Japanese Life & Culture

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The White Man and the Pachinko Girl
The White Man and the Pachinko Girl
by: Vann Chow
3.29 avg rating β€” 105 ratings
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Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan 3.98 avg rating β€” 6,048 ratings
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Geisha, a Life
Geisha, a Life 3.93 avg rating β€” 26,804 ratings
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Neon Pilgrim
Neon Pilgrim 4.05 avg rating β€” 317 ratings
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Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa 3.64 avg rating β€” 1,145 ratings
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A Year in Japan
A Year in Japan 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,552 ratings
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan 3.73 avg rating β€” 1,995 ratings
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The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,864 ratings
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Okinawa Diet
Okinawa Diet 4.97 avg rating β€” 58 ratings
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Toshiden: Exploring Japanese Urban Legends Vol. 1
Toshiden: Exploring Japanese Urban Legends Vol. 1 4.23 avg rating β€” 228 ratings
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Pieces of Wood
Pieces of Wood 4.54 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Gothic & Lolita Bible, Volume 1
Gothic & Lolita Bible, Volume 1 4.13 avg rating β€” 161 ratings
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Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet: Volume One
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet: Volume One 3.97 avg rating β€” 182 ratings
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Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods
Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods 4.01 avg rating β€” 2,676 ratings
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A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony
A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony 3.87 avg rating β€” 2,600 ratings
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Cool Japan: A Guide to Tokyo, Kyoto, Tohoku and Japanese Culture Past and Present
Cool Japan: A Guide to Tokyo, Kyoto, Tohoku and Japanese Culture Past and Present 3.35 avg rating β€” 142 ratings
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Halfway Home: Drawing My Way Through Japan
Halfway Home: Drawing My Way Through Japan 3.63 avg rating β€” 131 ratings
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When the Sakura Bloom
When the Sakura Bloom 4.21 avg rating β€” 169 ratings
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Japanese Zen Gardens
Japanese Zen Gardens 4.16 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
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Dave Barry Does Japan
Dave Barry Does Japan 3.76 avg rating β€” 3,872 ratings
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Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan
Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan 3.94 avg rating β€” 799 ratings
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Here Comes the Sun: A Journey to Adoption in 8 Chakras
Here Comes the Sun: A Journey to Adoption in 8 Chakras 4.66 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
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Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Emptiness: Tokyo Landscape
Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Emptiness: Tokyo Landscape it was ok 2.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Lost in Tokyo
Lost in Tokyo 3.43 avg rating β€” 122 ratings
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The Princess of Tennis: My year working in Japan as an assistant manga artist
The Princess of Tennis: My year working in Japan as an assistant manga artist 4.29 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
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Kyoto: Architecture
Kyoto: Architecture 4.80 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945 3.77 avg rating β€” 86 ratings
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Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics
Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics 4.05 avg rating β€” 356 ratings
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Tokyo: Children's travel activity book
Tokyo: Children's travel activity book it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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No Pianos, Pets or Foreigners! My Life in Japan in the 80's
No Pianos, Pets or Foreigners! My Life in Japan in the 80's 3.86 avg rating β€” 97 ratings
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The Girl in Kyoto: Bittersweet Memories of One Traditional Family in Japan
The Girl in Kyoto: Bittersweet Memories of One Traditional Family in Japan 3.58 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Rainy Day Ramen and the Cosmic Pachinko
Rainy Day Ramen and the Cosmic Pachinko 3.15 avg rating β€” 72 ratings
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De complete keuken van Japan
De complete keuken van Japan 3.73 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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Asian Trail Mix: True Tales from Borneo to Japan
Asian Trail Mix: True Tales from Borneo to Japan 4.54 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life 3.90 avg rating β€” 7,001 ratings
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Watersong
Watersong 3.74 avg rating β€” 709 ratings
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Strong in the rain: surviving Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disaster
Strong in the rain: surviving Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disaster 3.82 avg rating β€” 195 ratings
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Pink Kinky: Japan's Sex Underground
Pink Kinky: Japan's Sex Underground
by: Su Zume
4.10 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga 3.91 avg rating β€” 252 ratings
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Japanese Dream
Japanese Dream 4.33 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Best of Japan
Best of Japan
by: Masaki Ko
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida
The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida 3.82 avg rating β€” 4,343 ratings
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Inventing Japan: 1853-1964
Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 3.68 avg rating β€” 1,049 ratings
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Falling Blossom
Falling Blossom 3.71 avg rating β€” 202 ratings
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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts 4.17 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
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The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution
The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution 4.07 avg rating β€” 114 ratings
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Japan : Koken met stijl
Japan : Koken met stijl liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Rainbirds
Rainbirds 3.48 avg rating β€” 7,152 ratings
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Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945
Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945 3.74 avg rating β€” 58 ratings
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Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale (Japanese Studies Series)
Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale (Japanese Studies Series) 3.62 avg rating β€” 1,022 ratings
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America and the Four Japans: Friend Foe Model Mirror
