Japanese Classics

46 books

A Look at Japan, Volume 5: Masters on Haiku cover
A Look at Japan, Volume 5: Masters on Haiku 大米书坊 Zhejiang Publishing United Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. · 2014 A Look at Japan, Volume 5: Masters on Haiku is the fifth volume in Rice Bookstore's A Look at Japan series, an e-book published in 2014 by Zhejiang Pu…
The Chen Wangheng Aesthetics Series (5-Book Set) cover
The Chen Wangheng Aesthetics Series (5-Book Set) 陈望衡 / Eliot Dulich Wuhan University Press · 2021 The Chen Wangheng Aesthetics Series is a five-volume collection of aesthetics writings centered on the aesthetic research of Chen Wangheng, professor …
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Kwaidan and Strange Tales Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2014 Kwaidan and Strange Tales is a collection of ghost stories by the Greek-Irish-Japanese writer Lafcadio Hearn (born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, 1850–1904),…
Tales of the Floating World cover
Rating 3.9
Tales of the Floating World 井原西鹤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2016 Tales of the Floating World is a collection of representative fiction by the Japanese Edo-period author Ihara Saikaku (1642–1693), regarded as another…
Collected Chinese Poetry and Prose of Natsume Sōseki cover
Collected Chinese Poetry and Prose of Natsume Sōseki Natsume Sōseki East China Normal University Press · 2009 This book is the first systematic compilation of the Chinese poetry and prose of the modern Japanese writer Natsume Sōseki. Compiled and translated by…
The Tales of Times Now Past (Illustrated Collector's Edition with Ukiyo-e Prints) cover
Rating 4.5
The Tales of Times Now Past (Illustrated Collector's Edition with Ukiyo-e Prints) Anonymous New Star Press · 2017 The Konjaku Monogatari (also known as the Konjaku Monogatarishū) is a collection of folk tales compiled at the end of Japan's Heian period. Formerly c…
Nansō Satomi Hakkenden cover
Rating 3.8
Nansō Satomi Hakkenden 曲亭马琴 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017 Nansō Satomi Hakkenden, commonly known as Hakkenden, is a long serialized yomihon novel by the Edo-period writer Kyokutei Bakin (Takizawa Bakin, 1767–…
The Tale of the Hollow cover
Rating 3.7
The Tale of the Hollow Anonymous Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2011 The Tale of the Hollow is a classical tale composed in the early Heian period (around the late tenth century). It runs to four scrolls, and its author…
The Floating World Barbershop cover
Rating 3.7
The Floating World Barbershop 式亭三马 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 Ukiyo-doko, known in English as The Floating World Barbershop, is a representative work by Shikitei Sanba, a late Edo-period Japanese author. Written …
The Tale of Genji, translated by Feng Zikai cover
Rating 4.2
The Tale of Genji, translated by Feng Zikai Murasaki Shikibu / Feng Zikai People's Literature Publishing House · 2015 The Tale of Genji is a long narrative work by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman writer of Japan's Heian period. It comprises fifty-four chapters and is genera…
The Tale of Genji cover
Rating 4.5
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu People's Literature Publishing House · 1980 The Tale of Genji was completed in the Heian period of Japan in the early eleventh century. Its author, Murasaki Shikibu, came from the middle nobilit…
Call Me by the Name of Traveler: 300 Haiku by Matsuo Basho cover
Call Me by the Name of Traveler: 300 Haiku by Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2019 Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) was a haiku poet of the early Edo period in Japan, revered by later generations as the "Haiku Saint" and regarded as the firs…
The Tale of Genji cover
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu People's Literature Publishing House · 1980 The Tale of Genji was completed in the mid-Heian period of Japan, around the early eleventh century (some date it to 1001–1008), and is a pinnacle of …
Konjaku Monogatari (Ukiyo-e Illustrated Collector's Edition) cover
Konjaku Monogatari (Ukiyo-e Illustrated Collector's Edition) Anonymous New Star Press · 2017 Konjaku Monogatari is a collection of setsuwa (folk tales and legends) from the late Heian period of Japan, formerly known as Uji Dainagon Monogatari,…
A Portrait of Shunkin cover
Rating 4.1
A Portrait of Shunkin Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2016 A Portrait of Shunkin is a novella by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, a leading figure of Japanese aestheticism, published in 1933 and one of the most representa…
Classical Japanese Women's Diaries: Illustrated Edition (4 volumes) cover
Rating 4.0
Classical Japanese Women's Diaries: Illustrated Edition (4 volumes) Murasaki Shikibu / 藤原道纲母 / Sugawara no Takasue no Musume / 和泉式部 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 This four-volume set comprises The Diary of Lady Murasaki, The Gossamer Years, The Diary of Lady Izumi, and The Sarashina Diary. In the Heian period, …
Kokin Wakashū 300 cover
Rating 4.5
Kokin Wakashū 300 纪贯之 / 陈黎 / Chang Fen-ling Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2023 Compiled in the Heian period, the Kokinshū is divided into twenty volumes and centers chiefly on the themes of the four seasons and love. Its poets we…
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Rating 4.0
A New Prose Reader Kawabata Yasunari / 于荣胜 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023 New Anthology of Essays is a collection of Kawabata Yasunari's serialized pieces titled Lectures on New Essays, published in the magazine Bungei Ōrai …
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Rating 4.5
A Portrait of Shunkin Jun'ichirō Tanizaki / Zhang Xueting / 罗文 民主与建设出版社 · 2022 Spring Snow (Shunqin-sho) is a collection of short and medium-length fiction by Yasunari Kawabata? No—by the Japanese aestheticist master Junichiro Ta…
The Tale of Genji (Complete in Three Volumes) cover
Rating 4.6
The Tale of Genji (Complete in Three Volumes) Murasaki Shikibu / Ye Weiqu / 唐月梅 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2020 A love story passed down for a thousand years, a consummate expression of the beauty of mono no aware, and a literary classic that shaped the entire J…