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Authors
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Hearn, Lafcadio
Exploring Lafcadio Hearn in Tokyo: 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 page 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
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive: The Archive's page on Kawabata, which is mostly bare except for a comprehensive annotated English bibliography submitted by Allen Reichert (see the following entry).
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 Mishima Yukio CyberMuseum: A site in both Japanese and English organized by Yamanaka-ko Village, home of the Mishima Yukio Museum, which opened in July 1999. A fairly detailed "chronological history" of Mishima's life and career is provided, as is a GIF-image version of the bibliography of Mishima's works published by the Japan PEN Club. Of special interest is a bulletin board where readers can ask questions in English about Mishima and receive answers from members of the museum's organizing committee (although activity at the end of 1999 is rather slow). An English map showing the museum's location has also been posted.
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 number of links. A page of quotations is promised for the future.
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 much 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.