[GENERAL
REFERENCE] [ASIAN
STUDIES JOURNALS]
[HISTORY
and CULTURE] [RELIGION
and RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY]
[THEATRE
and DRAMA] [NOH
THEATER]
[LITERARY
HISTORY and CRITICISM] [ANTHOLOGIES
and SOURCE BOOKS] [EARLY
WRITINGS] [MAN'YOSHU]
[EARLY
HEIAN POETRY] [THE
TALE OF GENJI]
[HEIAN
PROSE] [LATER
WORKS]
KODANSHA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAPAN (DS805/K633/1983; an abridged version is available on-line as The Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan)
Hisamatsu, BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE LITERATURE (PL723/H58)
Miner, et al, THE PRINCETON COMPANION TO CLASSICAL JAPANESE LITERATURE (PL726.1/M495/1985)
Prusek, DICTIONARY OF ORIENTAL LITERATURES: vol. I, EAST ASIA (PJ31/D5)
Shulman, Frank Joseph. JAPAN: WORLD BIBLIOGRAPHY SERIES
The two Asian studies journals most likely to yield interesting, scholarly
material relevant to your coursework and research papers are:
Harvard
Journal of Asiatic Studies (HJAS; DS501/H3) and Monumenta Nipponica
(MN;DS821/A1/M6).
You can search for articles published in major Asian studies journals (including HJAS and MN) by accessing JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Storage Database from a computer on campus. Select "Asian Studies" under "Discipline/Journals" to search. NB, most recent articles are not available on-line.
JSTOR allows you to search the following journals on Asia: Asian Survey,
Journal of Asian Studies, Modern Asian Studies, Monumenta Nipponica, Pacific
Affairs, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Journal of Japanese Studies, Modern
China, Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, Far Eastern Survey, Far Eastern
Quarterly, China Journal, News Bulletin (Institute of Pacific Relations), and
Memorandum (Institute of Pacific Relations, American Council)
Sansom, JAPAN: A SHORT CULTURAL HISTORY
Sansom, A HISTORY OF JAPAN (Vol. 1, to 1334; Vol. 2, 1334-1615; Vol. 3, 1615-1867)
Hall, JAPAN FROM PREHISTORY TO MODERN TIMES
Hall, GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL POWER IN JAPAN
Malm, JAPANESE MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Paine and Soper, ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF JAPAN
Rosenfield, JAPANESE ARTS OF THE HEIAN PERIOD
Varley, JAPANESE CULTURE (Fourth Edition; DS821 .V36 2000 )
RELIGION and RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY
Anesaki, A HISTORY OF JAPANESE RELIGION
Earhart, JAPANESE RELIGION: UNITY AND DIVERSITY
Tanabe, ed., THE LOTUS SUTRA IN JAPANESE CULTURE
Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library includes links to information on major schools, temples, and Buddhist texts
Holtom, D. C.. The Meaning of Kami. Chapter I. Japanese Derivations. Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 3, No. 1. (Jan., 1940), pp. 1-27.
Inazo Nitobe. The Religious Sense of the Japanese People. Pacific Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 2. (Feb., 1929), pp. 58-64.
Kuroda Toshio. James C. Dobbins, Suzanne Gay, tr., Shinto in the History of Japanese Religion. Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1. (Winter, 1981), pp. 1-21
Nakamura Hajime. Some Features of the Japanese Way of Thinking. Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 14, No. 3/4. (Oct., 1958 - Jan., 1959), pp. 277-318
Nelson, John K., Warden + Virtuoso + Salaryman = Priest: Paradigms within Japanese Shinto for Religious Specialists and Institutions. Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 56, No. 3. (Aug., 1997), pp. 678-707
Takahiko Tomoeda. The Essence of Shinto. Pacific Affairs, Vol. 3, No. 4. (Apr., 1930), pp. 343-349.
Tanabe, THE LOTUS LECTURES: HOKKE HAKKIN THE HEIAN PERIOD. MN 39:4 (1984), 393-408.
NOH THEATER (14th-16th centuries)
Noh and Kyogen website includes links to introductory information, performance schedules, and other interesting information
Arnott, THE THEATRES OF JAPAN
Bethe and Brazell, DANCE IN THE NO THEATER
Brazell (ed.), TWELVE PLAYS OF THE NOH AND KYOGEN THEATERS
Eppstein, THE STAGE OBSERVED: WESTERN ATTITUDES TOWARD JAPANESE THEATRE. MN 48:2 (1993), 147-166.
Goff, NOH DRAMA AND THE TALE OF GENJI: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays.
Hare, ZEAMI'S STYLE: THE NOH PLAYS OF ZEAMI MOTOKIYO
Huey (tr.), SAKURAGAWA: CHERRY RIVER, in MN 38:3 (1983), 295-312.
Inoura and Kawatake, THE TRADITIONAL THEATER OF JAPAN, chapters 1-13.
JAPANESE NOH DRAMA (Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, 3 vols.)
Keene (ed.), 20 PLAYS OF THE NO THEATER
Keene, NO: THE CLASSICAL THEATER OF JAPAN
Kominz, THE NOH AS POPULAR THEATER: MIYAMASU'S YOUCHI SOGA. MN 33:4 (1978), 441-460
Komparu, THE NOH THEATER: PRINCIPLES AND PERSPECTIVES
Malm, JAPANESE MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Matisoff, IMAGES OF EXILE AND PILGRIMAGE: ZEAMI'S KINTOSHO, in MN 34:4 (1979), 409-448
Matisoff, KINTOSHO: ZEAMI'S SONG OF EXILE, in MN 32:4 (1977), 441-458
Nearman, THE VISIONS OF A CREATIVE ARTIST: ZENCHIKU"S ROKURIN ICHIRO TREATISES, 1: MN 50:2 (1995) 235-261; 2: MN 50:3 (1995) 281-304; 3: MN 50:4 (1995) 485-521; 4: MN 51:1(1996) 17-52
Teale, NO/KYOGEN MASKS AND PERFORMANCE. Mime Journal, 1984.
Ortolani, THE JAPANESE THEATRE: FROM SHAMANISTIC RITUAL TO CONTEMPORARY PLURALISM.
Rubin, THE ART OF THE FLOWER OF MUMBO JUMBO, in HJAS 53:2 (1993), 513-542.
Strong, THE MAKING OF A FEMME FATALE: ONO NO KOMACHI IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL COMMENTARIES. In MN 49:4 (1994), 391-412.
Tyler (tr.), PINING WIND and GRANNY MOUNTAINS, two cycles of Noh plays
Tyler," THE NO PLAY MATSUKAZE AS A TRANSFORMATION OF GENJI MONOGATARI" Journal of Japanese Studies 20:2 (summer 1994), p. 377-422
Waley (tr.), THE NO PLAYS OF JAPAN
Yasuda (tr.), MASTERWORKS OF THE NO THEATER
Smethurst, THE ARTISTRY OF AESCHYLUS AND ZEAMI: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Zeami, HOW TO WRITE A NOH PLAY: ZEAMI'S SANDO (Quinn tr.), in MN 48:1 (1993), 53-88.
Zeami, ZEAMI'S KYUI: A PEDAGOGICAL GUIDE FOR TEACHERS OF ACTING (Nearman tr.), in MN33:3 (1978), 299-332.
Zeami, ON THE ART OF THE NO DRAMA: THE MAJOR TREATISES OF ZEAMI (Rimer and Yamazaki tr.).
Zeami, PASSAGE TO INDIA DENIED: ZEAMI'S KASUGA RYUJIN (Morrell tr.), in MN 37:2 (1982), 179-200.
Zeami, RIKEN NO KEN: ZEAMI'S THEORY OF ACTING AND THEATRICAL APPRECIATION, (Yusa tr.), in MN 42:3 (1987), 331-344.
Zeami, THE TWO SHIZUKAS: ZEAMI'S FUTARI SHIZUKA (Mueller tr.),
in MN 36:3 (1981), 285-298.
LITERARY HISTORY and CRITICISM
Brower and Miner, JAPANESE COURT POETRY
Kato, A HISTORY OF JAPANESE LITERATURE, 3 volumes.
Keene, THE PLEASURES OF JAPANESE LITERATURE
Keene, SEEDS IN THE HEART (history of Japanese literature from origins to 16th century)
Keene, TRAVELERS OF A HUNDRED AGES: THE JAPANESE AS REVEALED THROUGH 1,000 YEARS OF DIARIES.
Konishi, A HISTORY OF JAPANESE LITERATURE: Vol. 1: Archaic and Ancient Ages [to 9th century]; Vol. 2: Early Middle Ages [9th to mid-12th centuries]; Vol. 3: The High Middle Ages.
LaFleur, THE KARMA OF WORDS: BUDDHISM AND THE LITERARY ARTS IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN
Mair, BUDDHISM AND THE RISE OF THE WRITTEN VERNACULAR IN EAST ASIA: THE MAKING OF NATIONAL LANGUAGES. JAS 53:3 (August 1994), 707-751.
Marra, THE BUDDHIST MYTHMAKING OF DEFILEMENT: SACRED COURTESANS IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN. Journal of Asian Studies 52:1 (Feb. 1993), 49-65.
Miner, COMPARATIVE POETICS: AN INTERCULTURAL ESSAY ON THEORIES OF LITERATURE
Miner, AN INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE COURT POETRY
Miner, "JAPANESE AND WESTERN IMAGES OF COURTLY LOVE," in Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 15 (1966), 174-79.
Miner, PRINCIPLES OF CLASSICAL JAPANESE LITERATURE
Miner, "WAKA: FEATURES OF ITS CONSTITUTION AND DEVELOPMENT", in HJAS 50:2 (1990), 669-706 [a response to Morris, "Waka and Form"].
Morris, "WAKA AND FORM, WAKA AND HISTORY," in HJAS 46:2 (1986), 551-610. [See Miner's response, "Waka: Features . . ."]
Mostow, "PAINTED POEMS, FORGOTTEN WORDS: POEM-PICTURES AND CLASSICAL JAPANESE LITERATURE," in MN 47:3 (1992), 323-346.
Ooka, THE COLORS OF POETRY: ESSAYS ON CLASSIC JAPANESE VERSE
Plutschow, CHAOS AND COSMOS: RITUAL IN EARLY AND MEDIEVAL JAPANESE LITERATURE
Pollack, THE FRACTURE OF MEANING: JAPAN'S SYNTHESIS OF CHINA FROM THE EIGHTH THROUGH THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Raud, THE ROLE OF POETRY IN CLASSICAL JAPANESE LITERATURE: A CODE AND DISCURSIVITY ANALYSIS
Strong, "THE MAKING OF A FEMME FATALE: ONO NO KOMACHI IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL COMMENTARIES." In MN 49:4 (1994), 391-412.
Ueda, LITERARY AND ART THEORIES IN JAPAN
Ury, 'STEPMOTHER TALES IN JAPAN', in Childrens Literature, vol. 9, pp.
61-72.
Bownas and Thwaite, THE PENGUIN ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANESE POETRY
Carter, TRADITIONAL JAPANESE POETRY, AN ANTHOLOGY
Keene, ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANESE LITERATURE
McCullough, CLASSICAL JAPANESE PROSE, AN ANTHOLOGY
Miner, JAPANESE POETIC DIARIES
Sato and Watson, FROM THE COUNTRY OF EIGHT ISLANDS: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry
Tsunoda and deBary, SOURCES OF JAPANESE TRADITION
Shirane, EARLY MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE (PL782.E1 E23 2002)
Watson, JAPANESE LITERATURE IN CHINESE (2 vols.)
EARLY WRITINGS (5th-8th centuries)
Borgen, Robert and Marian Ury (trans.), "READABLE JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY: SELECTIONS FROM NIHON SHOKI AND KOJIKI. Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 24:1 (April 1990), 61-97.
Ebersole, RITUAL POETRY AND THE POLITICS OF DEATH IN EARLY JAPAN
KOJIKI (Philippi tr.)
Murakami, "INCEST AND REBIRTH IN KOJIKI," in MN 43:4 (1988), 455-464.
NIHONGI: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A. D. 697 (tr. Aston)
NORITO: A Translation of the Ancient Japanese Ritual Prayers (tr. Philippi)
"WASP
WAISTS AND MONKEY TAILS: A STUDY AND TRANSLATION OF HAMANARI'S UTA NO
SHIKI (THE CODE OF POETRY, 772)" (tr. Rabinovitch) in HJAS 51:2 (1991),
471-560.
MAN'YOSHU (compiled mid-8th century)
Doe, A WARBLER'S SONG IN THE DUSK: THE LIFE AND WORK OF OTOMO YAKAMOCHI (718-785) [Review: HJAS 43:2, 699-711]
Levy, HITOMARO AND THE BIRTH OF JAPANESE LYRICISM [Review: HJAS 46:2]
THE MAN'YOSHU: THE NIPPON GAKUJUTSU SHINKKAI TRANSLATION OF ONE THOUSAND POEMS
THE TEN THOUSAND LEAVES (tr. Levy, up to #906)
EARLY HEIAN POETRY (9th-11th centuries)
Araki, "JAPANESE LITERATURE: THE PRACTICE OF TRANSFER," in MN 31:1 (1976), 77-86 (on translating Japanese poetry)
Borgen, SUGAWARA NO MICHIZANE AND THE EARLY HEIAN COURT
Fujiwara Kinto, "RULES FOR POETIC ELEGANCE--FUJIWARA KINTO'S SHINSEN ZUINO AND WAKA KUHON" (Teele tr.), in MN 31:2 (1976).
Harries, "PERSONAL POETRY COLLECTIONS: THEIR ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE HEIAN PERIOD," in MN 35:3 (1980).
Kamens, BUDDHIST POETRY OF THE GREAT KAMO PRIESTESS
KOKIN WAKASHU: THE FIRST IMPERIAL ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANESE POETRY, with "Tosa Nikki" and "Shinsen Waka" (McCullough tr.)
KOKINSHU: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (Rodd tr.)
Konishi, "THE GENESIS OF THE KOKINSHU STYLE," HJAS 38:1 (1978), 61-70.
McCullough, BROCADE BY NIGHT: 'KOKIN WAKASHU' AND THE COURT STYLE IN JAPANESE CLASSICAL POETRY
Okada, "TRANSLATION AND DIFFERENCE: A REVIEW ARTICLE" (on translations of Kokinshu), in Journal of Asian Studies 47:1 (1988), 29-40.
Sato, "LINEATION OF TANKA IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION," in MN 42:3 (1987), 345-356.
Smits, THE PURSUIT OF LONELINESS: CHINESE AND JAPANESE NATURE POETRY IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN, CA. 1050-1150
Strong, "THE MAKING OF A FEMME FATALE: ONO NO KOMACHI IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL COMMENTARIES." In MN 49:4 (1994), 391-412.
TALES OF ISE (McCullough tr.)
HEIAN PROSE (other than The Tale of Genji) (10th-12th centuries)
Borgen, "OE NO MASAFUSA AND THE SPIRIT OF MICHIZANE." MN 50:3 (1995) 357-386.
Bowring, "THE ISE MONOGATARI: A SHORT CULTURAL HISTORY, in HJAS 52-2 (1992), 401-480.
