J. Thomas Rimer

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1. Donald Keene

   Author of Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century, World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867, Travelers of a Hundred Ages

2. Yasunari Kawabata

   Author of Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, The Old Capital, First Snow on Fuji

3. Haruo Shirane

   Author of Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Translations from the Asian Classics), Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 (Translations from the Asian Classics), Classical Japanese: A Grammar

4. Ivan Morris

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

5. Donald Richie

   Author of A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos, The Inland Sea

6. Naoya Shiga

   Author of The Paper Door and Other Stories, A Dark Night's Passing (Japan's Modern Writers)

7. Sōseki Natsume

   Author of Kokoro, The Gate, Grass on the Wayside

8. Howard Hibbett

   Author of Contemporary Japanese Literature, The Floating World in Japanese Fiction

9. Royall Tyler

   Author of Japanese No Dramas (Penguin Classics)

10. Morio Kita

    Author of House of Nire

11. Saikaku Ihara

    Author of The Life of an Amorous Man

12. Van C. Gessel

    Author of The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories: 1929-1984

13. Anonymous

    Author of The Tale of the Heike

14. Shuichi Kato

    Author of A History of Japanese Literature: The First Thousand Years

15. Susan L. Burns

    Author of Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Asia-Pacific)

16. Kyoka Izumi

    Author of Japanese Gothic Tales

17. Yoshida Kenko

    Author of Essays in Idleness

18. Kafu Nagai

    Author of American Stories

19. Yasushi Inoue

    Author of Lou-Lan and Other Stories (Japan's Modern Writers)

20. Sawako Ariyoshi

    Author of The Doctor's Wife