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Japanese-Literature

2021

With You and the Rain Vol. 1

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3-stars

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Ko Nikaido - 2021

If it looks like a dog and acts like a dog and insists it's a dog, it's...

a dog? Probably? She adopted it anyway, and her life with this "dog" will never be boring!

Of Arcs and Circles: Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art

Marc Peter Keane - 2021

From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives.

How the names of gardens reveal their essential meaning. A new definition of what art is. What trees are really made of. The true meaning of the enigmatic torii gate found at Shinto shrines. Why we give flowers as gifts. The essential, underlying unity of the world.

Eight Dogs, or "hakkenden": An Ill-Considered Jest, Being the First 14 Chapters of Nansao Satomi Hakkenden

5-star

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Bakin Takizawa - 2021

"A translation of the first fourteen chapters of the Japanese novel Nans�o Satomi hakkenden (1814-1842) by Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848)"--.

"A translation of the first fourteen chapters of the Japanese novel Nans�o Satomi hakkenden (1814-1842) by Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848)"--

The Woman Next Door