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10 best books like Chūshingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play (Takeda Izumo): The Confessions of Lady Nijō, The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters, The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan, The Tale of the Heike, Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World, One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu, Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day, Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu, A Dark Night's Passing, Japanese Nō Dramas

The Confessions of Lady Nijō
AuthorLady Nijō
ISBN0804709300
In about 1307 a remarkable woman in Japan sat down to complete the story of her life. The result was an autobiographical narrative, a tale of thirty-six years (1271-1306) in the life of Lady Nijo, starting when she became the concubine of a retired emperor in Kyoto at the age of fourteen and ending, several...
The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters
AuthorŌ no Yasumaro
ISBN0804836752
Translation is a tough work, and the challenge is compounded when the original is written in archaic language because the meaning of words change over time.

I've been wondering why the Japanese gods Izanagi and Izanami have been accused of incest. It's because of the word 妹. In modern Japanese,...
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
AuthorMichitsuna no Haha
ISBN0804811237
Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu.

This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades...
The Tale of the Heike
AuthorAnonymous
If you like reading about brave and honorable warriors in a strange faraway land, you might like this -- just as you'd like some fantasies, even though these stories are based on historical facts.

This is the Japanese version of Homer. We don't really know the original author, but we know the...
Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World
AuthorKamo no Chōmei
ISBN1880656221
The single great work of literary witness in medieval Japan, Hojoki is a short social chronicle prompted by a series of calamities that overtook old Kyoto in the late 12th century. By building a rude home in the forest and eliminating desire, poet and Buddhist priest Chomei believed he would be spared...
One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu
AuthorFujiwara no Teika
The Hyakunin Isshu is a poetry anthology beloved by generations of Japanese since it was compiled in the 13th century. Many Japanese know the poems by heart as a result of playing the popular card game version of the anthology. Collecting one poem each from one hundred poets living from the 7th century...
Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day
AuthorDonald Keene
ISBN0802150950
Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene’s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise introductions to the writers,...
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
AuthorChikamatsu Monzaemon
ISBN0231111010
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today by puppet operators and Kabuki actors. Chikamatsu is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition of four of his most important plays...
A Dark Night's Passing
AuthorNaoya Shiga
ISBN0870113623
Shiga Naoya "dismissed Mishima's fiction as all 'fantasy' with little 'sense of reality.' (Shiga was another writer Mishima admired who did not reciprocate his sentiments.)"
(Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima)

There's certainly a sense of reality to "A Dark Night's Passing";...
Japanese Nō Dramas
AuthorRoyall Tyler
ISBN0140445390
Japanese no theatre or the drama of perfected art' flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries largely through the genius of the dramatist Zeami. An intricate fusion of music, dance, mask, costume and language, the dramas address many subjects, but the idea of form is more central than meaning...
1000 Poems from the Manyōshū
AuthorŌtomo no Yakamochi
ISBN0486439593
Dating from the 8th century and earlier, the Manyoshu is the oldest Japanese poetry anthology; it is also widely considered to be the best. The 1,000 poems (out of a total of more than 4,500) in this famous selection were chosen by a distinguished scholarly committee based on their poetic excellence,...
Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology
AuthorIvan Morris
ISBN0804833362
This collection shows the qualities that make Japanese literature among the world's finest.

Including "Under Reconstruction," considered to be the first modern Japanese short story, this book presents the short stories of Japan as among the world's most satisfying.

Edited by...
The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings
AuthorSaikaku Ihara
ISBN0811201872
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One of the great writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world — the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status. The title story in this collection of 12 works, told by an aging beauty whose highly erotic nature...
The Broken Commandment
AuthorTōson Shimazaki
ISBN0860081915
Espeluznante, a la par que bellísima, imagen de uno de los lados de la sociedad nipona que menos nos gusta considerar: su clasismo y su racismo, representado en esta ocasión en el trato que se da a los "etas", o miembros de castas inferiores.
Toson, en la estela de Zola, nos da una visión de Japón...
Self Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic
AuthorOsamu Dazai
ISBN0870117793
Dazai's frail sunken chest and haunted handsome gaze says it all - dissolution, sickness, deep feeling, and beauty are authentic pathways through an inauthentic and decaying world.

Going into this I thought him a self-absorbed hedonist unconcerned with the heartbreak and death he left...
Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
AuthorYukichi Fukuzawa
ISBN0231083734
Here is the autobiography of a remarkable man. Yukichi Fukuzawa's life covered the 66 years between 1835 and 1901, a period which comprised greater and more extraordinary changes than any other in the history of Japan. In his country's swift transformation from an isolated feudal state to a full-fledged...
Five Modern No Plays
AuthorYukio Mishima
ISBN0804813809
Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life into the form by using it for plays that preserve the style and inner spirit of No and are at the same time so modern, so direct,...
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
AuthorKokichi Katsu
ISBN0816512566
A series of picaresque adventures set against the backdrop of a Japan still closed off from the rest of the world, Musui's Story recounts the escapades of samurai Katsu Kokichi. As it depicts Katsu stealing, brawling, indulging in the pleasure quarters, and getting the better of authorities, it also...
A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government
AuthorNakae Chōmin
ISBN0834801922
A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government takes the form of a debate between a spokesman for Western ideals of democracy and progress, and an advocate for adherence to traditional samurai values. Their discussion is moderated by the imperturbable Master Nankai, who loves nothing more than to drink...
A History of Japan, 1334-1615
AuthorGeorge Bailey Sansom
ISBN0804705259
This is a straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization from 1334 to 1615 by the author of Japan: A Short Cultural History. While complete in itself, it is also the first volume of a three-volume work which will be the first large-scale, comprehensive history of Japan.

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