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Hearn, Lafcadio
Exploring Lafcadio Hearn in Tokyo: Small photographs of several sites in Tokyo related to Hearn, along with a collection of links, a (very) short biography, and a few other items.
Steve Trussel's Lafcadio Hearn Page: An extremely useful single-page site on Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo), with a bulletin board where questions concerning this celebrated interpreter of Japanese culture receive authoritative answers. There is also an excellent collection of related links.
Kawabata Yasunari
Yasunari Kawabata Bibliography: A comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Kawabata in English, compiled by Allen Reichert, the electronic access librarian at Otterbein College, Ohio. A major update of material was carried out in 2003.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968: The page on Kawabata at the official site of the Nobel Prize.
The Mishima Yukio Literary Museum: A site in Japanese managed by Yamanaka-ko Village, home of the Mishima Yukio Literary Museum, which opened in July 1999. A fairly detailed "chronological history" of Mishima's life and career is provided.An earlier English-language version of the site has been discontinued.
Welcome to the World of Miura Ayako: A site devoted to the Christian novelist Miura Ayako. Contains a profile of Miura, a partial listing of novels (along with some summaries and sample chapters in English), and a page of quotations from Miura's novels on a number of topics. The manager of the site, Deborah Davidson, also publishes a blog dealing with Miura, which she intends to use for future updates.
The Eldritch Press Natsume Soseki Home Page: This site contains the complete text of Edwin McClellan's translation of Kokoro along with a list of links (current as of January 2000) to English sites having to do with Sōseki.
The Soseki Museum in London: A site in Japanese devoted primarily to Sōseki's (dismal) two-year stay in England, with pictures of various artifacts and short explanations attached. Photographs of the lodging houses in which Sōseki stayed are also available. A previously promised English site never materialized, and the Japanese site is marred by a garish and confusing layout.
Yoshimoto Banana
Yoshimoto Banana Offical Site: The official site of this popular novelist. The English pages contain a good deal less than the Japanese pages in terms of volume, but they do include a monthly diary entry (often simply a captioned photograph) and a FAQ where Banana explains, among other things, the origin of her name. Even if you don't read Japanese, you might want to view the Japanese pages to see the extra photographs.