General Introduction

General Introduction

List of Classical Japanese Works in Translation

from

Master List Compiled by Prof. Michael Watson at Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

as part of the Pre-Modern Japanese Studies website.

translations of classical Japanese works

To search by title, use the list of romanized titles on the left. You may also search by title in Japanese in alphabetical order. Also available: version with diacritics and without kanji

editor's notes
titles from A - F / G - I / J - K / M - N / O - R / S - / T - Z

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Aisome-gawa 藍染川

Muromachi tale

Excerpts tr. into French in Pigeot, Michiyuki-bun, p. 28 etc.

Akimichi あきみち

Muromachi tale

"Akimichi" tr. in McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose, 1990, pp. 499-509.

Childs, Margaret H. "Didacticism in Medieval Short Stories. Hatsuse Monogatari and Akimichi." MN 42.3 (1987): 253-289.

Aki no yo no nagamonogatari 秋夜長物語

Muromachi tale

Pigeot, Jacqueline, "Longue histoire d'une nuit d'automne," [extract] in Histoire de Yokobue, 1972, pp. 167-172.

Akizuki monogatari 秋月物語

Muromachi tale

Short excerpt tr. in Pigeot, Michiyuki-bun, pp. 339-340. // Study: Pigeot, Jacqueline. "Du mythe au roman populaire - Avatars d'une combinatoire narrative dans le Japan du quinzieme siecle," Journal Asiatique, CCLXIV, 1-2, 1978, pp. 117-174. [n.s.]

Amakusabon heike monogatari 天草本平家物語

Romanized version of Heike monogatari (late 16C Jesuit Press)

e-text ed. H. Shinozaki

Amakusabon esopo monogatari 天草版伊曾保物語

Romanized version of Aesop (late 16C Jesuit Press)

e-text ed. A. Okajima (romaji, kana)

Ariake no wakare 有明の別れ

Late Heian monogatari

Khan, Robert Omar. [Book I, part of Book II, most of Book III] in 'Ariake no
Wakare': Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in a Late Twelfth-century Monogatari.
Ph.D. dissertation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1998.

Khan, Robert Omar. [Selections] in Stephen Miller, ed., Partings at Dawn,1996.

Asagao no tsuyu no miya 朝顔の露の宮

Muromachi tale

Opening tr. in Pigeot, Michiyuki-bun, p. 189.

Atsumori 敦盛 (noh play)

[see noh-trans page for translation of this noh play and all others]

Atsumori 敦盛 (kowaka genre)

Araki, The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan, 1964, pp. 150-71. Abridged in Brazell, Traditional Japanese Theater 1998: 295-300.

azuma asobi uta 東遊歌

early genre of song, principally used in Shinto ritual [NKBD 31]

"Suraga Dance" tr. Hiroaki Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:154.

azuma uta 東歌

early genre of "poems from (the provinces) of the East"

examples collected in Man'yoshu, book 14.

Azuma kagami 吾妻鏡

Chronicle history

Shinoda, M. The Founding of the Kamakura Shogunate, 1180-1185, with selected translations from the Azuma Kagami. Columbia UP, 1960 [partial trans. of first five books.]

McCullough, William. "The Azuma Kagami Account of the Shokyu War." MN 23 (1968):102-55. [Trans. of book 25, concerning year 1221.]

azuma uta 東歌

"eastern songs," 330 of which are collected in Man'yoshu, vol. 14

Bownas and Thwaite 1964: 22.

Baishoron 梅松論 (ca. 1349)

Historical tale (rekishi monogatari). Account of Ashikaga shogunate.

Uyenaka, Shuzo. A study of Baishoron, a source for the ideology of imperial loyalism in medieval Japan. Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1979. [Excerpts]

banka 挽歌

genre of elegies. (Fr. "poemes funebres")

Ben no naishi nikki 弁内侍日記

Court diary

Hulvey, Shirley Yumiko. "The Nocturnal Muse: a Study and Partial Translation of "Ben no Naishi Nikki," a Thirteenth Century Poetic Diary." Ph.D. Berkeley, 1989. Forthcoming: Ben no Naishi Nikki: A Poetic Record of Female Courtiers' Sacred Duties at the Kamakura-Period Court. Cornell East Asia Series.

e-text ed. H. Shinozaki (GSRJ)

Benkei monogatari 弁慶物語

Muromachi tale

Sieffert, Rene. Histoire de Benkei. Paris: P.O.F., 1995. 95 p.

Bokuteikishu 牧笛集

Poetry collection by Fujiwara no Kiyosuke (1104-1177)

Trans. not known. Title tr. as "Shepherd's Flute Collection" (Putzlar 1973: 63)

Bungo fudoki 豊後風土記

Aoki, Michiko Yamaguchi. Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki, with Introduction and Commentaries. Ann Arbor, 1997.

Bunji ninen jugatsu nijuyokka dazai go-no-sochi Tsunefusa uta awase 文治二年十月廿四日太宰権師経房歌合

Utawase held 1186. Judgement by Fujiwara no Suetsune (1130-1221)

Poem and judgement tr. in Pigeot, Michiyuki-bun, p. 146-7.

Bunka shureishu 文華秀麗集

second imperial kanshi collection

Bunkyo hifuron 文鏡秘府論

Bodman, Richard Wainwright. "A Study and Translation of Kukai's 'Bunkyo Hifuron'." PhD Cornell University, 1978.

Bunsho soshi 文正さうし [文正草子]

Araki, James. "Bunsho Soshi: The Tale of Bunsho, the Saltmaker," MN 38:3 (1983).

Rumpf, Fritz. Japanische Volksmaerchen. Jena, 1938. [n.s.]

e-text by H. Shinozaki

Bussokuseki no uta (bussokuseikika) 仏足石歌碑

Mills, Douglas E. "The Footprints of the Buddha." Journal of the American Oriental Society 80.3 (July-Sept. 1960): 229-242.

see Princeton Companion [hereafter PCCJL] p. 271.

byobu uta [byobu no uta] 屏風歌

genre of poems written to accompany screen paintings. PCCJL p. 31.

Discussion in Pigeot, Michiyuki-bun, 93-103 ("poemes pour paravents")

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Chikurinsho 竹林抄

"Bamboo Grove Notes" by Sogi, 1476

Chiteiki 池亭記 (982)

Watson, Burton. "Record of the Pond Pavilion," in Japanese Literature in Chinese, vol. 1. New York: Columbia UP, 1975; pp. 57-64.

Dong, Donald D. Yoshishige no Yasutane, Chiteiki. MS 26 (1963): 445-53.

see PCCJL entry for Yoshishige no Yasutane 慶滋保胤

choka 長歌

Genre of poem with alternating lines of five and seven syllables. Typical of Man'yoshu, but found in later collections (e.g. Kokinshu, book 19).

Dainihonkoku hokekyo genki 大日本国法華経験記

Dykstra, Yoshiko K. Miraculous Tales of the Lotus Sutra from Ancient Japan. U of Hawaii Press, 1984.

Dainihonshi 大日本史1657-1906, see part 2

Eiga ittei 詠歌一体

"The Style of Composition," 1274, by Fujiwara Tameie 藤原為家

Brower, Robert H. The Foremost Style of Poetic Composition: Fujiwara Tameie's Eiga no Ittei. MN 42 (1987): 391-429.

Eiga monogatari 栄花物語（栄華物語）

McCullough, Helen C., and William H. McCullough. Tale of Flowering Fortunes: Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period. 2 vols. Stanford, California: Stanford UP, 1980.

Hurst, G. Cameron, III. "Michinaga's Maladies." MN 34.1 (1979): 101-112.

Engi shiki 延喜式

attrib. to Fujiwara Tokihira 藤原時平 (871-909)

Bock, Felicia G. Classical Learning and Taoist Practices in Early Japan, with a translation of Books XVI and XX of the Engi-Shiki. Occasional Paper No. 17, Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State Univ., 1985. // "The Enthronement Rites: The Text of Engishiki, 927." MN 35 (1982): 307-37. // Engi-shiki : procedures of the Engi Era. Monumenta Nipponica monograph. 2 vols. Tokyo: Sophia University, 1970-1972. REV: Hurst MN 28 (1973). // "Engi-shiki: ceremonial procedures of the Engi era, 901-922." PhD dissertation. Berkeley, University of California, 1966.

Ellwood, Robert S. The Feast of Kingship. Accession Ceremonies in Ancient Japan. [**] REV. Bock, MN 28 (1973).

See Norito for Donald Philippi's translation of Engi shiki, book 8.

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Fudoki 風土記

Prose genre: "topographies" (PCCJL p. 148), "geographical treatises"

Bungo fudoki, Harima fudoki, Hitachi fudoki, Hizen fudoki, and Izumo fudoki (all references gathered here]

Aoki, Michiko Yamaguchi. Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki, with Introduction and Commentaries. Ann Arbor: Association of Asian Studies Monograph Series, 1997. [OP / AAS]

Story of Urashima tr. in Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 27f.

Florenz, Karl. Japanische Mythologie. MOAG (1901): 282-308. [Trans. of short passages]

Fubokusho / Fubokuwakasho 夫木和歌抄

Kamakura waka collection (1310?) compiled by Fujiwara Nagakiyo

Fugashu / Fugawakashu 風雅和歌集 (1349)

17th imperial anthology. ("FGS"). "Collection of Japanese Poetry of Elegance"

36 poems tr. in Brower and Miner, JCP, 1961.

Fukan zazengi 普観座禅儀 (1227)

"General Advice on the Principles of Zazen" (Dogen)

Yokoi Yuho. Master Dogen. An introduction with selected writings. New York,1976.

Dumoulin, Heinrich. "Allgemeine Lehren zur Foerderung des Zazen von Zen-Meister Dogen." MN 14 (1958-9).

Masunaga Reiho. Introduction to Hukanzazangi... Tokyo, 1956.

Fukutomi soshi 福富草紙

(Muromachi-period otogizoshi)

Fushimi in nakatsukasa naishi nikki 伏見院中務内侍日記

diary (1292)

e-text ed. M. Shibata under prep. (Yomeido bunko)

Fuyoshu / Fuyowakashu 風葉和歌集

"The Collection of Wind-Blown Leaves" (mid-Kamakura collection of poems from monogatari)

fuzoku uta (genre) 風俗（歌）

Heian court song to accompaniment of wagon [PCCJL 274]

four songs tr. Hiroaki Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:155-6.

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translations of classical Japanese works

To search by title, use the list of romanized titles on the left. You may also search by title in Japanese in alphabetical order.

editor's notes
titles from A - F / G - I / J - K / M - N / O - R / S - / T - Z

Genji monogatari 源氏物語

Tyler, Royall. The Tale of Genji. New York: Viking Press, 2001. [Published October 11, 2001.]

