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BIZIEN, Jean-Luc
  KATANA
Novels: Jean-Luc BIZIEN - Katana
 
  • 1 - Vent rouge / Ed. Le pré aux clerc
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  • 2 - Dragon noir / Ed. Le pré aux clerc
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    Ichirô and his friends decide to avenge death for their parents by cutting down the lord-dragon. But for that, they must initially find the only weapon which can overcome shows it: the katana of late Toshirô, whose blade was blessed gods. The combatants will have to link themselves to take up the ultimate challenge which will plunge them in most terrible of the battles.
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    BRADFORD, Chris
      YOUNG SAMOURAI / Ed. Baam !
    Book: YOUNG SAMOURAI / Ed. Baam !
     
  • 1 - La Voie du guerrier
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  • 2 - La Voie du sabre
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  • 3 - La Voie du dragon
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    Jack Fletcher, young person foams, makes wreck off Japan in August, 1611. Helped then adopted by Masamoto Takeshi, he will have to become a real samurai to take revenge for the man who made of him an orphan: terrifying Dragon-Eye.
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    CLAVELL, James
     
  • SHOGUN / Ed. G.P.
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    Fictionalized life of an English pilot failed on the Japanese coasts in the years 1600.
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    DECOIN, Didier (de l'académie Goncourt)
     
  • LE BUREAU DES JARDINS ET DES ETANGS / Stock
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    Empire of Japan, period Heian, XIIth century. In the death of her husband, Miyuki has to carry to old master of the Office of Gardens and the Ponds of the capital, carps torn away from the eddies of the river Kusagawa by Katsuro just before drowning itself.
     
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    GODARD, Jocelyne
     
  • AU BOUT DE L'EVENTAIL / Ed. Philippe Picquier
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    Book: AU BOUT DE L'EVENTAIL / Ed. Philippe Picquier
    In the spring of the year one thousand, Yasumi leaves its province of Masushi with for only luggage a bag containing a kimono, baguettes, small Buddhist altar, range and sabre. Arrived at Kyoto, Yasumi meets then the most erudite women of her period and its life falls over towards an unusual fate.
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    HEARN, Lian
      LE CLAN DES OTORI / Ed. Gallimard
    Book - Le Clan des Otori - Lian Hearn - Ed. Gallimard
     
  • Book I - Le Silence du Rossignol
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  • Book II - Les Neiges de l'Exil
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  • Book III - La Clarté de la Lune
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  • Book IV - Le Vol du héron
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  • Book V - Le Fil du destin
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    An imaginary novel having for framework medieval Japan. The epopee of Takeo and Kaede should charm as well large as young people.
    SHIKANOKO / Ed. Gallimard
     
  • Book I - L'Enfant du Cerf
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  • Book II - LLa Princesse de l'automne
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  • Book III - L'Empereur invisible
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  • Book IV - L'Héritier de l'arc-en-ciel
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    Shikanoko reveals the mythical origins of the Clan of Otori. Dive back into a mesmerizing world where get involved samurais' traditional adventures and very original supernatural dimension.
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    HUICENSIS, Emile
     
  • HAI QUI D'EAU FAIT SON BUREAU / Archaos Éditions
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    HUICENSIS, Emile - HAI QUI D'EAU FAIT SON BUREAU / Archaos Éditions
     

    September 2025: Anatole, graphic designer who spends more time defending the lost causes than to work, finds - in spite of him - registered voter in a club of aikido. He will quickly bind to it friendship with a young practitioner but, one morning, this one is found assassinated. Although it is not any competent for this kind of action, Anatole will then endeavour to avenge his comrade and to continue his combat: to fight against the Maffia which diverts the water resources to benefit maximum from it.
     
     
  • ROGER AIME-TOI, LE CIEL T'AIMERA / Archaos Éditions
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    HUICENSIS, Emile - ROGER AIME-TOI, LE CIEL T'AIMERA / Archaos Éditions
     
    Anatole - more completely novice in aikido but keeping the spirit of the beginner - finds himself hired in a laboratory leading researches on GMO. He has to try to chase away a mole who delivers the secrets of the laboratory to a giant of the food-processing industry. To bring to a successful conclusion this mission, the friends of his diverse networks will not be of excess.
     
