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The Tale of Genji : The Authentic First Translation of the World's Earliest Novel by Murasaki Shikibu
$16.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel--The Tale of Genji was written a thousand years ago and is one of the enduring classics of world literature. Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel--and af ...Show more
The Tosa Diary by Ki no Tsurayuki
$16.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature Ser.
The Tosa Diary represents the oldest extant Japanese prose fiction and the beginnings of the great tradition of diary literature. Written in 935, the book is the record of an arduous 55-day 200-mile journey by sea from Tosa, where the author had served as a governor, to Kyoto, the capital. Narrated in t ...Show more
The Wild Geese by Ogai Mori
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature
Otama is forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. She is surrounded by her weak-willed father, her virile and calculating lover (and his suspicious wife), and the handsome student who is the object of her desire. Like those around her, and like the wild geese of the title, Otama yearns for ...Show more