McCullough, Helen Craig. Genji & Heike: Selections from The Tale of Genji and The Tale of the Heike. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994.

Rickmeyer, Jens and Iris Hasselberg. Klassischjapanische Lektuere, Genji no Monogatari. Hamburg: Buske, 1991. [Detailed introduction to language of Genji through analysis of "Kiritsubo" maki.]

Sokolova-Deliusina, Tatiana. Povest o Gendzi: Gendzi-monogatari 6 vols. Nauka, 1991-3. (Russian title: Повесть о Гэндзи)

Seidensticker, Edward G. The Tale of Genji. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

Sieffert, Rene. Le Dit du Genji. 2 vols. Paris: P.O.F., 1978-85. Reissued P.O.F Tama 1993.

Benl, Oscar. Genji-Monogatari. 2 vols. Zuerich: Manesse Verlag, 1966.

Haguenauer, C. Le Genji Monogatari. Paris, 1959. ["Kiritsubo" only]

Waley, Arthur. The Tale of Genji. A Novel in Six Parts by Lady Murasaki. 1925-1933. [Often reprinted. Link is for edition by Dover Publications, 2000, 256 pp.]

Suyematz, Kenchio [Suematsu, Kencho]. Genji monogatari. London, 1882. [Reprinted in Tuttle pbk]

Versions believed to derive all or in part from Waley's translation:

Storia di Genji: il principe splendente: romanzo giapponese dell'xi secolo / Murasaki Shikibu; a cura di Adriana Motti dall'edizione di Arthur Waley. Einaudi, 1992. [Italian]

Die Geschichte vom Prinzen Genji. Nach der Englischen Uebertragung von Arthur Waley, Deutsch vom Herberth E. Herlitschka. 2 vols. Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1954. [German]

Alkman, Annastina. Genjis roman: en japansk Don Juan for 1000 ar sedan [av] Hovdamen Murasaki. Bokforlaget Natur och Kultur, 1928. [Swedish]

Le Roman de Genji / Mourasaki Shikibou ; traduit par Kikou Yamata d'apres la version anglaise de A. Waley, et le texte original ancien. Paris: Plon, 1922 [French]

for secondary literature see short list on studies page

E-text of Teika-bon ed. E. Shibuya. Others available on CD-ROM or from Oxford Text Archive (Shogakukan ed.)

Complete text available on several CD-ROM publications.

Fujitsu CD-ROM [link-1, link-2]. Review

Genji monogatari ekotoba 源氏物語絵詞

Morris, Ivan (trans.). The Tale of Genji Scroll. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1971.

Murase, Miyeko. Iconography of the Tale of Genji: Genji monogatari ekotoba: Weatherhill, 1974.

e-text ed. M. Toshima (on Fukui site) [large file, lha compression]

Genko shakusho 元享釈書

30 vol. denki completed ca. 1322, attrib. to monk Kokan Shiren 虎関師錬

Naumann, Wolfram, "Kein Vogel singt. Gedanken und Impressionen des Moenches Kokan Shiren (1278-1346) im Heiligtum von Ise" Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 12.2 (1989) [translation from book XVIII]

Ury, Maria Bloom. Genko shakusho, Japan's first comprehensive history of Buddhism, a partial translation, with introduction and notes. PH.D. Berkeley: University of California, 1970.

Genpei josuiki (Genpei seisuiki) 源平盛衰記

Version of Heike monogatari in 48 books.

passages concerning Semimaru in Matisoff, Legend, 1978, pp. 173-4.

short excerpts in Aston, History of Japanese Literature, 1899.

Florenz, Karl. Geschichte der Japanischen Litteratur. Leipzig: Amelangs Verlag, 1909. [Episodes from battles of Ichi-no-tani and Dan-no-ura, pp. 304-308]

Minobe, Shigekatsu. "The world view of Genpei josuiki." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 9.2-3 (1982).

Gikeiki 義経記

McCullough, Helen C. Yoshitsune: A Fifteenth-Century Japanese Chronicle. University of Tokyo Press and Stanford UP, 1966. REV. Roland Schneider in NOAG 104 (1968).

Gosenshu / Gosen wakashu 後撰和歌集

2nd imperial anthology, 951 ff.

3 poems tr. in Brower and Miner, JCP, 1961.

Goshuishu / Goshui wakashu 後拾遺和歌集

4th imperial anthology, 1086. "GSIS"

Morrell, Robert E. "The Buddhist Poetry in the Goshuishu." MN 28 (1973): 87-100.

6 poems tr. in Brower and Miner, JCP, 1961.

Gozan bungaku (genre) 五山文学

Kabanov, Aleksandr M. Godzan bungaku: poeziia dzenskikh monastyrei. St Petersburg, 1999. Russian title: Годзан бунгаку : поэзия дзэнских монастырей

Colas, Alain-Louis. Poemes du zen des cinq-montagnes. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 1991.

Pollack, David. Zen Poems of the Five Mountains. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1985.

Ury, Marian. Poems of the Five Mountains: An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Monasteries. 2nd, revised ed. published as Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies, no. 10, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992. // 1st edition published Tokyo: Mushinsha, 1972.

poems by nine poets tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:229-235.

[background:] Collcutt, Martin. Five Mountains: The Rinzai Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1981. [Pbk. reprint, 1996]

Gukansho 愚管抄 (Jien)

Brown, Delmer, and Ishida Ichiro. The future and the past: a translation and study of the Gukansho, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219. Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1979. REV: Ury, JJS 6,2 (1980); Varley, MN 34,1 (1979): 479-488.

Robinson, G. W., and W. G. Beasley. "Japanische Geschichtsschreibung. Entstehung und Entwicklung einer eigenen Form vom 11. bis 14. Jh." in: Saeculum VIII, 1-2 (1957).

Rahder, J. "Miscellany of Personal views of an Ignorant Fool." Acta Orientalia XV (1936), p. 173-230. + vol. XVI (1937), p. 59-77.

Gyokuyoshu / Gyokuyowakashu 玉葉和歌集

13th imperial anthology (1312-3)

22 poems tr. in Brower and Miner, JCP, 1961.

Gyogi kihan 行儀規範?

Sotoshu ritual manual. Current translation project of Soto Zen Text Project

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Hachidaishu 八代集

First eight of the imperial poetry collections. The expression appears as early as Fujiwara no Teika's diary Megetsuki (entry for 1234.9.8).

(1) Kokinshu (Kokinwakashu), (2) Gosenshu, (3) Shuishu, (4) Goshuishu, (5) Kin'yoshu, (6) Shikashu, (7) Senzaishu, (8) Shinkokinshu.

Note the expression "Sandaishu" for first three collections and Nijuichidaishu for all twenty-one anthologies.

Hachikazuki 鉢かづき (otogizoshi)

Steven, Chigusa. "Hachikazuki." MN 23 (1977): 303-331.

Hankanpu (Hankanfu) 1702 see part 2

Hamamatsu chunagon monogatari 浜松中納言物語

attrib. to Sugawara Takasue no Musume

Rohlich, Thomas H. A Tale of Eleventh-Century Japan: Hamamatsu Chunagon monogatari. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983. [PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979.]

Takeuchi, Charlotte Rohde og Lone. Evigt elskes kun det tabte : Hamamatsu chunangon monogatari, en japansk roman fra 1000-tallet. Copenhagen : Akademisk, 1981. 205 p. [Danish translation]

Harima fudoki 播磨風土記

Aoki, Michiko Yamaguchi. Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki, with Introduction and Commentaries. Ann Arbor: AAS, 1997.

See Fudoki entry

Hasedera Kannon Genki 長谷寺観音験記

Dykstra, Yoshiko Kurata. "Tales of the Compassionate Kannon: The Hasedera Kannon Genki." MN 31.2 (1976): 113-143. [tr. of 11 stories from collection of 52 tales: 1.4, 1.5, 1.15, 2.15, 2.16, 2.21, 2.27, 2.28, 2.31, 2.32, 2.33.]

Hatsuse 初瀬

Childs, Margaret H. "Didacticism in Medieval Short Stories. Hatsuse Monogatari and Akimichi." MN 42 (1987): 253-289.

Heichu monogatari 平中物語

Videen, Susan Downing. Tales of Heichu. Harvard UP, 1989. *REV: Skord, MN 45:3 (1990); Hulvey, JJS 50,3 (1991).

Sieffert, Rene. Contes de Yamato suivis du dit de Heichu. Paris: P.O.F., 1979. 191 p. // Sieffert, Rene. Le Dit de Heichu. Paris: POF, 1979, reprinted in "Collection tama" 1994.

Heiji monogatari 平治物語

Chalitpatanangune, Marisa. "'Heiji Monogatari': a Study and Annotated Translation of the Oldest Text." Ph.D. Berkeley, 1987. [Based on Nakarai text]

Sieffert, Rene. Le dit de Hogen, le dit de Heiji. POF. Paris, 1976.

Stramigioli, Giuliana. "Heiji Monogatari, Parte I." Rivista degli Studi Orientali 49, III-IV (1975); 5I, I-IV (1977).

Reischauer, Edwin, "Heiji monogatari," in Reischauer and Yamagiwa 1951. [Incomplete]

Heiji monogatari emaki 平治物語絵巻

Mason, Penelope E. A Reconstruction of the Hogen-Heiji Monogatari Emaki. New York: Garland, 1977 [from New York University disseration, 1970]. [Excerpts]

Reischauer, Edwin, (Appendix) in Reischauer and Yamagiwa 1951. [Complete trans.]

Heike monogatari 平家物語

Reese, Heinz-Dieter. "Fuenf Erzaelungen aus dem Heike-Epos in Kommentierten Uebersetzung" in Franziska Ehmcke and Heinz-Dieter Reese, ed., Von Helden, Moenchen und schoenen Frauen: Die Welt des japanischen Heike Epos. Cologne: Boehlau, 2000. Parallel text format of heikyoku versions of "Yokobue," "Nasu no Yoichi," "Atsumori," Dan-no-ura," "Yoshitsune" with German translation and notes.

[Czech trans.] Fiala, Karel. Pribeh rodu Taira. Prague, 1993.

McCullough, Helen Craig. Genji & Heike: Selections from The Tale of Genji and The Tale of the Heike. Stanford UP, 1994. [Revised, abridged.]

McCullough, Helen Craig. The Tale of the Heike. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1988.
*Borgen, . JAOS 111 (1991): 123-4; Kamens, JJS 16 (1990): 132-139; Hochstedler, MN 45 (1990): 95-98; Varley, JAS 48 (1989): 397-9; Seidensticker, TLS (April 7-13, 1989): 370.

Povest' o dome Taira, tr. into Russian by I. L'vova. Poetry tr. by Alexander Dolin. Moscow, Khdozhestvennaia Literatura,1982.

