Tenma Shibata's translation of "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" brings Pu Songling's Chinese tales of the uncanny into Japanese. Through a distinctive prose style and use of ruby glosses, it conveys stories of fox spirits, ghosts, marvels, and the desires and absurdities of scholars as works of fantasy and social criticism.

This classic work of translated literature presents a masterpiece of Chinese uncanny fiction in Tenma Shibata's distinctive Japanese.

An architectural study and photographic volume in which Sutemi Horiguchi examines the buildings and garden of the Katsura Imperial Villa, accompanied by photographs by Tatsuzo Sato. It reads Katsura as both a classic of Japanese architecture and a spatial composition relevant to modern architecture.

The volume follows the Katsura Imperial Villa, the Hachijo-no-miya lineage, its makers, and the composition of garden and buildings through photographs, plates, and essays.

A science book for young readers by Teruhiko Hosoi explaining mosquito ecology and control. It links disease-carrying insects with human living environments, public health, and observation of nature.

Starting from the familiar problem of eliminating mosquitoes, the book leads readers into insect ecology, hygiene, and improvements in everyday life.

Tetsuro Watsuji's "History of Japanese Ethical Thought" is a major work that treats Japanese ethical thought from myth, the ritsuryo state, warrior society, early modern thought, and the transformations of modernity. It interprets Japanese ideas of communal life, the state, and human relations through concrete historical development.

This major work by Tetsuro Watsuji traces the development of Japanese ethical thought from myth to modernity within the depth of history.

An economic-historical study by Goro Fujita analyzing the economic structure and transformation of Japanese feudal society through the role of wealthy peasants in the early modern period.

The work traces the development of Japanese feudal society through the rise of wealthy peasants and changes in regional economies.

Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan is Masao Maruyama's classic analysis of early modern Confucianism, kokugaku, and the formation of nationalism, reading Japan's modernization of thought through the opposition between nature and artifice. It remains a foundational work for postwar studies of Japanese intellectual history.

Maruyama Masao's classic work, reading the pattern of Japan's modernization from within early modern thought.

A History of Modern Economics is Eiichi Sugimoto's history of economic thought, reading the schools of modern economics within the historical development of world capitalism. It traces the formation, development, and decline of theories while assessing their logical significance and opening a perspective on modern economics.

Sugimoto Eiichi's posthumous work traces modern economics from both the inner logic of theory and the history of capitalism.

Seibutsugaku Taikei was a natural-science publishing project that sought to present postwar biological knowledge systematically, drawing on the expertise of Tomoo Miwa and others. Covering animals, plants, physiology, and classification, it can be placed as a foundational series connecting researchers and readers.

A series that presented postwar biology as a system and broadened the base of natural-science publishing.

The Motonari Iguchi-edited "World Music Anthology: Piano Series" is a score series that gathers major piano works from the Baroque through modern periods for use in performance and education. It brought standard repertoire to Japanese piano students and broadened the foundation of performance culture.

This Shunjusha score series edited by Motonari Iguchi supported piano education in Japan.