THE CHANGLINGS: A CLASSICAL JAPANESE COURT TALE (Willig tr.). See also Pflugfelder, below.
Fujiwara Michitsuna no Haha, THE GOSSAMER YEARS (Seidensticker tr. of the Kagero Nikki)
Izumi Shikibu, THE IZUMI SHIKIBU DIARY (Cranston tr.; see Miner, Japanese Poetic Diaries, for another tr.; and see Walker, below.)
Ki no Tsurayuki, TOSA NIKKI (McCullough tr., in Kokin Wakashu; also Miner tr., in Japanese Poetic Diaries)
Minamoto Tamenori, THE THREE JEWELS: A STUDY AND TRANSLATION OF MINAMOTO TAMENORI'S SANBOE (Kamens tr.)
MIRACULOUS STORIES OF THE JAPANESE BUDDHIST TRADITION (Nihon ryoiki) Nakamura, tr.
Morris, "SEI SHONAGON'S POETIC CATALOGUES," in HJAS 40:1 (1980), 5-54.
Okada, FIGURES OF RESISTANCE: LANGUAGE, POETRY, AND NARRATING IN THE TALE OF GENJI AND OTHER MID-HEIAN TEXTS.
OKAGAMI, The Great Mirror: Fujiwara Michigana (966-1027) and His Times (McCullough tr.)
Pflugfelder, "STRANGE FATES: SEX, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY IN TORIKAEBAYA MONOGATARI," in MN 47:3 (1992), 347-368.
THE RIVERSIDE COUNSELOR'S STORIES: VERNACULAR FICTION OF LATE HEIAN JAPAN (Backus tr.of Tsutsumi Chnagon monogatari)
Sei Shonagon, THE PILLOW BOOK OF SEI SHONAGON (Morris tr., complete)
Sei Shonagon, THE PILLOW-BOOK OF SEI SHONAGON (Waley partial tr.)
Strong, "THE MAKING OF A FEMME FATALE: ONO NO KOMACHI IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL COMMENTARIES." In MN 49:4 (1994), 391-412.
"THE SUCCESSION (KUNIYUZURI): A TRANSLATION FROM UTSUHO MONOGATARI," in MN 37:2 (1982), 139-178 (Lammers tr.).
Sugawara no Takasue no Musumue, AS I CROSSED A BRIDGE OF DREAMS (Morris tr. of Sarashina Nikki)
TAKAMURA MONOGATARI: The Tale of Takamura, in MN 46:3 (1991), 275-291 Geddes tr.)
"TAKETORI MONOGATARI (THE TALE OF THE BAMBOO CUTTER" (Keene tr.), in Rimer, Modern Japanese Fiction and Its Traditions, 275-305.
A TALE OF ELEVENTH CENTURY JAPAN: HAMAMATSU CHUNAGON MONOGATARI (Rohlich tr.)
A TALE OF FLOWERING FORTUNES: Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period, 2 vols. (McCullough and McCullough tr. of Eiga monogatari)
THE TALE OF NEZAME: Part Three of Yowa no Nezame Monogatari (Hochstedler tr.)
THE TALE OF THE LADY OCHIKUBO: A Tenth Century Japanese Novel (Whitehouse and Yanagisawa tr.)
TALES OF HEICHU (Videen tr.)
TALES OF ISE (McCullough tr.)
TALES OF YAMATO: A TENTH-CENTURY POEM TALE (Tahara tr.)
Ury, "THE OE CONVERSATIONS," in MN 48:3 (1993), 359-380.
Ury, "OE NO MASAFUSA AND THE PRACTICE OF HEIAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY," in MN 51:2 (1996) 143-151.
Walker, "POETIC
IDEAL AND FICTIONAL REALITY IN THE IZUMI SHIKIBU NIKKI," in HJAS
37:1 (1977), 135-182.
