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Makeup (full Collection)

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

429K8.415

"Make Up (Complete Collection)" tells the story of Suzuko, a geisha who committed suicide after being abandoned by her boyfriend. The middle sister Raiko, who was also a geisha, couldn't let go of her sister's death. She gave up the inheritance rights of a high-end restaurant in Kyoto and went to Tokyo to open a restaurant, waiting for an opportunity to take revenge. The third sister Riko obeyed her mother and inherited the family business. She was busy with the restaurant business all day long. Her mechanical life and false marriage forced her to fall into a false love. The younger sister Makiko, who is studying in college, finally chose a traditional marriage after she was tired of her indulgent life. The four golden flowers in a long-established restaurant in Kyoto bloom in their own unique ways, blooming with their gorgeous youth like cherry blossoms...

A Series by Jun Watanabe (10 Volumes in Total)

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

1.4M01

Junichi Watanabe's controversial topical work; a journey of "desire" that shocks the senses; an ultimate torture that confronts human nature...

Drift Ice Tour

Drift Ice Tour

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

171K0

The lead-gray sky and silver-white ice fields depict the winter scenery of the northern coast. With curiosity about drifting ice and a desire to see it, Misa boarded the train to Monbetsu alone. After feasting her eyes, she unexpectedly found a wonderful love affair. The silent and cold Paper Valley and the lively and willful Misa met in a small border town in Hokkaido and sparked the spark of love. After several twists and turns in love, the two people who fell in love with each other finally embraced each other happily... The Drift Ice Journey also staged a touching winter love song against the backdrop of the magnificent northern scenery.

Incarnation

Incarnation

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

314K8.553

Qiuye, a fifty-three-year-old man with a successful career, meets Kiriko, a simple and shy country girl. He taught her elegant dress and conversation, helped her learn to enjoy the joy of life and love, and even helped her have an independent career. Under the careful carving of Qiuye, Wuzi gradually transformed into a charming woman with various styles. However, is the awakened canary still willing to stay in the cage? Finally, the bird with full wings flew into the free sky; and the former bird keeper finally let go after some struggle.

Men Are Silent, Women Are Eloquent

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

49K7.214

Junichi Watanabe, the famous Japanese love literature master, wrote a book on sexual relations at the age of 80! It is divided into three parts: "The difference between men and women", "Rejuvenating with love" and "Telling things when you are old". In the book, Junichi Watanabe advocates "living until old age and loving until old age", and puts forward his own unique insights into matters of love, such as what kind of men are not popular, what kind of woman is the ideal type for marriage, when pursuing love, one must have the courage to "be a spare tire", in order to obtain true love, one must dare to "cast a wide net", etc., Subverting the traditional understanding of the sexes, and can be said to be a unique love teaching course.

Wilderness at Noon

Wilderness at Noon

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

294K0

Taki, the heiress of a fan factory in Kyoto, fell in love with Yuzuki, a medical professor whose father was a college student who died in a fight with his younger brother. At this time, a rich man who had given her financial aid to the factory also pursued her fiercely. As her interactions with the two men deepened, Taki gradually discovered that the rich man's pursuit was actually her stepmother's ulterior motive, and Yuzuki's dead son was not her biological child...

Hallucination

Hallucination

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

215K03

Dr. Himiko, who serves as the director of the mental hospital, is from a famous family, is beautiful, noble, and has superb medical skills. However, he was found to have performed unconventional "special treatment" on several patients. The nurse Beitaxiang was obsessed with Himiko. Although he was suspicious of his behavior, he still followed her without hesitation. Is it for financial purposes or to satisfy the "devil's heart"? With the patient's sudden death, the truth was revealed step by step, and Himiko's unknown past gradually surfaced...

Men Are Silent, Women Are Eloquent

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

48K0

"Men Are Silent, Women Are Eloquent" is divided into three parts: "The Difference between Men and Women", "Reviving Vitality through Love", and "Knowing It as You Get Old". In the book, Junichi Watanabe advocates "living until old age and loving until old age", and puts forward his own unique insights into the differences between men and women and things about love, such as eloquence and longevity, silence and short life, love is about change, what kind of men are not popular, what kind of women are ideal for marriage, when pursuing love, you must have the courage to "be a spare tire", to get true love, you must dare to "cast a wide net", etc., Subverting the traditional understanding of the sexes, and can be said to be a unique love teaching course.

My Forever Home

My Forever Home

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

48K02

Junichi Watanabe's last autobiographical novel was published before his death in mainland China. The writer recalls his life from birth to college, describes his family, initial sexual awakening, etc., And shows his life of loving and being loved.

