Book Subject Tag: Social life and customs
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House of the sleeping beauties : and other stories
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Kabuki dancer
A fictionalized biography of Okuni, the 17th Century Japanese temple dancer who invented the Kabuki theatre. The novel chronicles her love life and the public’s reaction to her innovations, such as cross-dressing, reaction which tended to vary with the political climate of the day.
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The voice and other stories
Short stories.
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Palm-of-the-hand stories
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What the maid saw : eight psychic tales
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Digital geishas and talking frogs : the best 21st century short stories from Japan
This collection of short stories features the most up-to-date and exciting writing form the most popular and celebrated authors in Japan today. These wildly imaginative and boundary-bursting stories reveal fascinating and unexpected personal responses to the changes raging through today’s Japan. Along with some of the world’s most renowned Japanese authors, Digital Geishas and Talking…
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The gate
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Salmonella men on Planet Porno : stories
A collection of offbeat short stories from an acclaimed Japanese author explores the folly of human desire in a world in which the fantastic and the mundane collide to throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray.
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The cannery boat, and other Japanese short stories
The stories are representative of the proletarian literary movement in Japan.
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Acts of worship : seven stories
Here are seven stories of psychological insight and eroticism from Yukio Mishima.