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Legends of the Samurai

Product Description: Over the decades the reputation of the samurai has grown to mythical proportions, owing to such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Yojimbo as well as works such as James Clavell's epic Shogun. In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors...read more

By Hiroaki Sato

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9780879516192 | Overlook Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $40.00

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9781590207307 | Overlook Pr, March 6, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Over the decades the reputation of the samurai has grown to mythical proportions, owing to such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Yojimbo as well as works such as James Clavell's epic Shogun.

Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

By Hiroaki Sato (trans)

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9780765617835 | East Gate Book, November 30, 2007, cover price $110.95

Miscellaneous:

9780765629432 | M E Sharpe Inc, October 19, 2007, cover price $22.17

Japanese Women Poets: An Antohology

By Hiroaki Sato (trans)

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9780765617842 | M E Sharpe Inc, October 1, 2007, cover price $39.95

The Illustrated Legends of the Samurai

A collection of classic legends from the era of samurai ascendancy profiles the historical samurai from their origins to their rise to political power, presenting translations of original samurai tales, laws, and reports, in a volume complemented by author commentary and more than 200 reproductions of art from the Tokugawa and Heian periods.

By Hiroaki Sato

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9781585677344 | Overlook Pr, December 30, 2007, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A collection of classic legends from the era of samurai ascendancy profiles the historical samurai from their origins to their rise to political power, presenting translations of original samurai tales, laws, and reports, in a volume complemented by author commentary and more than 200 reproductions of art from the Tokugawa and Heian periods.

Modern Fable

Product Description: One of the most important Japanese poets of the period between 1930 and 1960, Nishiwaki revolutionized the poetry of Japan, introducing surrealism into his work. This translation, by Hiroaki Sato, is Nishiwaki’s masterpiece of 1953.

By Nishiwaki Junzaburo and Hiroaki Sato (trans)

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9781933382661, titled "The Modern Fable" | Green Integer Books, November 30, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: One of the most important Japanese poets of the period between 1930 and 1960, Nishiwaki revolutionized the poetry of Japan, introducing surrealism into his work.

Miyazawa Kenji: Selections

Product Description: The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. Miyazawa Kenji: Selections collects a wide range of his poetry and provides an excellent introduction to his life and work...read more

By Hiroaki Sato (editor)

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9780520244702 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, May 14, 2007), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism.

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9780520247796 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, May 14, 2007), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism.

Modern Fable

Product Description: One of the most important of Japanese poets of the period from 1930â€“1960, Nishiwaki revolutionized the poetry of Japan, introducing surrealist-like passages and the juxtaposition of images. His greatest work, The Modern Fable (1953) translated here by Hiroaki Sato, returned to more common Japanese techniques, while creating a kind of discourse between East and West, the ancient and modern, and concretism and abstraction...read more

By Janzaburo Nishiwaki and Hiroaki Sato (trans)

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9781931243117 | Green Integer Books, May 30, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: One of the most important of Japanese poets of the period from 1930â€“1960, Nishiwaki revolutionized the poetry of Japan, introducing surrealist-like passages and the juxtaposition of images.

Erotic Haiku

Product Description: deserted beach-a bikini top rolls in on a wave Short but sweet, haiku is one of the world's most pleasurable forms of poetry, and size definitely matters when haiku turns to erotic themes. By turns cheeky, brilliant, teasing, sad, bitter, and lustful, these tiny poems (sometimes called "erotiku") submitted by numerous lovers (of poetry) pack an enormous erotic wallop...read more

By Hiroaki Sato (editor) and Emi Suzuki (contributor)

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9784896840209 | Bilingual edition (Stone Bridge Pr, September 1, 2005), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: deserted beach-a bikini top rolls in on a wave Short but sweet, haiku is one of the world's most pleasurable forms of poetry, and size definitely matters when haiku turns to erotic themes.

White Dew, Dreams and This World: An Anthology of Japanese Women Poets from Ancient to Modern Times

By Hiroaki Sato

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9780374528959 | North Point Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $16.00

Japanese Women's Poetry

By Hiroaki Sato (editor)

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9780374178635 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2003, cover price $35.00

My Friend Hitler: And Other Plays

Product Description: Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas -- two types used in classical Japanese theater...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Yukio Mishima and Hiroaki Sato

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9780231126335 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime.

Howling at the Moon

Product Description: Born into a wealthy family, Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886–1942) was able as a young man to devote himself to poetry. Although he did not finish college, he read Western authors, including Poe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dostoevsky. His major works of poetry, written in 1917 and 1923, were Howling at the Moon and Blue, collected in this volume...read more

By Hagiwara Sakutaro and Hiroaki Sato (trans)

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9781931243018 | Green Integer Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Born into a wealthy family, Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886–1942) was able as a young man to devote himself to poetry.

