The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Picador $16.00
An Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots—which are then sold, collected, and handed on—he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny...
Gitanjali by Filiquarian $4.99
Gitanjali is an important collection of prose by Rabindranath Tagore, being a key Indian poet, author and of course Nobel Peace Prize winner. Individuals who are intestered in eastern poetry should embrace this book as it was written with eastern philosophy in mind. Tagore has long been known as an important author of works related to eastern philosophical beliefs, and has written an excellent...
Zen Culture by Random House $0.99
Zen History, Zen, Haiku, Ceramics, Archery, Landscape Garden, Stone Garden, Ink Landscape Scroll, Zen Architecture, Sword, Katana, No Theater, Noh Theater, Japanese Tea Ceremony, Flower arranging, Ikebana, Zen Ceramic Art, Raku, Shino, Ryoanji-ji “Highly recommended”The Center for Asian Studies“A connoisseur”NYC-FM“Hoover provides an excellent introduction to the aesthetics of Japanese...
Complete Shibari Volume 1: Land by Mental Gears Publishing $30.00
About the series... Shibari is the Japanese-inspired art of tying a subject to not only immobilize them, but to do so elegantly and beautifully - creating an intimate and erotic experience for both the subject and the person tying. Adopted by rope enthusiasts all over the world, shibari (literally "to tie" or "to bind") is a cornerstone of erotic rope art and the subject of captivating...
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Imperfect Publishing $16.00
This is an updated version of the enduring classic that first introduced the concept of “imperfect beauty” to the West. Text, images, and book design seamlessly meld into a wabi-sabi-like experience. Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete . . .. . . wabi-sabi could even be called the “Zen of things,” as it exemplifies many of Zen’s core...
Illustrated Basho Haiku Poems (Little eBook Classics) by The Little eBook Classics Factory $0.99
This book can be used to explore the subtle beauty of haiku poetry, as a guide to meditation, or to appreciate the reproduced paintings that accompany the poems. The paintings are in brilliant color and each features the Japanese parasol.Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694) was born Matsuo Kinsaku during the early Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Basho was recognized for his work in a poetic form...
The Arts of China, Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded by University of California Press $39.95
For the fifth edition of his internationally renowned The Arts of China, Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded every chapter of this classic history of Chinese art from the Neolithic period to the present day. This new edition reflects the latest archaeological discoveries, pays greater attention to the art of calligraphy, provides more information on Chan (Zen) art, and takes a...
The Japanese Tattoo by Sandi Fellman $27.50
Manga Moods by Manga University $9.99
The adorable characters from Manga University's best-selling "Manga Moods" leap off the printed page and onto the screens of your Kindle or Kindle-enabled device! It's an art class and a language lesson all rolled into one. And in full color! A raised eyebrow, a curled lip, a wink of the eye. All it takes is a clever stroke of the G-pen to instantly change a manga character’s mood from one...
Kanji De Manga Volume 1: The Comic Book That Teaches You How To Read And Write Japanese! by Chihiro Hattori $9.99
Optimized for Kindle! Now with larger pictures and easier-to-read text! "Kanji de Manga" is the comic book that teaches you how to read and write Japanese! This award-winning series from Manga University uses original comic artwork to teach readers how to identify and write the most common Japanese kanji ideographs. Volume 1 introduces 80 basic kanji that all Japanese schoolchildren are required...