Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Donald Keene (Editor). Paperback (December 1988) Grove Press.
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Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Donald Keene (Editor). Paperback (December 1988) Grove Press.
Essays in Idleness by Donald Keene, Kenko Yoshida. "The Buddhist priest Kenko clung to tradition, Buddhism, and the pleasures of solitude, and the themes he treats in his Essays, written sometime between 1330 and 1332, are all suffused with an unspoken acceptance of Buddhist beliefs. "Paperback -- 235 pages(May 15, 1998) Columbia Univ Press. 
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories by Theodore W. Goossen (Editor). This collection of Japanese short stories, including many stories translated specially for this volume, is the first to cover the entire modern era: from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Paperback - 4 pages (September 1997) Oxford Univ Press.
Monkey Brain Sushi : New Tastes in Japanese Fiction by Alfred Birnbaum (Editor), Elmer Luke (Editor). Paperback Reprint edition (November 1993) Kodansha International
Masks by Fumiko Enchi. Paperback - 141 pages 1st advent edition (November 1983) Random House. Also by Fumiko Enchi: The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi, John Bester (Translator).
The River Ki by Sawako Ariyoshi, Mildred Tahara (Translator). Paperback Reissue edition (July 1982) Kodansha International. . Also by Sawako Ariyoshi: The Doctor's Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi, Ann S. Kostant (Translator), Wakako Hironaka (Translator).
The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto by Kenji Nakagami, Eve Zimmerman (Translator). "Kenji Nakagami shows a face of Japan that's unlike any the West has seen before. A member of the burakumin minority--often called Japan's untouchables--the author used disjointed, rough-hewn prose to describe a gritty, down-and-out world. " Paperback - 190 pages (May 15, 1999) Stone Bridge Press.
Quicksand by Junichiro Tanizaki, Howard Hibbitt (Translator). Paperback (July 1995) Vintage Books. "The debut of a previously untranslated novel from Tanizaki, who died in 1965 (A Cat, A Man, and Two Women, 1990, etc.): a welcome reminder of just how good he was at limning the unexpected cruel twists and turns of human passion." Also by Junichiro Tanizaki: The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator); A Cat, a Man, and Two Women by Junichiro Tanizaki, Paul McCarthy (Translator); Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator); Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki; The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki, Howard Hibbett (Translator).
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (Translator). Paperback Revised edition (October 1968) W.W. Norton & Company. "Novel by Dazai Osamu, published in 1947 as Shayo. It is a tragic, vividly painted story of life in postwar Japan."
Also by Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai; Blue Bamboo : Japanese Tales of Fantasy by JOsamu Dazai, Ralph F. McCarthy (Translator).
On Parole by Akira Yoshimura, Stephen Snyder (Translator). Hardcover - 244 pages (February 2000) Harcourt Brace. Other books by Akira Yoshimura: Shipwrecks
All She Was Worth, paperback by Miyuki Miyabe, John Radziewicz (Editor), Alfred Birnbaum (Translator), a Japanese mystery translated into English. Paperback - 296 pages (May 1999) Mariner Books. Also in hardback.
The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boliver Boehm (Translator), a Japanese mystery translated into English. Paperback - 336 pages (June 1999) Soho Press, Inc.
After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima, Donald Keene (Translator), a novel by Yukio Mishima translated into English. Paperback - 288 pages 1 Vintage edition (March 1999) Vintage Books. Other books by Yuko Mishima:
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator), Murasaki Shikibu. "Widely acknowledged as the world's first novel, this astonishingly lovely book was written by a court lady in Heian Japan and offers a window into that formal, mannered world. Genji, a man of passionate impulses and a lover of beauty, is the favorite son of the Emperor, though his position at court is not entirely stable." Paperback Unabridged (September 1983) Random House (Paper). Also in hardcover.Other books by Murasaki Shikibu: Diary of Lady Murasakiby Murasaki Shikibu, Richard Bowring (Translator), Murasaki Shikibu. Other books of interest: The World of the Shining Prince : Court Life in Ancient Japanby Ivan Morris, Paul De Angelis (Editor); Tale of Genji : A Reader's Guideby William J. Puette.
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon, Ivan Morris (Translator), Sei Shonagon. Paperback - 419 pages 0 edition (May 15, 1991) Columbia Univ Press. "One of the great classics of Japanese literature, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is by far our most detailed source of factual material on life in eleventh-century Japan at the height of Heian culture. " Other diaries of court life
Gossamer Years : the Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan by Edward Seidensticker. "As is usual in books by women from the Heian period, her real name is unknown. "
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams : Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan by Ivan Morris (Translator), Lady Sarashina.
The Tale of the Heike by Helen C. McCullough (Translator).
Novels: By authors of Japanese ancestry or Japanese who have immigrated to another countries
An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Paperback - 206 pages Reprint edition (September 1989) Vintage Books. Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction offers an "authentic look at postwar Japan, 'a floating world' of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions".
365 Views of Mt. Fuji : Algorithms of the Floating World , by Todd A. Shimoda, L.J.C. Shimoda (Illustrator), L. J. Shimoda (Illustrator). A mystery with illustrations and substories in the margins. Paperback - 356 pages (September 1998) Stone Bridge Press
Novels: By foreigners living in Japan
The Broken Bridge : Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan by Suzanne Kamata (Editor). Paperback (November 1997) Stone Bridge Press
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