Japanese literature

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These are resources for an article on Japanese literature.

Famous authors of significant stature in chronological order below. For an exhaustive list, see List of Japanese authors:

• kuukai (空海) (774-835). Iroha (poem).
• Murasaki Shikibu (c.973 - c.1025): The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari)
• Sei Shonagon (c.~966 - c.10??): The Pillow Book
• The Tale of the Heike (1200s?)
• Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694): haiku
• Yasunari Kawabata (1899 - 1972)
• Yojiro Ishizaka (1900 - 1986)
• Osamu Dazai (1909 - 1948)
• Shusaku Endo (1923 - 1996)
• Kobo Abe (1924 - 1993)
• Yukio Mishima (1925 - 1970)
• Kenzaburo Oe (born 1935)
• Haruki Murakami (born 1949)

• Urashima Taro

• Aozora Bunko for a repository of Japanese literature

• Wabei Translation - translations of Japanese short stories and folk tales
• http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/
• http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/literature.html
• http://www.f.waseda.jp/mjewel/jlit/
• http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/wldocs/japan.htm
• A Mini-collection of Modern Japanese Literature