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Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women

10 best books like Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women (Cathy Layne): Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale, One Man's Justice, Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories, The Bridegroom Was a Dog, One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan, A Dark Night's Passing, The Word Book, The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto

Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale
AuthorKafū Nagai
ISBN0231141181
Originally published in 1918, Rivalry is regarded as the masterpiece of Nagai Kafu, a Japanese novelist known for his brilliant renderings of Tokyo in the early years of modern Japan. Stephen Snyder offers the first English translation of the complete, uncensored text, which has long been celebrated...
One Man's Justice
AuthorAkira Yoshimura
ISBN1841954799
"Japan is in ruins after the second World War. Takuya, a demobilized officer returns to his native village only to learn that the Occupation authorities are intensifying their efforts to apprehend suspected war criminals. Will they learn of his involvement in the execution of American prisoners...
Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories
AuthorTaeko Kōno
ISBN0811213919
"A sense of unease permeates this disturbing and exceptional collection of stories centered on unhappy women in postwar Japan...," wrote Publishers Weekly. World Literature Today proclaimed: "Reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor’s works, Kono’s stories explore the dark, terrifying...
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
AuthorYōko Tawada
ISBN4770029403
In these three narratives, an ingenious story-teller has created a new kind of fantasy, playful yet vaguely sinister, laced with her own brand of humor, which reviewers have labeled variously as "funky," "mischievous," "weird," and "hilarious."

The author was in her early thirties when...
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...
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
AuthorYasunari Kawabata
ISBN0520241827
In the 1920s, Asakusa was to Tokyo what Montmartre had been to 1890s Paris and Times Square was to be to 1940s New York. Available in English for the first time, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, captures the decadent allure of this entertainment district, where beggars...
Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan
AuthorSaikaku Ihara
ISBN0804801843
"Five charming novellas...which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth." The New Yorker

First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today...
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";...
The Word Book
AuthorMieko Kanai
ISBN1564785661
Like the surfaces of a jagged crystal, each story in this collection shows an entirely different facet when viewed from a different angle. Playing games with the basic units of both life and fiction—the solid certainties of the self, the world around us, and the words we use to describe these things...
The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
AuthorKenji Nakagami
ISBN1880656396
The fiction of Kenji Nakagami has no peer in contemporary Japan. Born into the burakumin -- an outcast class shunned in feudal Japan and still suffering discrimination today -- Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in powerful, sensual prose and stark, sometimes horrifying detail. The Cape is his...
The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
AuthorJohn L. Apostolou
Most Americans would describe Japanese science fiction with one word: Godzilla. However, true fans of the genre know that for decades, Japan has been turning out some of the most innovative stories ever published. Unfortunately, those that make it into English are often difficult to find. The Best...
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 Gourmet Club
AuthorJun'ichirō Tanizaki
ISBN4770029721
The decadent tales in this dazzling collection span forty-five years in the extraordinary career of Japan's master storyteller, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965).

Tanizaki's major novels-Naomi, The Makioka Sisters, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Key, for example-have already appeared...
Mandarins: Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
AuthorRyūnosuke Akutagawa
ISBN0977857603
She was the prettiest girl in my high school. I say “prettiest” and not “most beautiful” intentionally, for being so small and delicate, so willowy, “beautiful” was not appropriate. Beautiful implies a rounded womanliness entirely absent from her miniature perfection. She was the...
Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami
AuthorAkiko Yosano
ISBN0887273734
Akiko Yosano's Tangled Hair, published in 1901, had a sensational impact on Japanese literature, and we are pleased to make this highly praised translation (originally published 30 years ago) available once again in a revised Cheng & Tsui edition. Akiko reshaped the tanka, the most popular form...
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...
Acts of Worship: Seven Stories
AuthorYukio Mishima
ISBN4770028938
When Mishima committed ritual suicide in November 1970, he was only forty-five. He had written over thirty novels, eighteen plays, and twenty volumes of short stories. During his lifetime, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times and had seen almost all of his major novels appear in English....
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...
The Maid
AuthorYasutaka Tsutsui
ISBN1846880998
Nanase cannot remember when she first realized she could read people's minds, but not once during her eighteen years has she ever thought that it was a particularly unusual ability. Yet, when she gets a job as a live-in maid, she is inevitably drawn into the lives, thoughts and desires of her employers,...
In the Pool
AuthorHideo Okuda
ISBN4925080946
A divorced man angry at his wife finds a painfully prominent outlet in a permanent erection; a model thinks every man on the street is a stalker; an overbearing magazine editor relieves his mid-life crisis by long-distance swimming . . . These are some of the patients who descend to the basement consulting...
Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction
AuthorAlfred Birnbaum
ISBN4770028903
Alfred Birnbaum's introduction to this book downplays the fiction in this volume as neither serious literature nor pulpy trash; rather, he tells us it finds its stride in the middle of the road. The stories are artfully displayed, hence the sushi, and bounce frenetically between a variety of subjects,...
Kanikosen. El pesquero
AuthorTakiji Kobayashi
ISBN8493780901
«Vamos hacia el infierno.» Así empieza la historia del Hakko Maru, un pesquero que faena en las gélidas aguas de Kamchatka, al este de Rusia, y de su tripulación: una variopinta colección de curtidos lobos de mar arruinados por la bebida y las mujeres, estudiantes y universitarios en deuda con...
The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories
AuthorYumiko Kurahashi
ISBN0765601583
This is an English-language anthology dedicated to the short stories of Kurahashi Yumiko (1935-), a Japanese novelist of profound intellectual powers. The eleven stories included in this volume suggest the breadth of the author's literary production, ranging from parodies of classical Japanese...
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