[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]

GENERAL REFERENCE

KODANSHA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAPAN (DS805/K633/1983)

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

ASIAN STUDIES JOURNALS

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.

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)

HISTORY and CULTURE

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

THEATRE and DRAMA

NOH THEATER (14th-16th centuries)

Arnott, THE THEATRES OF JAPAN

Bethe and Brazell, DANCE IN THE NO THEATER

Hare, ZEAMI'S STYLE: THE NOH PLAYS OF ZEAMI MOTOKIYO

Keene, NO: THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF JAPAN

Keene, TWENTY PLAYS OF THE NO THEATRE

Klein, ANKOKU BUTO: THE PREMODERN AND POSTMODERN INFLUENCES ON THE DANCE OF UTTER DARKNESS

Konishi, THE FORMATION OF RENGA: AN APPROACH FROM THE HISTORY OF GENRE, JAS 38 (1979)

Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, THE NOH DRAMA: TEN PLAYS FROM THE JAPANESE SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY THE SPECIAL NOH COMMITTEE

Ortolani, THE JAPANESE THEATRE: FROM SHAMANISTIC RITUAL TO CONTEMPORARY PLURALISM

Rimer and Yamazaki, ON THE ART OF THE NO DRAMA: THE MAJOR TREATISES OF ZEAMI

Tyler, JAPANESE NO DRAMAS (Norton paperback anthology)

LITERARY HISTORY and CRITICISM

Brower and Miner, JAPANESE COURT POETRY

Keene, DAWN TO THE WEST

Keene, JAPANESE LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION FOR WESTERN READERS

Keene, SEEDS IN THE HEART: JAPANESE LITERATURE FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Konishi, A HISTORY OF JAPANESE LITERATURE (3 vol.)

LaFleur, THE KARMA OF WORDS: BUDDHISM AND THE LITERARY ARTS IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN

McCullough, CLASSICAL JAPANESE PROSE

Miner, AN INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE COURT POETRY

Shirane, TRADITIONAL JAPANESE LITERATURE: AN ANTHOLOGY, BEGINNINGS TO 1600

Shirane, TRACES OF DREAMS: LANDSCAPE, CULTURAL MEMORY, AND THE POETRY OF BASHO

Ueda, LITERARY AND ART THEORIES IN JAPAN

ANTHOLOGIES AND SOURCE BOOKS

Keene, ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANESE LITERATURE TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

McCullough, CLASSICAL JAPANESE PROSE

Miner, JAPANESE POETIC DIARIES

Shirane, TRADITIONAL JAPANESE LITERATURE: AN ANTHOLOGY, BEGINNINGS TO 1600

Tsunoda, DE BARY, KEENE, SOURCES OF JAPANESE TRADITION, vol. 1

EARLY WRITINGS

Philippi, KOJIKI (a primary text; this 8th-cent. work collects myths, legends, songs)

Aston, NIHONGI: CHRONICLES OF JAPAN FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO A.D. 697

MAN'YOSHU (8th-century poetry anthology)

Cranston, A WAKA ANTHOLOGY, vol 1: THE GEM-GLISTENING CUP

Levy (tr.), THE TEN THOUSAND LEAVES: A TRANSLATION OF THE MAN'YOSHU, JAPAN'S PREMIER ANTHOLOGY OF CLASSICAL POETRY, vol. 1

McCullough (tr.), KOKIN WAKASHU: THE FIRST IMPERIAL ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANESE POETRY WITH "TOSA NIKKI" AND "SHINSEN WAKA"

Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, THE MANYOSHU: ONE THOUSAND POEMS SELECTED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE JAPANESE

EARLY HEIAN POETRY (9th-10th centuries)

Cranston, A WAKA ANTHOLOGY, vol. 1: THE GEM-GLISTENING CUP

Rodd and Henkenius, KOKINSHU: A COLLECTION OF POEMS ANCIENT AND MODERN

THE TALE OF GENJI (11th century)

Bargen, A WOMAN'S WEAPON: SPIRIT POSSESSION IN THE TALE OF GENJI

Bowring, THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF JAPAN, 500-1600

Bowring, MURASAKI SHIKIBU: HER DIARY AND POETIC MEMOIRS

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.

Harper, "GENJI GOSSIP," in Gatten and Chambers (eds.), NEW LEAVES: STUDIES AND TRANSLATIONS OF JAPANESE LITERATURE, IN HONOR OF EDWARD G. SEIDENSTICKER.

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, "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."

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)

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.)

Seidensticker, THIS COUNTRY JAPAN, chapters 1-5

Shirane, THE BRIDGE OF DREAMS: A POETICS OF THE TALE OF GENJI

Stinchecum, NARRATIVE VOICE IN THE TALE OF GENJI

HEIAN PROSE (other than The Tale of Genji)

THE IZUMI SHIKIBU DIARY (Cranston tr.)

THE MOTHER OF MICHITSUNA, THE KAGERO NIKKI (also titled AS I CROSSED A BRIDGE OF DREAMS) (Seidensticker tr.)

THE PILLOW BOOK OF SEI SHONAGON (Morris tr.)

THE SARASHINA DIARY (Morris tr.)

THE TOSA DIARY (McCullough tr.)

LATER WORKS that allude to or parody the Genji

KAMAKURA PROSE (13-14th centuries)

Nakanoin Masatada no Musume, CONFESSIONS OF LADY NIJO

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)

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

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