The Life of an Amorous Man

Similar books (20)

• 

  A Strange Tale from East of the River and Other Stories

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  In Praise of Shadows

  An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descri…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Masks

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  In Black and White

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Tosa Diary (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Kokoro

  Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"
  
  Kokoro—"the heart of things"—is the work of one of Japan's most popular authors. This thought-provoking trilogy of stories explores the…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Beauty Is a Wound

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Pillow Book

  "The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Izumi Shikibu Diary: A Romance of the Heian Court

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Monkey: The Journey to the West

  Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic sixteenth century novel is a combination of picaresque novel and folk epic that mixes satire, allegory, and history into a r…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Geisha, a Life

  "No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and b…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Makioka Sisters

  In Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a way of life that is vanishing. As told by Junichiro Tanizaki, the story of the Makioka sisters forms wh…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Goodbye, Eri

  With his mother dying, Yuta attempts to capture her last days on his phone. After her death, Yuta heads to the roof of the hospital to commit suicide, but a meeting with a strange girl leads him on th…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Look Back

  The overly confident Fujino and the shut-in Kyomoto couldn’t be more different, but a love of drawing manga brings these two small-town girls together. A poignant story of growing up and moving forwar…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Diary of Lady Murasaki

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Bartleby the Scrivener

  Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted by Moby-Dick—Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Se…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Tale of a Tub

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths

  A landmark publishing event of one of Japan's most famous cartoonists
  
  Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today–a true living…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams

  Buy this book on Amazon