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Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
4.46 average rating, · 24.8k ratings
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Silence
Shūsaku Endō
4.10 average rating, · 41k ratings
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Kokoro
Natsume Sōseki
4.04 average rating, · 45.6k ratings
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Spring Snow
Yukio Mishima
4.16 average rating, · 24.5k ratings
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The Makioka Sisters
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
4.03 average rating, · 12.3k ratings
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Rashomon and Other Stories
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.00 average rating, · 12.6k ratings
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Runaway Horses
Yukio Mishima
4.23 average rating, · 9.5k ratings
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The Pillow Book
Sei Shōnagon
4.02 average rating, · 10.4k ratings
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Matsuo Bashō
4.01 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Edogawa Rampo
4.05 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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The Decay of the Angel
Yukio Mishima
4.13 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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Taiko
Eiji Yoshikawa
4.29 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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Patriotism
Yukio Mishima
4.11 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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In a Grove
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.02 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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The Samurai
Shūsaku Endō
4.02 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Grave of the Fireflies
Akiyuki Nosaka
4.08 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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Hell Screen
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.16 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
Daidōji Yūzan
4.02 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
Jay Rubin
4.10 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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The Human Chair
Edogawa Rampo
4.24 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa
Robert Hass
4.32 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
Chūya Nakahara
4.27 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
Ono no Komachi
4.38 average rating, · 2k ratings
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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
Matsuo Bashō
4.19 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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