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page 1Japanese novellas

The House of the Sleeping Beauties
1961 novel by Yasunari Kawabata

The Sound of Waves
1954 novel by Yukio Mishima

The Dancing Girl of Izu
short story by Yasunari Kawabata

Kappa
novel by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
The Strange Library
2005 novel by Haruki Murakami

The Hunting Gun
novella by Yasushi Inoue

Takekurabe
, English titles including Growing Up and '''''Child's Play''''', is a novella by Japanese writer Ichiyō Higuchi, first published in 1895–96. It depicts a group of youths growing up in Shitaya Ryūsenji-chō, Yoshiwara, Meiji era Tokyo's red light district, over a span of four months.

Chichi to Ran
2008 novel by Mieko Kawakami