Hutt, Graham, ed. Japanese Book Illustration, vol. 4: Heike Monogatari. New York: Abaris Books, 1982. [illustrations of all the 1656 (Meireki 2) woodblock edition]

Sieffert, Rene. Le Dit des Heike. Paris: P.O.F., 1978.

Kitagawa, Hiroshi, and Bruce T. Tsuchida. The Tale of the Heike. 2 vols. Tokyo UP, 1975, 1977. [vol. 2].
*H.C.McCullough JJS 2 (1976): 460-470; Naff, MN 31 (1976): 87-95; H. Shinoda, JQ 22.4 (1975): 386-7; Ruch, Japan Interpreter xi.2 (1976): 229-236; Brazell, JAS [date?].

Goto, S. and M. Prunier. Episodes du Heike monogatari. Paris, 1930. [Selections]

Goto, S., and M. Prunier. "Episodes du Heike monogatari," in Journal Asiatique 213 (1928).

Sadler, A. L. The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike: Being two thirteenth-century Japanese classics, the "Hojoki" and selections from "The Heike Monogatari." Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1928. [Tuttle reprint 1972. Revised and abridged edition of earlier tr.]

Gundert, Wilhelm. Die japanische Literatur. Wildpark-Potsdam, 1929. [Excerpts pp. 79-84]

Sadler, A.L. "The Heike Monogatari." TASJ 46.2 (1918): 1-278; 49.1 (1921): 1-354. [Complete translation of rufubon version.]

Florenz, Karl. Geschichte der Japanischen Litteratur. Leipzig: Amelangs Verlag, 1909. [Excerpt]

Turrettini, Francois. Heike monogatari: recits de l'histoire du Japon au XIIme siecle. Geneve: H. Georg, 1871. 23 p.

short excerpts translated in Aston's History of Japanese Literature.

see entry on studies page and also heike/heike.html on this site

Hitachi fudoki 常陸風土記

[Anon], Traditions, vol. 1 no. 2, 1977, p. 23-48; vol. 1 no. 3, 1977, p. 55-78.

Sakai Atsuharu. "The Hitachi Fudoki or Records of customs and land of Hitachi." Cultural Nippon IX, 2 (1941): 141-195.

one "blessing formula" trans. in Philippi 1990:82. See Norito.

Hitomotogiku 一本菊

Pigeot, J., and Kosugi, K. Le chrysantheme solitaire (Hitomotogiku). Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, Departement des manuscrits, Division des manuscrits orientaux, 1984.

Hizen fudoki 肥前風土記

Aoki, Michiko Yamaguchi. Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki, with Introduction and Commentaries. Ann Arbor: AAS, 1997.

See Fudoki entry

Hobutsushu 宝物集

tale collection attrib. Taira Yasuyori (平康頼) (see Heike monogatari 3.7)

"A Collection of Treasures" (subject of unpublished M.A. by Lorinda Kiyama)

Hogen monogatari 保元物語

Wilson, William R. Hogen Monogatari: Tale of the Disorder of
Hogen. Tokyo: Sophia UP, 1971.

Sieffert, Rene. Le dit de Hogen, le dit de Heiji. POF. Paris, 1976.

Stramigioli, Giuliana. "Hogen Monogatari." Rivista degli Studi Orientali XLI (1966): 207-271; LII (1967): 121-181, 407-453.

Kellogg, E. R. "Hogen Monogatari." TASJ, vol. XLV part 1, 1917. [Incomplete]

Hojoki 方丈記

account by Kamo no Chomei 鴨長明 (1155-1216)

Crespo, Jesus Carlos Alvarez. Un relato desde mi choza. Madrid: Hiperion, 1998
129 p. [Bilingual edition of romanized Japanese and Spanish]

Liscutin, Nicola. Aufzeichnungen aus meiner Huette [Notes from my Hut]. Frankfurt/M.: Insel Verlag, 1997. [With extensive introduction.]

Moriguchi, Yasuhiko, and David Jenkins. Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 1996. [As prose poem.]

Sieffert, Rene. Les notes de l'ermitage ; suivi de Histoires de conversion / Kamo no Chomei. Paris: Publications Orientalistes de France, 1995. [With Hosshinshu]

Fraccaro. Francesca. Ricordi di un eremo. Venice: Marsilio editori, 1991.

McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose (1990), pp. 379-92.

Hojoki: Ten Foot Square House, put into Basic English by Muro Masaru. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1990.

Czech trans. (Zapisky z volnych chvil: starojaponske literarni zapisniky
Praha : Odeon, 1984) with Tsurezuregusa and Makura no soshi. 331 p.

Complete German tr. by Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 253-266.

Grosbois, Charles, and Tomiko Yoshida. Les heures oisives par Urabe Kenko. Suivi de Notes de ma cabane de moine par Kamo no Chomei, traduction du R.P.Sauveur Candau. Paris: Gallimard/Unesco, 1968.　[Translations of Tsurezuregusa and Hojoki.]

Keene in Keene, Anthology, 1955, pp. 197-212.

Nohara. K. Hoodjooki: priskribo de dekfutkvadrata kabano / Kamo no Tjoomei. Esperanto-Kenkjusa, 1936.

Chanoch, Alexander."Aufzeichnungen in einer kleinen Huette" [Notes written in a little hut] in: Ostasiatische Zeitschrift, Neue Folge Vol. 6, 1930.

Sadler, A. L. The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike: Being two thirteenth-century Japanese classics, the "Hojoki" and selections from "The Heike Monogatari." Sydney: Angus & Robertson Limited, 1928. Reprints: Tuttle 1972; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1970.

Dickens, F. Victor. Ho-jo-ki, Notes from a ten feet hut. London, 1907. [Reprinted in collected works, Ganesha, 1991.]

Dixon, J. M. "A Description of My Hut."TASJ XX 2 (1893). [Incomplete]

Natsume Soseki's complete translation [date?] with an introduction can be found in his Zenshuu, vol. 12, pp. 343-66 (Iwanami Shoten, 1967).

study: Marra, Aesthetics of Discontent. 1991, pp. 88ff.

e-text ed. M. Shibata (KNBT)

searchable e-text of the NKBT text of Hojoki (Japanese Text Initiative)

Hokyoki 宝慶記

by Dogen 道元 (1200-1253)

Kodera, Takashi James. Dogen's Formative Years in China. An Historical Study and Annoted Translation of the Hokyo-ki. London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.

Honcho monzui 本朝文粋

"Literary Essence of Our Court," compiled in 1064 by Fujiwara Akihira. A collection of Chinese prose and poetry written by Heian writers. (Title from Smits 1995: 78)

Naumann, Wolfram, "Tokyuu no fu ('Reimprosa ueber T'u-ch'iu'); eine chinesische Dichtung des Prinzen Kaneakira (914-987)" Begegnungen der Kulturen in Ost und West, Seoul 1987

Honcho shinsen den 本朝神仙伝

1 vol. collection of setsuwa compiled ca.1098 by Oe no Masafusa 大江匡房

Bohner, Hermann. "Honcho-shinsen-den." MN 13 (1957).

Honen shonin eden 法然上人絵伝

picture scroll, ca. 1316

Coates, Harper Havelock, and Ryugaku Ishizuka. Honen the Buddhist saint, his life and teaching, compiled by imperial order. 2nd edition, Kyoto: The Society for the Publication of Sacred Books of the World, 1949.

Hosshinju 発心集

setsuwashu compiled by Kamo no Chomei between 1212-6. "A Collection of Religious Awakenings" (PCCJL p. 177).

Sieffert, Rene. Les notes de l'ermitage ; suivi de Histoires de conversion / Kamo no Chomei. Paris: Publications Orientalistes de France, 1995. [With Hojoki]

Ury, Marian. "Recluses and Eccentric Monks: Tales from the Hosshinshu." MN 27.2 (1972): 149-73. [12 tales translated]

Panday, Rajyashree. "Suki and Religious Awakening: Kamo no Chomei's Hosshinshu." MN 47 (1992): 299-321.

Seminar fuer Japanologie (Muenchen), "Uebersetzungen aus dem Hoshinshuu" NOAG 119 (1976) [translation of 14 stories].

Hosshin wakashu 発心和歌集

Kamens, Edward. The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaniin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michan, 1990. // REV Borgen, JJS 18.1 (1992); Morrell, HJAS 52.2 (1992).

Hyakunin isshu 百人一首

Mostow, Joshua. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Hawaii, 1996

Sieffert, Rene. De cent poetes un poeme. Paris: P.O.F., 1993. p. 94 .

Rickmeyer, Jens. Einfuehrung in das Klassische Japanisch. Anhand der Gedichtanthologie Hyakunin isshu. Hamburg: Buske, 1991.

Galt, Tom. The Little Treasury of One Hundred People, One Poem Each Compiled by Fuiwara no Sadaie (1162-1241): Princeton UP, 1982.

Miyata, Haruo. The Ogura Anthology of Japanese Waka: A Hundred Pieces from A Hundred Poets. Osaka, 1981

Honda, H. H. One Hundred Poems from One Hundred Poets. Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1957.

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Ima kagami 今鏡

rekishi monogatari covering years 1025-70

e-text ed. M. Shibata under prep. (KNBT)

Ima monogatari 今物語

by Fujiwara Nobuzane 藤原信実

Guelberg, Niels. Kleine literarische Denkmaeler des japanischen Mittelalters I: Das Ima monogatari. 1989 [unpublished German translation; Internet-edition forthcoming]

e-text ed. M. Shibata under prep. (GSRJ)

Ionushi いほぬし

e-text ed. A. Okajima

Ippen shonin goroku 一遍上人語録

Ippen shonin (1239-1289)

Hirota, Dennis. No abode: the record of Ippen. Kyoto: Ryukoku University.1986 // No abode: the record of Ippen. University of Hawaii Press, 1997.

Ise monogatari 伊勢物語

McCullough, Helen C. Ise monogatari. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1968. [Excerpts also in Classical Japanese Prose (1990).]

Selections in German in Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973,73-84.

Harris, H. Jay. The Tales of Ise. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1972. REV Seidensticker, MN 27 (1972).

Renondeau, G. Contes d'Ise: Ise monogatari. Paris: Gallimard/Unesco, 1969 [1988]. 181 p

Vos, Frits. A Study of the Ise-monogatari with the text according to the Den-Teika-hippon and an annotated translation. 2 vols. 'S-Gravenhage: Mouton & Co., 1957.

Benl, Oscar. Liebesgeschichten des japanischen kavaliers Narihira: Aus dem Ise-monogatari, 1957. [Excerpts in Benl, Der Kirschblutenzweig: Japanische Liebesgeschichten aus tausend Jahren. Munchen: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, 1985.]

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Jikkinsho 十訓抄

Geddes, Ward. "The Courtly Model: Chomei and Kiyomori in Jikkinsho." MN 42.2 (1987): 157-166.

