All works

Works covered in depth, with a chapter-by-chapter synopsis in the app.

52 works

• Tales of the Peony LanternSan'yūtei Enchō　July 1884A ghost who comes with a peony lantern
• Drifting CloudsFutabatei Shimei　June 1887The first novel in colloquial prose
• The Dancing GirlMori Ōgai　January 1890A young man's love, lost in Berlin
• The Five-Storied PagodaKōda Rohan　November 1891A carpenter stakes his life on a pagoda
• Child's PlayHiguchi Ichiyō　January 1895First love, just before growing up
• Troubled WatersHiguchi Ichiyō　September 1895The fate of Oriki, a bar girl
• Love Suicide at ImadoHirotsu Ryūrō　July 1896Despair behind the quarter's glitter
• The Gold DemonOzaki Kōyō　January 1897Betrayed for money on the Atami shore
• Nami-koTokutomi Roka　November 1898A marriage torn by the family system
• Fukuō jidenFukuzawa Yukichi　July 1898Family rank was my father's enemy
• The Holy Man of Mount KōyaIzumi Kyōka　February 1900A bewitching woman in a hill house
• I Am a CatNatsume Sōseki　January 1905Meiji society through a cat's eyes
• BotchanNatsume Sōseki　April 1906A hot-headed teacher in the provinces
• The Broken CommandmentShimazaki Tōson　March 1906A father's command: hide who you are
• KusamakuraNatsume Sōseki　September 1906A painter in search of detachment
• The Grave of the Wild ChrysanthemumItō Sachio　January 1906Masao and Tamiko, a first love lost
• Onna keizuIzumi Kyōka　January 1907"Give up me, or give up her"
• The QuiltTayama Katai　September 1907A confession of love for a pupil
• GubijinsōNatsume Sōseki　June 1907A tragedy around the vain Fujio
• SanshirōNatsume Sōseki　September 1908"Stray sheep": a young man adrift
• And ThenNatsume Sōseki　June 1909Choosing love over the world's opinion
• The SoilNagatsuka Takashi　June 1910A tenant farmer's year by the Kinu
• The GateNatsume Sōseki　March 1910Quiet days for a couple with a guilt
• The Wild GeeseMori Ōgai　September 1911A kept woman and a student on Muenzaka
• MoldTokuda Shūsei　August 1911A household drifted into, and tedium
• TadareTokuda Shūsei　March 1913A kept woman after the wife's place
• The Silver SpoonNaka Kansuke　April 1913A silver spoon wakes a childhood
• The Abe FamilyMori Ōgai　January 1913A family destroyed by a refused suicide
• KokoroNatsume Sōseki　April 1914A teacher's loneliness and confession
• Sanshō the StewardMori Ōgai　January 1915Anju and Zushiō, a sister and brother
• The Priest and His DisciplesKurata Hyakuzō　November 1916Between love and faith
• Light and DarknessNatsume Sōseki　May 1916Unfinished: the pen stopped here
• Hell ScreenAkutagawa Ryūnosuke　May 1918A screen of hell, paid for in blood
• Beyond the Pale of VengeanceKikuchi Kan　January 1919A chisel of atonement, and a vendetta
• A Certain WomanArishima Takeo　March 1919A woman true to her passion, ruined
• NaomiTanizaki Jun'ichirō　March 1924A man's slow surrender to Naomi
• Kotō no oniEdogawa Ranpo　January 1929Grotesquerie on a lonely island
• The Crab Cannery ShipKobayashi Takiji　May 1929Worked to death, the crew rises
• A Portrait of ShunkinTanizaki Jun'ichirō　June 1933A blind master, a devoted disciple
• Night on the Galactic RailroadMiyazawa Kenji　1934A galaxy, and true happiness
• Matasaburō of the WindMiyazawa Kenji　1934A strange new boy who came with the wind
• The Black Death Mansion MurdersOguri Mushitarō　April 1934Erudite murder; one of three oddities
• Dogra MagraYumeno Kyūsaku　January 1935A labyrinth of madness
• The Fiend with Twenty FacesEdogawa Ranpo　January 1936The first Boy Detectives Club novel
• Tsuru wa yamikiOkamoto Kanoko　June 1936A Kamakura summer, and Akutagawa
• Sweet Beans for TwoOda Sakunosuke　April 1940An Osaka couple who cannot part
• Li LingNakajima Atsushi　July 1943Three men at the mercy of fate
• The Makioka SistersTanizaki Jun'ichirō　January 1943Four sisters of the Makioka house
• The Setting SunDazai Osamu　July 1947The fall of the "setting-sun class"
• No Longer HumanDazai Osamu　June 1948Notebooks of a man who played the clown
• Floating CloudsHayashi Fumiko　November 1949Adrift: two who cannot part
• Twenty-Four EyesTsuboi Sakae　February 1952Miss Ōishi and her twelve pupils