My Japanese bookshelf… mostly. I kind of just wanted to see if it all would even fit on one shelf, and the answer is: no. There’s more HanaKimi on another shelf, as well as random one-off books I probably forgot about. Also underneath are books for Taiwanese and Mandarin, ahah.
- ハガレンかるた. A set of karuta cards, FMA-themed. I don’t know how to play karuta, and even if I did, I have no one to play with, so they’re just in the box?
- The tiny yellow book next took the karuta set is a random deconstruction of Earthsea that someday I will be able to read. They were giving them out for free in front of Kinokuniya one year I was in Japan, and I love Earthsea, so I picked one up even though I can’t read it. Mostly the rest is 十二国記 (Twelve Kingdoms) and the three on the end are Rose of Versailles, none of which I’m able to read yet. But someday.
- Vols 1, 12-16, & 18 of FMA (I’m in the process of completing the set… don’t ask me why I bought them out of order in the first place), Clover.
- Bilingual readers. The one on the far left is very old, it was my parents’. The Japanese is rather antiquated, but it’s kind of a neat book. The other two I picked up at the regular bookstore. They’re still a bit beyond my level, so I keep starting and stopping them.
- Grammar dictionaries.
- Japanese readers. The first three are all for 一年生. The others are some of the White Rabbit set.
- More manga. Utena, vol 1 of HanaKimi (rest is elsewhere), vol 1 of XXXHolic (which is all I have), Wish, Tokyo Babylon. I haven’t read any of these in Japanese yet.
- And more manga. 2, 3, & 5 of D.N.Angel on top of Card Captor Sakura.
- Novels. Something I don’t even know on top of the Japanese translation of Songmaster, 雨ふる本屋, and Harry Potter. Things I will read at some point, when I can?
- Doujin by yoshitoshi aBe.
- Old textbooks for Japanese and Classical Japanese (aka Tale of the Bamboo Cutter and 古い日本語 dictionaries).
- JLPT prep books. Some old? Like the red one is the old N3, so more or less the current N4. The two horizontal ones up top are the two I’m actually working on with my tutors. Several are for N2 and N1 which I haven’t even looked at yet.
- Miscellaneous things. Colloquial Kansai, Japanese Slang, Jazz Up Your Japanese with Onomatopoeia, Words in Context, A Dictionary of Japanese Idioms, Making Sense of Japanese, Essential Japanese, and then several books my mother bought me that I have no idea what they even are, because I don’t even read the other things I own, lulz.
- Two books I’ve had since I was a kid: Kaguya-hime (I loved this picture book and her fancy kimono), and The Giving Tree in Japanese (or おおきな木 as it actually is titled).