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Stone Bridge Press Authors Basil Hall Chamberlin From his wikipedia page: Basil Hall Chamberlain (18 October 1850 – 15 February 1935) was a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial Universityand one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century. (Others included Ernest Satow and W. G. Aston.) He also wrote some of the earliest translations of haiku into English. He is perhaps best remembered for his informal and popular one-volume encyclopedia Things Japanese , which first appeared in 1890 and which he revised several times thereafter. His interests were diverse, and his works include an anthology of poetry in French. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Hall_Chamberlain Titles by Author Things Japanese Basil Hall Chamberlin An erudite voyage through the details and customs of Japanese life. Read More

Stone Bridge Press Authors Amy Chavez Amy Chavez has lived in Japan for 25 years, and is proprietor of the Moooo! Bar & Cafe on Shiraishi Island in the Inland Sea, where she helps tourists with reservations, language support, and cultural guidance. She writes about cultural differences between Japan and the West for the Japan Times , Huffpo , and RocketNews24. https://amychavez.info Titles by Author Amy’s Guide to Best Behavior in Japan Amy Chavez Going to Japan? This unfussy modern guide guarantees you keep it polite and get it right! Read More

Stone Bridge Press Authors Momoko Kuroda Momoko Kuroda (b. 1938 in Tochigi Prefecture) is one of the most highly-respected haiku poets in Japan today. She has published five collections of haiku, and authored or co-authored another 22 prose works including essays, season- word compendiums, books on haiku for beginners, and a two-volume set of interviews with notable Showa-era poets. Her first haiku collection earned her the Modern Haiku Women award and the Haiku Association New Poet award. In 2011 she was awarded the Dakotsu prize, Japan's most prestigious haiku award. She is a haiku selector for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun weekly Sunday haiku column, and a frequent haiku selector for NHK television. She is on the jury of several national and regional haiku contests, including the annual Mainichi Shimbun haiku award. In 1990, she founded her own haiku organization, AOI, with a nationwide membership of several thousand. All this she accomplished while working full-time at Hakuhodo, a Tokyo-based advertising firm, until her retirement at age 60. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momoko_Kuroda Titles by Author I Wait For The Moon Momoko Kuroda Momoko Kuroda (b. 1938) is a remarkable haiku spirit and a powerfully independent Japanese woman. Read More

Stone Bridge Press Authors Rebecca Copeland Rebecca Copeland is a professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis, a writer of fiction and literary criticism, and a translator of Japanese literature. Her stories travel between Japan and the American South and touch on questions of identity, belonging, and self-discovery. The Kimono Tattoo , her debut work, takes readers on a journey into Kyoto’s intricate world of kimono design, and into a mystery that interweaves family dynamics, loss, and reconciliation. https://www.rebecca-copeland.com/ Titles by Author Yamamba Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich Women, Magic, Wisdom: Explore a Japanese myth through the words and images of key scholars and artists. Read More

Stone Bridge Press Authors Christian Tschumi Christian Tschumi grew up in Zürich, Switzerland, and became a licensed landscape gardener in 1988. He received his first degree in landscape architecture from the Hochschule Rapperswil in 1993. After starting his own landscape architecture practice in 1995, he was also invited as a visiting lecturer to the Fachhochschule Anhalt in Bernburg, Germany. In 1997 he pursued a master's degree in landscape architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and later worked at Peter Walker and Partners in Berkeley. In April 2000 he moved to Kyoto, Japan, and started research on the modernization of the Japanese garden. Christian Tschumi was a fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in 2004/05, and now practices and teaches in Zürich. Titles by Author Mirei Shigemori Christian Tshumi Mirei Shigemori, a historian trained in painting and ikebana, is increasingly admired for his contemporary Japanese garden designs. Read More

Stone Bridge Press Authors Kansuke Naka From his wikipedia page: Kansuke Naka (中 勘助) Naka Kansuke 22 May 1885 – 3 May 1965) was a Japanese novelist and essayist. Naka was born in Tokyo. He lived in Hiratsuka from 1926 to 1932, and he was evacuated to Shizuoka Prefecture during World War II, but otherwise he spent most of his life in Tokyo. He married Kazuko Shimada in 1942. Naka was one of the students taught by Natsume Sōsek at the University of Tokyo before Sōseki gave up teaching to write for the newspaper Asahi Shimbun . It was Sōseki who arranged the serial publication in that paper of Naka's first novel, a nostalgic depiction of his childhood and teens to which he gave the title Gin no saji ("The Silver Spoon ", 1911–13, tr. 1976 by Etsuko Terasaki). The novel is popular in Japan and is an account of life in Tokyo at the beginning of the 20th century during the Meiji era, replete with historical details as well as a contemporary sense of isolation; it follows Naka's psychological journey from childhood to adulthood. Naka also wrote Inu ("The Dog", 1922) and Rōkan (a collection of poems, 1935). Naka was praised by Tetsurō Watsuji, a leading critic, and also by Zhou Zuoren, for his rare willingness to criticize Japanese nationalists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansuke_Naka Titles by Author The Silver Spoon Kansuke Naka & Hiroaki Sato The Silver Spoon is a sharp detailing of life at the end of the Meiji period (1912) through the eyes of a boy as he grows into adolescence. Read More

