The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery

Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn (beginning with Across the Nightingale Floor)

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

The Convict's Sword: a Mystery of Eleventh-Century Japan by I. J. Parker

The Cloud Pavilion by Laura Joh Rowland

The Snow Fox by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama