Further Reading

For Japanese names, spelling and name order are as in the given English publication.

Short Fiction by Individual Authors in this Volume

Japan and the West

Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, The Gourmet Club: A Sextet, trans. Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2001)

——, Red Roofs & Other Stories, trans. Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2016) [containing an earlier translation of The Story of Tomoda and Matsunaga]

Junichiro Tanizaki, Seven Japanese Tales, trans. Howard Hibbett (New York: Knopf, 1963)

——, The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot: Two Novels, trans. Anthony H. Chambers (New York: Knopf, 1992)

——, The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto’s Mother: Two Novellas, trans. Anthony H. Chambers (New York: Knopf, 1994)

Nagai Kafū: Edward Seidensticker, Kafū the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafū (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1965) [containing Seidensticker’s translation of a number of Kafū’s short stories and novellas]

Natsume Sōseki, The Tower of London, trans. Damian Flanagan (London: Peter Owen, 2005)

——, Sanshirō [novel excerpted here], trans. Jay Rubin (London: Penguin, 2009)

——: Marvin Marcus, Reflections in a Glass Door: Memory and Melancholy in the Personal Writings of Natsume Sōseki (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) [containing translations of Sōseki’s semi-fictional short pieces]

Sōseki Natsume, Ten Nights of Dream, Hearing Things, The Heredity of Taste, trans. Aiko Itō and Graeme Wilson (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1974)

Loyal Warriors

Mori Ōgai, The Incident at Sakai and Other Stories, ed. David Dilworth and J. Thomas Rimer (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1977)

——, Youth and Other Stories, ed. J. Thomas Rimer (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1994)

——, Not a Song Like Any Other: An Anthology of Writings by Mori Ōgai, ed. J. Thomas Rimer (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2004)

Yukio Mishima, Death in Midsummer and Other Stories, trans. Geoffrey W. Sargent, Donald Keene, et al. (New York: New Directions, 1966)

——, Acts of Worship, trans. John Bester (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1989)

Men and Women

Yuko Tsushima, The Shooting Gallery and Other Stories, trans. Geraldine Harcourt (New York: New Directions, 1997)

——, Territory of Light, trans. Geraldine Harcourt (London: Penguin, 2018)

Kōno Taeko, Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories, trans. Lucy North (New York: New Directions, 1996)

Kenji Nakagami, Snakelust, trans. Andrew Rankin (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1998)ww

——, The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto, trans. Eve Zimmerman (Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 1999)

Banana Yoshimoto, Lizard, trans. Ann Sherif (New York: Grove Press, 1995)

Enchi Fumiko: Rabbits, Crabs, Etc.: Stories by Japanese Women, trans. Phyllis Birnbaum (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1982)

Nature and Memory

Yoko Ogawa, Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales, trans. Stephen Snyder (New York: Picador, 2013)

Kunikida Doppo, ‘Five Stories by Kunikida Doppo’, trans. Jay Rubin, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 27, no. 3 (Autumn 1972), pp. 273–341

——, River Mist and Other Stories by Kunikida Doppo, trans. David G. Chibbett (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1982)

Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes, trans. Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin (New York: Knopf, 1993)

——, after the quake: stories, trans. Jay Rubin (New York: Knopf, 2002)

——, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, trans. Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin (New York: Knopf, 2006)

——, Men without Women, trans. Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen (New York: Knopf, 2017)

Modern Life and Other Nonsense

Uno Kōji, Love of Mountains: Two Stories, trans. Elaine Tashiro Gerbert (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1997)

Keita Genji, The Lucky One and Other Humorous Stories, trans. Hugh Cortazzi (Tokyo: Japan Times, 1980)

Hoshi Shin’ichi, The Spiteful Planet and Other Stories, trans. Bernard Susser and Tomoyoshi Genkawa (Tokyo: Japan Times, 1978)

Dread

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories, trans. Jay Rubin (London: Penguin, 2006) [containing an extensive Akutagawa bibliography]

——, Mandarins, trans. Charles De Wolf (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2007)

Uchida Hyakken, Realm of the Dead, trans. Rachel DiNitto (Normal, IL, and London: Dalkey Archive Press, 2006)

