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Anthology of Japanese Literature, ed. Donald Keene
Intelligently introduced and annotated, this starts with a bunch of superb love poems from the Man'yoshu, and continues through all the greatest peaks of Japanese literature up to the end of the Edo period with excerpts, short plays and representative poems: Kokinshu, Genji, Pillow Book, Heike, Zeami, Three Poets at Minase, Basho, Buson, Chikamatsu, Ikku. It's hard to see how it could have been improved except by there being much more of it (it runs around 425 pages) - an absolutely exemplary introductory sampler.