Welcome to Ian's mad readers! The aim of these page is to give
foreign learners of Japanese information on real Japanese books,with
the view to making reading Japanese rather less of a struggle.I have also
found most learner books rather boring-this is becoming less of a problem
now!
As usual this sort of thing cannot happen over-night;this project is
going to be very long term in nature.I guess if you visit this page
every couple of months you should either find something new or at least
updated.
Personally I am interested in Manga and Classical Japanese Literature-I
would not rule other forms out-I will try to provide a wide range.
Manga
At the moment I have a "demo" version of Rama 1/2 which you can view by
clicking here (you will need a Japanese Browser to view it)
or in a zip file here.
My Manga collection consists of DNA vols 1-5,Video girl Ai volume one,
Doremon vols 3,4,5,6.All should appear over the next year or so.
Classical
On the classical side I have Ise Monogatari and volume one of Genji
Monogatari.Ise will be the first to appear,Genji due to its size will
possibly require special treatment and might not appear at all.
This will be on a seperate page
Misc
I have novels by Kawabata and Mishima-they may appear on a chapter by
chapter basis.
You may ask why I am doing this-my answer is simple.What I am putting on
here is simply my notes which I have created in studying these texts-I
hope that they may be of use to somebody!
Page updated on 19/11/98 by Ian