DescriptionNicholas Linnear, the Ninja, has returned to Japan, home of his spiritual heart. But instead of serenity and beauty, he finds disaster waiting for him. He must watch, helpless, as his life unravels, unable to draw on the discipline most vital to a Ninja. In the face of his greatest challenge, he is Shiro Ninja, White Ninja - disarmed.
DescriptionTasaku is a lowly cutter of stone who longs for power. This story includes authentic Japanese music on the koto.
DescriptionIn Arthur Golden's poised and beautifully written debut novel, Sayuri tells the extraordinary tale of her life, evoking a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history, 1929 through to the post-war years. Her story encompasses her childhood in a poor fishing village, before taking us, as she was taken at the tender age of nine, into the formal but intimate world of the geisha, a world supposedly of eroticism and enchantment, but also one of exploitation and degradation. Later, when the war has forced the closure of the geisha houses, Sayuri tells of her redemptive struggle, penniless and hungry, finally to forge her own freedom, on her own terms.
DescriptionFull of eerie elegance and the underlying mysterious spirit of Japanese culture, these four Japanese ghost stories are performed by award-winning author and storyteller Rafe Martin in his engaging and inimitable style. The collection begins with "The Boy Who Drew Cats", a tale about the power of faith in one's own creativity, and continues with "Kogi", a dream vision in which the listener becomes a whale. The other two stories are "Urashima Taro", a story about a character we might know better as Rip Van Winkle, and "Ho-ichi the Earless", a truly classic hero's adventure story.
