Portal:Japanese literature

General works

 * A Bibliography of the Japanese Empire, by Friedrich von Wenckstern (two vols.: 1859–1893 (1895), 1894–1906 (1907))
 * Bibliography of the Japanese Empire (1928), by Oskar Nachod (covers 1906–1926)
 * A History of Japanese Literature (1899), by William George Aston
 * Japan: Its History, Arts, and Literature, 8 vols., (1901), by Francis Brinkley
 * Japanese Literature (1955), by Donald Keene
 * Japanese Literature (1955), by Donald Keene

Collections of literature

 * Eminent Authors of Contemporary Japan (1930), translated by Eric S. Bell and Eiji Ukai
 * Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), by Donald Keene
 * Modern Japanese Literature (1956), by Donald Keene
 * Modern Japanese Stories (1961), by Ivan Morris

Works about poetry

 * The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914), by Yone Noguchi

Collections of poetry

 * Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan (1915), by Glenn Arthur Hughes and Yowan T. Iwazaki
 * Hyakunin Isshū · Portal:Hyakunin Isshu
 * The Voice of the Valley (1897), by Yone Noguchi

Songs

 * Art Songs of Japan (1917), by Gertrude Ross
 * Kimi ga Yo, Japanese national anthem, lyrics based on a waka poem written in the Heian period (794-1185), 1880 melody by Yoshiisa Oku and Akimori Hayashi, supervised by Hiromori Hayashi (partly based on the original 1870 melody by John William Fenton)

Drama

 * Japanese Plays and Playfellows (1901), by Osman Edwards
 * Tales from Old Japanese Dramas (1915), by Asataro Miyamori

Folklore

 * In Ghostly Japan (1899), by Lafcadio Hearn
 * The Japanese Fairy Book (1908), by Iwaya Sazanami, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki
 * Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), by Lafcadio Hearn

Novels

 * Botchan (1906), by Natsume Sōseki, translated by Yasotaro Morri
 * A Daughter of the Samurai (1925), by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
 * The Dragon Painter (1906), by Mary McNeil Fenollosa
 * The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
 * Tayama Katai and His Novel Entitled Futon (1971), by Motoko Reece

Short stories

 * Five Short Stories (1904), by John Luther Long
 * Four Japanese Tales (1919), by Jan Havlasa
 * Rashōmon, 1914 by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Essays

 * Through the Torii (1922), by Yone Noguchi

Journals and Diaries

 * Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (1920), translated by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi
 * The Diary of a Japanese Convert (1895), by Uchimura Kanzo
 * The Narrative of a Japanese (1895), by Joseph Heco
 * Three Years in Tibet (1909), by Kawaguchi Ekai
 * Tosa Nikki, by Ki no Tsurayuki