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Good Japanese authors?

>> No.4147981

Dazai, Kawabata, Mishima, Tanizaki, Dogen, Soho and Musashi off the top of my head.

>> No.4147985

>>4147972
Sei Shonogon
Murasaki Shikibu
Matsuo Basho
Masaoka Shiki
Yasunari Kawabata
Junichiro Tanizaki
Natsume Soseki
Yukio Mishima
A majority of the poets in the Man'yoshu

That's it mostly.

>> No.4148076

Osamu Dazai.

>> No.4148156

Some other important ones I don't see mentioned in this thread:
Haruki Murakami
Yoko Ogawa
Ryu Murakami
Natsuo Kirino
Mori Ōgai
Shusaku Endo
Akutagawa
Kenzaburo Oe
Banana Yoshimoto

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>>4148156
>banana

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>>4148158
did somebody said banana

>> No.4148173

Yasushi Inoue is one of my favorite writers of all time, regardless of nationality. NYRB just reissued his classic Tun-Huang, it's definitely worth a read. Tanizaki and Mishima are both good, not great imo. I hear really good things about Oe and Dazai so I guess I'll have to check them out.

>> No.4148180

Kōbō Abe, a.k.a Japanese Kafka

>> No.4148194

>>4148180
Are his other novels actually any good? I read Kangaroo Notebook, and maybe its just me, but I didn't care for it at all. Tempted to get his older stuff, but if his work is all like that, I may not bother.

>> No.4148493

What about short stories? Best Japanese short stories?

>> No.4148508

who wrote Snow Country again? that book is damn-near perfectly rendered i swear

otherwise Basho (obviously), pre-2000 Murakami (I still honestly think The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles and Underground especially are two of the greatest, most acute texts published in the last fifty years), Mishima (obviously), and Tanizaki

>> No.4148546

>>4148158
>>4148165

i thought Kitchen was great. simple prose but it made me feel immensely.

>> No.4148550

>>4148493
Dazai's Self Portraits.

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4148556

>tfw you've read all this shit but barely scratched the surface

>> No.4148564

I am reading Botchan right now, which is said to be one of Japan's most popular modern literature, what should i expect? I get a feeling like it's writen by Herman Hesse or something.

>> No.4148573

>>4148564

I mean, it kind of resembles Demian. It is actually writen by Natsume Sôseki

>> No.4148581

>>4148573

what? Demian was written by Soseki?

>> No.4148600

>>4148581
yep, along with steppenokami

>> No.4148615

>>4148600

am i being rused?

>> No.4148627

Lulz CHING CHONG WING WONG OOGA BOOGA STUPID GOOKS

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>>4148600
>steppenokami

>> No.4148675

>>4148615
no. he also wrote the sorrows of young wataru

>> No.4148726

Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi is an amazing historical adventure novel.

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>>4148546
>simple prose
>he reads the traslation of a completely differen language

>> No.4149172

>>4148556
Man, I really have to read The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. It's just... the best title.

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4149986

Do you people read... translations?

>> No.4150431

>>4149163
You don't? You're missing out by restricting yourself so needlessly.

>> No.4150445

>>4148556
How was Shipwreks? I got it from a Goodwill a while ago and I still haven't cracked it open.

>> No.4150481

Nobuo Kojima

>> No.4150488

Tatsuhiko Takimoto is a pretty cool guy