Zen Fiction

The Kingdom of Shivas Irons is the enchanting story of Murphy's return to Scotland to investigate reports of further visitations by Shivas Irons and to answer questions about him and MacDuff that have haunted Murphy since his original trip to Burningbush some 31 years before. Murphy and his companion, Buck Hannigan, a skeptical physicist fascinated by Shivas's connections to metanormal events, embark on a magical quest for Irons and MacDuff - and their wisdom about golf and human potential.

Inspector Zen receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting is to Sicily. Set against the backdrop of the 3000 year old city of Catania, Blood Rain reveals Aurelio Zen at his most desperate and driven.

ぜんやに転がりこんできたお転婆姫──只次郎の姪のお栄は大奥に仕えていたのだが、将軍からお手つきとなるのを嫌い、暇を貰って只次郎の許へと逃げていた。家に戻ってもどこぞの武家に嫁がされるに決まっている、と町人となって己の才覚で生きていくことを望むが……。

お花のかどわかし、そして熊吉も長年の同僚であった長吉との騒動が終わりを迎え、ぜんやの周りは少しずつ元の時間が戻りつつあった。だが時は落ち着くことを許してくれず、刻々と進みゆく。

居酒屋「ぜんや」の女将・お妙の父がかつて売っていた薬をもとに作られた「龍気補養丹」を改めて売り出すことになった熊吉。養い子だが、少しずつ養い親の只次郎とお妙に心を開き始めたお花。

「ぜんや」の常連の旦那衆を狙った毒酒騒動。犯行にかつての同僚・長吉が関わっていると確信した熊吉は捜索に走る。一方、長吉に騙されて常連客に毒を出しそうになってしまったお花は、意気消沈。

It's Halloween. The trees are ablaze in fiery reds. Excited children don colorful costumes. And there's mystery and fun around every corner! When Addy, Michael, and Karl finish trick-or-treating, their bags are brimming with treats. But the fun isn't over yet. Their good friend Stillwater the panda has one more special surprise in store for them. A mysterious visitor is about to tell them a spine-tingling story - one that will fill each and every listener with wonder.

When eighth-grader San Lee moves to a new town and a new school for the umpteenth time, he doesn't try to make new friends or be a loner or play cool. Instead he sits back and devises a plan to be totally different. When he accidentally answers too many questions in World History on Zen (only because he just had Ancient Religions two schools ago) all heads turn and San has his answer: he's a Zen Master.

This is a collection of adventure stories. Some take the listener into the sea with US Navy SEAL Teams and frogmen. The author challenges the llistener with tales about the rigors of training and the dangers of combat. In this fiction, the sea is an enemy that tests the courage, determination and stamina of military and civilian men and boys in boats and ships.

This is a collection of poetry celebrating the darker side of love and other topics. The poems mix humor, idealism, and cynicism and strive to make you laugh think and feel.

Life in modern Tokyo is a blast for Rei Shimura, a young Japanese-American woman who enjoys busy days as an antiques dealer and steamy nights with a devoted new boyfriend. But things come to a standstill when Rei overpays for a rare old chest of drawers for a wealthy client, the owner of a famous Zen temple in Kamakura. The exquisite tansu turns out to be a fake: the worst deal Rei has ever made. When the temple family turns on Rei - and the con man who sold the tansu is murdered - she realizes she's opened a Pandora's box of deception and death.

最高の仲間と最強を目指す物語、ここに開幕！！大学生の照日翔は、ゲーム「Infinite World」のもととなった異世界で竜騎士カケルとして転生。

Death deals no mercy to one man who rises in a SoHo alleyway to find his lover dead and his own body ghastly transformed. Straining to overcome his murderous instincts through Zen meditation and blood deprivation, he is reclaimed by The Ministry, an underground society waging war against the undead. Time and time again his will to resist is tested by the killers who demand his allegiance and the Zen masters who will burn him down at his first missed step. He strives to walk a tightrope between the living and the dead...to master himself, his hunger, and the way of the wooden stake.

居酒屋「ぜんや」の女将・お妙は、亡き夫・善助の過去について新たな疑念にとらわれ、眠れない夜が続いていた。そんななか、店の常連客である菱屋のご隠居の炉開きで、懐石料理を頼まれる。

居酒屋「ぜんや」の馴染み客・升川屋喜兵衛の嫁・志乃が子を宿して、もう七月。「ぜんや」の女将・お妙は、喜兵衛から近ごろ嫁姑の関係がぎくしゃくしていると聞き、志乃を励ましにいくことになった。

家禄を継げない武家の次男坊・林只次郎は、鶯が美声を放つよう飼育するのが得意で、それを生業とし家計を大きく支えている。

早い出世を同僚に妬まれている熊吉。養い子故に色々なことを我慢してしまうお花。二人を襲う、様々な試練。それでも、若い二人は温かい料理と人情に励まされ、必死に前を向いて歩きます。

山王祭に賑わう江戸。神田花房町の居酒屋「ぜんや」の常連客たちも、炎暑のなか祭りに心を躍らせていた。

寛政三年弥生。預かった鶯を美声に育てて生計を立てる、小禄旗本の次男坊・林只次郎は、その鶯たちの師匠役となる鶯・ルリオの後継のことで頭を悩ませていた。

新年を迎え、神田花房町代地に居酒屋「ぜんや」が再建された。女将・お妙の絶品料理がまた食べられる喜びのあまり、馴染みの旦那衆は祝儀を沢山持参するが、お妙はとまどってしまう。