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Abe Kobo
(1924-1993)
Abe is best known for The Woman in the Dunes (1962).
Beyond the Curve (paperback)
Fake Fish: The Theater of Kobo Abe
Friends (play)
Inter Ice Age 4
Kangaroo Notebook: A Novel (paperback)
Secret Rendezvous
Secret Rendezvous (paperback)
The Ark Sakura
The Box Man
The Man Who Turned into a Stick: 3 Rel. Plays, Abe (Ed.)
The Ruined Map
The Woman in the Dunes (paperback)
The Woman in the Dunes (Twentieth-Century Classics)
Three Plays (hardcover)
Three Plays (paperback)
akutagawa Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Born in Tokyo, Akutagawa (1892-1927) studied literature at Tokyo Imperial University. His psychological novel Rashomon later became a film directed by Kurosawa. Akutagawa committed suicide at age 35.
Akutagawa: An Introduction, by Beonocheon Yu
Exotic Japanese stories
Exotic Japanese Stories
Hell Screen Cogwheels a Fools Life
Japanese Short Stories.
Kappa: A Satire
Kappa
Rashomon and Other Stories (paperback)
Rashomon and Other Stories
Tutze-Chun
dazai Dazai Osamu (1909-1948)
Dazai Osamu, the pseudonym of Tsushima Shuji, was one of Japan's leading post-WW II novelists.
Akutagawa and Dazai: Instances of Literary Adaptation
Blue Bamboo: Tales of Fantasy and Romance
Crackling Mountain and Other Stories (hardcover)
Crackling Mountain and Other Stories
Dazai Osamu, by James Aloysius O'Brien
Dazai Osamu: Selected Stories and Sketches
No Longer Human (paperback)
Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp
Self Portraits: Stories
Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Osamu
The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study With Translations
The Setting Sun, tr. by Donald Keene
endo Endo Shusaku (1923- )
Endo is a Christian author.
Deep River (paperback)
Foreign Studies
Life of Jesus
Scandal: A Novel
Scandal
Silence
Stained Glass Elegies (hardcover)
Stained Glass Elegies: Stories (paperback)
The Final Martyrs (International Authors Series)
The Final Martyrs
The Girl I Left Behind
The Samurai (paperback)
The Sea and Poison
Volcano
When I Whistle: A Novel
Wonderful Fool
Atoda Takashi (1935- )
One of Japan's most famous short-story writers.
The Square Persimmon and Other Stories
Futabatei Shimei (1864-1909)
Best remembered for Ukigumo (The Drifting Cloud, 1887), Japan's first serious novel written in colloquial Japanese.
Japan's First Modern Novel: Ukigumo (Drifting Cloud)
Ibuse Masuji (1898-1993)
His novel Black Rain (Kuroi Ame, 1965) examines the effects of WW II on the inhabitants of Hiroshima.
A Critical Study of the Literary Style of Ibuse Masuji...
Black Rain
Castaways: Two Short Novels (hardcover)
Castaways: Two Short Novels (paperback)
Lieutenant Lockeast and Other Stories
Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibuse Masuji
Salamander and Other Stories
Waves: 2 Novels by Masuji Ibuse
Waves: Two Short Novels
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Inoue Yasushi (1907-1991)
Chronicle of My Mother
Chronicle of My Mother (paperback)
Hunting Gun
Letters of Four Seasons
Lou-Lan and Other Stories (hardcover)
Lou-Lan and Other Stories (paperback)
Roof Tile of Temyo
Shirobamba (hardcover)
Shirobamba: A Childhood in Old Japan (paperback)
Tun-Huang
Wind and Waves
Ishiguro Kazuo (1954- )
British novelist.
A Pale View of Hills
An Artist of the Floating World
The Remains of the Day (paperback)
The Unconsoled (paperback)
Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro
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Ishikawa Takuboku (1886-1912)
Ishikawa Takuboku, by Hijiya Yukihito
Romaji Diary and Sad Toys
Sad Toys (Kanashiki Gangu)
kawabata Kawabata Yasunari
Kawabata (1899-1972), a novelist and short-story writer, became the first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968.
Beauty and Sadness
House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
Japan the Beautiful and Myself
Japan the Beautiful and Myself
Lake
Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories
Snow Country (Yukiguni)
The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories (paperback)
The Izu Dancer and Other Stories
The Master of Go (Vintage International)
The Old Capital
The Sound of the Mountain (Vintage International)
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Thousand Cranes
Kita Morio (1927- )
Trained in psychiatry at Tohoku University, Kita practiced at Keio University Hospital before becoming a writer.
Ghosts: A Novel (paperback)
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Kitahara Hakushu (1885-1942)
Kitahara Hakushu: His Life and Poetry, by Margaret Benton Fukasawa
Kizaki Satoko (1939- )
The Sunken Temple
The Phoenix Tree and Other Stories (hardcover)
The Phoenix Tree and Other Stories (paperback)
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Kunikida Doppo (1871-1908)
River Mist and Other Stories, tr. by David G. Chibbett
Maruya Saiichi (1925- )
A Mature Woman (hardcover)
A Mature Woman (paperback)
Rain in the Wind: Four Stories (paperback)
Singular Rebellion (paperback)
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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
American journalist and novelist who, with the help of his Japanese wife, became the first Westerner to deeply understand the Japanese culture, which he introduced to Western readers in numerous English books and articles. Born in Greece and raised in Dublin, he was named "Lafcadio" after the Ionian island of Lefkas. Hearn became a Japanese citizen in 1894 (Japanese name: Koizumi Yakumo).
A Fantastic Journey: Life and Literature of Lafcadio Hearn
A Fantastic Journey: Life and Literature of Lafcadio Hearn
A Walk in Kumamoto: Life & Times of...Hearn's J. Wife
Blue Ghost: Lafcadio Hearn's Work
Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
Chita: A Memory of Last Island
Exotics and Retrospectives
Fantastics and Other Fancies
Fantastics and Other Fancies
Gleanings in Buddha-Fields:...Hand & Soul in the Far East
Gleanings in Buddha-Fields
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (paperback)
In Ghostly Japan (paperback)
In Hearn's Footsteps:...Life of Hearn
Interpretations of Literature
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
Japan: In the Land of the Brokenhearted
Japan
Japanese Fairy Tales
Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn
Japanese Miscellany
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (hardcover)
Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (paperback)
Lafcadio Hearn, by Elizabeth Stevenson
Lafcadio Hearn, by Arthur E. Kunst
Lafcadio Hearn, by Vera Seeley McWilliams
Lafcadio Hearn: Life, Work, and Irish Background
Lafcadio Hearn and His German Critics:...
Lafcadio Hearn and the Vision of Japan
Lafcadio Hearn in Japan
Lafcadio Hearn: A Bibliography of His Writings
Lafcadio Hearn: An Appreciation
Lafcadio Hearn: New Anthology...1894-1904
Lafcadio Hearn's American Days
Lafcadio Hearn's Japan:...Writings on Country & People
Leaves from the Diary of an Impressionist...Chinese Ghosts
Letters
Manuscripts
Memoranda for the Lectures at Tokyo Imperial University
Occidental Gleanings: Sketches and Essays
Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan
Period of the Gruesome: Selected Cincinnati Journalism...
Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn: J. Legends Life & Culture
Reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn
Shadowings
Some Chinese Ghosts
Some New Letters and Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
The Glass Lark: A Study of Lafcadio Hearn
The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (paperback)
The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (paperback)
Wandering Ghost: The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn (paperback)
Writings from Japan: An Anthology (Penguin Classics)
mishima Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)
Born Hiraoka Kimitake. In his novels, plays, and short stories, Mishima romanticized pre-Western Japan. Mishima committed ritual seppuku (aka hara-kiri, belly cutting).
Acts of Worship: Seven Stories (paperback)
Ba Ra Kei: Ordeal by Roses
Confessions of a Mask (paperback)
Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence,...(hardcover)
Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence,...(paperback)
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories (paperback)
El Pabellon De Oro (paperback, in Spanish)
Escape from the Wasteland:...(hardcover)
Escape from the Wasteland:...(hardcover)
Five Modern No Plays
Forbidden Colours
Forbidden Colours
La Corrupcion de un Angel (The Decay of the Angel)
Life and Death of Yukio Mishima (paperback)
Mishima: A Vision of the Void
Mishima: A Vision of the Void
Patriotism
Reflections on the Death of Mishima
Runaway Horses (Sea of Fertility, 2)
Silk and Insight, Kinu to Meisatsu: A Novel (hardcover)
Silk and Insight, Kinu to Meisatsu: A Novel (paperback)
Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, 1)
Sun & Steel (paperback)
The Decay of the Angel (The Sea of Fertility, 4)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (paper)
The Sea of Fertility: A Cycle of Novels
The Sea of Fertility
The Sound of Waves (paperback)
The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility, 3)
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (hardcover)
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (paperback)
The Way of the Samurai:...on Hagakure in Modern Life
The Way of the Samurai
Vida Y Muerte De Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima (Literature and Life)
moriogai Mori Ogai (1862-1922)
Mori wrote novels, drama, poetry, etc. The Wild Geese (1911-1913) describes the plight of a girl forced to be a mistress.
Historical Fiction of Mori Ogai (UNESCO)
Mori Ogai, by J. Thomas Rimer
Mori Ogai and Modernization of J. Culture, by Bowring
Paragons of the Ordinary: Biographical Lit. of Mori Ogai
Saiki Koi and Other Stories (UNESCO)
Saiki Koi and Other Stories (hardcover)
The Incident at Sakai and Other Stories (UNESCO)
The Wild Goose (hardcover), tr. by Burton Watson
The Wild Goose (paperback), tr. by Burton Watson
Wild Geese (paperback)
Youth and Other Stories, ed. by J. Thomas Rimer
Mukoda Kuniko (1929-1981)
The Name of the Flower: Stories
murakami Murakami Haruki (1949- )
Murakami writes of the rebelliousness and anomie of the 1960s.
A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
Dance, Dance, Dance: A Novel (paperback)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel
South of the Border, West of the Sun
The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (paperback)
murakami_ryu Murakami Ryu (1952- )
Winner of the Gunzo Literature Prize and the Akutagawa Prize.
Almost Transparent Blue
Coin Locker Babies (hardcover)
Coin Locker Babies (paperback)
Sixty-Nine (hardcover)
Nagai Kafu (1879-1959)
Nagai was a novelist who studied in the U.S. and France.
During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade (hardcover)
During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade (paperback)
Kafu the Scribbler: Life & Writings of Nagai (hardcover)
Kafu the Scribbler: Life & Writings of Nagai (paperback)
nagatsuka Nagatsuka Takashi
(1879-1915) Famous poet and writer of the Meiji (1968-1912) and early Taisho (1912-1926) eras.
The Soil: Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji J. (hardcover)
The Soil: Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji J. (paperback)
natsume1natsume2natsume3natsume4 Natsume Soseki (1867-1916)
One of Japan's greatest modern writers, Natsume was a master of the psychological novel.
And Then (Sorekara): A Novel
And Then: Natsume Soseki's Novel Sorekara
Botchan, tr. by Alan Turney (paperback)
Chaos and Order in the Works of Natsume Soseki
Everyone but Thee and Me
Grass on the Wayside (Michikusa): A Novel (UNESCO
Grass on the Wayside (Michikusa): A Novel
Grass on the Wayside (Michikusa: A Novel)
I Am a Cat (paperback)
I Am A Cat, Vol. 2 (paperback)
I Am a Cat, Vol. 3 (paperback)
Kokoro a Novel (paperback)
Kokoro a Novel and Selected Essays
Kokoro: A Novel
Light and Darkness
Sanshiro
Ten Nights of Dream, Hearing Things, the Heredity of Taste
The Gate (Mon)
The Miner
The Psychological World of Natsume Soseki, by Doi Takeo
The Wayfarer (Kojin)
Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata
Three-Cornered World (UNESCO)
To the Spring Equinox and Beyond
Wayfarer
Zen Haiku: Poems and Letters of Natsume Soseki
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Oe Kenzaburo (1935- )
Known for his pacifistic novels and his fiction devoted to his mentally retarded son, Oe won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.
A Healing Family
A Personal Matter
A Quiet Life (paperback)
An Echo of Heaven
Catch and Other Stories
Escape from the Wasteland:...(hardcover)
Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism
Fire from the Ashes:...Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Grand Street 55: Egos
Hiroshima Notes (hardcover)
Hiroshima Notes (paperback)
Japan, the Ambiguous, & Myself: Nobel Prize Speech...
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (hardcover)
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (paperback)
Seventeen and J:...Pol. Being &...Sexual Being
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (paperback)
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels
The Crazy Iris &...Stories of Atomic Aftermath, ed. Oe
The Marginal World of Oe: Themes and... (hardcover)
The Marginal World of Oe: Themes and... (paperback)
The Music of Light: Extraordinary Story of Hikari &...
The Music of Light: Extraordinary Story of Hikari &...
The Pinch Runner Memorandum (hardcover)
The Pinch Runner Memorandum (paperback)
The Silent Cry: A Novel (hardcover)
The Silent Cry: A Novel (paperback)
Nitta Jiro (1942- )
Alaskan Tale, by Jiro Nitta
Death March on Mount Hakkoda
Oda Sakunosuke (1913-1947)
Stories of Osaka Life (UNESCO)
Okamoto Kanoko (1889-1939)
The House Spirit and Other Stories
saito Saito Sanki (1900-1962)
A dentist and haiku poet, Saito founded several haiku associations and haiku revues.
