Literatura clsica

Autor desconocido: Cantares de Ise

Sei Shnagon (~966 - 10??): Libro de la almohada
Murasaki Shikibu (973 - 1025): El prncipe Genji

Literatura del perodo medio

Heike-monogatari (1371)

Literatura moderna

Ihara Saikaku (1642 - 1693)

Matsuo Bash (1644 - 1694)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653 - 1725)
Ueda Akinari (1734 - 1809)
Santo Kyoden (1761 - 1816)
Jippensha Ikku (1765 - 1831)
Kyokutei Bakin (1767 - 1848)

Literatura contempornea

Mori Ogai (1862 - 1922)

Ozaki Koyo (1867 - 1903)
Natsume Sseki (1867 - 1916)
Izumi Kyoka (1873 - 1939)
Yosano Akiko (1878 - 1942)
Shiga Naoya (1883 - 1971)
Ishikawa Takuboku (1886 - 1912)
Tanizaki Junichiro (1886 - 1965)
Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892 - 1927)
Eiji Yoshikawa (1892 - 1962)
Kaneko Mitsuharu (1895 - 1975)
Miyazawa Kenji (1896 - 1933)
Kuroshima Denji (1898 - 1943)
Tsuboi Shigeji (1898 - 1975)
Ibuse Masuji (1898-1993)
Ishikawa Jun (1899 - 1987)
Kawabata Yasunari (1899 - 1972)
Miyamoto Yuriko (1899 - 1951)
Tsuboi Sakae (1900 - 1967)
Oguma Hideo (1901 - 1940)
Kobayashi Takiji (1903 - 1933)
Ishikawa Tatsuzo)
Dazai Osamu (1909 - 1948)
Endo Shusaku (1923 - 1996)
Abe Kobo (1924 - 1993)
Mishima Yukio (1925 - 1970)
Inoue Hisashi (1933 -)
Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934 -)
Oe Kenzaburo (1935 -)
Nakagami Kenji (1946 - 1992)
Murakami Haruki (1949 -)
Murakami Ryu (1952 -)
Banana Yoshimoto (1964 -)