Top Ten Tuesday

THE BROKE &THE BOOKISH August 25 Top Ten Books That Would Be On Your Syllabus If You Taught X 101 

Top ten Books that would be on my Syllabus if I taught Japanese Literature 101 for foreigners         

   1. Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji. Written of a court 

       lady in tenth - century Japan.

       Perhaps the  first novel of the world?

   2. Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book

       The diary of a court lady in tenth - century Japan

   3. Matsuo Basho, Narrow Road to the Interior. 

       Seventeenth century. Poet and father of the haiku

   4. Natsume Soseki, Kokoro. Nineteenth century. 

       The most famous author of the Meiji- period

   5. Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters. 

       Portrays families in a fast changing 

       world in the 20th century

   6. Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country. 

       Nobel Prize Winner 1968

   7. Yukio Mishima, The Temple of The golden Pavillion

   8. Kenzaburo Oe, The Nightmare  Nobel Prize Winner 1994

  9.  Kiro Kirini, Out.  Female writer of crime literature

10.  Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore