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Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day

10 best books like Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day (Donald Keene): Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale, The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters, Seven Japanese Tales, Shamans Through Time, Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, Comrade Loves of the Samurai, Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu, Chūshingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play

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...
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,...
Seven Japanese Tales
AuthorJun'ichirō Tanizaki
ISBN0679761071
I purchased this book in a bookstore off Piccadilly Circus waiting to meet someone. After hours of conversation, we separated, taking our respective tunnels to catch our trains. Every time I see this book, I remember that goodbye. Funny, the things that serve as fluttering markers to our memories.

I'm...
Shamans Through Time
AuthorJeremy Narby
ISBN1585423629
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.

This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of...
Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America
AuthorDavid Willis McCullough
ISBN0394540654
For enthralling suspense and brilliant detection, there has never been a collection to match this one, with complete novels by Ross Macdonald and Ruth Rendell, a novella by Israel Zangwill, and sixteen short stories by the best mystery writers from England and America—Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton,...
The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection
AuthorClifton Fadiman
ISBN0395368057
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
AuthorKevin Kerrane
ISBN0684846306
This fascinating compilation of the journalist's art unites the reporter's magnificent eye for detail with the novelist's gift for storytelling. Featuring eyewitness accounts of war and social revolution, profiles of sports heroes and politicians, and eye-opening investigations into both...
Comrade Loves of the Samurai
AuthorSaikaku Ihara
ISBN4805307714
Ihara Saikaku é um autor japonês do séc. 17, na era Endo. Este livro contêm contos homoeroticos (nanshoku = amor entre homens) entre samurais, monges budistas e atores do teatro Noh. Muitos destes contos sao tragédias amorosas de fazer inveja a Romeu e Julieta, com personagens cometendo harakiri...
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...
Chūshingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play
AuthorTakeda Izumo
ISBN0231035314
Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Ronin, is the most famous and perenially popular of all Japanese dramas. Written around 1748 as a puppet play, it is now better know in Kabuki performances. In the twentieth century, cinema and...
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";...
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,...
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 Tales of Ise
AuthorAnonymous
List of Illustrations
Foreword, by Donald Keene
Introduction & Notes
Further Reading
Note on the Translation and Text

--The Tales of Ise

A Note on the Commentary
Commentary

Appendix 1: Glossary of Literary and Social Conventions
Appendix...
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....
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
AuthorTheodore W. Goossen
ISBN0192803727
This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the...
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...
Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
AuthorGene van Troyer
ISBN4902075261
The time is long overdue to present the work of Japanese science fiction and fantasy writers to the world in English. The first book in a planned series, Speculative Japan presents a selection of outstanding works of Japanese science fiction and fantasy in English translation... and a glimpse into...
When I Whistle
AuthorShūsaku Endō
"Why do pure and simple people like Flatfish have to die?

A plain, unassuming fellow. A fellow maybe a little cunning, but one who, somewhere in his heart, embraced a purity that made him treasure the first love of his youth. Fellows like that probably existed everywhere in the world. But this...
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