Japanese Literature

Regarded as Mishima’s finest book, Confessions of a Mask is the story of a Japanese boy’s devel..

November 2020, available to pre-orderPeter Owen Cased ClassicsYukio Mishima's classic work, Confessi..

In the early 1950s Shusaku Endo spent several years as an exchange student studying in Paris. Around..

A perfectly formed gem from the pen of one of Japan’s most important modern writers, Kappa is a..

One of the central masterpieces of twentieth-century Japanese literature The Gate describes the e..

‘Genius . . . makes the imagination take wing.’ — Mail On Sunday In 1613, four low-ranking Japa..

On the first day of First Surgery’s project, three prisoners were scheduled for operations. The aims..

Going up a mountain track, I fell to thinking. Approach everything rationally, and you become harsh...

'What a mount of heartache it is. A volcano resembles human life. In youth it gives rein to passions..

‘Like a Cezanne still-life or some of Picasso’s pen-and-ink drawings this approaches perfection thro..

Gaston Bonaparte, a young Frenchman, visits Tokyo to stay with his pen-friend Takamori. His appearan..