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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Diary of Lady Murasaki
Murasaki Shikibu · 117 pages
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan
Lady Sarashina · 176 pages
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
Michitsuna no Haha · 208 pages
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea
Lady Hyegyeong · 329 pages
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi · 216 pages
A long-standing bestseller by Japan's most popular TV personality, also well known for her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter
Shoko Tendo · 216 pages
The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World
Tracy Slater · 323 pages
"In this memoir of travel and love, a fiercely independent American woman finds everything she ever wanted in the most unexpected place. Shufu. In Japanese it means "housewife," and it's the last thing Tracy Slater ever thought she'd call herself. A writer and academic, Tracy had carefully constructed a life she loved in her beloved hometown of Boston. But everything was upended when she fell head
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
Kokichi Katsu · 178 pages
Autobiography of a Geisha
Sayo Masuda · 216 pages
The glamorous world of big-city geisha is familiar to many readers, but little has been written of the life and hardship and pain led by the hot-springs-resort geisha. Indentured to geusha houses by families in desperate poverty, deprived of freedom and identity, these young women lived in a world of sex for sale, unadorned by trappings of wealth and celebrity.
Geisha, a Life
Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown · 297 pages
"Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. For the next twenty-five years, she would live a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and rich rewards. She would learn the formal customs and language of the geisha and study the ancient arts of Japanese dance and music. S
La Nostalgie heureuse
Amelie Nothomb · 150 pages
Autobiographical narration of the author's childhood in Japan.
The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life
Andy Raskin · 292 pages
For three days in January 2007, the most e-mailed article in The New York Times was Appreciations: Mr. Noodle, an editorial noting the passing, at age ninety-six, of Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant ramen. The very existence of the noodle inventor came as a shock to many, but not to Andy Raskin, who had spent nearly three years trying to meet Ando. Why? To fix the problems that plagued his l
Samurai!
Saburo Sakai · 382 pages
Saburo Sakai was Japan's greatest fighter pilot to survive World War II. A veteran of more than two hundred dogfights, Sakai reportedly shot down sixty-four Allied planes, but he is best known for flying his crippled Zero nearly 600 miles to safety while partially paralyzed and nearly blind from multiple wounds.
Leap of Faith : Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
Noor Al-Hussein · 480 pages
Sharing a personal perspective on the past three decades of world history, Queen Noor talks frankly of the many challenges of her life as wife and partner to the monarch, providing both an intimate portrait of the late King Hussein and a moving account of their public role.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami · 179 pages
Lucky Me: My Life With--and Without--My Mom, Shirley MacLaine
Sachi Parker · 352 pages
Shirley MacLaine's only child shares shocking stories from her out-of-this-world childhood with the famously eccentric and award-winning actress.
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
Nirad C. Chaudhuri · 515 pages
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs · 190 pages
Six Records of a Floating Life
Shen Fu · 176 pages
Autobiographical story of Shen Fu and his wife, Yun, in 19th(?) century China. (In four parts - two lost).