Brownlee, John S. "Jikkinsho, a Miscellany of Ten Maxims." MN 29 (1974).

Jinno shotoki 神皇正統記

Varley, H. Paul. A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinno Shotoki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York and London: Columbia UP, 1980.

Bohner, Hermann. Jinno-Shoto-ki, Buch von der Wahren Gott-Kaiser-Herrschafts-Linie. 2 vol., MOAG, Tokyo, 1935.

Kitabatake Chikafusa 北畠親房 (1293-1354)

Jizo bosatsu reigenki 地蔵菩薩験記

Dykstra, Yoshiko Kurata. "Jizo, the Most Merciful: Tales from Jizo Bosatsu Reigenki." MN 33.2 (1978): 179-200. [tales 1.1, 1.5, 1.7, 2.9, 2.10, 2.12, 3.5.]

Jogu shotoku hoo teisetsu 上宮聖徳法王帝説 [e-text / info]

[Anonymous bibiography of Shotoku Taishi]

Bohner, Hermann. "I. Jogu-Shotoku Hoo-tei-setsu. II. Jogu-Kwotaishi-Bosatsu-den." MOAG (1939). [Biographies of Prince Shotoku.]

Jojin azari no haha no shu / Jojin ajari no haha no shu 成尋阿闍梨母集

Mintzer, Rober Alfred. "Jojin Azari no haha shu; maternal love in the eleventh century." Ph.D. dissertation. Harvard, 1978.

Borgen, Robert. "Jojin Azari no Haha no Shu, A Poetic Reading," in The Distant Isle ... 1996, pp. 1-34.

Jokyuki 承久記 see Shokyuki

Joruri junidan zoshi 浄瑠璃十二段草子

Sieffert, Rene. Histoire de demoiselle Joruri. Paris: P.O.F, 1994. 94 p.

Orsi, Maria Teresa, "Il Joruri ju-ni-dan-zoshi." Il Giappone 9 (1971): 99-156.

Junrei gyoki 巡礼行記

diary by Heian monk Ennin (d. 864)

Reischauer, Edwin O. Ennin's Diary. [**]. REV. Dumoulin, MN 13 (1957)

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Kaden 家伝 see Toji kaden 藤氏家伝

Kagero nikki 蜻蛉日記

author: Michitsuna no haha 道綱母

Arntzen, Sonja. The Kagero Diary . Michigan Monographs in Japanese Studies, Number 19. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1997.

McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose (1990: 102-155 [book one].

Seidensticker, Edward G. The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan. Tokyo, Japan and Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle, 1974. Revised trans. of The Kagero Nikki: Journal of a 10th Century Noblewoman (Tokyo: Asiatic Society of Japan, 1955). REV: Keene MN 12 (1956/57).

Tsukakoshi, Satoshi, Tadayoshi Imaizumi, and Max Niehans. Kagero Nikki: Tagebuch einer japanischen Edelfrau ums Jahr 980. Zurich: Max Niehans, 1955. [pbk reprint Frankfurt: Ullstein Taschenbuch, 1981]

Watanabe, Minoru. "Style and Point of View in the Kagero nikki." Trans. Richard Bowring. JJS 10.2 (Summer1984): 365-384.

kagura 神楽 genre

seven songs tr. by Hiroaki Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:149-51.

Muller, G. Kagura, Die Lieder der Kagura-Zeremonie am Naishidokoro. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1971.

Kaidoki 海道記

Hiroko Konishi, M.A. Berkeley, 1967; ?? M.A. Washington University, 1971 [*check]

Mittenzwei, Peter. Das Kaidoki: ein Reisetagebuch aus der Kamakura-Zeit. Frankfurt am Main: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat zu Frankfurt am Main, 1977. [PhD]

e-text ed. M. Shibata under prep. (GSRJ)

Kaifuso 懐風藻

Excerpts trans by Langemann, Christoph, "Gedichte aus dem Kaifuusoo." Hefte fuer Ostasiatische Literatur 11 (1991)

Excerpts in Watson, Burton. Japanese Literature in Chinese: Poetry & Prose in Chinese by Japanese Writers of the Early/Late Period (1975), 1:17-26

complete trans. of preface in Tsunoda, de Bary, and Keene, eds. Sources of the Japanese Tradition (1958), 1:88-90.

Excerpts trans by Burton Watson in Keene, Anthology of Japanese Literature ... to the Nineteenth Century (1955), 59-60.

Kairaishiki 傀儡子記

by Oe no Masafusa.

Excerpts trans in Stein, Michael. Japans Kurtisanen. 1997

Kakyo hyoshiki 歌経標式

Rabinovitch, Judith. "Wasp waists and monkey tails: a study and translation of Hamanari's Uta no shiki (The Code of Poetry, 772), also known as Kakyo Hyoshiki (A Formulary for Verse Based on the Canons of Poetry)." HJAS 51, no.2 (Dec 1991 471-560.

see entry on author Fujiwara Hamanari, 724-790 (PCCJL p.150)

Kanginshu 閑吟集

"Songs for Leisure Hours," mid-Muromachi collection of kayo songs, possibly compiled by Socho.

10 kouta tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:262-263

Kanke bunso 菅家文草

Borgen, Robert. Sugawara No Michizane and the Early Heian Court (1994)

Kara monogatari 唐物語

Geddes, Ward. Kara monogatari: Tales of China. Arizona State University, 1984.

Kenreimon'in ukyo no daibu shu 建礼門院右京大夫集

Harries, Phillip Tudor. The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu. Stanford, Stanford UP, 1980.

Wagner, James G., tr. Kenreimon'in Ukyo no Daibu Shu. MS 31 (1968): 1-27.

Kindai shuka 近代秀歌

Brower, Robert H., and Earl Miner. Fujiwara Teika's Superior Poems of Our Time. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1967.

e-text ed. E. Shibuya

Kinkafu 琴歌譜

Elliot, W., and N. S. Branner. Festive wine, Ancient Japanese Poems from the Kinkafu. New York: Weatherhill, 1969.

Branner, Noah S. "The Kinkafu Collection." MN 23 (1968): 229-320.

Kinkaishu 金槐集

private poetry collection of third shogun Minamoto no Sanetomo 源実朝

633 poems. Collaphon date equivalent to 1213.12.18. Compiled after Sanetomo's death

classical Japanese works (M - N)

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Makura no soshi 枕草子

Czech trans. (Zapisky z volnych chvil: starojaponske literarni zapisniky
Praha : Odeon, 1984) with Tsurezuregusa and Hojoki. 331 p.

Selections in German in Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 107-127.

Morris, Ivan. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. New York & London: Columbia/Oxford UP, 1967. [Penguin abridged edition 1971]

Watanabe, Mamoru. Das Kopfkissenbuch der Hofdame Sei Shonagon. Stuttgart: Manesse, 1952.

Beaujard, Andre. Notes de chevet par Sei Shonagon. Paris: Libraire Orientale et Americaine. Paris: Gallimard/Unesco, 1966. [O.P., first ed. 1934]

Waley, Arthur. The pillow book of Sei Shonagon. London: George Allen, 1928. [Selections]

Pfizmaier, August. Die Aufzeichnungen der japanischen Dichterin, Sei Seo-Na-Gon. Vienna, 1875.

Also: Czech trans. (Zapisky z volnych chvil : starojaponske literarni zapisniky
Praha : Odeon, 1984)

e-text at Japanese Text Initiative

Morris, Mark. "Sei Shonagon's Poetic Catalogues." HJAS 40.1 (1980).

Man'yoshu 万葉集

Sieffert, Rene. Man.yoshu. Paris: P.O.F., 1997-. [Vol. 1, books 1-3; vol. 2, books 4-6. Translation in progress.]

Peronny, Claude. Les plantes du Man.yo-shu. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose. 249 pp. [Selections in parallel text format, Japanese / French]

Cranston. A Waka Anthology: Volume One. 1993. [pbk 1997]

Sieffert, Rene. Chants d'amour du Manyo-shu. Collection tama. Paris: POF, 1993. 95 pp.

Levy, Ian Hideo. The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of the Man'yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry. Princeton, 1981. [Books 1-5] *Rev: Cranston, JJS 9.1 (Winter) (1983): 97-138.

Wright, Harold. Ten Thousand Leaves: Love Poems from the Man'yoshu. Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 1981.

Honda, H.H. The Manyoshu, A New and Complete Translation. 1967.

Pierson, J. L., Jr. The Manyoshu. 18 vols. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1929-64. (also Character Dictionary of the Manyoshu [1967] and General Index of the Manyoshu [1969]. REV: Dumoulin, MN 11 (1955)

Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai. The Manyoshu: One Thousand Poems. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1940. [reprinted New York: Columbia UP, 1965]

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Ochikubo monogatari 落窪物語

Maurizi, Andrea. Storia di Ochikubo. Venice: Marsilio, 1992.

Mauclaire, Simone. Un Cendrillon japonais du Xe siecle. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 1984.

Langemann, C. and V. Werner. Die Geschichte der Ehrenwerten Ochikubo: Ochikubo Monogatari. Zurich: Manesse, 1994. [German translation from NKBT (1857) and SNKBT (1989) editions.]

Whitehouse, Wilfrid, and Eizo Yanagisawa. Ochikubo monogatari: A Tenth-Century Japanese Novel. London: Peter Owen, 1934.

Ogura hyakunin isshu 小倉百人一首

see Hyakunin isshu

Ogi-sho 奥義抄

poetry manual written between 1124-44 by Fujiwara no Kiyosuke (1104-1177)

discussed with short excerpt in French tr. in Pigeot, Michiyukibun, 1982, pp. 131-5

Oigawa gyoko waka no jo 大井川行幸和歌序

Ceadel, E. B. "Tadamine's preface to the Oi river poems." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1956): 331-343. // "The Oi River Poems and Preface." Asia Major 3.1 (1953): 65-106.

Utaawase composed in 907 by six poets on imperial visit to river by Emperor Uda [NKBD 224f]

Ojoyoshu 往生要集

Andrews, Allan A. The teachings essential for rebirth: a study of Genshin's Ojoyoshu. (Monumenta Nipponica monograph. Sophia University, 1973.

Reischauer, A. K. "Genshin's Ojoyoshu." TASJ second series,1930.

e-text ed. M. Toshima (西南院本仮名書き往生要集) [stuffed file, lha format (info)]

Okagami 大鏡

McCullough, Helen C. Okagami: The Great Mirror. Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027) and His Times. Princeton and Tokyo: Princeton UP and University of Tokyo Press, 1980. [pbk. reprint, Michigan, 1991. U.S. only]

Yamagiwa, Joseph K. The Okagami. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1967 [Tuttle 1977]. First published in Reischauer and Yamagiwa, eds., Translations from Early Japanese literature (Harvard University Press, 1951) [first edition only].

