Donald Richie has been writing about Japan for over 50 years from his base in Tokyo and is the author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays and reviews. He is widely admired for his incisive film studies on Ozu and Kurosawa, and for his stylish and incisive observations on Japanese culture.
20 Ebooks by Donald Richie
Joseph L. Anderson & Donald Richie: The Japanese Film
Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the first Kinetoscope was imported) through the golden ages of film in Japan up to today, this work reveals the once flourishing film in …
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€57.99
Donald Richie: A Lateral View
A masterfully written collection of short essays by the recognized Western expert on Japanese culture and film and the man
Time magazine calls ‘the dean of art critics in Japan.’ Spanning more …
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€13.99
Donald Richie: A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
This provocative book is a tractate—a treatise—on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that “follow the brush” where …
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€8.49
Lafcadio Hearn: Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan
This collection of writings from Lafcaido Hern paints a rare and fascinating picture of pre-modern Japan
Over a century after his death, author, translator, and educator Lafcaido Hearn remains on …
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€14.99
Donald Richie: Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai
“A tour de force combining a commanding mastery of historical fact and detail, a comprehensive understanding of the human spirit, and a poetic quality of expression that transforms the hearts of al …
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€9.99
Edward Seidensticker: History of Tokyo 1867-1989
‘This is a freaking great book and I highly recommend it…if you are passionate about the history of ‘the world’s greatest city, ‘ this book is something you must have in your collection.’
–Japan …
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€27.99
Donald Richie: Japanese Portraits
‘Nobody has thought as widely and as concretely (therefore, as helpfully) as Richie has about how a single distinctive culture gathers up contradictions, coheres, works, resists change, and …
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€9.99
Lafcadio Hearn: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books of 19th century Japanese history and culture.
Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection o …
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€16.99
Stephen Mansfield: Japanese Stone Gardens
Gain some new ideas along with the principles and history of Japanese stone gardening with this useful and beautiful garden design book.
Japanese Stone Gardens provides a comprehensive introduct …
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€16.99
Donald Richie: Tokyo Megacity
This photographic Tokyo travel guide explores the dynamic Japanese culture, art and architecture that make Tokyo a world-class city.
It has been said that ‘every city has its high points, but Tok …
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€27.99
Donald Richie & Alexandre Georges: Temples of Kyoto
The Temples of Kyoto takes you on a journey through these environs and presents twenty-one of these marvelous structures that are unique creations which, while quintessentially Japanese, somehow sp …
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€27.99
Donald Richie: This Scorching Earth
This historical novel is set in post-WWII Japan.
The Allied Occupation of Japan was more than an amazing military operation: it also created one of the most singular civilizations of modern his …
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€7.99
Donald Richie: The Inland Sea
One of the finest travel memoirs ever written, with a new Introduction and …
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€18.99
Donald Richie: Viewed Sideways
‘An indispensable guide to Japanese cinema and culture.’ —Library Journal ‘Viewed any which way, Japan through the eyes of Donald Richie is an interesting and rewarding place to read abou …
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€13.99
Alexander Jacoby: A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors
This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines …
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€18.99
Donald Richie: Travels in the East
Adventures and contemplations throughout the world by a master storyteller, critic, and expatriate …
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€16.99
Donald Richie: The Inland Sea
‘An elegiac prose celebration . . . a classic in its genre.’—Publishers Weekly In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His e …
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€8.49
Suzanne Kamata: Broken Bridge
An insightful anthology of 36 short stories written by non-Japanese who have called Japan their home. "Judging from the strong writing in this volume . . . the combination of Japanese reserve …
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€16.11
Richie Donald Richie: Tokyo
Donald Richie takes the reader on a revealing tour of the different districts of Japan’s capital city. Starting from the original centre of Tokyo – the Imperial Palace – Richie branches outwards, …
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€31.34
Donald Richie: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated
In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa’s life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a …
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€43.99
