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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From Earliest Era to Mid-19th Century
Donald Keene, ed.		Grove Press, 1955
Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911
Donald Keene, ed.		Grove Press, 1955
Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945, The
J. Thomas Rimer		Columbia University Press, 2007
Van C. Gessel, eds.
Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the Present, The
J. Thomas Rimer		Columbia University Press, 2007
Van C. Gessel, eds.
Contemporary Japanese Literature: An Anthology of Fiction, Film, and other Writing Since 1945.
Howard Hibbett, ed.		Cheng & Tsui, 2005
Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry
Helen C. McCullough, ed.		Stanford U. Press, 1985
Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day
Donald Keene, ed.		Grove Press, 1994
Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology: Beginnings to 1600
Haruo Shirane, ed.		Columbia University Press, 2007

Classics and Modern Literature

Tale of Genji, The			EH
Royall Tyler, trans.		Penguin, 2003
Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, The			EH
Ivan Morris, trans.		Columbia U. Press, 1991
Japanese Tales			EH
Royall Tyler, trans.		Pantheon, 1987

Students at the 9-12 level might also read titles of Japan’s modern writers, such as:

Kobo Abe
Yasunari Kawabata
Yukio Mishima
Kenzaburo Oe

Background on several of these writers can be found on the Japan Society website for educators:

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