Fiction:
James Clavell's Gai-Jin: A Novel of Japan, James Clavell
Shogun: A Novel of Japan, James Clavell
Love and Infamy, Frank Deford
Kill the Shogun: A Samurai Mystery,* Dale Furutani
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Color of the Sea, John Hamamura
Heaven’s Net is Wide: The First Tale of the Otori,* Lian Hearn
An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Book of Loss, Julith Jedamus
Fudoki, Kij Johnson
Riding the East Wind, Otohiko Kaga
Embracing Family, Nobuo Kojima
Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor, Dan Maloney
Autumn Bridge, Takashi Matsuoka
Cloud of Sparrows, Takashi Matsuoka
The Strangeness of Beauty, Lydia Y. Minatoya
Island of Exiles: A Mystery of Early Japan,* I. J. Parker
What Happened to Henry, Sharon Pywell
The Mask Carver’s Son, Alyson Richman
The Tokaido Road: A Novel of Feudal Japan, Lucia St. Clair Robson
The Snow Empress,* Laura Joh Rowland
The Snow Fox, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
The Painting, Nina Schuyler
Eight Million Gods and Demons, Hiroko Shawin
The Pure Land, Alan Spence
The Tales of the Heike, edited by Haruo Shirane
The Samurai’s Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, Gail Tsukiyama
The Story of a Single Woman, Chiyo Uno
The Ginger Tree, Oswald Wynd
Musashi, Eiji Yoshikawa
Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan, Eiji Yoshikawa
Nonfiction:
Warriors Of The Rising Sun: A History Of The Japanese Military,
Robert B. Edgerton 355.00952 EDG
Path of the Assassin, Vol. 1-9.
Kazuo Koike 741.5 KOI (Graphic Novels)
The Pleasures Of Japanese Literature,
Donald Keene 895.609 KEE
The Gossamer Years: The Diary Of A Noblewoman Of Heian Japan,
Michitsuna no Haha 895.6814 MIC
Legends Of The Samurai,
Hiroaki Sato 952 SAT
A Traveller’s History Of Japan,
Richard Tames 952 TAM
Life Among The Samurai,
Eleanor J. Hall 952.02 HAL
Samurai Sketches: From The Bloody Final Years Of The Shogun,
Romulus Hillsborough 952.025 HIL
Samurai: The Story Of A Warrior Tradition,
Harry Cook OVERSIZE 952 COO
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