Fumiko Enchi (1905–1986)

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1. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

   Author of The Makioka Sisters, Some Prefer Nettles, The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot: Two Novels

2. Yasunari Kawabata

   Author of Snow Country, Beauty and Sadness, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

3. Kōbō Abe

   Author of The Woman in the Dunes, The Ruined Map, Beyond the Curve

4. Yukio Mishima

   Author of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Spring Snow, Confessions of a Mask

5. Fumiko Enchi

   Author of Masks, The Waiting Years

6. Shūsaku Endō

   Author of Deep River, Scandal, The Sea and Poison

7. Kenzaburō Ōe

   Author of A Personal Matter, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

8. Sōseki Natsume

   Author of Kokoro, I Am a Cat, Botchan

9. Osamu Dazai

   Author of No Longer Human, The Setting Sun

10. Donald Keene

    Author of Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day

11. Naoya Shiga

    Author of A Dark Night's Passing (Japan's Modern Writers)

12. Murasaki Shikibu

    Author of The Tale of Genji, The Diary of Lady Murasaki

13. Ooka Shohei

    Author of Fires on the Plain

14. Masuji Ibuse

    Author of Black Rain

15. Anonymous

    Author of The Tale of the Heike

16. Banana Yoshimoto

    Author of Kitchen

17. Saikaku Ihara

    Author of Five Women Who Loved Love

18. Alfred Birnbaum

    Author of Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction

19. Ogai Mori

    Author of Wild Geese

20. Edward Seidensticker

    Author of Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan