Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, (1962, c 1960). Hardcover - A charming book with 31 full color illustrations. Verse translations and a long essay on haiku by Harold Stewart. Notes, bibliography, index. 180 pages. Gold foil wraparound band.

Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, (1963, c 1960). Hardcover - A charming book with 31 full color illustrations. Verse translations and a long essay on haiku by Harold Stewart. Notes, bibliography, index. 180 pages.

Rutland, VT and Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of mixed marriage. "In this perceptive novel of interracial marriage, the author exposes the harsh realities and strange contradictions of life in modern Japan." When Alice Burns marries Saburo Tanaka and accompanies him to his Japanese homeland, she experiences the frustration and loneliness of living in an alien culture while her husband as a 'salaryman' is bound to his company. The lavish expense account spending is juxtaposed against the squalid living conditions. 152 pp. ISBN: 0-804810540.

Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, (2002). SIGNED first edition - A new edition of this classic travel memoir originally published in 1971 in which "Donald Richie embarks on a quest to find Japans timeless heart among its mysterious waters and forgotten islands.. . voyage of discovery and self-revelation." Includes an introduction by Pico Iyer, photographs from the award-winning PBS documentary, and a new afterword by the author. SIGNED by Iyer at his introduction, and uncommon thus. Small almost square format. 255 pp. ISBN: 1-880656698.

Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., (1984). Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems which explore the traditional philosophical principles and teachings of the practitioners of the Japanese martial art, ninjutsu, illustrated with the author's black and white photographs. "Hayes met and began training under Tsunehisa Tanemura and he later trained under Masaaki Hatsumi, the 34th Grandmaster of Togakure-ry ninjutsu and is the founder of the Bujinkan organization. In 1997, Hayes founded the martial art of To-Shin Do, based in his experience of bud taijutsu. In 2007 Black Belt magazine described him as 'one of the 10 most influential living martial artists in the world'. He also acted in the 1980 television miniseries Shogun." (Wikipedia) Introduction by the author. Caligraphy by Kiyomi Fujimoto. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-809253836.

West Cork, Ireland and Niwot, Colorado, Roberts Rinehart Publishers, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The introductory note explains that the story of Odysseus, as told in Japan by 16th-century Jesuit missionaries, was adopted and became a "native tale." Yuriwaka, the strongest man in all Japan, sent by the Emperor to quell marauders on the distant island of Kyushu, is on his way home when he is treacherously abandon him on another island, but with the help of his hawk, he manages to communicate with his faithful wife and eventually gets his revenge. Illustrated with three striking double spreads in color, and many black and white line drawings and stylized decorations by Birgitta Saflund. Translated and retold by Erik and Masako Haugaard. 42 pp. ISBN: 1-879373025.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. dj. Hardcover first edition - A boy dreams about a story told him by his mother about a crane which turns into a woman, and the boundaries between reality and dreams fade. Illustrated in full color by this Caldecott winning artist. Large format. ISBN: 978-0547214108.

London: Atlantic Books, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature with its roots in a World War II tragedy. "His recurring protagonist and literary alter-ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his fathers death during WWII: details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel." Translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. 424 pp. ISBN: 978-0857895455.

Boston: Shambhala, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A journey deep into the heart of American and Japanese Zen Buddhism, culminating with Matthiessen's 1982 pilgrimage to Japan with his Zen teacher. Foreword by Hakuyu T. Maezumi. Index. xii, 288 pp. ISBN: 0-394-552512.

New York: Harper Perennial, (2010). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning writer's highly praised first novel. "Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can never really throw away your past. . a novel at once a fish-out-of-water tale, a dark comedy of manners, and a strange kind of love story. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 356 pp plus 16 pp of additional material, including an interview with the author. ISBN: 978-0061732850.

New York: SOHO Press, (1999). First edition - A novel by this Australian writer which focuses on the lives of three women expatriates in Japan... "Their Japan is one of cherry blossoms and tea ceremonies, to be sure, but it's also one of love hotels, department-store 'disaster corners,' and monotonous second-rate teaching jobs. Rather than pretending to tell us something new about Japan, Highbridge has told us something new about those who seek it out; the result is a delicate, unsentimental, and surprisingly cohesive book." (Chloe Byrne)"

New York: Harper Collins, (2020). First edition - The first collaboration between these two authors, a retelling of Kurosawas Seven Samurai featuring a girl - an outcast because she has the ability to see the supernatural - who tasked with saving the world from eternal darkness. Glossary. 376 pp.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). First edition - A young adult novel which "explores the two most powerful forces known to man - death and love. . . Danny's mother lost her battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation - the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone. . When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of a side of his mother he never knew. So, with no other sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his mother's memory and make sense of her final months."

