 | Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Buy new: £5.63 / Used from: £6.75 A hauntingly beautiful, ominous novel, heavy with symbolism and complex characters.
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 | Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey
Buy new: £4.34 / Used from: £0.01 Interesting look at Japanese youth culture, particularly manga as well as a study in manners between the generations.
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 | Geisha by Liza Crihfield Dalby
Buy new: £5.76 / Used from: £0.01 Written by the first Western geisha, an interesting anthropological study. My favourite book exploring the world of the geisha.
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 | Little Songs of the Geisha: Traditional Japanese Ko-uta by Liza Crihfield Dalby
Buy used from: £0.18 A gorgeous book of geisha songs, translated and explained for Western readers.
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 | Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan by Will Ferguson
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £1.65 Hilarious travel book on hitchhiking in Japan. Highlights the kindness, beauty and character of Japan and its people. It also highlights the love-hate relationship the author has with Japan.
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 | Harumi's Japanese Cooking (Conran Octopus Cookery) by Harumi Kurihara
Buy used from: £8.00 Brilliant and easy to follow Japanese cookery book by the master of cookery. Mixes European ingredients with Japanese.
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 | When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Buy used from: £0.12 Amazing novel based on the true story of the internment of Japanese Americans in camps in America during WWII. I loved this book.
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 | Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki by Mineko Iwasaki
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 Extraordinary insight into the geisha world and its ancient customs.
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 | Japanese Kimono Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)
Buy new: £8.14 / Used from: £8.73 Pictoral book of kimono, describing the intricate use of animals, birds and plants as well as the different kinds of kimono styles.
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