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Japanese literature includes literature originally written in Japanese, or written by the people of Japan.

General works

A Bibliography of the Japanese Empire, by Friedrich von Wenckstern (two vols.: 1859–1893 (1895), 1894–1906 (1907))
Bibliography of the Japanese Empire (1928), by Oskar Nachod (covers 1906–1926)
A History of Japanese Literature (1899), by William George Aston
"Japan, III. Language and Literature," by Francis Brinkley in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
Japan: Its History, Arts, and Literature, 8 vols., (1901), by Francis Brinkley
Japanese Literature (1955), by Donald Keene

Collections of literature

Eminent Authors of Contemporary Japan (1930), translated by Eric S. Bell and Eiji Ukai
Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), by Donald Keene
Modern Japanese Literature (1956), by Donald Keene (transcription project)
Modern Japanese Stories (1961), by Ivan Morris (transcription project)

Poetry

Works about poetry

The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914), by Yone Noguchi

Collections of poetry

Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan (1915), by Glenn Arthur Hughes and Yowan T. Iwazaki
Hyakunin Isshū · Portal:Hyakunin Isshu
The Voice of the Valley (1897), by Yone Noguchi

Songs

Art Songs of Japan (1917), by Gertrude Ross (transcription project)
Kimi ga Yo, Japanese national anthem, lyrics based on a waka poem written in the Heian period (794-1185), 1880 melody by Yoshiisa Oku and Akimori Hayashi, supervised by Hiromori Hayashi (partly based on the original 1870 melody by John William Fenton)

Drama

Japanese Plays and Playfellows (1901), by Osman Edwards
Tales from Old Japanese Dramas (1915), by Asataro Miyamori

Prose

Folklore

In Ghostly Japan (1899), by Lafcadio Hearn
The Japanese Fairy Book (1908), by Iwaya Sazanami, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), by Lafcadio Hearn

Novels

Botchan (1906), by Natsume Sōseki, translated by Yasotaro Morri
A Daughter of the Samurai (1925), by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
The Dragon Painter (1906), by Mary McNeil Fenollosa
The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
Tayama Katai and His Novel Entitled Futon (1971), by Motoko Reece

Short stories

Five Short Stories (1904), by John Luther Long
Four Japanese Tales (1919), by Jan Havlasa
Rashōmon, 1914 by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Essays

Through the Torii (1922), by Yone Noguchi

Journals and Diaries

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (1920), translated by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi
The Diary of a Japanese Convert (1895), by Uchimura Kanzo
The Narrative of a Japanese (1895), by Joseph Heco
Three Years in Tibet (1909), by Kawaguchi Ekai
Tosa Nikki, by Ki no Tsurayuki

See also

Category:Works originally in Japanese
Portal:Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, for works about the Ainu and Japanese languages
Portal:Japan, for works about the Culture, History, and Government of Japan
Japanese Wikisource (in Japanese)

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