Kobayashi Issa ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill ; illustrated by Kaji Aso. Kobo Abe ; translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders ; introduction by Kaori Nagai. Yoko Tawada ; translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani. Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by Alfred H. Marks. Kaya Doi ; translated from the Japanese by David Boyd. Machi Tawara ; translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Hiro Arikawa ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Minae Mizumura ; translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Translated from the Chinese by Sam Hamill ahd J.P.Seaton translated from the Japanese by Emily Balistrieri