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Reading List for Japanese Culture!

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All of the books below I have read in part or whole (some I have written about) and highly recommend if you are studying Japanese literature or even the language, after all, language is culture. Joe's Top Ten Must Reads : Ki no Tsurayuki's Tosa Nikki (土佐日記) 935 Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji Translated by Royall Tyler (源氏物語) 11th century Mori Ogai's The Dancing Girl (舞姫 ) 1890 Natsume Soseki's Kokoro (心) 1914 Tanizaki Junichiro's Naomi (痴人の愛) 1924-1947 Kawabata Yasunari's Snow County (雪国) 1935-1937 Mishima Yukio's Confessions of a Mask (仮面の告白) 1948 Dazai Osamu's No Longer Human (人間失格) 1948 Oe Kenzaburo's The Catch (飼育) 1957 Murakami Haruki's A Wild Sheep Chase (羊をめぐる冒険) 1982 Supplementary Material Donald Keene: Donald Keene the godfather of Japanese literary criticism. Arguably, there is no one who has contributed more to the interpretation of Japanese literature than this man. Modern