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Japanese Classics Books
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No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 253,527 ratings — published 1948
The Setting Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 43,165 ratings — published 1947
I Am a Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.67 — 18,078 ratings — published 1906
Kokoro (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 42,366 ratings — published 1914
The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,779 ratings — published 1000
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.56 — 41,346 ratings — published 1948
The Makioka Sisters (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,771 ratings — published 1948
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,979 ratings — published 1956
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.84 — 52,805 ratings — published 1963
Rashomon and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,160 ratings — published 1915
The Poems of Nakahara Chuya (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,150 ratings — published 1993
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,209 ratings — published 1956
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.95 — 339,946 ratings — published 2009
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.88 — 39,412 ratings — published 1962
Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,344 ratings — published 1967
Naomi (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.68 — 8,788 ratings — published 1924
Schoolgirl (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,407 ratings — published 1939
Sanshirō (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,077 ratings — published 1908
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,154 ratings — published 1927
Beauty and Sadness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,262 ratings — published 1963
The Pillow Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,073 ratings — published 1002
The Moon Over the Mountain: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 588 ratings — published 2010
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.95 — 39,532 ratings — published 1949
Kappa (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,018 ratings — published 1927
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,294 ratings — published 1050
The Sound of Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 24,057 ratings — published 1954
Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,991 ratings — published 1212
One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,121 ratings — published 1235
The Old Capital (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.73 — 7,853 ratings — published 1962
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,422 ratings — published 1933
The Hunting Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,811 ratings — published 1949
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,437 ratings — published 2005
The Life of a Stupid Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,890 ratings — published 1927
W lesie pod wiśniami w pełnym rozkwicie (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.67 — 4,658 ratings — published 1947
Quicksand (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,389 ratings — published 1928
The Three-Cornered World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,675 ratings — published 1906
The Miner (English and Japanese Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,930 ratings — published 1908
The Master of Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,697 ratings — published 1951
The Sound of the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.84 — 9,568 ratings — published 1954
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 360,205 ratings — published 1989
An Artist of the Floating World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 45,872 ratings — published 1986
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 729,808 ratings — published 1987
Thousand Cranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.69 — 15,639 ratings — published 1952
House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.60 — 9,207 ratings — published 1961
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,138 ratings — published 1904
Five Modern No Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 701 ratings — published 1950
The Tale of the Heike (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,587 ratings — published 1219
Forbidden Colors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,926 ratings — published 1951
Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,952 ratings — published 1776
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 314,980 ratings — published 1994
“To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is not negated. In the moment a captive lion steps out of his cage, he possesses a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds to him; the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage. Etsuko however, had in her heart not the slightest interest in these matters. Her soul knew nothing but affirmation.”
― Thirst for Love
― Thirst for Love