A Piece of Snow

A Piece of Snow

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

301K0

Iori, the director of an architectural firm, fell deeply in love with Axia, a housewife with elegant temperament and a good life. His secretary Shengzi, who had always been emotionally involved with him, accidentally discovered his new love affair, and the relationship with him reached a deadlock. Love is as beautiful and illusory as snowflakes. Iori, who pursues happiness with all her heart, only wakes up when she loses all love...

Paradise Lost (collector's Edition)

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

211K0

Jiu Mujia, who works for a publishing house, feels that his family life is boring and his husband and wife are always polite. He accidentally met the elegant calligraphy teacher Rinko at the cultural center of his friend Yichuan, and Rinzi married an uninteresting doctor husband. Afterwards, the two sparked sparks through frequent interactions, and had trysts in Kamakura, Nikko and other resorts. In order to pursue the ultimate love, they finally chose to commit suicide by drinking poison when they were happy, and died embracing each other.

The Birth of the Novel

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

88K0

Writer Junichi Watanabe, based on his own literary creation process, dedicated his decades of precious experience in novel creation to write an empirical work on how to create a novel and how to create a best-selling novel.

Hokkaido Story

Hokkaido Story

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

99K7.419

A story of pure love staged in the romantic Northland, a glass lover encountered in an ordinary life. Junichi Watanabe's early works are different from the denseness of "Paradise Lost", "Hokkaido Story" has a freshness of the north. The innocent and pure girl, the burning love, every word tells the story of the original appearance of love. Tano, who comes from a first-class trading company, left his wife and children in Tokyo and went to Sapporo, Hokkaido alone to serve as a branch manager. I thought my short-term single life would end in a dull way, but unexpectedly I met Eriko, a twenty-year-old female college student. Eriko's love is free and unrestrained, and Tano is deeply trapped in it and cannot extricate himself. Seeing that the order to return to Tokyo is about to be issued, faced with a rare opportunity for promotion and an unprecedented passionate love, where should Tano go...

Hydrangea Diary

Hydrangea Diary

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

67K0

My husband, Shogo, has a successful career and runs his own hospital, and his wife, Shimako, is a virtuous housewife. However, from the moment Shogo discovered his wife's diary, the ordinary married life was broken. This hydrangea-covered diary contains a clear and detailed record of her views on her husband and her ongoing investigation into his affair. The seemingly calm and gentle wife is exploring her husband's life like a detective. The secret battle of wits and courage between husband and wife has officially begun...

Mother Wrote

Mother Wrote

Literature

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

84K0

A collection of classic essays by Junichi Watanabe. Relying on his unique perspective and personal life experience, the author selects bits and pieces of life, or eulogizes his mother's affection for her mother, or reveals her nostalgia for her hometown, or severely criticizes a certain social phenomenon, or expresses comfort or sympathy for certain life encounters, or expresses a thorough understanding of the true meaning of the world... It can be called a collection of encyclopedic essays involving family and friendship, worldly feelings, social phenomena, natural scenery, interests and hobbies.

Love is More Important Than Knowledge

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

54K0

This book is a collection of many essays written by Jun Watanabe during his lifetime. Watanabe uses his consistently unique writing style to present his life insights and life reflections experienced in society in the form of essays to present a broad world of empathy to readers. His humor is accompanied by serious life reflections. In Watanabe's article description, people should take everything that happens in life seriously: they feel beauty when they see beautiful things, and feel sad when they hear sad melodies; they laugh when they are happy, and their eyes are wet with tears when they are lonely; they hate ugly things and sympathize with pitiful things. All in all, in life, we should correctly understand the beauty of human birth and the sadness of aging and death. We should feel the joy, anger, sorrow and joy naturally and express them candidly.

A Long Hot Summer

A Long Hot Summer

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

92K0

On one side is a car accident victim who wants to donate a "kidney", and on the other side is a patient who wants a "kidney" transplant. A group of people got busy because of this incident, and it all happened on an ordinary hot summer day. This seems to be a very ordinary story, but a series of accidents happened in the middle. It is full of movies and affects people's hearts...

Foam

Foam

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

212K01

Asami Shoko, who has dual roles as a kimono designer and a good wife and mother, meets Takayuki Aki, a freelance writer who has long had a rift with her family. The encounter between the two comes from a moss-green kimono belt, and the distance between the two is infinitely narrowed. From light spring to cold summer, from Autumn to Winter Pavilion, their footprints are all over Atami, Kyoto, and Hokkaido... While enjoying the Japanese beauty, the two indulgently express their love for each other with their bodies. It's just that beautiful scenery is fleeting, passion is hard to sustain, life is illusory and impermanent, and love, no matter how beautiful it is, is as real and illusory as a bubble...

