Heian Period

34 books

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Ishinpō Tamba no Yasuyori / Gao Wenzhu Huaxia Publishing House · 2023 The Medical Heart formulas, in thirty volumes, was compiled by the Heian-period Japanese physician Tanba Yasuyori by order of Emperor En'yū. Begun in …
Hikaru no Go, Volume 2 cover
Rating 4.7
Hikaru no Go, Volume 2 Yumi Hotta / Obata Takeshi / Yukari Umezawa Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2004 In an old storehouse at his grandfather's house, elementary schooler Hikaru Shindo finds an antique go board and accidentally awakens the spirit of Fu…
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Onmyoji Baku Yumemakura Nanhai Publication Company · 2005 Onmyoji is a series of supernatural tales by the Japanese author Baku Yumemakura; the Chinese edition was introduced by Nanhai Publishing Company in 2…
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Rating 4.0
A History of the Japanese Samurai Takahashi Masaaki Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2020 A History of the Japanese Samurai is the representative general history by Masaaki Takahashi, professor emeritus at Kobe University and a scholar of m…
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Rating 3.1
A History of Japan from the University of Tokyo 山本博文 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2022 This book is a condensed edition of the lectures on Japanese history by Yamamoto Hirofumi, professor of history at the University of Tokyo, compiled f…
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Rating 4.5
The Tales of Times Now Past (Illustrated Collector's Edition with Ukiyo-e Prints) Anonymous New Star Press · 2017 The Konjaku Monogatari (also known as the Konjaku Monogatarishū) is a collection of folk tales compiled at the end of Japan's Heian period. Formerly c…
Hikaru no Go, Volume 18 cover
Rating 4.6
Hikaru no Go, Volume 18 Yumi Hotta / Obata Takeshi / Yukari Umezawa Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2004 Hikaru no Go, created by Hotta Yumi (story) and Obata Takeshi (art), tells of sixth-grader Shindo Hikaru, who finds an old go board in his grandfather…
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Rating 3.7
The Tale of the Hollow Anonymous Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2011 The Tale of the Hollow is a classical tale composed in the early Heian period (around the late tenth century). It runs to four scrolls, and its author…
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Hikaru no Go, Vol. 3 Yumi Hotta / Obata Takeshi Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2004 Hikaru no Go turns the quiet, almost silent game of Go into a passionate shonen sports manga: Vol. 3 sits at the transitional stage of the series wher…
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Yi Lue Chao Tamba no Masatada China Medical Science Press · 2019 Yi Lue Chao was completed in the first year of Eihō (1081). Its author is Tanba no Masatada, a renowned physician of the Heian period. The Tanba famil…
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Rating 4.5
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu People's Literature Publishing House · 1980 The Tale of Genji was completed in the Heian period of Japan in the early eleventh century. Its author, Murasaki Shikibu, came from the middle nobilit…
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The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu People's Literature Publishing House · 1980 The Tale of Genji was completed in the mid-Heian period of Japan, around the early eleventh century (some date it to 1001–1008), and is a pinnacle of …
Konjaku Monogatari (Ukiyo-e Illustrated Collector's Edition) cover
Konjaku Monogatari (Ukiyo-e Illustrated Collector's Edition) Anonymous New Star Press · 2017 Konjaku Monogatari is a collection of setsuwa (folk tales and legends) from the late Heian period of Japan, formerly known as Uji Dainagon Monogatari,…
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Rating 4.0
Classical Japanese Women's Diaries: Illustrated Edition (4 volumes) Murasaki Shikibu / 藤原道纲母 / Sugawara no Takasue no Musume / 和泉式部 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 This four-volume set comprises The Diary of Lady Murasaki, The Gossamer Years, The Diary of Lady Izumi, and The Sarashina Diary. In the Heian period, …
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Rating 4.3
The Dragonfly Diary 藤原道纲母 / 楚永娟 · 2022 The Kagerō Diary is divided into three volumes—upper, middle, and lower—spanning half a lifetime of Michitsuna's mother; written in different periods,…
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Rating 4.2
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008- Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 4.6
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu / Feng Zikai · 2026 “If the mountain cherry were truly kind at heart, this year it would bloom in ink-black petals.” Genji may already have seen through it: what people c…
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Rating 3.8
The Fox Woman 冈本绮堂 / 张乐 Sichuan Science and Technology Press · 2025 In the late Heian period, Azao, the daughter of an impoverished samurai, lives alone with her father. Though the family is poor, Azao leads a quiet an…
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Rating 4.1
Highly Practical Appreciation Skills: How to Look at Japanese Art 秋元雄史 / Luo Shuhui Qingdao Publishing House · 2024 This book selects 19 masterpieces that reveal the pulse of Japanese art and its inherited aesthetic sensibilities, explaining the key points readers m…
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Rating 4.5
Kokin Wakashū 300 纪贯之 / 陈黎 / Chang Fen-ling Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2023 Compiled in the Heian period, the Kokinshū is divided into twenty volumes and centers chiefly on the themes of the four seasons and love. Its poets we…