Book Subject Tag: Social life and customs
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A future of ice : poems and stories of a Japanese Buddhist
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Death in midsummer, and other stories.
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Rashomon and other stories
This collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa’s film “Rashomon”, made famous Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.
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Seven Japanese tales
Short stories.
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Kappa : a novel
In Japanese folklore the Kappa is a scaly, child-sized creature with a face like a tiger and a sharp, pointed beak. In the hands of Ryunosuke, one man’s journey to ‘Kappaland’ becomes the vehicle for a critique of Japanese life and customs in the tradition of Swift and Kafka. A perfectly formed gem from the…
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After the quake : stories
A collection of stories inspired by the January 1995 Kobe earthquake and the poison gas subway attacks two months later takes place between the two disasters and follows the experiences of people who found their normal lives undone by surreal events.
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A cat, a man, and two women : stories
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Hell screen ; Cogwheels ; A fool’s life
Selections.
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The elephant vanishes
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Ashikari and The story of Shunkin : modern Japanese novels