Books like Snow, wave, pine by Sadao Hibi

Twelve-year‑old Nao in Tokyo wrestles with loneliness and bullying and, before she ends it all, writes a diary about her great‑grandmother, a Buddhist nun who has lived a century. Across the Pacific a novelist on a remote island discovers objects from Nao’s life and is drawn into her mystery.

Sōetsu Yanagi redefines art by celebrating anonymous craftsmen and hand‑made objects, arguing that value lies in what is born, not made. This first Western translation offers deep insight into Japanese folk art, philosophy, and tradition.

Set during World War II, this novel follows surgeon Dorrigo Evans as he struggles to protect his men on the Thailand‑Burma Death Railway, while an earlier love affair haunts his conscience.

"Catalogue entries on popular songbooks, kimono, and decorative arts further investigate the potent relations between styles and ideologies imported from the West and those newly established as Japanese tradition. The nihonga paintings, woodblock prints, textiles, and domestic artifacts discussed and illustrated here come primarily from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, which organized the exhibition documented by this book. Many of these works have never been published and several major paintings, exhibited in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s then lost after the war, are brought to light here for the first time in decades. This catalogue not only presents newly discovered works but also, in bringing together a broad range of objects representative of mainstream Taisho visual culture, reconstructs the styles popular from 1915 to 1935 in a celebration of Taisho Chic."--BOOK JACKET.

The Book of Goose follows Agnès, a former boarding‑school friend, as she recounts her life after the death of Fabienne—a traumatic journey from war‑torn rural France to Paris, an English boarding school, and finally a quiet Pennsylvania home.

A melancholy coming‑of‑age tale set in Tokyo, seen through the eyes of college student Toru Watanabe as he confronts love, loss, friendship, and mental health.