This classic Japanese story of humor and adventure is available here for the first time
in digital format.A pair of irrepressible scoundrels are the heroes of this madcap chronicle of adventure, full of earthy humor, along the great highway from ...
Readers of medieval Japanese literature have long been captivated by its romance and philosophy. In
this volume, two acclaimed thirteenth-century classics, The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike, are presented in translation. The Ten Foot Square Hut ...
The Tale of the Heike is one of the masterworks of Japanese literature, ranking with
The Tal of Genji in quality and prestige. This new translation is not only far more readable than earlier ones, it is also much more ...
More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other
scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the great modern ...
