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Japanese Language, Literature & Culture
Guide to print and online sources for Japanese language learning, literature and culture
Japanese Manga
- Comico - Webtoons in JapaneseA variety of Webtoons in Japanese.
- よつばと! Yotsuba to! by Kiyohiko AzumaCall Number: PN6790.J34 Y68 2003Easy manga books in Japanese Hiragana and Katakana. Volumes 1-12.
Japanese Readers
Easy readers and other bilingual books can help you learn a language by pairing short readings in the language you're learning with English side by side. Try reading the text and if you get stuck, look at the translation.
Most of these titles are in Japanese, with parallel English translation.
Short Stories in Japanese - Nihongo no tanpen shōsetsu by Michael Emmerich
Call Number: PL782.E8 S53 2011Breaking into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text by Giles Murray
Call Number: PL775 .M85 2012Exploring Japanese Literature: Read Mishima, Tanizaki and Kawabata in the Original by Giles Murray
Call Number: PL782.E8 E97 2007Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers by Michael Emmerich
Call Number: PL777.65 .R43 2008Reading Japanese with a Smile: Nine Stories from a Japanese Weekly Magazine for Intermediate Learners by Tom Gally
Call Number: PL537 .G353 2007Read Real Japanese by Janet Ashby; Brase Suzuki
Call Number: PL537 .R4 1994Kanji from the Start: A Comprehensive Japanese Reader by Martin Lam
Call Number: PL547 .L35 1995A Homestay in Japan: Intermediate Reader for Students of Japanese = Nihon to no deai by Caron Allen; Natsumi Watanabe
Call Number: PL539.5 .E5 A44 1992
Literature
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Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 by Haruo Shirane
Call Number: PL782.E1 T73 2007Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900, Abridged by Haruo Shirane
Call Number: PL782 .E1 E232 2008The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature by J. Thomas Rimer
Call Number: PL782 .E1 C55 20052 volumesThe Cambridge History of Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane; Tomi Suzuki; David Lurie
Call Number: PL716 .C36 2016From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films by Keiko I. McDonald; John Mcdonald
Call Number: PL747.55 .M36 2000Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction by Noriko Mizuta Lippit; Kyoko Iriye Selden
Call Number: E-bookE-bookThe Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories by Theodore Goossen
Call Number: PL782.E8 O95 1997Japan: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Jeffrey Angles
Call Number: PL777.55 .J36 2006Collection of short storiesOne Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu by Peter McMillan
Call Number: PL758.5.O4 A3 2008Poems in English and JapaneseThe Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki
Call Number: PL788.4 .G4 E5 2001Written in the eleventh century, The Tale of Genji is widely celebrated as the world's first novel and a masterpiece of world literature. An epic tale of golden age Japan.The Tale of the Heike
Call Number: PL790.H4 E5 2012A masterpiece of world literature and epic from the 12th century about samurai pride, romance, and warfare in medieval Japan.
Finding Japanese Fiction in Translation
Try these searches to find individual Japanese novels, short stories, etc. in English translation. You can also search for a book by its title or author.
japanese fiction
japanese literature
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japanese poetry