top books about Japan taking in folklore, history and the world’s first novel, here is some of the best reading about an endlessly inventive country 1) Legends of Tōno by Kunio Yanagita 2) Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki 3) Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 4) The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu 5) Kyoto: A Cultural and Literary History by John Dougill 6) Shogun by James Clavell 7) The Shogun’s Queen by Lesley Downer 8) Embracing Defeat by John Dower 9) A Tokyo Romance by Ia
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top books about Japan taking in folklore, history and the world’s first novel, here is some of the best reading about an endlessly inventive country 1) Legends of Tōno by Kunio Yanagita 2) Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki 3) Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 4) The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu 5) Kyoto: A Cultural and Literary History by John Dougill 6) Shogun by James Clavell 7) The Shogun’s Queen by Lesley Downer 8) Embracing Defeat by John Dower 9) A Tokyo Romance by Ia
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