The year is 1853, and a young Japanese girl's world is about to be turned upside down.When black ...

Lesley Chan Downer retraces Basho's pilgrimage through Japan, blending travel, haiku, and contemp...

Lesley Downer erzählt eine große Liebesgeschichte, die ins Japan des 19. Jahrhunderts entführt. D...

Behind the palace's immaculate façade, amid rumours of murder and whispers of ghosts, Atsu must u...

Following the eight-hundred-mile trek of Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, this journey into a lost Jap...

1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love ....

In the brave new Japan of the 1870s, Taka and Nobu meet as children and fall in love; But Nobu wi...

Discover the aesthetic traditions, political resilience, and modern economic might of this singul...

Only one woman can save her world from barbarian invasion but to do so will mean sacrificing ever...

Downer, L: Shortest History of Japan