The poems are representative of a large range of classical, medieval, and modern poetry, but the emphasis, as in his companion Chinese collections (1955 and 1970), is on folk songs and love lyrics.

    'What am I really doing here? What does it mean to live? What are we living for?...''I wonder if man can ever lose his loneliness? The wind is howling.' "Ayako Miura is a well-known Japanese novelist and poet. Her first novel received first prize in a Japanese national competition in 1964. In a later novel, Shiokari Pass (published in English in 1974), the Christianity she expressed aroused intense interest among her readers. The present book, partly an answer to that interest, is an account of her own life in Japan's turbulent postwar period. It explains her pathway to Christ and helps Western readers understand from the inside much of the Japanese attitude to life."But more than this, we see Christ himself, patiently leading, prompting, pursuing, revealing himself as Ayako-san argues and fights for life. In the deepest and starkest crises of life, of human love and relationships, in serious illness and physical weakness, in suffering and loss: in all of this God reveals himself to her." (Back cover)

    This book covers the development of the Imperial Japanese Navy from its humble beginnings to major sea power.

    Thousands of samurai were left jobless when their feudal lords were overthrown. These masterless samurai, or ronin, wandered the country looking for work and adventure. The Samurai and the Long-Nosed Devils follows two ronin who find themselves employed as bodyguards for two Portuguese missionaries who are hated and feared by many Japanese. This wry and witty mystery examines two cultural points of view as they clash head on.

    One of these is Tales of Tono, first published in 1976, which features work shot in the countryside of northern Honshu, Japan. Taking its name from a collection of Japanese rural folk legends, its non-narrative diptychs display a nascent nostalgia, whilst the formal qualities of the photos embrace the grainy and raw techniques that Moriyama brought to his more urban subject matter. Published here for the first time in English, to coincide with a survey of the artist's work with William Klein at Tate Modern, Tales of Tono is the perfect introduction to one of the world's most beautifully unsettling photographers.

    This edition is 2,000 copies photo-offset from the letter press proofs and bound in wrappers.

    

    

    Donald Keene looks within the "walls" of isolation and meticulously chronicles the period's vast literary output, providing both lay readers and scholars with the definitive history of premodern Japanese literature. World Within Walls spans the age in which Japanese literature began to reach a popular audience -- as opposed to the elite aristocratic readers to whom it had previously been confined. Keene comprehensively treats each of the new, popular genres that arose, including haiku, Kabuki, and the witty, urbane prose of the newly ascendant merchant class.