Cherry Blossom Festival

Japanese Dining

• A Cook's Journey to Japan: Fish Tales and Rice Paddies: 100 Recipes from Japanese Kitchens by Sarah Marx Feldner
• Yum-yum Bento Box: Fresh Recipes for Adorable Lunches by Crystal Watanabe and Maki Ogawa
• Veggie Haven by Kentaro Kobayashi
• The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook: Home Cooking from Asian American Kitchens by Patricia Tanumihardja
• Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking by Masaharu Morimoto

Marvelous Contemporary Japanese Authors

• Gail Tsukiyama
• Yasunari Kawabata
• Haruki Murakami
  
• Banana Yoshimoto
• Murakami Ryu

Curious about Manga?

• The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga by Helen McCarthy
• Manga: The Complete Guide by Jason Thompson
• Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics by Paul Gravett

Arts of Japan

• Creating a Traditional Japanese Garden by Motomi Oguchi
• Uber Origami: Every Origami Project Ever! by Duy Nguyen
• Keiko's Ikebana: A Contemporary Approach to the Traditional Japanese Art of Flower Arranging Keiko Kubo
• The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
• In the Dojo: The Rituals and Etiquette of the Japanese Martial Arts by Dave Lowry

Interested in learning Japanese? The library has many resources to help you, including books on CD and a database called Mango Languages that keeps track of your lessons!