2024-2025 Stone Bridge Press Catalog

Prolific, award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry Hiroaki Sato recorded his
thoughts on American society in mainly two columns across 30-plus years, collected here for the first time.

Of special interest to scholars and students of Zen classics, a glossary of specialized vocabulary to aid understanding and practice.

From fascination to disillusionment and back, a memoir of one man's quest for Zen and spirituality in America and Japan.

This fun, comic-style series that explores China's relationship with its barbarian neighbors. The Mongols!

A comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film.

This ground-breaking collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed novel Spring Garden, pushes the short story to a new level.

Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics.

Haiku tell the story of the poet Basho and the diaries he wrote while walking throughout Japan in the 1600s.

A vital resource for students of Buddhism and Japanese Culture, revised and expanded.

A revealing look at contemporary Japanese culture.

Going to Japan? This unfussy modern guide guarantees you keep it polite and get it right!

A stimulating exploration of the haiku masterpiece.

The classic historical account of Japan’s first encounters with the West.

A new, definitive translation of the postwar classic know to the west as No Longer Human—a tortured vision inspiring the likes of Junji Ito and Bungo Stray Dogs

A fascinating guide to themes and films in the expanding Japanese megaverse.

Speak and write with confidence while avoiding common mistakes!