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who are the GOATs of japanese literature?

no animu

>> No.6878277

toriyama

>> No.6878284

Soseki

>> No.6878294
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>>6878277
>>6878284

thanks, any titles?

>> No.6878300

Kisibusha
Kyaoza
Mikumi
Barashima
Uko Pyongyara (born in korea but lived in japan)
Kizomena

>> No.6878304

Laozi

>> No.6878564

>>6878300
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>>6878304

BOOK TITLES PLEASE

>> No.6878576

>>6878274
Evangelion

>> No.6878582

>>6878294
I am a Cat
Kokoro
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

>> No.6878589

>>6878274
Sun Tzu - Art of War, by far. It's applicable to everything, not just war. Even business.

>> No.6878596

Fukuzawa
Namiko Omura
Hirohisa
Horiuchi
Masakado Okui
Harumi Hamacho
Seishiro
Matsumura
Nobuyoshi
Tamiko
Tatsuzo
Furusawa

>> No.6878693

Why someone would anything eastern before reading the western canon completely?

>> No.6878701

>>6878693
*would read

>> No.6878711

>>6878701

i have read, in succession, four books now specifically on Plato's Timeaus. i need something new.

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>>6878582

thanks

>> No.6879505

ishiguro

>> No.6879522

>>6879505
He writes in English and lives in Britain.

>> No.6879544
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6879544

>>6878589

This guy.

Here, have an alot.

>> No.6879546

>>6878693
Why someone would anything western before reading the eastern canon completely?

>> No.6879553

The Man'yoshu
Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji
Sei Shonagon - The Pillow Book
Matsuo Basho - Poems
Ueda Akinari - Tales of Moonlight and Rain
Natsume Soseki - Kokoro
Junichiro Tanizaki - The Makioka Sisters
Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata - Thousand Cranes
Haruki Murakami - 1Q84

Personally I don't like Dazai or Mishima, but they are frequently mentioned here.

>> No.6879578

Miyimoto
Kojimi
Iwata
Anno
Gurren Lagann
E. Honda
Murukami
Ivan Ooze

>> No.6879584

>>6878693
Dumbest fucking post of the year.

>> No.6881129

probably murakami tbh

>> No.6881391

I only know the four masters of haiku (Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki), they are pretty good, Ryokan is very good too

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6881400

>>6878274
>ib4 genre fiction

>> No.6881414

KOBO ABE, BITCHES