Donald Keene

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1. Donald Keene

   Author of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day, World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867, Travelers of a Hundred Ages

2. Yukio Mishima

   Author of Spring Snow, Forbidden Colors, Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

3. William Theodore De Bary

   Author of Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume II, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2

4. Yasunari Kawabata

   Author of Snow Country, The Master of Go, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

5. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

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

6. Ivan Morris

   Author of The world of the shining prince : court life in ancient Japan, The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan, Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)

7. George Sansom

   Author of A History of Japan to 1334, A History of Japan, 1334-1615, A History of Japan, 1615-1867

8. Sōseki Natsume

   Author of Kokoro, Botchan, The Gate

9. Saikaku Ihara

   Author of Five Women Who Loved Love, Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings (UNESCO Collection of Contemporary Works), The Life of an Amorous Man

10. Helen Craig McCullough

    Author of Classical Japanese Prose: An Anthology, Tales of Ise; lyrical episodes from tenth-century Japan, Bungo Manual: Selected Reference Materials for Students of Classical Japanese (Cornell East Asia, No. 48) (Cornell East

11. Ryusaku Tsunoda

    Author of Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1

12. Cao Xueqin

    Author of The Golden Days, The Crab-Flower Club, The Debt of Tears

13. Donald Richie

    Author of The Inland Sea, The Japan Journals: 1947-2004, Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai

14. Murasaki Shikibu

    Author of The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu, Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs: A Translation and Study (Princeton Library of Asian Translations)

15. Matsuo Bashō

    Author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics), Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature)

16. Cyril Birch

    Author of Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume I: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century

17. Alec Soth

    Author of Sleeping By the Mississippi, Alec Soth: Niagara, Fashion Magazine by Alec Soth (v. 3)

18. Edward Seidensticker

    Author of Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake, Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake, Genji Days

19. Royall Tyler

    Author of Japanese Tales, Japanese No Dramas (Penguin Classics)

20. Sei Shonagon

    Author of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon