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Japanese

Japanese literature across classical and modern writing, fiction, travel, poetry, religious texts, exact source-language editions, and historically mediated translations.

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Texts

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan — Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi DoiAnnie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi's 1920 English translation of three Heian court diaries of the eleventh century, the Sarashina Diary and the diaries of Murasaki Shikibu and Izumi Shikibu, with Amy Lowell's introduction, the translators' notes, and the book's appendix on the old calendar and chronology.GlossaryA shelf-specific glossary starter for the Japanese shelf.Hōjōki — An Account of My HutKamo no Chōmei's meditation on impermanence, written in 1212 at his ten-foot-square hermitage on Mount Hino. One of the three great zuihitsu of Japanese literature.Introduction to Japanese LiteratureA reader-centered introduction to Japanese literature across language, script, period, genre, region, empire, minority relations, translation, and exact digital editions.Introduction to Japanese Religious LiteratureA source-critical public introduction to the Japanese religious literature shelf, centered on Hojoki, Oku no Hosomichi, impermanence, sacred travel, and the older entanglement of kami and buddhas.Oku no Hosomichi — Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho's masterwork of haibun — a prose-and-poetry travel journal of his 1689 journey through northern Japan, with over fifty embedded haiku.Reader's Guide to JapaneseReading routes through the Japanese shelf's literature, exact editions, Tenrikyo and Oomoto materials, Ainu narratives, folklore retellings, and historical religious witnesses.
Ainu3 pages
Art and Aesthetics1 page
Classical Prose2 pages

Classical Japanese prose of the Heian court in English translation, beginning with Arthur Waley's version of The Tale of Genji.

Drama4 pages
Folklore12 pages

Japanese folklore, ghost-tales, and the study of the uncanny.

Modern Fiction1 page

Modern Japanese fiction in exact, edition-aware source-language and historical translation witnesses, beginning with Natsume Sōseki's complete Kokoro.

Oomoto4 pages

Texts and reader guides for Ōmoto, the Japanese new religion of Deguchi Nao and Deguchi Onisaburō — revelation, world reconstruction, spirit journeys, art, Esperanto, and the vast untranslated scriptural corpus behind the Reikai Monogatari.

Poetry1 page
Religious History9 pages

Studies and classics of Japanese religion, thought, and culture.

Tenrikyo6 pages

Good Works Translations and public-domain historical witnesses for Tenrikyo, the Japanese new religion founded by Nakayama Miki, centered on the Joyous Life and the Three Scriptures: the Ofudesaki, the Mikagura-uta, and the Osashizu.