Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Unbeaten tracks in Japan	Isabella L. Bird	“So genial is its spirit, so enticing its narrative.”—New Englander and Yale Review (1881). The first recorded account of Japan by a Westerner, this 1878 book captures a lifestyle that has nearly van…	OL1077888W
Coffee life in Japan	Merry I. White	"Traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Eu…	OL16117557W
Queer Japan	Barbara Summerhawk,Cheiron McMahill,Darren McDonald	In this important contribution to international queer studies, sixteen Japanese lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transsexuals tell their stories. Doseiai (same sex love between men) has never been le…	OL16457836W
Modernism and Japanese culture	Roy Starrs	"Offering an in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism, in this book Roy Starrs considers the concept of modernism as encompassing not just the aesthetic avant-g…	OL16471152W
Japanese Origami	Ann Stalcup	Describes some specific origami figures and their significance in Japanese culture. Includes directions for creating an origami ornament.	OL1807924W
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower	Rumer Godden	After she leaves India to live with her cousins in England, eight-year-old Nona is overcome with homesickness until her great-aunt sends two Japanese dolls which need love and care. Includes construc…	OL1825348W
If I lived in Japan..	Rosanne Knorr	Entertaining verses and delightful illustrations introduce young children to the daily customs and language of their peers living in Japan.	OL1829844W
The good shufu	Tracy Slater	"In this memoir of travel and love, a fiercely independent American woman finds everything she ever wanted in the most unexpected place. Shufu. In Japanese it means "housewife," and it's the last thi…	OL20009069W
Please enjoy your happiness	Paul Brinkley-Rogers	"Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley-Rogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot forget: that of his haunting love affair with a myste…	OL20034103W
Tokyo Friends	Betty Reynolds	American Katie and her Japanese friends, Keiko and Kenji, explore Tokyo, learning about Japanese customs, holidays, and vocabulary. Each page includes pictures of items that relate to the text and th…	OL2038174W
The Dream of Water	Kyoko Mori	In an extraordinary memoir that is both a search for belonging and a search for understanding, Japanese-American author Kyoko Mori travels back to Kobe, Japan, the city of her birth, in an unspoken d…	OL2648019W
Takarazuka	Jennifer Robertson	The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devote…	OL2723793W
Learning to Bow	Bruce Feiler	Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler…	OL2749499W
I Live in Tokyo	Mari Takabayashi	Mimiko lives in Tokyo and through this calendar, shows a year's worth of fun, food, and festivities in Mimiko's life, month by month.	OL3940746W
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword	Ruth Benedict	Anthropologist Ruth Benedict prepared this study of Japanese culture towards the end of World War II to explain Japan to Americans. It's become a classic. Published in 1946.	OL4646221W
A family in Japan	Judith Elkin	Describes the daily life of a twelve-year-old Japanese boy living with his family in a town near Tokyo.	OL5278950W
Japan	Paul Norbury	Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and se…	OL6030449W
The book of tea	Okakura Kakuzo	Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a re…	OL7095112W
Tears of Longing	Christine R. Yano	"Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the "nihonjin no kokoro" (heart/soul of Japanese). To older members of the Japanese public, who constitute enka's primary audience, this music …	OL8275832W
The price of death	Hikaru Suzuki	"Funerary practices have long been a classic topic of anthropological inquiry, which has tended to focus on death rituals as expressions and reinforcers of community ties and values. In this book, th…	OL8443866W