Portal:Japanese literature
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Japanese literature includes literature originally written in Japanese, or written by the people of Japan.
General works
- A Bibliography of the Japanese Empire, by Friedrich von Wenckstern (two vols.: 1859–1893 (1895), 1894–1906 (1907))
- Bibliography of the Japanese Empire (1928), by Oskar Nachod (covers 1906–1926)
- A History of Japanese Literature (1899), by William George Aston
- "Japan, III. Language and Literature," by Francis Brinkley in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
- "Japan, Language and Literature of," by Ernest Mason Satow in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- Japan: Its History, Arts, and Literature, 8 vols., (1901), by Francis Brinkley
- Japanese Literature (1955), by Donald Keene
- Modern Japanese Novels and the West (1961), by Donald Keene
Collections of literature
- Eminent Authors of Contemporary Japan (1930), translated by Eric S. Bell and Eiji Ukai
- Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), by Donald Keene
- Modern Japanese Literature (1956), by Donald Keene (transcription project)
- Modern Japanese Stories (1961), by Ivan Morris (transcription project)
Poetry
Works about poetry
- The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914), by Yone Noguchi
Collections of poetry
- Hyakunin Isshū · Portal:Hyakunin Isshu
- The Voice of the Valley (1897), by Yone Noguchi
- Three Women Poets of Modern Japan (1927), by Glenn Arthur Hughes and Yowan T. Iwazaki
- Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan (1928), by Glenn Arthur Hughes and Yowan T. Iwazaki
Songs
- Art Songs of Japan (1917), by Gertrude Ross (transcription project)
- Kimi ga Yo, Japanese national anthem, lyrics based on a waka poem written in the Heian period (794-1185), 1880 melody by Yoshiisa Oku and Akimori Hayashi, supervised by Hiromori Hayashi (partly based on the original 1870 melody by John William Fenton)
Drama
- Japanese Plays and Playfellows (1901), by Osman Edwards
- Ten Kiogen in English (1907), translated by Yone Noguchi
- Tales from Old Japanese Dramas (1915), by Asataro Miyamori
Prose
Folklore
- In Ghostly Japan (1899), by Lafcadio Hearn
- The Japanese Fairy Book (1908), by Iwaya Sazanami, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki
- Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), by Lafcadio Hearn
Novels
- Chiushingura (1875), translated by Frederick Victor Dickins
- Botchan (1906), by Natsume Sōseki, translated by Yasotaro Morri
- A Daughter of the Samurai (1925), by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
- The Dragon Painter (1906), by Mary McNeil Fenollosa
- The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
- Tayama Katai and His Novel Entitled Futon (1971), by Motoko Reece
Short stories
- Five Short Stories (1904), by John Luther Long
- Four Japanese Tales (1919), by Jan Havlasa
- Rashōmon, 1914 by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Essays
- Through the Torii (1922), by Yone Noguchi
Journals and Diaries
- Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (1920), translated by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi
- The Diary of a Japanese Convert (1895), by Uchimura Kanzo
- The Narrative of a Japanese (1895), by Joseph Heco
- Three Years in Tibet (1909), by Kawaguchi Ekai
- Tosa Nikki, by Ki no Tsurayuki
See also
- Category:Works originally in Japanese
- Portal:Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, for works about the Ainu and Japanese languages
- Portal:Japan, for works about the Culture, History, and Government of Japan
- Japanese Wikisource (in Japanese)