[Russian trans.]

Onin-ki 応仁記 (around 1500)

Varley, H. Paul. The Onin war, History of its background, with a selective translation of The Chronicle of Onin. Columbia University Press, 1967, p. 139-190.

Ono no Komachi (poems) 小町集

Teele, Roy E., Nicholas J. Teele, and H. Rebecca Teele. Ono no Komachi: Poems, Stories, No Plays. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1993. O.P. ["The Poetry of Ono no Komachi," "The Kokinshu Poems of Ono no Komachi," pp. 1-25.]

Hirshfield, Jane. The Ink Dark Moon. Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. REV: McMullen, TLS (April 7-13, 1989): 370. [*an audio-cassette, now O.P., was made from this translation. A classical Japanese first?]

Weber-Schaefer, Peter. Ono no Komachi, Gestalt und Legende im No Spiel. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1960.

Onzoshi shimawatari 御曹子島渡り

Muromachi tale, see NKBD 295

Kubota, Yoko. "Un itinerario nel fantastico: l'Onzoshi shimawatari." Il Giappone 25 (1985): 35-66.

tr. as "Yoshitsune's Voyage Among the Islands" in D. E. Mills, "Medieval Japanese Tales Part II," Folklore 84 (1973): 58-74.

otogizoshi [genre] 御伽草紙

[Some also listed separately by title. See also bibliography by Roberta Strippoli.]

The term otogizoshi comes from Otogi bunko, the title of a collection of 23 tales published after 1700 in Osaka, but the term is also used in a wider sense to refer to a corpus of several hundred Muromachi tales.

Glassman, Hank. "The Tale of Mokuren: A Translation of Mokuren no
soshi" in Buddhist Literature 1 (1999), pp. 120-161.

Sieffert, Rene. Le Livre des contes. Paris: P.O.F., 1993. p. 96. [Urihime, Isshunboshi, Urashima Taro, Karoito]

Pigeot, Jacqueline, and Kosugi Keiko, Voyages en d'autres Mondes: Recits japonaise du xvieme siecle. Paris: Editions Philippe Picquier/Bibliotheque Nationale, 1993. *Annoted tr. of Urashima Taro, Sumiyoshi no honji (extracts), Horai-san (extracts), Kibune, Tanabata. REV: Brock in Journal of Japanese Studies 21.2 (Summer, 1995): 529-33. // Tyler in Monumenta Nipponica, 49, 2 (Summer 1994), 240-241.

Skord, Virginia. Tales of Tears and Laughter: Short Fiction of Medieval Japan. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 1991. ["A Discretionary Tale (Otonashi soshi), "The Cat's Tale (Neko no soshi), "Old Lady Tokiwa" (Tokiwa no uba), "The Mirror Man" (Kagami otoko emaki); "A Tale of Brief Slumbers" (Utatane no soshi), "The Tale of Ikago" (Ikago monogatari), "The Tale of the Brazier" (Hioke no soshi), "The Little Man" (Ko otoko no soshi), "The Tale of Dojoji" (Dojoji monogatari), "The King of Farts" (Fukutomi choja monogatari), "A Tale of Two Nursemaids" (Menoto no soshi), "Lazy Taro" (Monogusa Taro), "The Errand Woman" (Oyo no ama)] // "The Comic Consciousness in Medieval Japanese Narrative: Otogi-zoshi of Commoners." Ph.D. diss., Cornell Univ., 1987. // "From Rags to Riches and Beyond: Monogusa Taro." MN 42.2 (1989).

McCullough, Helen Craig. Classical Japanese Prose, 1990, pp. 495-509: "Little One-Inch" (Isshunboshi) and "Akimichi"

Childs, Margaret H. "Chigo monogatari: Love Stories or Buddhist Sermons?" MN 35.2 (1987). // "The influence of the Buddhist practice of sange on literary form: revelatory tales." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 14.1 (1987): 53ff.

Kavanaugh, Frederick. "Twenty Representative Muromachi Period Prose Narratives: An Analytic Study." PhD. diss., University of Hawaii, 1985.

Pigeot, Jacqueline, and Keiko Kosugi. Le chrysantheme solitaire. Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1984. [Hitomotogiku]

Mulhern, Chieko Irie. "Cinderella and the Jesuits: An Otogizoshi Cycle as Christian Literature." MN 34.4 (1979): 409-447. // "Otogi-zoshi: Short Stories of the Muromachi Period." MN 29.2 (1974): 181-198.

Mills, D. E. "Medieval Japanese Tales Part I." Folklore 83 (1972): 287-301 // "Medieval Japanese Tales Part II." Folklore 84 (1973): 58-74. [Later contains tr. of Onzoshi shimawatari]

Ruch, Barbara. "'Otogi-bunko' and Short Stories of the Muromachi Period." Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1965.

e-text ed. M. Shibata under prep. (KNBT)

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Rikkoku-shi 六国史

Six national histories (Nara, early Heian): (1) Nihon shoki (2) Shoku nihongi (3) Nihon koki (4) Shoku nihon koki (5) Nihon montoku tenno jitsuroku (6) Nihon sandai jitsuroku

roei [genre of songs] 朗詠

Harich-Schneider, Eta. Roei: The Medieval Court Songs of Japan. Monumenta Nipponica Monographs No. 21. Tokyo: Sophia University Press, 1965.

Harich-Schneider, Eta. Roei: The Medieval Court Songs of Japan. MN 13 (1957).

Rokurin ichiro no ki 六輪一露之記

author: Komparu Zenchiku (金春禅竹)

A Record of the Six Rings and the One Word [PCCJL 188]

Nearman, Mark J, tr. The Visions of a Creative Artist: Zenchiku's Rokurin Ichiro Treatises. MN 50 (1995); 51 (1996).

Thornhill, Arthur H., III. Six Circles, one Dewdrop. Princeton UP, 1993.

Ryojin hisho 梁塵秘抄

Kwon, Yung-Hee. Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. [Based on Ph.D. Cornell 1984]

Kwon, Yung-Hee. "Voices from the Periphery: Love Songs in Ryojin Hisho." MN 41 (1986): 1-20. // "The Emperor's Songs: Go-Shirakawa and Ryojin Hisho Kudenshu. MN 41 (1986): 261-98.

Moriguchi, Yasuhiko, and David Jenkins. The Dance of the Dust on the Rafters: Selections from Ryojin-hisho. Seattle: Broken Moon Press, 1990.

32 songs tr. Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:157-62.

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translations of classical Japanese works

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Sagoromo monogatari 狭衣物語

Richard Okada, M.A. thesis, Berkeley 1977. Includes translation of parts of the Asukai no Kimi storyline from book one.

saibara genre 催馬楽

Markham, Elizabeth. Saibara: Japanese Court Songs of the Heian Period. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.

Sieffert, Rene. Chants de palefreniers. Saibara. Paris: 1976. [Paris: P.O.F., 1992]. 93 p.

nine songs tr. Hiroaki Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:152-3.

Saigyo monogatari 西行物語 (Muromachi tale)

McKinney, Meredith. The Tale of Saigyo (Saigyo Monogatari). Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies, Number 25. Ann Arbor, 1998.

Heldt, Gustav, tr. "Saigyo's Traveling Tale: A Translation of Saigyo Monogatari." MN 52 (1997): 467-522.

Sieffert, Rene. La legende de Saigyo. Paris, P.O.F., 1996. 95 p.

e-text ed. M. Shibata under prep. (GSRJ)

sakimori uta [sakimori no uta] 防人歌

Poetic genre. "Poems of the frontier guards" (PCCJL, p. 295), or "border guard poems." Collected in books 19-20 of Man'yoshu.

Sanboe 三宝絵

Kamens, Edward. The Three Jewels: A Study and Translation of Minamoto Tamenori's Sanboe. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 2. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1988. // REV Borgen, JJS 18.1 (1992).

Sanjurokuninsen 三十六人撰

Tahara, Mildred. "The Selected Poems of the Thirty-six Immortal Poets of Fujiwara Kinto," in Heinrich, Currents, 1997, 459-480.

Sankaiki 山槐記

diary by Nakayama Tadachika 内大臣中山忠親

Sanka shu 山家集

author: Saigyo.

Collet, Herve. Saigyo: poemes de ma hutte de montagne. Millemont, France: Moundarren, 1992
98 p. [n.s.]

Watson, Burton. Saigyo. Poems of a Mountain Home. New York: Columbia UP, 1991.

Markova., Vera N. Gornaia khizhina,1979. 125 p. [Russian translation, n.s.]

LaFleur, William R. Mirror for the Moon: A Selection of Poems by Saigyo (1118-1190). New York: A New Directions Book, 1978. O.P.

Honda, H. H. The Sanka Shu: the mountain hermitage. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1971. REV Mathy, MN 27 (1972).

Sannin hoshi 三人法師 (Muromachi tale)

Keene, Donald. "Sannin Hoshi: the three priests" in Anthology, 322-331.

Sano, Kazuhiko. "Drei Einsielder--Sannin Boshi--Ein Otogi-Soshi." MN 6 (1943).

Sanuki no suke nikki 讃岐典侍日記

Brewster, Jennifer, trans. The Emperor Horikawa Diary by Fujiwara no Nagako, Sanuki no Suke Nikki. Honolulu: The UP of Hawaii, 1977.

Sarashina nikki 更級日記

author: Sugawara no Takasue no musume 菅原孝標女 (1008-?)

Vos, Frits. Als dauw op alsembladeren: het levensverhaal van een Japanse vrouw uit de elfde eeuw Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1988. 255 p.

Sieffert, Rene. Le journal de Sarashina. Paris: P.O.F., 1978. p. 107.

Selections in German in Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 135-144.

Morris, Ivan. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan. New York: Dial Press, 1971. [Reprint: Penguin Classics.]

Kemper, Ulrich, trans., Horst Hammitzsch, ed. Sarashina Nikki: Tagebuch einer Japanischen Hofdame aus dem Jahre 1060. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1966.

Omori, Annie Shepley. and Kochi Doi, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, 1920. With an introduction by Amy Lowell. Often reprinted. Note that some European translations are based on this text (e.g. Journaux des dames de cour du Japon ancien. Arles: P. Picquier, 1998)

e-text ed. M. Shibata (Yumeido bunko); e-text ed. Issei; e-text ed. A. Okajima

Saru genji zoshi 猿源氏草紙

Muromachi tale. NKBD 805.

Putzar, Edward D. "The Tale of Monkey Genji. Sarugenji-zoshi." MN 18.1-4 (1963): 286-312.

"Das Buchlein vom Possenreisser-Genji" tr. by Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 303-316.

Sasayaki Take ささやき竹 (Muromachi tale)

Kavanagh, Frederick. "An Errant Priest: Sasayaki Take.", MN 51.2 (1996): 219-244.