Disasters, Natural and Man-Made

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke: See under ‘Dread

Ōta Yōko: Hiroshima: Three Witnesses, trans. Richard H. Minear (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990) [including Ōta’s novel, City of Corpses, excerpted here]

Seirai Yūichi, Ground Zero, Nagasaki, trans. Paul Warham (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015)

Yasunari Kawabata, House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories, trans. Edward G. Seidensticker (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1969)

——, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, trans. Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988)

——, The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories, trans. J. Martin Holman (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1997)

——, First Snow on Fuji, trans. Michael Emmerich (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1999)

Murakami Haruki: See under ‘Nature and Memory

Short Fiction by Other Writers

The titles here are listed alphabetically by the author’s surname.

Dazai Osamu: Phyllis Lyons, The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study with Translations (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1985)

Osamu Dazai, Crackling Mountain and Other Stories, trans. James O’Brien (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1989)

——, Self Portraits: Stories, trans. Ralph F. McCarthy (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1991)

Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination, trans. James B. Harris (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1956)

Yoshikichi Furui, Ravine and Other Stories, trans. Meredith McKinney (Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 1997)

Izumi Kyōka, Japanese Gothic Tales, trans. Charles Shirō Inouye (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1996)

——, In Light of Shadows: More Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyōka, trans. Charles Shirō Inouye (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005)

Kurahashi Yumiko, The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories, trans. Atsuko Sakaki (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998)

Kenzaburō Ōe, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, trans. John Nathan (New York: Grove Press, 1977)

Yokomitsu Riichi, Love and Other Stories of Yokomitsu Riichi, trans. Dennis Keene (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1974)

Anthologies

The titles here are listed chronologically.

Modern Japanese Literature, ed. Donald Keene (New York: Grove Press, 1956)

The Heart is Alone: A Selection of 20th Century Japanese Short Stories, ed. Richard N. McKinnon (Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1957)

Modern Japanese Stories, ed. Japan Quarterly Editorial Board (Tokyo: Japan Publications Trading Company, 1961)

Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology, ed. Ivan Morris (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1962)

The Shadow of Sunrise: Selected Stories of Japan and the War, ed. Shōichi Saeki (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1966)

Contemporary Japanese Literature: An Anthology of Fiction, Film, and Other Writing Since 1945, ed. Howard Hibbett (New York: Knopf, 1977)

Rabbits, Crabs, Etc.: Stories by Japanese Women, trans. Phyllis Birnbaum (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1982)

This Kind of Woman: Ten Stories by Japanese Women Writers, 1960–1976, ed. Yukiko Tanaka and Elizabeth Hanson (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982)

The Shōwa Anthology: Modern Japanese Stories: 1929–1984, ed. Van C. Gessel and Tomone Matsumoto (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1985)

The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ed. Kyoko and Mark Selden (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1989)

Japanese Women Writers, ed. Noriko Mizuta Lippit and Kyoko Iriye Selden (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1991)

Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction, ed. Alfred Birnbaum (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1991)

New Japanese Voices: The Best Contemporary Fiction from Japan, ed. Helen Mitsios (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991)

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories, ed. Theodore W. Goossen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)

Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll, ed. Lawrence Rogers (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002)

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, vol. 1: From Restoration to Occupation 1868–1945 and vol. 2: From 1945 to the Present, ed. J. Thomas Rimer and Van C. Gessel (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005 and 2007)

Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan, ed. Helen Mitsios (Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2011)

More Stories by Japanese Women Writers, ed. Kyoko Selden and Noriko Mizuta (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2011)

March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown, ed. Elmer Luke and David Karashima (New York: Vintage Books, 2012)

Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthquake, ed. Makoto Ichikawa, David Karashima et al. (Tokyo: Waseda Bungaku kai, 2012)

Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, ed. Davinder L. Bhowmik and Steve Rabson (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016)

A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920, ed. Sumie Jones and Charles Shirō Inouye (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017)

Periodicals

Descant, no. 89 (Summer 1992)

Granta, no. 127 (Spring 2014)

Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan [any edition]

Review of Contemporary Fiction: New Japanese Fiction, vol. 22, no. 2 (Summer 2002)