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    HUNTER, Stephen
     
  • The 47th SAMOURAI
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    Livre : Le 47e samouraï - Stephen HUNTER - Ed. du Rocher
    When a former of Vietnam meets itself in the heart of a war led by the Japanese mafia to seize a sword brought back by his father of the battle of Iwo Jima...
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    INOUE, Yasushi
     
  • LE CHATEAU DE YODO (Yodo-Dono nikki) / Ed. Philippe Picquier
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    Historical novel in the fury of Japan of XVIe century which evokes the tragic destiny of the lady of the manor of Yodo.
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    KIRK, David
     
  • CHILD OF VENGEANCE / Simon & Schuster Ldt, London (UK) / 2013
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    Novels: David KIRK - Le Samouraï
    At 13 years, Bennosuke has only one dream: to become a large warrior, one of the most respected most dreaded samurais and of Japan. But which price will it have to pay to enter the history under the name of Miyamoto Musashi? Such is the topic of this novel which brushes a great fresco of Japan of the XVII century.
     
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  • SWORD OF HONOUR / Simon & Schuster Ldt, London (UK) / 2015
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    Japan, on 1600. Miyamoto Musashi is his men were overcome in the battle of Sekigahara by the east Armies which knocked down the former power. Surviving but alone, submit itself to the requirements of the Honor, one of the seven virtues of the samurai, would mean committing suicide. But Musashi wants to live. If he gave up violence, it is necessary to him to protect itself and to prepare its vengeance against those who want his death. For that purpose, he has only a proverb: “The sabre gives birth. The sabre kills.”
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    MAN, Roland
     
  • LE PIVERT / Ed. Robert Laffont
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    A modern detective novel in which the feelings of martial arts are described with brilliance.
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    OGIWARA, Noriko
     
  • LES CONTES DU MAGATAMA
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    Novel: OGIWARA Noriko - Les Contes du Magatama
    A fantastic epopee imagined starting from the texts founders of Japan.
     
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    ROLLAND Marc
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  • LE DÉCAPITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE - L'été Mishima / Le Croît Vif
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    Book: LE DÉCAPITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE - L'été Mishima / Le Croît Vif
    A beheaded body is found under the parquet of a former village hall in which, twenty years earlier took place training courses of martial arts. The shade of the writer MISHIMA Yukio, committed suicide by seppuku, glides over this affair.
     
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    ROWLAND Laura Joh
     
  • LE TATOUAGE DE LA CONCUBINE / Ed. du Rocher
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    Book: LE TATOUAGE DE LA CONCUBINE / Ed. du Rocher
    Ichirô Sano, big investigator of the shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, has to investigate into a murder committed right in the heart of the imperial palace. Harume, one of the common law wives of the shogun, was poisoned by the ink of a secret tattoo which it dedicated to a mysterious lover. Sano discovers besides that the young lady was pregnant. Did the murderer want to eliminate the long-awaited heir of the Tokugawa?
       
  • LA FEMME DU SAMOURAI / Ed. du Rocher
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    Livre - La Femme du samourai - Laura Joh Rowland - Ed. du Rocher
    In the year 1691, to Kyôto, a high-ranking servant of the court is murdered. Very Honourable Investigator Sano Ichirô, accompanied with his beautiful wife Reiko, begins then the most difficult investigation of his career.
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    SHIBA, Ryôtaro
     
  • LE DERNIER SHOGUN (Saigo no shogun) / Ed. Philippe Picquier
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    Historical novel which tells rise and fall of Yoshinobu, fifteenth and last shogun Tokugawa.
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    YAMADA, Fûtarô
      LES MANUSCRITS NINJA
    Book: LES MANUSCRITS NINJA / Ed. Philippe Picquier
     
  • 1 - Les sept lances d'Aizu / Ed. Philippe Picquier
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  • 2 - Les sept guerrières d'Hori / Ed. Philippe Picquier
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    In 1642, the tyrannical and perverse daimyo of the rich fief of Aizu makes exterminate all the family of Hori Mondo. Only seven women of the clan survive and swear to take revenge. Princess Sen, own sister of Shogun, helps them then discreetly.
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    YOSHIKAWA, Eiji
     
  • LA PIERRE ET LE SABRE/ Ed. Balland
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  • LA PARFAITE LUMIERE / Ed. Balland
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    The fictionalized life of the most famous Japanese swashbuckler - Myiamoto Musashi - by a modern great writer.
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