Tuttle Publishing imprint: 1545 books
by Richard M. Dorson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Delightfully illustrated, this collection of Japanese myths and fairy tales presents readers with a rich folk tradition.
Folk Legends of Japan contains of over one hundred Japanese folk legends. These have been selected by a distinguished American folklorist, drawn from expert Japanese transcriptions...
More Max Danger
The Continuing Adventures of an Expat in Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Life with Max Danger is never dull- as all readers of the first, best-selling volume of his adventures as an expatriate in Tokyo will know. Somehow he muddles his way from one baffling episode in the on-going struggle with the "Japanese economic-animal kingdom" to another. And he miraculously...
Shinsengumi
The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps is the true story of the notorious samurai corps formed in 1863 to arrest or kill the enemies of the Tokugawa Shogun.
The only book in English about the Shinsengumi, it focuses on the corps' two charismatic leaders, Kondo Isami and Hijikata Toshizo,...
This Scorching Earth
A Novel of the Occupation of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1993
This historical novel is set in post-WWII Japan.
The Allied Occupation of Japan was more than an amazing military operation: it also created one of the most singular civilizations of modern history. It was made up of some of America's best minds and some of its worst, of some genuine idealists...
Shades of the Past
Indiscreet Tales of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Prowling among these stories about Japan one finds riffraff and gentlemen, pirates and warriors, saints and sinners, smugglers and legitimate businessmen.
All those, in fact, who made up the foreign communities of Japan in the early days. Harold S. Williams tells about them with the same inimitable...
by Shugoro Yamamoto
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
First published as Hanamushiro in 1948, the setting for The Flower Mat is eighteenth-century Japan, a time when familes were bound together by a rigid code of honor and individual lives were of necessity valued far less than the interests of the group.
It tells of a young bride, Ichi, born...
Macneils of Tokyo
A Novel of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In the absorbing, epic tradition of The Winds of War, author Jack Seward presents a new novel of war, passion, and divided family loyalties.
The MacNeil family is torn apart by the horrors of war, which is consuming Asia as strife, intrigue, and romance inevitably follow. Like its predecessor,...
Yuko-chan and the Daruma Doll
The Adventures of a Blind Japanese Girl Who saves Her Village
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
**2012 Creative Child Magazine Book of the Year Award Winner!**
Yuko-chan and the Daruma Doll, a gorgeous multicultural children's book by author/illustrator Sunny Seki, takes readers on a journey into ancient Japan and the story behind the famous Daruma Doll.
Yuko-chan, an adventurous...
The Shogun's Scroll
Wield Power and Control Your Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The Shogun's Scroll offers a look at the samurai strategies and ethics of medieval Japan distilled into language modern readers can relate to and follow.
In the tradition of The Art of War and The Book of Five Rings, this book offers timeless advice on success in war and life. Written in the...
by Arthur Waley
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English.
The classic Japanese plays can be read for their great literary merit and also provide the reader with an understanding of a unique theatre art and important insights into the cultural, spiritual and artistic traditions...
Chinese and English Nursery Rhymes
Share and Sing in Two Languages [Downloadable Audio Included]
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
This beautifully illustrated Chinese children's book features classic nursery rhymes in both English and Mandarin Chinese.
It is never too early to immerse children in foreign languages and culture, and exploring rhymes and rhythm is a terrific way to start. Chinese and English Nursery Rhymes...
by Ray Grigg
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
This book of Zen poetry and art blends simple, haiku-like poetry with bold minimalist ink brush drawings.
Zen Brushpoems connects the creative insights of Haiku-like poetry with the dynamic interplay of the written word and painted image. This subtle and profound medium of poetic expression...
Secrets of the Japanese Art of Warfare
From the School of Certain Victory
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
This samurai strategy books is the first widely available English translation of Yamamoto Kansuke's classic treatise on strategy and tactics.
Secrets of the Japanese Art of Warfare is Thomas Cleary's translation of the seminal writings attributed to Yamamoto Kansuke on Japanese martial arts...
Gleanings in Buddha Field
Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
This classic text about Buddhism in Japan by Lafcadio Hearn—on of the first Westerns to write about Japan—will be of great interests to scholars and Japanophiles alike.
Lafcadio Hearn's books continue to charm and captivate readers, as the exotic subjects about which he wrote charmed and...