Stone Bridge Press Authors Studio Cochae Studio Cochae is a design unit by Yosuke Akihara and Miki Takeda, who work on the theme of "play design". In 2003, they created graphic origami with the key word “Make origami more pop!”. Currently, they are engaged in a wide range of activities such as developing toys and miscellaneous goods with a new perspective, publishing planning, product planning, and exhibition. http://www.cochae.com/ Titles by Author OriGrafix Japan Studio Cochae Preprinted with bold and beautiful designs in easy-to-fold large formats. Read More OriGrafix Fun Studio Cochae Preprinted bold and beautiful origami designs in easy-to-fold large formats. Read More

Stone Bridge Press Authors Jasper Sharp Jasper Sharp was born in 1971 and raised in the rural idyll of Devon, England, though has subsequently gone on to live in Montreal, Amsterdam, Finland, and Tokyo and has traveled extensively over four different continents. As well as curating the Japanese program of London's Raindance Film Festival, his writings on film have appeared in publications all over the world, from the US to Russia to Taiwan, including Variety, SFX, Film International and 3d World. He has also worked as a computer programmer on the Douglas Adams game Starship Titanic, and as a video editor for a UK shopping channel, where his featurette on a non-stick frying pan dazzled housewives across the nation. Jasper Sharp is the author of Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema (FAB Press) and the Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema (Scarecrow Press), as well as co-author, with Tom Mes, of The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film (Stone Bridge Press). He is currently based in London where he runs Zipangu Fest, a festival dedicated to Japanese film. Jasper also co-directed, with Tim Grabham, the feature film The Creeping Garden. Co-editor of the premier English language film website on Japanese cinema, MidnightEye.com. https://twitter.com/jaspersharp?lang=en Titles by Author The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film Tom Mes & Jasper Sharp The hottest directors, their coolest films . . . A complete guide to today's Japanese movie renaissance. Read More

Stone Bridge Press Authors Gregory Shepherd Gregory Shepherd has studied Zen Buddhism since the early 1970s. He practiced with Yamada Koun Roshi at San Un Zendo in Kamakura and also with Robert Aitken Roshi in Honolulu, where he was groomed to be Aitken's first successor. Shepherd later received a fellowship from Japanese Ministry of Education to research contemporary Japanese music. He is currently Associate Professor of music at Kauai Community College. Titles by Author A Straight Road with 99 Curves Gregory Shepherd & Ruben LF Habito From fascination to disillusionment and back, a memoir of one man's quest for Zen and spirituality in America and Japan. Read More

Stone Bridge Press Authors Peter Cowie Peter Cowie has spent his life writing about cinema, and in particular about the prodigious talents that emerged during the 1950s and 1960s such as Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa. His more than thirty books include studies of the work of John Ford, Francis Ford Coppola, and the iconic actress Louise Brooks. He was international publisher of the trade paper, Variety, for more than twelve years, and he is also known for his numerous commentaries and video essays for the Criterion Collection in New York. Cowie has traveled throughout Japan on several occasions, and is an avid fan of its history, its literature, and its cinema. Titles by Author Japanese Cinema Peter Cowie An informal yet informed journey through the classic works of Japanese cinema and their visionary directors. Read More

Stone Bridge Press Authors Mark James Russell Mark James Russell is writer based in Seoul, South Korea. He first came to Korea, after much wandering and wasting of time, in 1996. Through a series of happy accidents, he soon became a journalist, specializing in media and popular culture (although also writing about science, economics, politics and many other subjects), with a focus on Korea (although also writing about Mongolia, Japan, and the rest of Asia). Mark’s articles have appeared in the New York Times , Newsweek , the Wall Street Journal , Science , The Milken Review , The Hollywood Reporter , Billboard , and Television Asia and many other publications. He’s also given lectures about Korean pop culture in the United States, Europe and Asia and been quoted extensively in media outlets around the world. In addition, Mark spent several years developing and producing several documentaries about Korean pop culture and history. He also founded the website the Korea Gig Guide, looking at the best music Korea has to offer. http://www.markjamesrussell.com/ Titles by Author Pop Goes Korea Mark James Russell The story of South Korea's pop-cultural revolution is a tale of rapid growth, wild personalities, and uncanny success. Read More

Stone Bridge Press Authors Jeffrey Irish Jeffrey Irish is a scholar and translator who has long been immersed in life in rural Japan. A contributing editor to the Kyoto Journal , Irish has been a columnist for a Japanese newspaper for seven years and is the author of the Japanese-language books Prewar Kagoshima and Island Life . He was recently elected "mayor" of his 28-person village. Titles by Author The Forgotten Japanese Miyamoto Tsuneichi, translated by Jeffrey Irish A revealing look at rural lives and lifestyles that have all but disappeared today. Read More