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight stories by this award winning writer, written over a period of 20 years from 1959 to 1979, and set in Vietnam, in the South China Sea, and in the cities and mountains of Japan. Translated from the Japanese by Cecelia Segawa Seigle. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-396091083.

Seattle and Tokyo: Association for Asian Studies. University of Washington Press / University of Tokyo Press. n.d. (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study which "explores the political implications of various kinds of Japanese conciliatory techniques, particularly as they affect the enforcement of rights and popular right-consciousness essential to democratic government and rational industrial society." 2 volumes. Volume I includes a map, chart, 181 pp. Volume II contains several appendices glossary, bibliography, index, 183 - 420 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Young adult novel - two 'barrio brothers from San Francisco' go to Japan for the summer. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1995 Glossaries of Spanish and Japanese words and phrases. 134 pp. ISBN: 0-152591877.

New York: Grove Press, (2015). First edition - A novel by this winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature with its roots in a World War II tragedy. "His recurring protagonist and literary alter-ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his fathers death during WWII: details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel." Translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. 424 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander who masterminded Pearl Harbor. "In 1943, the United States military began to plan one of the most dramatic secret missions of World War II. Its code name was Operation Vengeance. Naval Intelligence had intercepted the itinerary of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, whose stealth attack on Pearl Harbor precipitated Americas entry into the war." Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. xvi, 430 pp. ISBN: 978-0062938091.

Seattle: Chin Music Press Inc., (2012). Hardcover first edition - A novel set on a tiny, earthquake-plagued island in a remote corner of Japan. Endo, a young physician unjustly charged with a patient's death, is banished to the island to care for the few remaining elderly residents. A book which "combines modern earthquake science, ancient Japanese myths on the origin of earthquakes, and an unforgettable cast of characters to create a suspenseful, richly illustrated novel." (Publishers Weekly) A beautifully designed book, with L.J.C. Shimoda's artwork throughout, 279 pp plus a sixteen-page illustrated retelling of the myth of Kashima, the god who controls a giant, thrashing catfish that causes earthquakes. ISBN: 978-0984457670.

Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle (1972, c 1964) dj. Hardcover - The first book in English to describe and analyze this Japanese art. Illustrated with over 100 photographs and drawings. Glossary, bibliography, index. Printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 157 pp. ISBN: 0-804805741.

New York: Scholastic, (1995) dj. Hardcover - A story of of his grandfather's life in America and in Japan by this award winning artist. and how as a boy he listened to his stories of California, where he now lives. Includes a complete number line ending in 1, but the back cover mentions the Caldecott medal and notes that this is for distribution through the school market. Large format. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-395979749.

University of Tokyo Press: (1991). Compiles papers by nine scholar on the two and a half centuries ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868) Translated and edited by Conrad Totman. Illustrations, index, viii, 240 pp. ISBN: 0-860084906.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel - two 'barrio brothers from San Francisco' go to Japan for the summer. Glossaries of Spanish and Japanese words and phrases. 134 pp. ISBN: 0-152591877.

London: Picador, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of Lucy Fly, an English woman working as a translator in Tokyo. When the story opens she has been arrested for the murder of another English woman, Lily Bridges, whose partial remains have just been found. Otto Penzler called this "little gem of a book is a startlingly good debut - it grips you while you read and stays with you long after you've finished." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Crime Writer's Association John Creasey Memorial Award for the best first crime novel of 2001. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-330485016.

New York: Random House, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "authoritative account of the Great Age of Japanese prints (about 1660 to 1860), and the artists who created them. The age in which these men flourished was robust, colorful and art-fostering even though it happened entirely within the period of the powerful Tokugawa dictatorship." Includes 65 illustrations with 40 of them are in full color. Includes information on the Japanese print market today, including an estimate of prices. Brief biographies of the ukiyo-e artists whose works are included in this book. Bibliography, index and glossary. xii, 403 pp.