A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun - Jonathan Clements Art and Photography Beautifully illustrated throughout

Beautifully illustrated throughout

The fine-quality tear-out gift wrapping sheets feature twelve traditional and modern prints

Plus there are dozens of new recipes created by Annabel Langbein especially for this book

and a comprehensive collection of crochet stitches and techniques

inspired by the beauty and simplicity of wildflowers and grasses

A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun - Jonathan Clements Art and Photography Beautifully illustrated throughoutThis fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self imposed seclusion. Stretching for nearly 2000 miles and encompassing almost 7000 islands, Japan has the fourth largest GDP and the tenth largest population in the world. Japan is a country of paradoxes, a modern nation steeped in