Bargen, "Spirit Possession in The Context of Dramatic Expressions of Gender Conflict: The Aoi Episode of The Genji monogatari"”HJAS, Vol. 48, No. 1. (Jun., 1988), pp. 95-130
Bargen, "THE SEARCH FOR THINGS PAST IN THE GENJI MONOGATARI." HJAS 51:1 (1991), 199-232.
Bargen, "YUGAO: A CASE OF SPIRIT POSSESSION IN THE TALE OF GENJI," Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 19:3 (1986), 15-24.
Bargen, A woman's weapon : spirit possession in the Tale of Genji,1997 ( PL788.4.G43 B37 1997)
Blacker, THE CATALPA BOW (on shamanism and spirit possession)
Bowring, MURASAKI SHIKIBU: THE TALE OF GENJI (a brief general introduction)
Caddeau, Criticism and Commentary on The Tale of Genji: Hagiwara Hiromichi's Genji monogatari hyôshaku (UMI dissertation)
Cranston, "ASPECTS OF THE TALE OF GENJI," Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 11:2-3 (1976), 196-198.
Cranston, "THE SEIDENSTICKER GENJI," in The Journal of Japanese Studies 4:1 (1978) 1-25.
Field, THE SPLENDOR OF LONGING IN THE TALE OF GENJI
Gatten, "DEATH AND SALVATION IN THE GENJI MONOGATARI," in Gatten and Chambers (eds.), NEW LEAVES: STUDIES AND TRANSLATIONS OF JAPANESE LITERATURE, IN HONOR OF EDWARD G. SEIDENSTICKER.
Gatten, "THE ORDER OF THE EARLY CHAPTERS IN THE GENJI MONOGATARI," in HJAS 41:1 (1981), 5-46.
Gatten, "A WISP OF SMOKE: SCENT AND CHARACTER IN THE TALE OF GENJI," in MN 32:1 (1977), 35-48
Harper, "GENJI GOSSIP," in Gatten and Chambers (eds.), NEW LEAVES: STUDIES AND TRANSLATIONS OF JAPANESE LITERATURE, IN HONOR OF EDWARD G. SEIDENSTICKER.
Harper, "MORE GENJI GOSSIP," in Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 28:2 (November 1994) 175-182.
Harper, MOTOORI NORINAGA'S CRITICISM OF THE GENJI MONOGATARI: A STUDY OF THE BACKGROUND AND CRITICAL CONTENT OF HIS GENJI MONOGATARI TAMA NO OGUSHI. (UMI dissertation)
Kamens, ed., APPROACHES TO TEACHING MURASAKI SHIKIBU'S 'THE TALE OF GENJI'
Markham, SAIBARA: JAPANESE COURT SONGS OF THE HEIAN PERIOD
McCullough, "Japanese Marriage Institutions in the Heian Period";”HJAS, Vol. 27. (1967), pp. 103-167
McCullough, "THE SEIDENSTICKER GENJI," in MN 32:1 (1977), 93-110
McCullough, "SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HEIAN RITUAL AND CEREMONY." In Japan PEN Club, ed., STUDIES ON JAPANESE CULTURE (Tokyo 1973), vol. II, 275-279.
McCullough, "SPIRIT POSESSION IN THE HEIAN PERIOD." In Japan PEN Club, ed., STUDIES ON JAPANESE CULTURE (Tokyo 1973), vol. I, 91-99.
McMullen, "GENJI GAIDAN: THE ORIGINS OF KUMAZAWA BANZAN'S COMMENTARY ON THE TALE OF GENJI."
Miner, "SOME THEMATIC AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF THE GENJI MONOGATARI." MN 24 (1969),
Morris, "Desire and the Prince: New Work on Genji monogatari--A Review Article," in The Journal of Asian Studies 49:2 (1990), 291-304. (reviews Field, Splendor of Longing, and Shirane, The Bridge of Dreams.)
Mostow, "PAINTED POEMS, FORGOTTEN WORDS: POEM-PICTURES AND CLASSICAL JAPANESE LITERATURE," in MN 47:3 (1992), 323-346.
