Recommended books on Japanese culture

1, "shade salute", the author of Tanizaki Junichiro, he has a unique appreciation of the oriental garden style, the beauty of solitude. His writing is elegant, relaxed, funny, in addition to inheriting the tradition of Japanese classical prose, but also by the influence of Western literature; in this book, you can not only appreciate his beautiful and delicate writing, but also inside the Chinese culture of the detailed portrayal, in the immovable moving people;

2, "Edo Japan", the author of the Maolu Meyer, the book is the Tokugawa shogunate period in the city of Edo people's secular lifestyle and all kinds of habits and interests. Worldly lifestyle and all kinds of habits and anecdotes, from the generals to the poor, from the samurai to the arts, everything, sketching a boisterous Edo era floating world painting, from the perspective of the common people's culture, the most vivid reproduction of the rich, broad, secular and distinctive Edo period