Portal:Japanese literature

General works

• A Bibliography of the Japanese Empire, by Friedrich von Wenckstern (two vols.: 1859–1893 (1895), 1894–1906 (1907))
• Bibliography of the Japanese Empire (1928), by Oskar Nachod (covers 1906–1926)
• A History of Japanese Literature (1899), by William George Aston
• "Japan, III. Language and Literature," by Francis Brinkley in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• Japan: Its History, Arts, and Literature, 8 vols., (1901), by Francis Brinkley
• Japanese Literature (1955), by Donald Keene

Collections of literature

• Eminent Authors of Contemporary Japan (1930), translated by Eric S. Bell and Eiji Ukai
• Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), by Donald Keene
• Modern Japanese Literature (1956), by Donald Keene (transcription project)
• Modern Japanese Stories (1961), by Ivan Morris (transcription project)

Poetry

Works about poetry

• The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914), by Yone Noguchi

Collections of poetry

• Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan (1915), by Glenn Arthur Hughes and Yowan T. Iwazaki
• Hyakunin Isshū · Portal:Hyakunin Isshu
• The Voice of the Valley (1897), by Yone Noguchi

Songs

• Art Songs of Japan (1917), by Gertrude Ross (transcription project)
• Kimi ga Yo, Japanese national anthem, lyrics based on a waka poem written in the Heian period (794-1185), 1880 melody by Yoshiisa Oku and Akimori Hayashi, supervised by Hiromori Hayashi (partly based on the original 1870 melody by John William Fenton)

Drama

• Japanese Plays and Playfellows (1901), by Osman Edwards
• Tales from Old Japanese Dramas (1915), by Asataro Miyamori

Prose

Folklore

• In Ghostly Japan (1899), by Lafcadio Hearn
• The Japanese Fairy Book (1908), by Iwaya Sazanami, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki
• Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), by Lafcadio Hearn

Novels

• Botchan (1906), by Natsume Sōseki, translated by Yasotaro Morri
• A Daughter of the Samurai (1925), by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
• The Dragon Painter (1906), by Mary McNeil Fenollosa
• The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
• Tayama Katai and His Novel Entitled Futon (1971), by Motoko Reece

Short stories

• Five Short Stories (1904), by John Luther Long
• Four Japanese Tales (1919), by Jan Havlasa
• Rashōmon, 1914 by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Essays

• Through the Torii (1922), by Yone Noguchi

Journals and Diaries

• Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (1920), translated by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi
• The Diary of a Japanese Convert (1895), by Uchimura Kanzo
• The Narrative of a Japanese (1895), by Joseph Heco
• Three Years in Tibet (1909), by Kawaguchi Ekai
• Tosa Nikki, by Ki no Tsurayuki

See also

• Category:Works originally in Japanese
• Portal:Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, for works about the Ainu and Japanese languages
• Portal:Japan, for works about the Culture, History, and Government of Japan
• Japanese Wikisource (in Japanese)