The Kobe Hotel
Shiga Naoya (1883-1971)
A Dark Night's Passing
Shiga Naoya, by Francis Mathy
The Paper Door and Other Stories, tr. by Lane Dunlop
The Paper Door and Other Stories
The Shiga Hero
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Shimada Masahiko
(1961- )
Dream Messenger
shimazaki Shimazaki Toson
Shimazaki (1872-1943) was known for his first-person novels (watakushi shosetsu).
Before the Dawn
Chikuma River Sketches
The Broken Commandment
The Family
Shono Junzo (1921- )
Still Life and Other Stories
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Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
(1886-1965)
Novelist who wrote about traditional Japanese culture.
A Cat, a Man, and Two Women (paperback)
Ashikali and the Story of Shunkin: Modern Japanese Novels
Childhood Years: A Memoir (paperback)
Diary of a Mad Old Man (paperback)
Diary of a Mad Old Man
In Praise of Shadows (paperback)
Naomi (paperback)
Quicksand (paperback)
Secret History of the Lord Musashi and Arrow Root
Seven Japanese Tales (paperback)
Some Prefer Nettles: A Novel (paperback)
The Key (paperback)
The Makioka Sisters (hardcover)
The Makioka Sisters (paperback)
The Moon in the Water:...Tanizaki, Kawabata, & Mishima
The Reed Cutter & Capt. Shigemoto's Mother (paperback)
The Secret History of Lord of Musashi & Arrowroot (paperback)
The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki's Fiction
Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds (hardcover)
Uchida Yoshiko (c. 1921-1992)
American writer who wrote about the Japanese experience in California.
A Jar of Dreams
Desert Exile (paperback)
Desert Exile: Uprooting of a J.-American Family
Hisako's Mysteries
In Between Miya
In Between Miya
Jar of Dreams (paperback)
Journey Home (hardcover)
Journey Home (paperback)
Journey Home (paperback)
Journey to Topaz (paperback)
Journey to Topaz:...Japanese-American Evacuation
Magic Listening Cap More Folk Tales from Japan
Makoto, the Smallest Boy: A Story of Japan
Picture Bride: A Novel
Rokubei and the Thousand Rice Bowls
Rooster Who Understood Japanese
Samuri of Gold Hill (paperback)
Sea of Gold: And Other Tales from Japan
Sumi and the Goat and the Tokyo Express
Sumi's Prize
Sumi's Special Happening
Takao and Grandfather's Sword
The Best Bad Thing (paperback)
The Best Bad Thing
The Birthday Visitor
The Bracelet (paperback)
The Bracelet
The Dancing Kettle and Other Japanese Folk Tales
The Happiest Ending (hardcover)
The Invisible Thread (In My Own Words)
The Invisible Thread (In My Own Words)
The Invisible Thread: An Autobiography (paperback)
The Magic Listening Cap: More Folk Tales (paperback)
The Magic Listening Cap: More Folk Tales from J.
The Magic Purse
The Rooster Who Understood Japanese
The Terrible Leak
The Wise Old Woman
Tokutomi Kenjiro (1868-1927)
Footprints in the Snow: A Novel of Meiji Japan
Footprints in the Snow: A Novel of Meiji Japan
Tsushima Yuko (1947- )
Child of Fortune
The Shooting Gallery and Other Stories (paperback)
The Shooting Gallery and Other Stories
Woman Running in the Mountains
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Uno Chiyo
(1897-1996)
Confessions of Love (paperback)
Story of a Single Woman
The Sound of the Wind: Life and Works of Uno Chiyo
yosano Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)
A composer of 31-syllable tanka poems, Yosano was known as the Poetess of Passion.
Night Fading to Pale Rose
River of Stars: Selected Poems
Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami
yoshikawa Yoshikawa Eiji (1892-1962)
Fragments of a Past: A Memoir
Heike Story
Musashi
Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
The Art of War (Musashi Book II)
The Bushido Code (Musashi Book IV)
Way of Life and Death (Musashi, Book V)
Way of the Samurai (Musashi Book I)
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Yoshimoto Banana (1964- )
Amrita (paperback)
Kitchen
Lizard
N.P.: A Novel
Miscellaneous Modern Fiction
Contemp. J. Lit.: Anth. of Fiction, Film, and...Since 1945
Memoirs of a Geisha (audio cassette)
Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel (audio cassette)
Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel (hardcover), by Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel (large print book series, cloth)
Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel (paperback)
Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel (paperback)
Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, by Donald Keene



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