Sazareishi さざれいし

Daniels, F.J. "Otogi-Zoosi--one story: Sazareisi" tr. as "Pebble" in Daniels, Selections from Japanese Literature, 1953: 43-51, 142-5.

Senchaku [hongan nenbutsu] shu 選択本願念仏集

Senchakushu English Translation Project. Honen's Senchakushu : passages on the selection of the nembutsu in the original vow.... Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. 280 pp. ISBN: 0824821106

Augustine, Morris J. and Kondo Tessho. Senchaku Hongan Nembutsu Shu... Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 1997.170 pp. ISBN: 1886439052.

Sendai kuji hongi (Kujiki) 先代旧事本紀（旧事紀）

10 volume work on history, Shinto, author unknown. Now believed to be early Heian.

Florenz, Karl. "Japanische Mythologie, Nihongi 'Zeitalter der Goetter', Nebst Ergaenzungen aus anderen alten Quellwerken." MOAG, 1901, p. 275-282. [Excerpts]

Senjusho 撰集抄

Anon. setsuwa collection (121 tales) once thought to be the work of Saigyo.

Moore, Jean. "Senjusho: Buddhist Tales of Renunciation." MN 41 (1974): 127-74.

Naumann, Wolfram, "Senjuushoo I/1-6" Oriens Extremus 26.1/2 (1979)

Hartwieg-Hiratsuka, Keiko. Saigyoo-Rezeption. Das von Saigyoo verkoerperte Eremiten-Ideal in der japanischen Rezeptionsgeschichte 1984

Senzaishu 千載集

7th imperial anthology (1188). "SZS"

3 poems translated in Brower and Miner, JCP, 1961.

apologies for the error, now corrected, in the second glyph!

Shasekishu 沙石集

Tyler, Japanese Tales, 1987. [#7/2, 7/3, 7/17, 7/18, 7/20, 7/24, 8/11]

Morrell, Robert E. Sand and Pebbles (Shasekishu): The Tales of Muju Ichien, A Voice for Pluralism in Kamakura Buddhism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. // "Tales from the Collection of Sand and Pebbles." Literature East and West 14 (1970): 251-63. // "Muju Ichien's Shinto-Buddhist Syncretism: Shasekishu, Book 1." MN 28 (1973): 447-88.

Rotermund, Hartmut O. Ichien Muju: Collection de sables et de pierres. Paris, 1979. REV: Roland Schneider in NOAG 127/128 (1980).

Golay, Jacqueline. "Le Shasekishu: miroir d'une personnalite, miroir d'une epoque." Diss. Vancouver, U of British Columbia, 1975. 364p.

Shikashu [private poetry collections] 私家集

See extensive online e-text collection of Heian collections by Prof. Shigeta.

[what translations should be added or cross-referenced here?]

Shikawakashu / Shikashu 詞花和歌集 (1151-1154).

6th imperial anthology, "Collection of Verbal Flowers" ("SKS")

2 poems translated in Brower and Miner, JCP, 1961.

Shiki monogatari 四季物語

Naumann, Wolfram, "Choomeis Erzaehlungen aus den Vier Jahreszeiten (1-3)" Hoorin 3 (1996), 4 (1997), 5 (1998).

Shikishi naishinno shu see Shokushi naishinno shu

Shinchokusenshu 新勅撰集 (1235)

9th imperial anthology ("SCSS")

2 poems tr. in Brower and Miner, JCP, 1961.

Smits, Ivo. "The Poet and the Politician: Teika and the Compilation of the Shinchokusenshu." MN 53 (1988): 427-472.

Shingoshuishu 新後拾遺和歌集 (1383-4)

20th imperial anthology (Nijo school)

Shinkokinshu (Shinkokin wakashu) 新古今和歌集 (1216)

8th imperial anthology ("SKKS")

translation in progress by Laurel Rasplica Rodd

Morrell, Robert E. "The Shinkokinshu: Poems on Sakyamuni's Teachings (Shakkyoka)," in The Distant Isle ...1996, pp. 281-320. Complete, annotated translation of Book 20.

Honda, H.H. The Shin kokinshu : the 13th-century anthology edited by Imperial edict. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press/Eirinsha Press, 1970. [Complete translation.]

Hammitzsch, Horst and Lydia Brull. Shinkokinwakashu. Japanische Gedicte. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1964. [Annotated selections]

44 poems translated in Brower and Miner, JCP, 1961.

Pollack, David. The Fracture of Meaning: Japan's Synthesis of China from the 8th through the 18th Centuries. Princeton, 1986, III "'A Bridge Across the Mountains': Chinese and the Aesthetics of the Shinkokinshu"

Bundy, Roselee. "The uses of literary tradition; the poetry and poetics of the Shinkokinshu." PhD diss. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1984.

Shinobine monogatari しのびね物語

-- (late Heian tale extant in Kamakura text)

Shinsen zuino 新撰髄脳

Teele, Nicholas J. "Rules for Poetic Elegance, Fujiwara no Kinto's Shinsen zuino and Waka kuhon." MN 30 (1976).

Shinsenzai 新千載和歌集 (1359)

18th imperial anthology completed by Fujiwara Tamesada (Nijo)

Shinshokukokinshu 新続古今和歌集 (1439)

21st and last imperial anthology

Shinshuishu 新拾遺和歌集 (1364)

19th imperial anthology completed by Ton'a of Nijo school.

Shinto texts

Florenz, Karl. Die historischen Quellen der Shinto- Religion. Aus dem Altjapanischen und Chinesischen uebersetzt und erklaert. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1919. Reprint edition (1997). // Could anyone with access to this book tell me the titles of texts translated here? One is Kojiki, I am told.

Shintoshu 神道集

Jesse, Bernd, "Der Weise Gott Ameisenmacht. Eine seltsame Geschichte aus dem japanischen Mittelalter", [in:] Gregor Paul (ed.), Klischee und Wirklichkeit japanischer Kultur 1987

Mills, D. E. "Soga monogatari, Shintoshu and the Taketori Legend." MN 30.1 (1975).

Shirakawa kiko 白河紀行

Carter, Steven D. "Sogi in the East Country: Shirakawa Kiko." 42 (1987): 167-209.

Shobogenzo 正法眼蔵

"Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma" / "The Eye Treasury of the Right Dharma" composed by Dogen 道元 between 1231-1253

Nishiyama, Kosen, and John Stevens. Shobogenzo, the eye and treasury of the true law. Sendai: Daihokkaikaku, 1975.

for other trans. see Herail 1986:24

future translation project of Soto Zen Text Project

e-text

Shobogenzo zuimonki 正法眼蔵随聞記

compilation of Dogen's sayings by disciple

Cleary, Thomas. Record of things heard from Treasury of the eye of the true teaching... Bolder, ISBN Pranya Press, 1980.

For more English, French and German trans. see Herail 1986:25.

e-text

Shogaku hyakushu 初学百首

Bundy, Roselee. "Poetic Apprenticeship: Fujiwara Teika's Shogaku Hyakushu." MN 45 (1990): 157-88.

Shoji ninen in shodo onhyakushu 正治二年院初度御百首

Brower, Robert H. Fujiwara Teika's hundred-poem sequence of the Shoji Era, 1200. Tokyo, Sophia University, 1978.

Shoku nihon koki 続日本後紀 (840)

4th national history covering years 833-50 (reign of Ninmyo)

Shoku nihongi 続日本書紀

Lewin, Bruno. "Die Regierungsannalen des Kammu-tenno. Shoku-Nihongi 36-40 und Nihon-koki 1-13 (780-806)." [= Hammitzsch, Horst: Rikkokushi], 1962, p. 1-291.

Snellen, J. B. "Shoku-Nihon-gi, Chronicles of Japan." TAJS 2nd series, 11 (1934): 169-239 [trans. of chapters 1-3 (years 697-707)] and vol. 15 (1937): 210-278 [trans. of chapters 4-6 (years 707-715)].

Zachert, Herbert. "Die kaiserliche Erlasse des Shoku Nihongi." Asia Major 8 (1933). REV Karow in MN 8 (1952).

Sansom, George. "Imperial edicts in the Shoku-Nihongi." TAJS 2nd series (1924): 1-30.

Shokugosenshu / Shokugosenwakashu 続後撰和歌集

10th imperial anthology, completed in 1251 by Fujiwara Tamaie.

Shokugoshuishu / Shokugoshuiwakashu 続後拾遺和歌集

16th imperial anthology, completed in 1325. Compilers: Fujiwara Tamefuji and Fujiwara Tamesada

Shokukokinshu / Shokukokinwakashu 続古今和歌集

11th imperial anthology, completed in 1265. Compiled by Fujiwara Tameie and others.

poem 1265 tr. in Matisoff, Legend, p. 165.

Shokusenzaishu / Shokusenzaiwakashu 続千載和歌集

15th imperial anthology, completed in 1320 by Fujiwara Tameyo.

Shokushi naishinno shu 式子内親王集

Sato, Hiroaki, ed. String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993.

Shokushuishu / Shokushuiwakashu 続拾遺和歌集

12th imperial anthology, completed in 1275. ("ShokuSIS"). Compiled by Fujiwara Tamefuji.

2 poems translated in Brower and Miner, JCP, 1961.

Shokyuki / Jokyuki 承久記

McCullough, William. "Shokyuki. An Account of the Shokyu War of 1221." MN 19:1/2 (1964), pp. 163-215; 19:3/4 (1964), pp. 420-55.

McCullough, William. "The Azuma Kagami Account of the Shokyu War." MN 23 (1960):102-55.

Brownlee, John S. "Crisis as Reinforcement of the Imperial Institution: The Case of the Jokyu Incident, 1221." MN 30 (1975): 193-201. // "The Shokyu War and the Political Rise of the Warriors." MN 24 (1969): 59-77.

Terretti, V. " Realta storica e immagine letteraria del Jokyu no Ran." Giappone 27 (1987).

Shomonki 将門記

Rabinovitch, Judith N. Shomonki: The Story of Masakado's Rebellion. Monumenta Nipponica Monograph 58. Tokyo: Sophia UP, 1986. [copies available from MN] //REV. Borgen, JJS 14.1 (1988).

Stramigioli, Giuliana. "Masakadoki." Rivista degli Studi Orientali 53 (1979): 1-69. [Complete translation into Italian.]

Stramigioli, Giuliana. "Preliminary Notes on Masakadoki and the Taira no Masakado Story." MN 28.3 (1973): 261-293.

Shotetsu monogatari 正徹物語

Medieval study of poetics (karonsho), ca. 1430. Text in Karon nogakuron (NKBT 65).

Arokay, Judit, trans. Shotetsu: Gedanken zur Dichtung : eine japanische Poetik aus dem 15.
Jahrhundert. Munich: Iudicium, 1999

Brower, Robert H., trans. Conversations with Shotetsu. With an introduction and notes by Steven D. Carter. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992.

