Toyo Press

The most comprehensive compilation and English translation of Japanese idiomatic expressions, with more than 10000 idiomatic phrases under 1000 main entries, including thousands of idioms never...

Walking the Nakasendo, Japan's ancient inland route, the author braids a travelogue deftly interwoven with his own experiences since he first set foot in Japan some thirty years ago. At times...

The history of Japanese Journalism, though relatively short, is marked by periods of great upheaval and radical change. This book tells that story, from the dying days of the Tokugawa bakufu, to the...

John la Farge (1835-1910), traveling Japan's interior in the summer of 1886, sees Japan in a way only he can: through the eyes of a painter, observing a vast canvas in which he discerns every color,...

In the third part of this series, we join Hearn in Kumamoto after he has taken up at the Daigo K??Gakk? Kumamoto's senior high school. We are introduced to his new students who reveal their ambiguous...

Annie Brassey (1839-87), was perhaps the first Western woman to arrive in Japan on her own family yacht, the Sunbeam, exploring Japan in a way no foreigners visitors had done before them: by yacht...

Japan over the last two and a half centuries has changed almost beyond recognition. Almost, that is, 'for every now and then one catches one's breath, stunned by how well-preserved a place or...

Satow's memoir is a mesmerizing account of Japan's initial struggles with belligerent foreign powers, the rise of the Satsuma-Chôshû alliance, the downfall of the Bakufu, and the eventual restoration...

Drawing on a large number of neglected original sources, A Life in Arms reveals how events deeply buried in Musashi's past set him on the hard path to success- a path that began with the brutal...

Sie halten mit diesem Buch die derzeit detaillierteste Ann?erung an die gr?te und bekannteste Schwertlegende des mittelalterlichen Japans in den H?den. Miyamoto Musashi hinterlie?der Nachwelt den...

Samurai have fired our imagination with their fighting spirit and heroic deeds ever since Europeans set foot on Japanese shores during the middle of the 16th century. But what was the fuel on which...

Seit die ersten Europ?r in der Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts Fu?auf japanischen Boden setzten, haben die Samurai mit ihren heldenhaften Taten unsere Fantasie befeuert. Aber was trieb diese M?ner an? Was...

Known from his collaboration on the Netflix documentary Age of Samurai, historian William de Lange takes the reader back to the fierce 16th century Sieges of Japan's three great unifiers: Oda...

Lucian Swift Kirtland (1881-1965), walking Japan's ancient Tôkaidô and Nakasendô highroads on the eve of the First World War, is still very much the late-nineteenth century traveler, pith helmet and...

This work describes the Winter and Summer campaigns of the Siege of Osaka Castle. Presented in a wide, richly illustrated landscape format, it is a treasure trove of information on the most...

Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904), the English author, photographer, and explorer, is one of the most intrepid foreigners to have traveled Japan's interior during the late eighteen-seventies. Enduring...

Dutchman William de Lange treads in the footsteps of Dutch merchantmen who, during the Edo period, had to travel 1000 miles from Nagasaki to Edo (Tokyo) to pay their respects to the shogun, Japan's...

Eiko Ozaki's unforgettable portraits of Japan's greatest medieval warriors, presented here for the first time in a newly edited text, along with the many stunning woodprints they and their heroic...