These books are mostly written in Japanese, mostly. 
 

Shitamachi Gaijin is a book of essays, in Japanese, and paintings. There are essays about ink painting . Also about Shitamachi life - Shitamachi most often mistranslated as "Downtown." Shitamachi lifestyle has almost vanished and is much romaticised these days in the media. It comes from people in the lowlands, the poorer part of town. It is a culture born of trying to survive squeezed up against your neighbors in tiny tenement houses. There are also some essays about life in a gaijin house. Gaijin being the rough Japanese word for foriener. The gaijin house was a comunity of low budget travelers, forieners that would heve been aliens where ever in the world you put them. They seemed particularly happy to be aliens in Japan. 1300 yen at a bookstore near you Link to the publisher

Stone Men Stone Women is a small Japanese traditinal hand made book of printed immages of my tiny paintings of stone street Jizos that still stand in this small corner of Japan. Availibility is limited as it goes in and out of print. 2000 yen, subject to availibility link to publisher

REN A book documenting Ko Sagae and my cooperative works in linking picture and verse, renku style. It is an international, intercultural, interlinguistic exercise in misunderstanding on 3 levels at the same time. Also included are renku from larger groups of us misunderstanding, all in full color. 5000 yen Link to publisher