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10 best books like The Wild Geese (Ōgai Mori): Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale, Some Prefer Nettles, The Three-Cornered World, Black Rain, The Waiting Years, Fires on the Plain, Harp of Burma, The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan, The River Ki, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan

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...
Some Prefer Nettles
AuthorJun'ichirō Tanizaki
ISBN0679752692
The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Misako's father believes their relationship has been damaged by the influence of a new and alien culture, and so attempts to heal the breach...
The Three-Cornered World
AuthorNatsume Sōseki
ISBN0720611563
"An artist abandons city life to wander into the mountains to meditate, but when he decides to stay at a near-deserted inn he soon finds himself drawn to the daughter of the innkeeper. This strange and beautiful woman is rumoured to have abandoned her husband and fallen in love with a priest at a nearby...
Black Rain
AuthorMasuji Ibuse
What Are We Now?

Only in Japan could the dropping of the atomic bomb be written about in the same even tone as the stocking of fish in the local lake. The details of death, injury, radiation sickness and physical destruction are given equal billing with the care and feeding of farmed carp, their...
The Waiting Years
AuthorFumiko Enchi
The beautiful, immature girl whom she took home to her husband was a maid only in name. Tomo's real mission had been to find him a mistress. Nor did her secret humiliation end there. The web that his insatiable lust spun about him soon trapped another young woman, and another ... and the relationships between...
Fires on the Plain
AuthorShōhei Ōoka
ISBN0804813795
"Written with precise skill and beautifully controlled power. The translation by Ivan Morris is outstanding." —The New York Times

**Winner of the 1952 Yomiuri Prize**

This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. Fires on the Plain is set...
Harp of Burma
AuthorMichio Takeyama
ISBN0804802327
Harp of Burma is Japan's haunting answer to Germany's famous requiem for the First World War, All Quiet on the Western Front.

Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize and the subject of an acclaimed film by Ichikawa Kon, Harp of Burma portrays a company of Japanese troops who...
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 River Ki
AuthorSawako Ariyoshi
ISBN4770030002
The River Ki, short and swift and broad like most Japanese rivers, flows into the sea not far south of Osaka. On its journey seaward, it passes through countryside that has long been at the heart of the Japanese tradition. And it flows too past the mountains and the villages, past the dams, ditches and rice...
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...
Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
AuthorOsamu Dazai
ISBN4770026102
Blue Bamboo is a collection of seven short stories by one of Japan's preeminent postwar writers and prose stylists, Osamu Dazai. Not the typical romantic fantasies so often seen in Japanese writing, filled with water sprites and vengeful ghosts, these stories are a mixture of fantastic allegory,...
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...
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,...
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 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...
The Hunting Gun
AuthorYasushi Inoue
ISBN0804802572
Alternative cover edition here.

The Hunting Gun, set in the period immediately following WWII, follows the consequences of a tragic love affair among well-to-do people in an exclusive suburb of the great commercial cities of Osaka and Kobe. Told from the viewpoints of three different women,...
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