Shadow Painting

Shadow Painting

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

99K6.610

In adolescence, Nobuo Takamura was full of curiosity about the opposite sex, which brought him both mental and physical distress. The story of growing up is sometimes interesting and sometimes bitter. In contact with women of different personalities and ages, the boy gradually loses his youthfulness and grows into a real man.

Years

Years

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

77K7.437

Junichi Watanabe's classic novel is introduced in China for the first time! It includes nine works including "Twilight in Ginza", "Torrent", "Hearsay" and "Spring Revenge". It describes a middle-aged doctor who breaks up with his passionate girlfriend and marries another man. In order to comfort his youthful troubles and guilt for his ex-girlfriend, he seeks information about her in a roundabout way; a business executive who is ambushed and blackmailed by a bartender and her accomplices due to vanity; The proprietress worked hard to train her daughter to inherit the restaurant business, but she became jealous because her daughter's popularity gradually eclipsed hers... "Farewell in the Afternoon" is a charming masterpiece describing the breakup of an extramarital couple. It is beautifully conceived and has an endless aftertaste. Architect Yoshino went to the site to supervise the work and fell in love with Takako. Takako knew that Yoshino had a family, but he fell in love with him because of his unbearable loneliness.

Benevolent Doctor

Benevolent Doctor

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

60K7.610

Junichi Watanabe's classic novel is introduced in China for the first time! The medical practice notes of a down-and-out doctor, the funny doctor-patient stories make people laugh and cry at life! Dr. Enjoji left the university hospital with complicated interpersonal relationships and came to work as an attending physician in a private hospital. Many patients with hidden diseases who are unable to go to large hospitals for consultation have come to seek medical treatment. A private hospital is like a kaleidoscope, reflecting various images of people living at the bottom of society and struggling in the cracks of human nature. The doctors' benevolence and the patients' inner struggles interweave into an ups and downs story, which is full of fun and thought-provoking.

Make Up

Make Up

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

429K03

Geisha Suzuko committed suicide after being abandoned by her boyfriend. The middle sister Raiko, who was also a geisha, couldn't let go of her sister's death. She gave up the inheritance rights of a high-end restaurant in Kyoto and went to Tokyo to open a restaurant, waiting for an opportunity to take revenge. The third sister Riko obeyed her mother and inherited the family business. She was busy with the restaurant business all day long. Her mechanical life and false marriage forced her to fall into a false love. The younger sister Makiko, who is studying in college, finally chose a traditional marriage after she was tired of her indulgent life. The four golden flowers in a long-established restaurant in Kyoto bloom in their own unique ways, blooming with their gorgeous youth like cherry blossoms...

Love at the End of the Wilderness

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

112K0

Dizi entered the workplace after graduating from university. Akutsu is Dizi's boss. He has a beautiful wife and a smart child. He lives a happy but dull life. Until one day, he fell in love with Di Zi. In the work interactions, Dizi was gradually impressed by Ajiujin's personality charm, fell in love with him deeply, and longed to possess Ajiujin alone forever. In order to achieve this goal, Di Zi planned a bold action...

Incarnation

Incarnation

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

313K04

Qiuye, a fifty-three-year-old man with a successful career, meets Kiriko, a simple and shy country girl. He taught her elegant dress and conversation, helped her learn to enjoy the joy of life and love, and even helped her have an independent career. Under the careful carving of Qiuye, Wuzi gradually transformed into a charming woman with various styles. However, is the awakened canary still willing to stay in the cage? Finally, the bird with full wings flew into the free sky; and the former bird keeper finally let go after some struggle.

Where is the Return Journey

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

175K01

Many years after becoming famous, Japanese literary master Junichi Watanabe used an autobiographical novel to truly reproduce his youthful past when he abandoned his family and career and went to Tokyo with his lover to pursue his dream of being a writer... While he was working hard for his dream of being a writer, he fell into emotional entanglements with three women, including uneasiness, anxiety, hesitation, and confusion... But what remained unchanged was the author's unwavering commitment to his dream of being a writer.

Hokkaido Story

Hokkaido Story

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

99K01

Tano, who comes from a first-class trading company, left his wife and children in Tokyo and went to Sapporo, Hokkaido alone to serve as a branch manager. I thought my short-term single life would end in a dull way, but unexpectedly I met Eriko, a twenty-year-old female college student. Eriko's love is free and unrestrained, and Tano is deeply trapped in it and cannot extricate himself. Seeing that the order to return to Tokyo is about to be issued, faced with a rare opportunity for promotion and an unprecedented passionate love, where should Tano go...