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

Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

The Gate

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

The Sarashina Diary

The Siren’s Lament

The Japanese

Tale of Genji: a Reader's Guide

Modern Japanese Literature

Origins of Modern Japanese Literature

Kūkai

The Kokinshū

The Book of Ninja

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

Samurai Arms, Armour & the Tactics of Warfare

This Perversion Called Love

The Unknown Great

Engaging Japanese Philosophy

The Shogun's Scroll

Flowering Tales

On Uneven Ground

Unbinding the Pillow Book

The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction

Minor Transpacific

A Beggar's Art

The Typographic Imagination

Supernatural Beings From Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group

Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams

A Fictional Commons

Treasury of the True Dharma Eye

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama

Be a Woman

Beauty Matters

Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment

Imagining Harmony

Well-known Trade Marks

The Textual Townsman

This Scheming World

A Beggar's Art

Piercing the Structure of Tradition

The Spirit of Japanese Poetry

Supernatural Beings From Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group