Murasaki Shikibu, MURASAKI SHIKIBU: HER DIARY AND POETIC MEMOIRS (Bowring tr.)
Murasaki Shikibu, THE TALE OF GENJI (complete Seidensticker tr.)
Murasaki Shikibu, THE TALE OF GENJI (complete Tyler tr.; PL788.4.G4 E3 2001)
Murasaki, Lady, THE TALE OF GENJI: A NOVEL IN SIX PARTS (nearly complete Waley tr.)
Murase, ICONOGRAPHY OF THE TALE OF GENJI: GENJI MONOGATARI EKOTOBA (on Genji illustrations)
Nickerson, "THE MEANING OF MATRILOCALITY: KINSHIP, PROPERTY, AND POLITICS IN MID-HEIAN," in MN 48:4 (1993), 429-468.
Okada, FIGURES OF RESISTANCE: LANGUAGE, POETRY, AND NARRATING IN THE TALE OF GENJI AND OTHER MID-HEIAN TEXTS.
Pekarik (ed.), UKIFUNE: LOVE IN THE TALE OF GENJI (collected essays)
Pollock, THE FRACTURE OF MEANING (pp. 55-76 deal with references to Chinese literature in the Genji.)
Pollock, "THE INFORMING IMAGE: 'CHINA' IN GENJI MONOGATARI," in MN 38:4 (1985), 359-376.
Ramirez-Christensen, "RESISTING FIGURES OF RESISTANCE" (review of Okada), in HJAS 55:1 (1995), 179-218.
Seidensticker, THIS COUNTRY JAPAN, chapters 1-5
Shirane, "THE AESTHETICS OF POWER: POLITICS IN THE TALE OF GENJI," in HJAS 45:2 (1985), 615-648.
Shirane, THE BRIDGE OF DREAMS: A POETICS OF THE TALE OF GENJI
Stinchecum, NARRATIVE VOICE IN THE TALE OF GENJI
Stinchecum, "WHO TELLS THE TALE?" MN 35:4, 375-403.
Ury, "THE COMPLETE GENJI" (on Seidensticker's tr.), in HJAS 37:1 (1977), 183-202
LATER WORKS that allude to or parody the
Genji
KAMAKURA PROSE (13-14th centuries)
Keene, "A NEGLECTED CHAPTER: COURTLY FICTION OF THE KAMAKURA PERIOD," in MN 44:1 (1989), 1-30
Nakanoin Masatada no Musume, CONFESSIONS OF LADY NIJO
Pandey, Rajyashree, "WOMEN, SEXUALITY, AND ENLIGHTENMENT: KANKYO NO TOMO. MN 50:3 (1995) 325-356.
THE TALE OF THE HEIKE (McCullough tr.)
TALES OF TIMES NOW PAST: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese
Collection (Ury tr.)
RENGA (linked poetry, 14th-16th centuries) (references to the Genji were mandatory)
Carter, "RULES, RULES, AND MORE RULES: [an introduction to and translation of] SHOHAKU'S RENGA RULEBOOK OF 1501," in HJAS 43:2 (1983), 581-642.
Miner, JAPANESE LINKED POETRY
LATER PROSE
Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693), THE LIFE OF AN AMOROUS MAN (Hamada tr.); THE LIFE OF AN AMOROUS WOMAN (Morris tr.)
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), NAOMI; ARROWROOT; THE REED CUTTER; THE MAKIOKA SISTERS; CAPTAIN SHIGEMOTO'S MOTHER; THE BRIDGE OF DREAMS (in SEVEN JAPANESE TALES)
Enchi Fumiko (1905-1986), MASKS
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), THE LADY AOI (in FIVE MODERN NO PLAYS); SPRING SNOW
Yourcenar, Marguerite, "LE DERNIER AMOUR DU PRINCE GENGHI," in her NOUVELLES ORIENTALES