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Japanese Literature on Death

Yukio Mishima

The Tale of Genji

Yasunari Kawabata

Haruki Murakami

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Matsuo Basho

Japanese literature has a deep sense of tragedy, the more famous the writer the more so, and the different people deal with the feelings of death is very different, you follow the famous Japanese authors to find their writings.