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The Tale of Genji

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The Tale of the Heike

are the two major works of classical Japanese prose. The complete versions of both works are too long to be taught in one term,... read more »

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Katsu Kokichi »
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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... read more »

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Natsume Soseki »
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A nineteenth-century Japanese novel concerned with man's loneliness in the modern... read more »

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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... read more »

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Ivan Morris »
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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... read more »

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Conrad Schirokauer »
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This compelling text explores the development of China through its art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through its economic, political, and social history. This author team combines... read more »

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Shikibu Murasaki »
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Widely acknowledged as the world's first novel, this astonishingly lovely book was written by a court lady in Heian Japan and offers a window into that formal, mannered world. Genji, a man of... read more »

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Haruki Murakami »
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Haruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West's favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two disasters struck Japan: the... read more »

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A perennial best-seller, Sources of Japanese Tradition has long been a staple in classrooms and libraries, a handy and comprehensive reference for scholars and students, and an engaging... read more »


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Iris Chang »
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China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched The Rape of Nanking, a book that recounts the horrible events in that eastern Chinese city under... read more »

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