9781557133465 | Reprint edition (Sun & Moon Pr, February 1, 1999), cover price $11.95

Grass and Tree Cairn

Product Description: A new translation of Sumokuto, Santoka's personal selection from his collected haiku, in the inimitable style of Hiro Sato, a PEN/Faulkner Award winner for translation.

By Steven Addiss (illustrator), Taneda Santoka and Hiroaki Sato (trans)

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9781893959286 | Red Moon Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A new translation of Sumokuto, Santoka's personal selection from his collected haiku, in the inimitable style of Hiro Sato, a PEN/Faulkner Award winner for translation.

Silk and Insight

A story based on the strike which took place at Omi Kenshi, a silk thread and fabric manufacturer, in 1954 reflects the tensions of that period

By Frank Gibney (editor), Yukio Mishima, Hiro Sato (trans) and Hiroaki Sato

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9780765603005 | Reprint edition (M E Sharpe Inc, August 1, 1998), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A story based on the strike which took place at Omi Kenshi, a silk thread and fabric manufacturer, in 1954 reflects the tensions of that period

Silk and Insight Kinu to Meisatsu

By Hiroaki Sato (trans)

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9780765634320 | M E Sharpe Inc, July 21, 1998, cover price $12.99

Silk and Insight: A Novel

A story based on the strike which took place at Omi Kenshi, a silk thread and fabric manufacturer, in 1954 reflects the tensions of that period (view table of contents)

By Frank Gibney (editor), Yukio Mishima, Hiro Sato (trans) and Hiroaki Sato

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9780765602992 | M E Sharpe Inc, May 1, 1998, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: A story based on the strike which took place at Omi Kenshi, a silk thread and fabric manufacturer, in 1954 reflects the tensions of that period

Breeze Through Bamboo: Kanshi of Ema Saiko

Product Description: Winner, Classical Category, Donald Keene Center's Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for Translation of Japanese Literature Ema Saiko (1787-1861) was a remarkably evocative poet, one of the few known woman writers of kanshi poems--verse written in classical Chinese but read as Japanese...read more

By Saiko Ema and Hiroaki Sato

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9780231110648 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $66.00 | About this edition: This study explores one of the most popular and successful of genres, yet one that has not fully enjoyed critical recognition to match.

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9780231110655 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Winner, Classical Category, Donald Keene Center's Japan-U.

Basho's Narrow Road: Spring & Autumn Passages : Narrow Road to the Interior and the Renga Sequence : A Farewell Gift to Sora : Two Works

Product Description: Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and carefully sculpted, rich in literary and Zen allusion and filled with great insights and vital rhythms...read more

By Matsuo Basho and Hiroaki Sato (trans)

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9781880656204 | Stone Bridge Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet.

One Hundred Frogs: From Matsuo Basho to Allen Ginsberg

By Hiroaki Sato

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9780834803350 | Weatherhill, May 1, 1995, cover price $7.95

String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi

By Hiroaki Sato and Shikishi

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9780824814830 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $36.00

Right Under the Big Sky, I Don't Wear a Hat: The Haiku and Prose of Hosai Ozaki

Product Description: One of Japan's most gifted poets, Hosai Ozaki started out as an insurance salesman, but alcohol and despair finally led him to a small Buddhist temple on an island off Shikoku in southern Japan. There he spent his remaining days doing simple chores, subsisting on a diet of toasted rice and water, and writing about loneliness and poverty...read more

By Hosai Ozaki and Hiroaki Sato (trans)

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9781880656051 | Stone Bridge Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: One of Japan's most gifted poets, Hosai Ozaki started out as an insurance salesman, but alcohol and despair finally led him to a small Buddhist temple on an island off Shikoku in southern Japan.

A Brief History of Imbecility: Poetry and Prose of Takamura Kotaro

By Hiroaki Sato (trans)

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9780824814564 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $16.00

Sleeping Sinning Falling

Product Description: Ed. and trans. by Hiroakisato

By Hiroaki Sato and Mutsuo Takahashi

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9780872862685 | City Lights Books, July 1, 1992, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Ed.

Future of Ice: Poems and Stories of a Japanese Buddhist

Three stories accompany a selection of poems by the early twentieth century writer

By Kenji Miyazawa, Hiroaki Sato and Kiroaki Sato (trans)

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9780865473737 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Three stories accompany a selection of poems by the early twentieth century writer

From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry

A survey of Japanese poetry contains the works of over one hundred poets from the eighth century to the present

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9780231063951 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1986), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A survey of Japanese poetry contains the works of over one hundred poets from the eighth century to the present

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