator)
Kodansha International
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9 Shogun -- James Clavell; Paperback

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10 Gai-Jin : A Novel of Japan; James Clavell
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by Theodore W. Goossen(Editor)
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  The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
by John L. Apostolou(Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
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Although Akira Yoshimura is one of Japan's most prolific and celebrated authors, his work is little known outside of his native country. Shipwrecks, one of the first of his 20 novels to be translated into English, tells the tale of Isaku, a 9-year-old boy who is forced to scrounge to provide for his... Read more

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Shipwrecks
by Akira Yoshimura, Mark Ealey (Translator)
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POETRY

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One Hundred Poems from the Japanese
by Kenneth Rexroth(Translator)
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W W Norton & Co
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(January 1964)
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Basho's Narrow Road : Spring & Autumn Passages : Narrow Road to the Interior and the Renga Sequence : A Farewell Gift to Sora : Two Works (Rock spring
by Matsuo Basho, Hiroaki Sato (Translator)
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(October 1996)
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CHILDREN'S

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Japanese Children's Favorite Stories
by Florence Sakade, Yoshio Kurosaki (Illustrator). Hardcover (December 1958)
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Little One Inch and Other Japanese Childrens' Favorite Stories
by Florence Sakade. Paperback (December 1958)
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'Momotaro' is the most famous Japanese fairy tale. Peach Boy and Other Japanese Children's Favorite Stories
by Florence Sakade, Yoshisuke Kurosaki (Illustrator). Paperback (December 1958)
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  Urashima Taro and Other Japanese Children Stories
by Florence Sakade(Editor). Paperback (December 1958)
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