Japanese Literary Collections
Reader pathways and category hints that cluster around this lane.

Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

How Do You Live?

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

The Gate

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

The Sarashina Diary

Five Women Who Loved Love

Trial on Mount Koya

The Siren’s Lament

Exophony

The Japanese

The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales

Modern Japanese Literature

Origins of Modern Japanese Literature

Adventures of the Mad Monk Ji Gong

The Kokinshū

The Frontier Within

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature

Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings

Japanese Literature: From Murasaki to Murakami

The Dawn of the Warrior Age

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature

The Moon in the Water

Writing the Love of Boys

Tales of Tears and Laughter

Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds

How to Read a Japanese Poem

Engaging Japanese Philosophy

The Shogun's Scroll

Flowering Tales

On Uneven Ground

Unbinding the Pillow Book

The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction

The Typographic Imagination

Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams

A Fictional Commons

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama

Be a Woman

Beauty Matters

Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment

Imagining Harmony

The Textual Townsman

This Scheming World

The Spirit of Japanese Poetry