Japanese books (writers alphabetically)
Explore a curated list of Japanese books organized alphabetically by author. Discover classic and contemporary works from Japan's finest writers in one convenient directory.
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The Woman in the Dunes
by Kobo Abe
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the …
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Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty …
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Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata
A luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner and author …
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
by Yukio Mishima
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless …
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A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami
A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that …
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The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu
The world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall …
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A Personal Matter
by KenzaburĹŤ ĹŚe
First pub. 1964. Author's most dramatic work, won him the prestigious Shincho Literary Prize. In the novel the narrator tells how he responds to the …
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The Pillow Book of Sei Sh?nagon
by Sei ShĹŤnagon
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 …
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Kokoro
by Bishop of Hippo Soseki
Haunted by tragic secrets, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with …
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The Makioka Sisters
by Junichiro Tanizaki
Four daughters of an old merchant family unknowingly face the end of a gentler way of life in Osaka, Japan in 1938.
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Kitchen
by Banana Yoshimoto
Two stories, "Kitchen" and "Moonlight Shadow," told through the eyes of a pair of contemporary young japanese women, deal with the themes of mothers, love, …
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