Shuishu / Shui wakashu 拾遺和歌集

3rd imperial anthology (1105-1011). "SIS"

seven poems tr. in Brower and Miner, JCP, 1961.

Shunki 春記

diary of Fujiwara no Sukefusa (1007-1057) 藤原資房

Herail, Francine. Fujiwara no Sukefusa. Notes de l'hiver 1039. Paris: Gallimard, 1994. 131 p. [Tr. of entries from 1039.10.1 - 1040.1.16]

Shutendoji 酒呑童子 (otogizoshi)

tr. as "Saufbruderchen" by Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 322-337.

Soga monogatari 曽我物語

Cogan, Thomas Joseph. The Tale of Soga. Tokyo, 1987. REV: Childs, JAS 48.1(1985):154-5; Matisoff, MN 43.1(1988):101-103. //REV. Borgen, JAOS, 109.1 (1989)

Cogan, Thomas Joseph. "A study and complete translation of the Soga monogatari." Ph.D. diss., University of Hawaii, 1982.

Kitagawa, Hiroshi. The Tale of the Soga Brothers. Hikone: Shiga Univ. Faculty of Economics, 1981.

Sumiyoshi monogatari 住吉物語

Negri, C. La principessa di Sumiyoshi. Venezia: Marsilio, 2000. 114 p.

Parlett, Harold. "The Sumiyoshi Monogatari." TASJ 29.1 (1901): 48-90.

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translations of classical Japanese works

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editor's notes
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Tachibana no Hayanari-den 橘逸勢伝

Bohner, Hermann. "Tachibana no Hayanari-den." MN 5 (1942).

Taiheiki 太平記

McCullough, Helen Craig. "A Military Tale: The Great Peace" in McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose, 1990, pp. 472-494. [Revised tr. of sections 4.5-7, 5.4, 9.6, 10.14-15.]

O'Neill, P. G. "A michiyuki passage from the Taiheiki," BOAS 36 (1973): 359-367.

Story of origin of Onimara and Onikiri tr. into German by Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 297-300. [From book 32, NKBT 36:225ff.]

McCullough, Helen Craig. The Taiheiki. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. [Translation of first twelve of the forty maki.]

First part of section "Oto-no-miya Kumano-ochi no koto" (book 5) tr. as "Ootoo-no-miya's flight to Kumano" in Daniels, Selections from Japanese Literature, 1953, 29-42, 138-141.

Koike, Kenji. "Kusonoki Masashige. Auszuege aus dem Taiheiki." MN 4.1 (1941): 133-165.

Taiki 台記

diary by Fujiwara no Yorinaga (1120-1156)藤原頼長

Formula recited on Emperor Konoe's accession ceremony in 1142 trans. in Philippi 1990:76-79 (12-14). See Norito.

Takamura monogatari 篁物語

Geddes, Ward. "Takamura Monogatari." MN 46.3 (1991): 275-291.

Takafusa-kyo enshi emaki 高房卿艶詞絵巻

mid-Kamakura emaki dated ca. 1177 based on poems by Fujiwara Takafusa.

any translation available?

Takahashi ujibumi 高橋氏文

history, ca. 790.

Mills, D. E. "The Takahashi Uzibumi," BOAS 16 (1954):113-133. [complete]

Takemukigaki 竹むきが記

diary by Hino Sukena no musume 日野資名女. Volume 1 covers years 1329-1333, vol. 2 years 1337-1349. [NKBD 1171]

discussed in Hitomi Tomimura, "Re-envisioning Women in the Post-Kamakura Age," in Jeffrey P. Mass, ed., The Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 1997): 138-69.

Taketori monogatari 竹取物語

Boscaro, Adriana. Storia di un tagliabambu [Italian]. Marsilio, 1994.

Sieffert, Rene. Le Conte du Coupeur de bambous. Paris: POF, 1992. Originally published as: "Le conte du coupeur de bambous." Bulletin de la Maison Franco-Japonaise (1953).

Complete German translation in Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 45ff.

Keene, Donald. "The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter." Modern Japanese Fiction and Its Traditions. Ed. J. Thomas Rimer. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1978. (Originally publ. in MN 11 [1955]). O.P.

Dickins, F. Victor. The old bamboo-hewer's story (Taketori no okina no monogatari): the earliest of the Japanese romances, written in the tenth century. Trubner, 1888. Reprinted in Collected works of Frederick Victor Dickins ; v. 3 (Bristol: Ganesha / Tokyo : Edition Synapse, 1999).

e-text at Matsusaka Univ. (ftp site)

e-text and hypertext index (Prof. Kondo/Aoyama)

[studies]

Tamekane kyo wakasho 為兼卿和歌抄 (ca. 1287)

Huey, Robert N. & Susan Matisoff "Lord Tamekane's Notes on Poetry: Tamekanekyo Wakasho." MN 40 (1985): 127-46.

Tamuramaro-den 田邑麻呂伝

Bohner, Hermann. "Tamuramaro-denki." MN 2 (1939).

Tannisho 歎異抄

written by disciple(s) of Shinran.

Unno, Taitetsu. Tanninsho: A Shin Buddhist Classic. Honolulu: Buddhist Study Center Press, 1982.

Hirota, Dennis. Tanninsho: A Primer. Kyoto: Ryukoku University, 1982.

for other translations see Herail 1986: 23.

Tauezoshi 田植草紙

Azuchi-Momoyama song collection ("A Collection of Rice-Planting Songs")

Hoff, Frank. The Genial Seed. New York: Mushinsha-Grossman, 1971. REV: Teele MN 28 (1973).

Tawara-toda monogatari 俵藤太物語

Muromachi tale [translation?]

e-text (Kikuchi)

Tenzo kyokun (Tenzo kyookun)

Dogen's Admonitions for the Chef

future translation project of Soto Zen Text Project

To daiwajo toseiden (Toseiden) 東大和尚東征伝

account by Aomi-no-Mabito Genkai 真人元開（淡海三船）

Takakusu, Junijiro. Kanshin's (Chien-Chen's) voyage to the East, A.D. 742-54, by Aomi-no-Mabito Genkai (A.D. 779). London: Probsthain, 1925.

Takakusu, Junijiro. "Aomi-no-Mabito Genkai, 722-785: Le voyage de Kanshin en orient, 742-754," BEFEO 28 (1929): 1-41, 441-472; 29 (1930): 47-62.

Tohoku'in shokunin utaawase 東北院職人歌合

Author unknown. Traditionally dated Kenpo 2 (1214).

Vollmer, Klaus. "Professionen und ihre 'Wege' im mittelalterlichen Japan. Eine Einfuehrung in ihre Sozialgeschichte und literarische Repraesentation am Beispiel des 'Tohoku'in shokunin utaawase'" ['People of skill' and their 'ways' in medieval Japan. An introduction to their social history and their literary representation in the 'Tooku'in shokunin utaawase']. Hamburg: OAG 1995. 551 p. ISBN 3-928463-55-1

Toji kaden 藤氏家伝 (or Kaden 家伝)

Bohner, Hermann. "Kamatari-den, Taishoku kwanden Kaden, d.i. Haustraditionen (des Hauses Fujiwara)." MN 4 (1941); "Muchimaro-den, Kaden..." MN 5 (1942). [Lives of Nakatomi no Kamatari (614-669) and Michimaro (680-737).]

e-text ed. Koizuka (Nihon kodai rekishi home page) [info]

Tokan kiko 東関紀行

Pigeot, Jacqueline. Voyage dans les provinces de l'Est: Tokan kiko. Gallimard, 1999. 115 p.

McCullough, Helen Craig. "An Account of a Journey to the East" in McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose, 1990, pp. 421-446.

e-text ed. M. Shibata (KNKBT)

Tonomine shosho monogatari 多武峯少将物語

Miyake, Lynne K. "Tonomine Shosho Monogatari: A Translation and Critical Study." Ph.D. Berkeley, 1985.

e-text ed. M. Shibata (GSRJ)

e-text ed. H. Shinozaki (GSRJ)

Torikaebaya monogatari とりかへばや物語

Stein, Michael. Die Vertauschten Geschwister: ein hoefischer Roman aus dem Japan des 12. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1994. // More detailed annotation in author's dissertation: Das Torikaebaya-Monogatari. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1979.

Willig, Rosette F. The Changelings: A Classical Japanese Court Tale. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1983.

Tosa nikki 土佐日記

Sieffert, Rene. Kino Tsurayuki: Le Journal de Tosa ; Poemes du Kokin-shu. Paris: P.O.F., 1993.

Included in: McCullough, Helen C. Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1985. [Complete translation also in Classical Japanese Prose (1990): 73-102]

Miner, Earl. Japanese Poetic Diaries. Berkeley, 1969. [O.P.]

Aston, William George. "An Ancient Japanese Classic: The Tosa Nikki, or Tosa Diary." TASJ 2 (1875): 121-131. Reprinted in Peter F. Kornicki, ed., Collected Works of William George Aston (Bristol and Tokyo: Ganesha and Oxford UP,1997), 1:45-54.

e-text of Teika-bon ed. E. Shibuya (see also A. Okajima's edition)

Toshiyori zuino 俊頼髄脳

waka poetics by Minamoto no Toshiyori, 2 vols., 1114 or 1115

excerpt tr. in Matisoff, Legend, 1978, pp. 163-4.

excerpt tr. in Jacqueline Pigeot, Michiyukibun, 1982, pp. 129-130.

Towazugatari とはずがたり

Author: Gofukakusa In Nijo 後深草院二条 (Nakanoin Masatada no musume 中院雅忠女), generally referred in English as "Lady Nijo"

title more literally translates as "The Unrequested Tale" (PCCJL `57)

McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose, 1990. [Book 1]

Whitehouse, Wilfrid and Eizo Yanagisawa. Lady Nijo's Own Story. Tuttle, 1974. REV: Tahara MN 29 (1974).

Brazell, Karen. Confessions of Lady Nijo. Stanford UP, 1973.

