Hey /lit/ I wanna start getting into Japanese lit what are the best books to get into it.
that crazy bodybuilder. he committed sudoku. don't remember name.
>>8122483
Yukio Mishima. Seems like an interesting guy but I haven't started reading his books yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima
start with the greeks
>>8122490
he was a very interesting gay
i mean guy
>>8122491
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>>8122491
Already fell for the meme I'm looking to get into literature from Japan not literature as a whole
>>8122470
The two best works for "getting into" Japanese literature are Akutagawa's Rashomon and Other Stories and Mishima's Patriotism.
>>8122470
Capped this a while ago, from what I've heard this is a very good/knowledgable list.
>>8122974
Natsuo Kirino doesn't really belong there. It would be someone like Ibuse or Shiga. But it's a pretty appropriate hierarchy.
I'd separate out Yoshimoto and Ryu Murakami to another tier, for popular world literature that sometimes get across to people who couldn't care otherwise about Jlit. And maybe keep Kirino with that one.
>>8122470
>>8122483
>>8122490
This.
