Fiction

translated by Norma Moore Field Sōseki Natsume is considered to be one of Japan's most beloved and respected authors. And Then is ranked as one of ...

Westerners familiar only with stereotypical images of bowing geisha and dark-suited businessmen will be surprised by the cast of characters transla...

translated by Umeji Sasaki A modern classic in Japan on par with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye, Botchan is a very po...

translated by Meredith Weatherby Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: ...

translated by Phyllis Birnbaum Confessions of Love chronicles the stormy vicissitudes of love like most of Chico Uno's other writings. It is based ...

A newspaper receives a letter from a man claiming to have been murdered—it's impossible but the truth is not so simple; five strangers who share th...

translated by Clement Egerton A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and, famously, Chinese erotica, The Golden Lotus (also known as The Plum in the ...

Written over the course of 1904-1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese soci...

translated by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, ...

This collection of translated tales is from the most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature--the Konjaku Monogatari Shu. This collecti...

This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the fi...

translated by Edwin McClellan A nineteenth-century Japanese novel concerned with man's loneliness in the modern world. The subject of "Kokoro," whi...

Modern Japanese Short Stories is a remarkable collection of Japanese stories from the pioneers of contemporary Japanese literature. This volume's t...

Widely acknowledged as the father of the Japanese short story, Ryunosuke Akutagawa remains one of the most influential Japanese writers of all time...

translated by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the inde...

translated by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the inde...

Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled...

translated by H. Bencraft Joly The Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the "Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature." It is renowned for i...

translated by Mihoko Inoue and Eileen B. Hennessy Set in eighteenth-century Japan, The Flower Mat unravels the story of a young bride born into a t...

translated by Fuki Uramatsu and Fuki Wooyenaka Uramatsu The Heike Story is a modern translation of a Japanese classic. Kyoto in the twelfth century...

From the unique standpoint of an American woman who married into a Japanese family and has lived in Japan for more than thirty years, Rebecca Otowa...

This classic Chinese epic features a new introduction by Daniel Kane, Head of Chinese Studies at Macquarie University and Cultural Counselor at the...

translated by Michael Gallagher Subuyan is a simple man who also happens to be a frantically busy, not quite successful pornographer of Osaka. He t...

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis in the early postwar years probes the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial so...

translated by Alan Turney In The Three-Cornered World, an artist leaves city life to wander in the mountains on a quest to stimulate his artistic e...

The Water Margins in one of the 'Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature'. Based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions...

translated by Sanford Goldstein In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love, set against t...

translated by E. Dale Saunders This beautiful novel by one of Japan's most important writers is also one of the most strangely terrifying and memor...