Origlia, Lydia. Diario di una concubina imperiale. Milan: SE,1996. ISBN: 8877103477. [several editions]

Krempien, Rainer. Towazugatari: Ubersetzung und Bearbeitung eines neuaufgefundenen literarischen Werkes der Kamakura-Zeit. Freiburg im Breisgau: Schwarz, 1973.

studies (Marra 1991)

Tsurezuregusa 徒然草

Yoshida Kenko 兼好 (Urabe Kenko)

Berndt, Joergen. Draussen in der Stille. Berlin: edition q / Quintessenz Verlag, 1993 (ISBN: 3-86124-155-2)

McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose, 1990. [60 of 243 sections translated]

Czech trans. Zapisky z volnych chvil : starojaponske literarni zapisniky Praha : Odeon, 1984. [With Makura no soshi and Hojoki]

Keene, Donald. Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko. New York: Columbia U.P., 1967. [Tuttle reprint ed. 1981]

Benl, Oscar. Betrachtungen aus der Stille. 1963. Reprinted by Frankfurt/M: Insel Verlag/Suhrkamp, 1997

Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness, tr. by G B Sansom, ed. with an introduction by Noel Pinnington, Hertfordshire, U.K.: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1998. Originally published in TASJ in 1911. [UK]

studies (Chance 1997; Marra 1991)

e-text ed. M. Shibata (KNKBT)

e-text ed. Eguchi [check]

Tsutsumi chunagon monogatari 堤中納言物語

McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose, 1990. [Translations of "The Lesser Captain Plucks a Sprig of Flowering Cherry," "The Lady Who Admired Vermin," and "Lampblack"]

Kubota, Yoko. Le Concubine Floreali: Storie del Consigliere di Mezzo di Tsutsumi. Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1989. [Italian]

Backus, Robert L. The Riverside Counselor's Stories: Vernacular Fiction of Late Heian Japan. Stanford UP, 1985. [complete trans.]

Selections trans. in Benl, Der Kirschbluetenzweig,1985.

Umeyo Hirano, tr The Tsutsumi Chunagon Monogatari: A Collection of 11th-Century Short Stories of Japan. The Hokuseido Press, 1963.
105pp.

"Hanazakura oru shosho" tr. as "The Minor Captain who plucked the cherry-blossom" in Daniels, Selections from Japanese Literature, 1953.

Reischauer, Edwin O., and Joseph K. Yamagiwa, tr. "Tsutsumi chunagon monogatari," in Reischauer and Yamagiwa 1951.

Waley, Arthur. The Lady Who Loved Insects. London: The Blackamore Press, 1929, 33 pp. Reprinted in Keene, Anthology, 1955. [Only 550 copies of first edition, the first 50 signed. For details see second-hand copies at B&N]

studies (Marra 1991)

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Uji shui monogatari 宇治拾遺物語

Sieffert, Rene. Supplement aux contes d'Uji. Paris: P.O.F., 1986. 341 p. [Complete] O.P.

Mills, D. E. A Collection of Tales from Uji: A Study and Translation of Uji shui monogatari. Cambridge University, 1970. [Complete] // REV Cranston, MN, 27.1 (1972).

21 tales tr. into German by Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 219-251.

tales 3/16 and 8/3 tr. by Robert Brower in Keene, Anthology, 1955.

55 tales tr. by John S. Foster, MN 20 (1965).

Uta-awase genre 歌合

Genre of poetry competitions / poetry matches (Fr. "concours de poemes")

Ito, Setsuko. An Anthology of Traditional Japanese Poetry Competitions: Uta-awase 913-1815. Chinathemen, vol. 57. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1991. // "The muse in competition; Uta-awase through the ages." MN 37.7 (1982): 201-222. // "A study of the development of poetry competitions." Ph.D. London, 1978.

Poem and judgement of utaawase of 1186 tr. in Pigeot, Michiyuki-bun, p. 146-7.

Utatane うたたね

Wallace, John R. "Fitful Slumbers: Nun Abutsu's Utatane." MN 43 (1988): 391-416.

e-text ed. M. Shibata (GSRJ)

e-text ed. A. Okajima

Utsuho monogatari (Utsubo monogatari) うつほ物語（宇津保物語）

Uraki, Ziro. The Tale of the Cavern. Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1984. O.P.

Lammers, Wayne P. "The Succession (Kuniyuzuri): A Translation from Utsuho Monogatari." Monumenta Nipponica 37 (1982): 139-178.

Cranston, Edwin A. "Atemiya: A Translation from the Utsubo monogatari." MN 24.3 (1969).

see entry on studies page

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Waka translations

see individual collections by name.

anthologies include:

Waley, Arthur. Japanese Poetry: The Uta. [Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1919. 110 pages. O.P. Reprinted: London: Lund Humphries, 1946; Allen and Unwin, 1976 [introduction by Carmen Blacker], University Press of Hawaii, 1976. Japanese edition: 「日本の詩歌 : うた」アーサー・ウェリー著 ; 川村ハツエ訳註. （東京　雁書館, 1989)

Edwin A. Cranston, A Waka Anthology: The Gem-Glistening Cup. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Carter, Steven D. Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology: Stanford University Press, 1986. [Pbd. 1993]

Recent studies include:

Kamens, Edward. Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry. Yale University Press, 1997.

Wakan roei shu (Wakanroeishu) 和漢朗詠集

Rimer, J. Thomas and Johathan Chaves, eds. and trans. Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing: The Wakan Roei Shu. New York, Columbia UP, 1997.

Waka shogaku sho 和歌小学抄

poetry manual written in 1169 by Fujiwara no Kiyosuke (1104-1177)

discussed in Pigeot, Michiyuki-bun, 1982, pp. 131-5.

Wake no Kiyomaro den 和気清麻呂伝

(around 830)

Bohner, Hermann. "Wake no Kiyomaro den," MN 3 (1940): 240-273.

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Yakamochishu 家持集

collection of Man'yo poet Otomo Yakamochi（大伴家持）

[e-text | info]

Yamato-hime no mikoto seiki 倭姫命世記

Shinto text in one volume. Now believed to be a mid-Kamakura work, and not 7th century as collophon claims. [NKBD 1851/2]

Hammitzsch, Horst. Yamato-hime no Mikoto Seiki. Leipzig, 1937.

Yamato monogatari 大和物語

Tahara, Mildred. Tales of Yamato: A Tenth-Century Poem-Tale. Honolulu, 1980. [O.P.]

Sieffert, Rene. Contes de Yamato suivis du dit de Heichu. Paris: P.O.F., 1979. 191 p. O.P.

Selections in German in Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 87-106.

Kobayashi, H. "The 'Ashikari Tale,' a Tenth-Century Japanese Story of a Reed Cutter and Its Possible Source." Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 11 (1976): 19-36.

Yokobue 横笛

Pigeot, Jacqueline. Histoire de Yokobue [Yokobue no soshi]. Bulletin de la Maison Franco-Japonaise, Nouvelle Serie, 9.2. Paris: Presses Univ. de France, 1972. *This contains translations of different accounts of Yokobue, including the episode in Heike monogatari, book 10. See Heike entry for translations of this episode (most recently in German).

Ruch, Barbara. "Transformation of a Heroine: Yokobue in Literature and History" in Heinrich, ed., Currents in Japanese Culture, 1997, 99-116.

Yoro-ryo 養老令

Sansom, George, T.A.S.J, 2nd series IX, 1932; XI, 1934. [from books 2, 6, 7, 8]

Dettmer, Hans. Die Steuergesetzgebung der Nara-Zeit, Wiesbaden, 1959. [Selections]

e-text ed. Koizuka (Nihon kodai reshishi home page) [info]

Yoru no nezame / Yowa no nezame 夜の寝覚

Hochstedler, Carol Yoder. The Tale of Nezame, part 3 of Yowa no Nezame-monogatari. Ithaca, New York: China-Japan Program, 1979.

Richard, Kenneth Leo. "Developments in Late Heian Prose Fiction: 'The Tale of Nezame.'" Ph.D. dissertation. University of Washington, 1973.

Yoru no tsuru 夜の鶴

by Abutsu 阿仏

e-text ed. M. Shibata (GSRJ)

Yotsugi monogatari 世継物語

Guelberg, Niels. Kleine literarische Denkmaeler des japanischen Mittelalters II: Das Yotsugi monogatari. 1989 [unpublished German translation; Internet-edition forthcoming].

Yume no kayoiji [monogatari] 夢の通ひ路（物語)

giko monogatari in six volumes. Late Nanbokucho.

Yuyama sangin hyakuin (Yunoyama) 湯山三吟百韻 (1491)

Carter, Stephen D. Three poets at Yuyama. Berkley, University of California, 1983.

Carter, Stephen D. "Three poets at Yuyama; Sogi and Yuyama Sangin hyakuin, 1491," MN, 23-2, 1978. pp. 119-149; 23-2, 1978. pp. 241-283.

"Three Poets at Yuyama" tr. Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:254-261

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Zazen yoshinki 座禅用心記

by Kamakura monk Keizan Jokin 瑩山紹瑾

Dumoulin, Heinrich. "Das Merkbuch fur die uebung des Zazen des Zen-Meisters Keizan." MN 13 (1957): 329-46.

Zazen-ron 座禅論

"On meditation" by Daikaku Zenji 1213-1278

Leggett, Trevor. Zen and the Ways. London, 1978.

Zeami juroku bushu 世阿弥十六部集

sixteen treatises by Zeami

Giroux, Sakae Murakami. Zeami et ses "Entriens sur le no." Paris: POF, 1991. 334 pp. [Includes translation of Sarugaku dangi]

Immoos, Thomas: "Zeami: 'Neun-Stufen-Folge,'" in Referate des 1. Japanologentages der OAG in Tokyo, 1990, p. 63-71.

Rimer, Thomas, and Yamazaki Masakazu. On the Art of the No Drama: The Major Treatises of Zeami. Princeton, 1983. (Fushikaden, Shikado, Kakyo, Yugaku shudo fuken, Kyui, Nosakusho, Shugyoku tokka, Shudosho, Sarugaku dangi.)

Nearman, Mark J. "Kakyo, Zeami's fundamental principals of acting." MN 37-38 (1982-3) [in four parts]. // "Zeami's Kyui, the nine levels, a pedagogical guide for teachers of acting." MN 33 (1978)

Matisoff, Susan. "Kinto-shu, Zeami's song of exile." MN 32 (1977).

Benl, Oscar. Die geheime Uberlieferung des No. Frankfurt, 1961.

Sieffer, R. Zeami, La tradition secrete du no suivie de une journee de no. Paris, 1960. [Fushikaden, Kakyo, Shikadosho, Nikyoku santai ezu, Yugaku shudo kenpu sho, Kyui shidai; together with five noh plays (Iwafune, Sanemori, Yugao, Semimaru, Sesshoseki) and five kyogen)

Bohner, H. "Seami, der neun Stufen Folge (Kyu-i-shi-dai)" // "Seami, Buch der Hochsten Blume Weg (Shi-kwa-do-sho). MOAG, 1943.

Shidebara, M. and W. Whitehouse, "Seami sixteen treatises," MN 4-5 (1941-2).

see PCCJL p. 366 for titles of the 21 treatises now ascribed to Zeami; and Herail 1986: 82-83 for other translations.

Sieffer, R. L'Ile d'or; suivi de Sumidagawa. Paris: P.O.F., 1995. 94 p

Zeshi rokuju igo sarugaku dangi tr. by Sakae Murakami Giroux in Zeami et ses "Entretiens sur le no". Paris: P.O.F, 1991. 334 p.

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