The Japanese shelf gathers public texts, exact source-language editions, translations, introductions, and historical witnesses. Begin with the general literary introduction. The separate religious-literature introduction gives fuller guidance for the shelf's classical and religious pathways.

Texts at This Shelf Level

• Hōjōki — An Account of My Hut
• Oku no Hosomichi

Tradition Rooms

• Kokoro is the complete 1914 novel in Aozora's later new-character/new-kana Japanese transcription. All three parts, 110 sections, and 4,567 ruby readings are present. No English translation is supplied, so it is source-language coverage.

• Ōmoto

• Ofudesaki — Tip of the Writing Brush

• Mikagura-uta — Songs for the Service

• Osashizu — Opening Divine Directions

• Tenrikyo; or, The Teaching of the Heavenly Reason

• Tenrikyo in The Gist of Japan

Suggested Use

For a chronological route, read Hōjōki, then Oku no Hosomichi, then Kokoro. The first two are Good Works English translations from named Japanese source routes; Kokoro is an untranslated Japanese transcription with readings. Do not mistake Aozora's modernized orthography for a diplomatic 1914 witness. For terms and edition layers, use the local glossary together with the central Good Works Glossary.