Japanese literature

This is just a placeholder for a Japanese literature article -- please write more here if you know about this subject.

These are resources for an article on Japanese literature.

Famous authors in chronological order:

please add more authors of significant stature to this list: this is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all Japanese authors, which should go at List of Japanese authors

• Murasaki Shikibu (c.973 to c.1025): The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari)
• Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694): haiku
• Yasunari Kawabata[?] (1899 - 1972)
• Shusaku Endo[?] (1923 - 1996)
• Kobo Abe (1924 - 1993)
• Yukio Mishima (1925 - 1970)
• Kenzaburo Oe (born 1935)
• Haruki Murakami (born 1949)

The article should cover

• Urashima Taro

See:

• Aozora Bunko for a repository of Japanese literature