The Book of Five Rings: A Graphic Novel

10 best books like The Book of Five Rings: A Graphic Novel (Sean Michael Wilson): 47 Ronin, Kimono, The Foxfire Book, Foxfire 2-3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, Vol. 2, Path of the Assassin, Vol. 1: Serving in the Dark, The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest, Furari, Genius, Sumo, The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius

47 Ronin

Author	Mike Richardson
ISBN	1595829547

Japan’s enduring national legend comes to comics! The tale of the 47 Ronin and their epic mission to avenge their wronged master epitomizes the samurai code of honor, and creators Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai have done justice to their story! Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated,...

Kimono

Author	Liza Dalby
ISBN	0099428997

In this beautifully written and lavishly illustrated book Liza Dalby traces the history of the kimono - its designs, uses, aesthetics and social significance.

The colourful and stylised kimono, the national garment of Japan, expresses not only Japanese fashion and design taste but also...

The Foxfire Book, Foxfire 2-3

Author

Eliot Wigginton

I first read this series in 1978, and became addicted right away. Having listened to and read some of the oral histories in the Library of Congress of the dustbowl era, the Foxfire books carried that tradition forward, and documented for future generations many of the old crafts and lore that were being...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, Vol. 2

Author

Kevin Eastman

This book marks the end of the golden age of TMNT. After issue 12 the two creators took turns creating working on issues due to creative differences. As a result, the stories after this don’t flow as well until we begin the “Return to New York” storyline.

This volume collects issues 8 - 11,...

Path of the Assassin, Vol. 1: Serving in the Dark

Author	Kazuo Koike
ISBN	1593075022

Path of the Assassin, called Hanzo no Mon in Japan, is the story of Hattori Hanzo, the fabled master ninja whose duty it was to protect Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ieyasu was the shogun who would unite Japan into one great nation. But before he could do that, he had to grow up and learn how to love the ladies! As the secret...

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest

Author	Russ Kick
ISBN	1609803809

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The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume,...

Furari

Author	Jirō Taniguchi
ISBN	2203048913

En japonais, Furari signifie "au gré du vent"... tout comme
semblent se dérouler ces longues marches dans Edo, l'ancien
Tokyo. Mais le promeneur, inspiré d'un personnage historique,
ne laisse pourtant rien au hasard. Géomètre et cartographe, il
arpente la ville, mesurant...

Genius

Author	Steven T. Seagle
ISBN	1596432632

Ted Marx works hard at his career as a quantum physicist. But lately the demands of his job have begun to overwhelm him. Then Ted makes a startling discovery: his wife's father once knew Einstein and claims that Einstein entrusted to him a final, devastating secret—a secret even more profound...

Sumo

Author

Thien Pham

Scott is a washed-up football player who never made it, and whose girlfriend abandoned him along with his dreams of playing pro football. But things have a way of working out, in this sweet, poetic tale--and a new chapter in Scott's life begins as the old one ends. Offered a position in a Japanese sumo...

The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius

Author

Jennifer George

Not many of us make it into the dictionary as an adjective. But then again, Rube Goldberg was no ordinary noun. He was a cartoonist, humorist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, and in a 72-year career he wrote and illustrated nearly 50,000 cartoons. Goldberg (1883–1970) was the most famous...

Training the Samurai Mind: A Bushido Sourcebook

Author	Thomas Cleary
ISBN	1590305728

Through the ages, the samurai have been associated with honor, fearlessness, calm, decisive action, strategic thinking, and martial prowess. Their ethos is known as bushido, the Way of the Warrior-Knight.

Here, premier translator Thomas Cleary presents a rich collection of writings...

The Book of Five Rings from SmarterComics

Author

Miyamoto Musashi

What can you learn from a 17th century samurai? Plenty, if that samurai happens to be Miyamoto Musashi, the master strategist who started fighting at age 13 and never lost a fight in his sixty match career. His insights on how to defeat any opponent are still relevant 400 years later in a world where winning...

My Neighbor Totoro 4

Author	Hayao Miyazaki
ISBN	1591167000

I read all of these because my friend really likes them and told one of our after-school kids at the library about them. She liked them so much that she read them twice. So I told her that I would read them and then we could talk about it. I did read them, but now that I think about it, we never talked about it. She...

The Ramayana: A New Retelling of Valmiki's Ancient Epic

Author	Linda Egenes
ISBN	0143111809

A delightfully straightforward and lyrical retelling of the ancient Indian epic of loyalty, betrayal, redemption, and insight into the true nature of life -- one of history's most sacred ethical works, rendered with completeness and sterling accuracy for the modern reader.

Here is one...

Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense

Author	Bruce Lee
ISBN	0897501128

Originally published in 1963, this book includes personal testimonies regarding the author and his art from James Y. Lee, the legendary Ed Parker, and jujutsu icon Wally Jay. Through hand-drawn diagrams and captioned photo sequences, Lee’s text comes to life as he demonstrates a variety of training...

Rurouni Kenshin, Vol. 8 #22-24

Author

Nobuhiro Watsuki

Change your perspective: get BIG R to L (Japanese Style). Sin, Judgment, AcceptanceMaking good on his promise to attack the Kamiya Dojo, Enishi and his comrades pounce on Kenshin and company and quickly fight them to a standstill. Seeking to break the impasse, the masked puppet master Gein prepares...