America and the Four Japans: Friend Foe Model Mirror 3.43 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Japanese Cooking for Health and Fitness
Japanese Cooking for Health and Fitness 3.43 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze 4.20 avg rating β€” 137 ratings
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Hachi-Ko: The Samurai Dog
Hachi-Ko: The Samurai Dog 4.48 avg rating β€” 237 ratings
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Babysan A Private Look At The Japanese Occupation
Babysan A Private Look At The Japanese Occupation
by: Bill Hume
3.78 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Masterclass in Japanese Cooking
Masterclass in Japanese Cooking liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
by: T.R. Reid
3.86 avg rating β€” 997 ratings
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Yoko's Diary
Yoko's Diary
by: Paul Ham
3.94 avg rating β€” 353 ratings
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Cultural Atlas of Japan
Cultural Atlas of Japan 4.04 avg rating β€” 47 ratings
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche 3.91 avg rating β€” 21,849 ratings
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Atomic Sushi
Atomic Sushi
by: Simon May
3.09 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan 4.06 avg rating β€” 250 ratings
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The Emperor's Sea Eagle
The Emperor's Sea Eagle
by: Abe Zenji
3.63 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps
Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Japan: True Stories of Life on the Road
Japan: True Stories of Life on the Road 3.68 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life 3.75 avg rating β€” 84,640 ratings
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Cherry Ingram
Cherry Ingram
by: Naoko Abe
3.90 avg rating β€” 1,339 ratings
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Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld
Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld 3.89 avg rating β€” 3,097 ratings
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Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967
Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967 really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture
The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture 3.74 avg rating β€” 92 ratings
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Asian Journals: India and Japan
Asian Journals: India and Japan 3.68 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing
Rental Person Who Does Nothing 3.32 avg rating β€” 6,010 ratings
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Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation 3.78 avg rating β€” 806 ratings
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Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters: Defending the Earth with Ultraman, Godzilla, and Friends in the Golden Age of Japanese Science Fiction Film
Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters: Defending the Earth with Ultraman, Godzilla, and Friends in the Golden Age of Japanese Science Fiction Film 4.43 avg rating β€” 228 ratings
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Hanami: You, Me, & 200 Sq Ft in Japan
Hanami: You, Me, & 200 Sq Ft in Japan 3.56 avg rating β€” 309 ratings
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In The Land of the Kami: A Journey Into The Hearts of Japan
In The Land of the Kami: A Journey Into The Hearts of Japan 4.18 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo
Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,347 ratings
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Black Ships: Illustrated Japanese History--The Americans Arrive
Black Ships: Illustrated Japanese History--The Americans Arrive 4.04 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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The Vanished: The "Evaporated People" of Japan in Stories and Photographs
The Vanished: The "Evaporated People" of Japan in Stories and Photographs 3.76 avg rating β€” 462 ratings
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Wrong About Japan
Wrong About Japan 3.11 avg rating β€” 2,506 ratings
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Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life 3.99 avg rating β€” 440 ratings
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Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan
Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan 4.40 avg rating β€” 1,054 ratings
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Clueless in Tokyo: An Explorer's Sketchbook of Weird and Wonderful Things in Japan
Clueless in Tokyo: An Explorer's Sketchbook of Weird and Wonderful Things in Japan 3.84 avg rating β€” 172 ratings
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Japanese Cuisine
Japanese Cuisine 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,696 ratings
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Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master 3.96 avg rating β€” 1,118 ratings
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In the Eyes of the Cat : Japanese Poetry for All Seasons
In the Eyes of the Cat : Japanese Poetry for All Seasons
by: Demi
3.85 avg rating β€” 67 ratings
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Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan
Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan 3.84 avg rating β€” 361 ratings
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The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924
The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 3.76 avg rating β€” 234 ratings
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Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics
Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics 3.92 avg rating β€” 353 ratings
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 4.28 avg rating β€” 5,079 ratings
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The Way of the Runner: A Journey into the Fabled World of Japanese Running
The Way of the Runner: A Journey into the Fabled World of Japanese Running 3.80 avg rating β€” 3,215 ratings
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Dragon by the Tail: American, British, Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and One Another
Dragon by the Tail: American, British, Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and One Another 4.25 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing 3.88 avg rating β€” 386,274 ratings
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Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan
Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan 4.32 avg rating β€” 1,657 ratings
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Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan
Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan 4.27 avg rating β€” 2,781 ratings
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Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945
Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945 3.93 avg rating β€” 605 ratings
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,024 ratings
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A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery from World War II
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery from World War II 3.56 avg rating β€” 154 ratings
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The Art of Haiku: Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
The Art of Haiku: Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters 4.51 avg rating β€” 92 ratings
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In Ghostly Japan: Spooky Stories with the Folklore, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Japan
In Ghostly Japan: Spooky Stories with the Folklore, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Japan 3.64 avg rating β€” 1,932 ratings
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