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No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 294,911 ratings — published 1948
The Setting Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.95 — 49,162 ratings — published 1947
Kokoro (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 47,959 ratings — published 1914
I Am a Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.65 — 19,822 ratings — published 1906
The Makioka Sisters (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,695 ratings — published 1948
The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.71 — 15,432 ratings — published 1000
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.55 — 45,113 ratings — published 1948
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 58,120 ratings — published 1963
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 27,394 ratings — published 1956
Schoolgirl (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,118 ratings — published 1939
Rashomon and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,959 ratings — published 1915
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.95 — 351,164 ratings — published 2009
The Poems of Nakahara Chuya (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,286 ratings — published 1993
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.88 — 42,819 ratings — published 1962
Naomi (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.68 — 9,386 ratings — published 1924
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,597 ratings — published 1956
Sanshirō (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,706 ratings — published 1908
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,619 ratings — published 1927
The Moon Over the Mountain: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 666 ratings — published 2010
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 34,780 ratings — published 1933
Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,293 ratings — published 1967
The Sound of Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 26,322 ratings — published 1954
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 779,959 ratings — published 1987
Beauty and Sadness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.79 — 16,332 ratings — published 1963
The Pillow Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.01 — 10,698 ratings — published 1002
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.95 — 43,655 ratings — published 1949
Kappa (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,965 ratings — published 1927
The Life of a Stupid Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.66 — 12,680 ratings — published 1927
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,356 ratings — published 1050
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 581,826 ratings — published 2002
Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,224 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 — 1,178 ratings — published 1235
The Old Capital (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,421 ratings — published 1962
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 327,809 ratings — published 1994
The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.62 — 29,424 ratings — published 1946
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,099 ratings — published 1340
River Mist and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 148 ratings — published 1983
Thirst for Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.62 — 8,210 ratings — published 1950
The Flowers of Buffoonery (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.76 — 13,062 ratings — published 1935
The Hunting Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,500 ratings — published 1949
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,820 ratings — published 2003
W lesie pod wiśniami w pełnym rozkwicie (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,085 ratings — published 1947
Quicksand (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,713 ratings — published 1928
Botchan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,311 ratings — published 1906
The Three-Cornered World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,128 ratings — published 1906
The Miner (English and Japanese Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,047 ratings — published 1908
And Then (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,326 ratings — published 1909
The Master of Go (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,956 ratings — published 1951
The Sound of the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.84 — 10,076 ratings — published 1954
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 391,187 ratings — published 1989
“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