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Yasushi Inoue

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  • The Izu Dancer and Other Storie

  • Life of a Counterfeiter

    A master forger lives in obscurity and disappointment, oppressed by the shadow of the artist whose work he copies. Unglamorous, unadorned lives such as this form the focus of Yasushi Inoue's tenderly observed, elegantly distilled short stories -...

  • The Hunting Gun

    A tragedy in three letters: THE masterpiece of one of Japan's greatest writers

    The Hunting Gun follows the consequences of a tragic love affair. Told from the viewpoints of three different women, this is a story of the psychological impact of ...

  • Bullfight

    Tsugami, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in war-scarred Osaka, agrees to sponsor a bullfight. For months this great gamble consumes him, makes him as wary and combative as if he was in a ring himself. And, as he becomes ever more distant, his love...

  • Counterfeiter and Other Stories

    "These three stories illustrate Inoue's versatility, his mastery of detail and his control of narrative structure. Inoue presents the tale as mystery and solution, the tale as psychoanalytic exploration..., the tale as emblematic social history." -- ...

  • Tun-huang

    More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the great modern Japane...

  • The Blue Wolf: A Novel of the Life of Chinggis Khan

    One of the world's most ruthless warriors, Chinggis Khan conquered nearly all of Asia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, transforming the scattered and impoverished Mongols into an exceptionally proud and powerful nation. In this riveting and t...

  • The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan

    The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan presents an accurate portrait of this era in Japanese history. Originally published in Japanese in 1959, this classic novel by Yasushi Inoue takes place during the Japanese Warring Era (1467-1573) -- a time when a f...

  • Lou-Lan and Other Stories

    From Japan's master of historical fiction, winner of its highest cultural award, six stories in quest of the hidden treasures of Asia's past.

    The six stories, translated by two outstanding translators from the Japanese, exemplify Inoue's skill at ...



  • Shirobamba

  • The Counterfeiter

    The three stories in this volume are the first translations in English of one of Japan's leading writers. In these pages, Yashushi Inoue evokes vivid scenes and complex relationships, the drama of human life....

  • Almost Transparent Blue

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Yasushi Inoue has published 12 books.

Yasushi Inoue does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Izu Dancer and Other Storie, was published in May 2026.

The first book by Yasushi Inoue, Almost Transparent Blue, was published in January 1977.

No. Yasushi Inoue does not write books in series.