The Japanese shelf now joins classical and religious-literary pathways with a modern-fiction room. Begin with the general literary introduction; use the religious-literature introduction for the shelf's Buddhist, kami, pilgrimage, reclusion, Tenrikyo, and Ōmoto strengths. Kokoro is the first complete original-language modern novel here, preserved in Aozora's explicitly later new-character/new-kana transcription. Japanese-language coverage is not a claim over Ainu, the distinct Ryukyuan languages, every people of Japan, or all Japanese diasporic writing.