Hanazakari no mori [The Forest in Full Flower] (essay) 1941

Kamen no kokuhaku [Confessions of a Mask] (novel) 1949

Ai no kawaki [Thirst for Love] (novel) 1950

Kinjiki. 2 vols. [Forbidden Colors] (fiction) 1953

Yoru no himawari [Twilight Sunflower] (play) 1953

Shiosai [The Sound of Waves] (novel) 1955

Kindai nogaku shu [Five Modern No Plays] (plays) 1956

Kinkakuji [The Temple of the Golden Pavilion] (novel) 1956

Utage no ato [After the Banquet] (novel) 1960

Gogo no eikō [The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea] (novel) 1963

Sado kōshaku fujin [Madame de Sade] (play) 1965

*Death in Midsummer and Other Stories (short stories) 1966

Taiyō to tetsu [Sun and Steel] (autobiographical essay) 1968

Hōjō no umi [The Sea of Fertility: A Cycle of Four Novels; includes Haru no yuki, Homba, Akatsuko no tera and Tennin gosui] (novels) 1969-71

†Haru no yuki [Spring Snow] (novel) 1969

†Honba [Runaway Horses] (novel) 1969

†Akatsuki no tera [The Temple of Dawn] (novel) 1970

†Tennin gosui [The Decay of the Angel] (novel) 1971

*This collection includes the short story “Patriotism” (1960).

†These works comprise the tetralogy Hōjō no umi (The Sea of Fertility).