The books listed on the following pages are all recommended as essential reading in each field.
The Aesthetics page includes anthologies, classic works on aesthetics, books on the aesthetics of music, and books on Japanese and Chinese aesthetics.
The Haiku page includes anthologies, books on and by major haiku poets, and books on writing haiku in English.
The Skepticism page includes contemporary works that are critical of weird beliefs and claims while defending the use of the scientific method, and classics of skepticism including several great works of philosophy and some early modern textual critiques of the Bible.
The Zen Buddhism page includes introductory books on Zen, translations of important Zen classics, and books on Zen and Japanese culture.
The Recommended Reading Lists page contains our top picks for each field.
Each book can be ordered from Amazon.com by following the link from the book title to the relevant ordering information page on Amazon.com's website.
Eastern Aesthetics | Western Aesthetics
Anthologies | Matuso Basho | Yosa Buson
Kobayashi Issa | Books on Writing Haiku in English
Modern Skepticism | Classics of Skepticism | Descartes
Spinoza | Hume | Voltaire | Schopenhauer | Nietzsche
The Bible and Religion | Toleration
Books about Zen Buddhism | Zen Classics
Zen and Japanese Culture | Zen and Christianity | Zen Poetry
The Japanese Tradition | Japanese Aesthetics | Taoist Classics
Home | Bookstore | Essays and Reviews
Japanese Computing | Japanese News | Contact Us
Copyright 1996-2000, Virtual Success