# Japanese/Reader
## Children's texts

* Issunboushi
* The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
* Kasa Jizo
* Cracking Mountain
* The Crab and The Monkey
* Momotaro
* Urashimataro
* Yamamba
* Tanabata
* Aesop's Fables - The North Wind and the Sun (イソップ童話: 北風と太陽)
* Pocket Watch (懐中時計)

## Simple texts

* 夢十夜 (w:Ten Nights of Dreams by w:Natsume Sōseki)
** 第三夜 (The third night)
** 第七夜 (The seventh night))
* Aesop's fables translated and read

## Advanced texts

* Under the Cherry Trees (桜の樹の下には)
* Run, Melos! (走れメロス)
* Be not Defeated by the Rain (雨ニモマケズ)
* The Restaurant that Has Many Orders (注文の多い料理店)
* Night on the Galactic Railroad (銀河鉄道の夜)
* I Am a Cat (吾輩は猫である)
* Rails (線路)
* Bring into focus (焦点を合せる)
* Girl's Hell (少女地獄)

## Other texts

* Japanese Wikipedia
* Soseki's Merits and Demerits of isms
* Soseki's Botchan
* Japanese Text Initiative Fully searchable premodern texts with English or Japanese interface
* Aozora Bunko Texts whose copyright has expired
* Noh Plays

## Philosophy/Political science

* 貝原益軒 (Kaibara Ekiken, 1630-1714)
** 養生訓 (Yōjōkun: Precepts for the preservation of health)
** 和俗童子訓 (Wazoku dōjikun: Precepts for Japanese common children)
* 山本常朝 (Yamamoto Jōchō, 1659-1719)
** 葉隠 (Hagakure: Hidden by the Leaves) - The book of Samurai in Saga Domain
* 福沢諭吉 (Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835-1901)
** 学問のすすめ (Encouragement of Learning)
* 五来欣造 (Gorai Kinzō, 1875-1944)
** 儒教の独逸政治思想に及ぼせる影響 (How did confucianism affect to German political philosophy)
** ファッショか共産主義か (Fascism or Communism)

## Memoirs

* 久保田栄吉 (Ōkubo Ēkichi, 1887-)
** 赤露二年の獄中生活 (Prison Life in Red Russia for two years)

## Old Songs

* Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms (さくら さくら) さくら　さくら　やよいの空は
* Soap Bubbles (シャボン玉) シャボン玉飛んだ 屋根まで飛んだ
* The Red Shoes (赤い靴)　赤い靴　はいてた　女の子
* 10,000 Feet up the Alps (アルプス一万尺)　アルプス一万尺　小槍の上で
* The glow of a firefly (蛍の光) 蛍の光 窓の雪
* The Gondola Song (ゴンドラの唄) いのち短し、恋せよ乙女
* Katyusha's song (カチューシャの唄) カチューシャかわいや わかれのつらさ
* The Boatman Ballad (船頭小唄) おれは河原の 枯すすき

### National Song

* Kimigayo (君が代) 君が代は 千代に八千代に

### War Songs

* Patriotic March (愛国行進曲) 見よ東海の空あけて
* Umi Yukaba (海行かば) 海行かば 水漬く屍

### Hymn

* Stand Up! Stand Up for Jesus! (立てよいざ立て)

## Warabe Uta

* Kagome Kagome (かごめ　かごめ) かごめかごめ 籠の中の鳥は
* Hana Ichi Monme (はないちもんめ) 勝ってうれしい花いちもんめ、負けて悔しい花いちもんめ
* Tōryanse (通りゃんせ)　通りゃんせ　通りゃんせ　ここはどこの　細通じゃ
* ずいずいずっころばし ずいずいずっころばし ごまみそずい
* Where are you from? (あんたがたどこさ) あんたがたどこさ 肥後さ 肥後どこさ 熊本さ
* Snow (雪) 雪やこんこ 霰やこんこ。

## Old Japanese texts

* The Pillow Book (枕草子) - 春はあけぼの
* Tsurezuregusa (徒然草) - つれづれなるままに
* The Tale of the Heike (平家物語) - 祇園精舎の鐘の声 諸行無常の響きあり
* Matsuo Basho's Haiku
* The Tosa Diary (土佐日記) - 男もすなる日記といふものを、女もしてみむとてするなり。

## Old Japanese texts written in Classical Chinese

* Manyoshu (万葉集)

## Transcription of Classical Chinese into Japanese

Classical Chinese was communication language between Japan, Korea, China and Vietnam until WWII.
* Shunbou (春望) - 国破れて山河在り (国破$_{レテ}$山河在$_リ$)
* Shungyou (春暁) - 春眠暁を覚えず (春眠不$_ず$$^レ$覺$_エ$$^レ$曉$_ヲ$)

## Weird Books

* native Japanese reading with annotations of Water Margin (標註訓訳　水滸伝　一) - Transcription of Written Vernacular Chinese into Japanese
* Mix-up Secret plan (混同秘策) - agricultural book for world domination plan written in Sakoku period

## Travel guide

* South Manchu travel guide, 1917 (南満洲鉄道旅行案内)
* Taiwan train travel guide, 1927 (台湾鉄道旅行案内)
* America travel guide, 1927 (米国旅行案内)
* Sakhalin train travel guide, 1928 (樺太の鉄道旅行案内)
* Korea travel guide, 1934 (朝鮮旅行案内記)
* The Trans-Siberian Express - Shortest route from the Far East to Europe, 1933 (欧州旅行の最短距離 シベリヤ急行鉄道)

## References

* ↑ See also Masao Kusuyama's version; 一寸法師
* ↑ http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000148/files/799_14972.html