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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
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