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10 best books like Nihongi (Ō no Yasumaro): Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century, The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan, The Tale of the Heike, One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu, The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan, Chūshingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play, A Dark Night's Passing, The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, 1000 Poems from the Manyōshū

Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
AuthorDonald Keene
ISBN0802150586
The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in this book. An introduction by Donald Keene places...
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...
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 World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
AuthorIvan Morris
ISBN1568360290
The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris's widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious, inbred, melancholy world of ancient Japan, has been a standard in cultural studies for nearly thirty years. Using as a frame of reference The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan's Heian...
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan
AuthorLady Sarashina
ISBN0140442820
In the mainstream of Japan's literary tradition, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams not only reveals much that is most appealing in Japanese literature but also stands on its own as a remarkable and haunting portrait of a woman.
Born in A.D. 1008 at the height of the Heian period, Lady Sarashina (as she...
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";...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
AuthorAnthony Thwaite
ISBN0141190949
Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic...
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 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...
Legends of the Samurai
AuthorHiroaki Sato
ISBN0879516194
Over the decades the reputation of the samurai has grown to mythical proportions, owing to such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Yojimbo as well as works such as James Clavell's epic Shogun. In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling...
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,...
A History of Japan, 1615-1867
AuthorGeorge Bailey Sansom
ISBN0804705275
This is the concluding volume of a three-volume work that culminates the life study of the West's most distinguished scholar of Japanese history. A straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization to 1867, the three volumes constitute the first large-scale comprehensive...
Japanese Culture
AuthorH. Paul Varley
ISBN0824821521
For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous...
Sources of Japanese Tradition (Volume I)
AuthorWilliam Theodore de Bary
ISBN0231086040
This book didn’t interest me at first sight, however, I decided to read it bit by bit wherever it pleased me because it’s one of the two-volume set compiled by Ryusaku Tsunoda, Wm. Theodore de Bary and Donald Keene. I’m sorry I rarely know the first compiler but I’ve known Professors de Bary and...
Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu
AuthorA.L. Sadler
ISBN4805310421
One of the most successful rulers in Japanese history and one of the most cunning military strategists in world history, Tokugawa Ieyasu overcame countless dangers and intrigues in his country's most violent age to become the man who finally united all of Japan. His accomplishments and work cemented...
Warriors of Medieval Japan
AuthorStephen Turnbull
ISBN1846032202
The fearless, elite warriors of medieval Japan were loyal comrades but deadly foes. Whether foot soldier, samurai or trained assassin, these men were driven by strict codes of honor and bound by deep allegiances of rank, family or religion.

This book examines the military lives of four formidable...
A History of Japan
AuthorConrad D. Totman
ISBN1405123591
This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day.
The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility.
Covers a wide range of subjects, including geology, climate, agriculture, government and...
An Introduction to Japanese Society
AuthorYoshio Sugimoto
ISBN0521529255
Is it because he's a Japanese so his writing is a little bit like protecting the Japanese view and sometimes even exaggerating the great of Japanese culture? I think yes. For example, in the geographical variation part, I did not agree in the way people raised outside Tokyo are considered as bilingual....
The Japanese Art of War: Understanding the Culture of Strategy
AuthorThomas Cleary
ISBN1590302451
Military rule and the martial tradition of the samurai dominated Japanese culture for more than eight hundred years. According to Thomas Cleary—translator of more than thirty-five classics of Asian philosophy—the Japanese people have been so steeped in the way of the warrior that some of the...
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