This first full length critical biography of one of the most significant figures in Japanese Studies in the last hundred years is based on an earlier work published in Japanese…

The Serpent With Eight Heads is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and…

The Fisher-Boy Urashima Translated by B H Chamberlain is a classic Japanese fairy tale about a young fisherman named Urashima Taro, who saves a turtle and is rewarded by being…

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable…

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

Basil Chamberlain was a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University. He wrote some of the earliest translations of haikus. His best known work is the encyclopedia Things Japanese. This was…

A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese - Third Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such…