Japanese
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Classical Literature (until 1600's)
Title | Author | Year | Description | Cover |
The Gossamer Years | Mother of Michitsuna | 974 | ||
The Pillow Book | Sei Shonagon | 1002 | ||
The Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu | 1021 | ||
The Tales of Ise | Anonymous | ~ | ||
Hojoki | Kamo no Chomei | 1212 | ||
Essays in Idleness | Yoshida Kenko | 1330 | ||
The Tale of Heike | Anonymous | 1371 |
Edo Period (1603-1868)
Title | Author | Year | Pages | Description | Cover |
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Life of an Amorous Woman | Saikaku Ihara | 1686 | 403 | ||
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai | Yamamoto Tsunetomo | 1716 | 180 | ||
Four Major Plays | Chikamatsu Monzaemon | ~1720 | 220 | ||
Chushingura | Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu | 1748 | 183 | ||
Tales of Moonlight and Rain | Ueda Akinari | 1776 | 248 |
Modern Literature (1868-1945)
Title | Author | Year | Pages | Description | Book Cover |
Ukigumo | Futabatei Shimei | 1887 | 381 | ||
Pagoda, Skull, and Samurai | Koda Rohan | ~1889 | 280 | ||
In the Shade of Spring Leaves | Higuchi Ichiyo | 1892-6 | 388 | ||
Japanese Gothic Tales | Izumi Kyoka | 1900 | 212 | ||
The Broken Commandment | Toson Shimazaki | 1906 | 276 | ||
The Quilt and Other Stories | Katai Tayama | 1907 | 204 | ||
The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa | Kenji Miyazawa | 1924 | 216 | ||
Kokoro | Natsume Soseki | 1914 | 248 | ||
Botchan | Natsume Soseki | 1906 | 176 | ||
I am a Cat | Natsume Soseki | 1905 | 656 | ||
The Wild Geese | Mori Ogai | 1913 | 128 | ||
The Paper Door and Other Stories | Shiga Naoya | 1927 | 177 | ||
Rashomon and Other Stories | Ryunosuke Akutagawa | 1922 | 268 | ||
During the Rain & Flowers in the Shade | Kafu Nagai | ~1930 | 223 | ||
Musashi | Eiji Yoshikawa | 1935 | 970 | ||
The Makioka Sisters | Junichiro Tanizaki | 1943 | 544 | ||
Naomi | Junichiro Tanizaki | 1924 | 256 | ||
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination | Edogawa Ranpo | ~1940 | 240 |
Post War (1946 - present)
Title | Author | Year | Pages | Description | Cover |
The Counterfeiter and Other Stories | Yasushi Inoue | ||||
Snow Country | Yasunari Kawabata | 1947 | |||
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories | Yasunari Kawbata | ~ | |||
The Master of Go | Yasunari Kawabata | 1954 | |||
The Setting Sun | Osamu Dazai | 1947 | |||
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai | 1948 | |||
Fires on the Plain | 1951 | ||||
The Waiting Years | Fumiko Enchi | 1957 | |||
Confessions of a Mask | Yukio Mishima | 1948 | |||
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion | Yukio Mishima | 1956 | |||
Spring Snow | Yukio Mishima | 1963 | |||
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids | Kenzaburo Oe | 1958 | |||
A Personal Matter | Kenzaburo Oe | 1964 | |||
Black Rain | Masuji Ibuse | 1966 | |||
The Box Man | Kobo Abe | 1973 | |||
The Woman in the Dunes | Kobo Abe | 1962 | |||
Silence | Shusaku Endo | 1966 | |||
The Samurai | Shusaku Endo | 1980 | |||
The Twilight Years | Sawako Ariyoshi | 1972 | |||
Almost Transparent Blue | Ryu Murakami | 1976 | |||
Kitchen | Banana Yoshimoto | 1988 | |||
Norweigan Wood | Haruki Murakami | 1987 | |||
The Elephant Vanishes | Haruki Murakami | 1991 | |||
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami | 1995 | |||
The Housekeeper and the Professor | Yoko Ogawa | 2003 |