Japanese Studies Linguistics & Literature: Literature Encyclopedias

Provides essays on 23 modern Japanese writers and one on A-Bomb writers (includes 4 living authors and 4 women). Each essay focuses on one writer's life and work, giving necessary background and explaining the writer's significance in wider context. At the end of each essay, there is a list of the author's works in translation (both short stories and longer pieces) and in Japanese, films based on the author's work, critical studies and biographical studies. The entries are written by scholars in the field, some established and a few new ones, and reflect their deep personal engagement with the material; they write of works based on their readings of the original Japanese texts.

A dictionary of Japanese literature from Meiji through Shōwa. The sakuin-hen volume includes 3,394 works arranged in gojuon-order by title. Includes an index to fictional names and a list of novels made into plays or movies. The Jinmei, Jikō-hen volume has a dictionary of personal names and one of literary terms.

Covers 100 years of children's literature from 1885 to 1984.

Includes a brief survey of trends in modern women's literature, and then discusses women writers from Meiji to the present individually. Includes living authors. Entries range from a paragraph to several pages for someone like Yosano Akiko. Includes a chronology and an index of women authors in gojuon order.