Anthology of Japanese Literature/Short Bibliography

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Short Bibliography

 

• General Works

• Aston, W. G. A History of Japanese Literature. London, 1899.
• Benl, Oscar. Die Entwicklung der japanischen Poetik. Hamburg, 1951.
• Bonneau, Georges. Anthologie de la poésie japonaise. Paris, 1935.
• ———. L’expression poétique dans le folk-lore japonais. Paris, 1933.
• Bowers, Faubion. Japanese theatre. New York, 1952.
• Florenz, Karl. Geschichte der japanischen Litteratur. Leipzig, 1905.
• Keene, Donald. Japanese Literature. New York, 1955.
• Miyamori, Asatarō. Masterpieces of Japanese Poetry. Tokyo, 1936.
• Piper, Maria. Die japanische Theater. Frankfurt a. Main, 1937.
• Revon, Michel. Anthologie de la littérature japonaise. Paris, 1910.
• Sansom, George. Japan; a short cultural history. London, 1931.
• Waley, Arthur. Japanese poetry. Oxford, 1919.

 

• Ancient and Heian Periods

• Beaujard, André (tr.). Les notes de chevet de Séi Shōnagon. Paris, 1934.
• Bonneau, Georges. Le monument poétique de Heian. Paris, 1933.
• Man’yōshū. Published for Nippon gakujutsu shinkōkai. Tokyo, 1940.
• Omori, Annie S. and Doi, Kochi (trs.). Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan. Tokyo, 1935.
• Porter, William N. (tr.). The Tosa Diary. London, 1912.
• Reischauer, Edwin O. and Yamagiwa, Joseph K. (trs.). Translations from Early Japanese Literature. Cambridge (Mass.), 1951.
• Seidensticker, E. G. (tr.). “Kagerō Nikki,” Transactions, Asiatic Society of Japan, Third Series, 4, 1955.
• Waley, Arthur (tr.). The lady who loved insects. London, 1929.
• ———. The pillow-book of Sei Shōnagon. London, 1928.
• ———. The tale of Genji. 1 vol. London, 1935.
• ———. “Some Poems from the Man’yōshū and Ryōjin-hishō,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1921.
• Whitehouse, Wilfrid (tr.). Ochikubo Monogatari. Kobe, 1934.

 

Kamakura and Muromachi Periods

• Peri, Noël. Le nô. Tokyo, 1944.
• Pound, Ezra. The Translations of Ezra Pound. New York, 1953.
• Sadler, A. L. (tr.). “Heike Monogatari,” Transactions, Asiatic Society of Japan, 46, 2 (1918) and 49, 1 (1921).
• Sakanishi, Shio (tr.). Kyôgen, comic interludes of Japan. Boston, 1938.
• Sansom, George (tr.). “The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi,” Transactions, Asiatic Society of Japan, 39 (1911).
• Shidehara, Michitarō and Whitehouse, Wilfrid (trs.). “Seami’s Sixteen Treatises,” Monumenta Nipponica, 4, 2 (1941) and 5, 2 (1942).
• Suzuki, Beatrice Lane (tr.). Nōgaku, Japanese nō plays. New York, 1932.
• Waley, Arthur (tr.). The Nō Plays of Japan. London, 1921.

 

Tokugawa Period

• Blyth, R. H. Haiku. 4 vols. Tokyo, 1949–52.
• ———. Senryū, Japanese satirical verses. Tokyo, 1950.
• Bonneau, Georges. Le Haiku. Paris, 1935.
• Henderson, Harold Gould. The Bamboo Broom. Boston, 1934.
• Iacovleff, Alexander and Elisséeff, Serge. Le théâtre japonais. Paris, 1933.
• Keene, Donald (tr.). The Battles of Coxinga. London, 1951.
• Miyamori, Asatarō (tr.). An anthology of haiku. Tokyo, 1932.
• ———. Masterpieces of Chikamatsu. Kobe, 1926.
• Satchell, Thomas (tr.). Hizakurige. Kobe, 1929.
• Shively, Donald H. (tr.). The love suicide at Amijima. Cambridge (Mass.), 1953.
• Uyehara, Yukuo and Sinclair, Marjorie (trs.). The Poems of Kotomichi Ōkuma. Honolulu, 1955.
• Whitehouse, Wilfrid (tr.) “Ugetsu Monogatari” (by Ueda Akinari), Monumenta Nipponica, 1, 2 (1938) and 4, i (1941).

 

Note: A much more extensive bibliography may be found in Borton, Hugh, et al., A Selected List of Books and Articles on Japan in English, French and German, Revised Edition, Cambridge (Mass.), 1954.