Of the others which I have reviewed are also available there but I've just Those marked with an asterisk are available from Googlebooks. In fact I was able to obtain Kumagai from them when I lucked out at Amazon). You could also try the Asia Bookroom ( as they have this type of novel from time to time. T ry Amazon (either or for new and secondhand), Alibris ( for secondhand books) or Books and Collectibles ( another portal to secondhand bookshops like Alibris). Please check both parts before sending me any additions and if possible, could you include not only publisher and date but at least a sentence describing the plot. The bamboo sword and other samurai tales won’t be in the Novels section but broken up into the individual stories in the Short Story section. Likewise anthologies of short stories issued under a single title such as Fujisawa Shuhei’s Parker’s short stories in the second part, while her novels are in the first part. These can be found at Clayton's Japan(the Japan you have when
Tengu and others are part of the native fauna. Of Sekigahara and the Shimabara Revolt happen in one lifetime, or dragons, Mashed up so, for example, the Genpei War and the Mongol Invasion, or the Battle The geography might be slightly different, the historical events are rather These are stories where Japan usually has another name, I have decided to separate out those examples of that curious sub-genre, theĬod-Japanese historical. NOVELS SET IN A QUASI-JAPAN OR A JAPAN WHICH ISN'T JAPAN It is also a bit idiosyncratic in that I don't review every book in a series Please feel free to add to this as I want to make it as complete as possible. As can be seen the Restoration and Meiji periods are by far the favourites with Western authors, though there is also a small cottage industry devoted to Will AdamsĪnd also the Heian period. Thus you will find, for example, only two novels by the pseudonymous Onoto Watanna (an American author hiding - as well she might - under a pseudo-Japanese nom de plume) as these appear to be set some decades earlier than she was writing.Į arliest times up to the end of the Meiji period (1868-1912).
Likewise Western authors writing in 19 th century Japan about (then) contemporary events unless it is plain their work is set in an earlier century. Thus Yoshikawa’s Taiko qualifies but Genji Monogatari or the works of Saikaku do not because as far as their authors were concerned, they were writing about the here and now. For the purposes of this bibliography, ‘historical novel’ means a novel which is deliberately set in the past. This is something I’ve been working on for many years. JAPAN IN HISTORICAL FICTION JAPAN IN HISTORICAL FICTION IN ENGLISH
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