Best japs besides Dazai?
>>7468519
The only good jap is a dead silent one.
READ THE STICKY
Takehiko Inoue
Kenzaburo oe
Natsume soseki
Yasunari kawabata
Junichiro tanizaki
If you like Dazai try the silent cry by oe. It will tear you apart.
Natsume soseki
Mishima yukio
>>7468519
Yukio "CUNT DESTROYER" Mishima.
Ito Einosuke
>>7468623
Don't forget about Kobo Abe
Yasunari Kawabata
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
>imb4 some troll posts Marukami
>>7468984
>Murukami
>bad
choose one
>>7469014
Choose both, now fuck off back to >>>/r/books
>>7469014
Mirakuma sucks idiot
yumeno kyusaku
Kenshin Himura, Tsubasa Ozora
>>7469046
Why?
Yukio-kun
>>7469084
Murakami is only unliked in /lit/ because he's mainstream popular.
>>7469091
I've heard people arguing against his simplified style lacking meaning. I don't have any opinion however, never read him. I'm tired of newfags saying "X sucks cock!!!" and then not knowing why.
>>7469158
>>7469093
>>7469091
I don't know what you guys have against Ryu.
>>7469014
enjoy your ban :^)
>>7469160
they talking about haruki . ryu a little weird. wish more of his shit got translated ya feel me?
>>7468981
Which work would you suggest?
>>7469171
sea of fertility
>>7469171
Start with Sailor who Fell From Grace with the Sea, then Golden Pavilion. Then read the Tetrology or Confessions of a Mask.
He is really focused on aesthetic beauty and masculinity, and lots of underlying violence.
>>7469014
he's not ''''bad'''' but he's not one of the best either
>>7469174
Not him but start with the woman in the dunes.
>>7469171
What did you read by Soseki? I've only read Kokoro but thought it was excellent, especially as a period piece showing a country in transition.
>>7469368
That picture is funny, do you have more?
>especially as a period piece showing a country in transition
The Setting Sun is Similar.
>>7469391
Cool. I've been thinking about reading The Setting Sun. No Longer Human was great.
>>7468981
Yeah forgot about him. I loved woman in the dunes.
>>7469174
Woman in the dunes.
>>7469171
Mishima is like an angsty teen when it comes to notions of art and beauty. He didn't like Dazai actually...maybe bc Dazai had a few unsuccessful suicide attempts before dying from one. Sounds awful but I imagine that's the kind of guy mishima was.
Oe destroys mishima's philosophy in, the silent cry.
For all /lit/'s love of Christianity, I can't believe Shusaku Endo hasn't come up, and that he rarely even does come up on /lit/
Kawabat and Tanizaki are head and shoulders above the rest. And Lady Murasaki obviously.
Below that you could have Abe, Soseki, some of Mishima, Endo.
Then Oe, Dazai, Akutagawa, Ooka.
Then the modern popular guys. Ryu Muakami is the best, Haruki is lol but Kafka on the Shore is good. Banana Yamamoto is shit. Shuichi Yoshida is trash. Kirino can be fun.
>>7469457
I sill say it's also no surprise that mishima doesn't like dazai...considering the protags in dazai's books.
And oe has the "come back to reality for sanity's sake" apporach.
>>7469493
>Tanizaki
I recommend "Seven Japanese Tales" as intro to his work, easily digestible short stories with themes emblematic of his obsessions and fascinations.
>>7469493
Youve named some good authors but are shit at organizing them.
>>7469062
You've actually read him? What works do you like?
>>7469435
Do you have part 3 my friend?
>>7468519
Why is he so dreamy?
