by Hiroaki Sato
Kanagawa Bungaku Shinkōkai and Takahashi Mutsuo, eds. Shibusawa Tatsuhiko seitan 80 nen kaikoten. Yokohama: Kanagawa Bungaku Shinkōkai, 2008.
Kanda Fuhito and Kobayashi Hideo, ed. Sengoshi nenpyō: 1945–2005. Shōgakukan, 2005.
Kanemoto Masataka. Katakuna ni miyabitaru hito: Hasuda Zenmei to Shimizu Fumio. Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2001.
Karatani Kōjin. Nihon kindai bungaku no kigen. Kōdansha, 2009.
Kasahara Tokushi. Nankin Jiken. Iwanami Shoten, 1997.
Katō Shūichi. Nihon bungaku-shi josetsu. 2 vols. Chikuma Shobō, 1980.
———. A Sheep’s Song: A Writer’s Reminiscences of Japan and the World. Translated and annotated by Chia-ning Chang. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Katsube Mitake, ed. Hikawa seiwa. Kadokawa Shoten, 1972. A collection of Katsu Kaishū’s casual talks with Katsube’s life of Katsu.
Kawabata Hideko. Kawabata Yasunari to tomo ni. Shinchōsha, 1983.
Kawabata Yasunari. Bi no sonzai to hakken: The Existence and Discovery of Beauty. With a translation by V. H. Viglielmo. Mainichi Shinbun Sha, 1969.
———. Izu no odoriko, Onsen’yado. Iwanami Shoten, 1952.
———. Jūroku-sai no nikki, Shōne, etc. Sakka no jiden series, vol. 15. Nihon Tosho Center, 1994.
———. Kawabata Yasunari zenshū. Vol. 34: Zassan 1. Shinchōsha, 1984.
———. Kawabata Yasunari zenshū hokan 1: Nikki, techō, note. Shinchōsha, 1984.
———. Kawabata Yasunari zenshū, hokan, 2: Shokan raikan shō, nikki, techō, note. Shinchōsha, 1984.
———. Koto. Shinchōsha, 2008.
———. Meijin. Shinchōsha, 1970. With Yamamoto Kenkichi’s commentary.
———. Nemureru bijo. Shinchōsha, 1967. With Mishima Yukio’s commentary.
———. Suishō gensō, Kinjū. Kōdansha, 1992. With commentaries of Takahashi Hideo and Hatori Tetsuya.
———. Utsukushii nihon no watashi: sono josetsu. Kōdansha, 1969. With E. G. Seidensticker’s translation.
———. Yukiguni. Shinchōsha, 1987. With commentaries of Takenishi Hiroko and Itō Sei.
——— and Mishima Yukio. Ōfuku shokan. Shinchōsha, 2000.; originally 1997.
Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West. 2 vols. Boston: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984.
———. 5 Modern Japanese Novelists. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
———. World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-modern Ear: 1600–1867. Boston: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976.
———, trans. Five Modern Nō Plays by Yukio Mishima. Tokyo and Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1967.; originally New York: Knopf, 1957.
Kihira Teiko. Chichi to ko no Shōwa hishi. Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2004.
———. “Mishima Yukio no tegami,” in 18 installments in the weekly Asahi, from December 13, 1974 to April 11, 1975. Kihira’s recollections of her association with Mishima in the early postwar years.
Kikuchi Nobuhei, ed. Shōwa 12 nen no “Shūkan Bunshun.” Bungei Shunjū, 2007.
Kimura Tokuzō. Bungei henshūsha: sono kyō’on. TBS Britannica, 1982.
Kishi Nobusuke. Waga seishun: oitachi no ki, omoide no ki. Kōzaidō, 1983.
Kita Morio. Yoru to kiri no sumi de. Shinchōsha, 1960.
Kitajima Masamoto. Bappan-sei no kumon. Nihon no rekishi series, vol. 18. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1974.
Kitami Harukzau. Kaisō no Bungaku-za. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1987.
Klieger, P. Christiaan. The Images of America: The Fleischmann Yeast Family. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004.
Kōdachi Naoki. Tokkō no shin’i: Ōnishi Takijirō wahei e no message. Bungei Shunjū, 2011.
Kodama Kōta, ed. Nenpyō, chizu. Nihon no rekishi series, bekkan, vol. 5. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1967.
Kojima Chikako. Mishima Yukio to Dan Kazuo. Kōsōsha, 1989. A Mishima editor’s account of her association with Mishima (and Dan Kazuo). Kojima famously went to Mishima’s house to receive the last installment of the fourth volume of the tetralogy, Hōjō no Umi, on the day of his death.
Kojima Nobuo. Hōyō kazoku. Kōdansha, 2009.
Kojima Tsuyoshi. Kindai Nihon no Yōmeigaku. Kōdansha, 2006. An account of the influence of Wang Yangming thought from Ōshio Heihachirō to Mishima Yukio.
Kon Hidemi. Higeki no shōgun: Yamashita Tomoyuki, Honma Masaharu. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1988.
———. Sanchū hōrō. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1978. Includes an account US Occupation censors did not want to see in print.
Konishi Jin’ichi. Nihon bungei-shi. 5 vols. Kōdansha, 1985–92.
Konishi Shirō. Kaikoku to jōi. Nihon no rekishi series, vol. 19. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1974.
Kōno Ichirō. Kōno Ichirō-den. Tokuma Shoten, 1965.
———. Kōno Ichirō jiden. Edited by Denki Kankō Iinkai. Tokuma Shoin, 1965.
Kunieda Shirō. Shinshū Kōketsu-jō. Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2007. With Mishima’s commentary.
Kuno Akiko. Rokumeikan no kifujin: Ōyama Sutematsu. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1993; originally 1988.
Kurashi no Techō, ed. Sensō-chū no kuashi no kiroku. Kurashi no Techō Sha, 1979; originally 1968.
Kuribayashi Tadamichi. “Gyokusai shikikan” no e-tegami. Edited by Yoshida Tsuyuko. Shōgakukan, 2002. A collection of letters the commander of Iwo Jima wrote, with his own drawings, to his son Tarō while stationed in the United States. Includes some letters to his daughter and his wife from Iwo Jima.
———. Iōtō kara no tegami. Bungei Shunjū, 2006. Kuribayashi’s letters from Iwo Jima to his wife Yoshii. With Handō Kazutoshi’s commentary.
Kurogane Hiroshi. Shimizu no Jirochō. 2 vols. PHP Kenkyūsho, 2006.
Kuroha Kiyotaka. Taiheiyō Sensō no rekishi. 2 vols. Kōdansha, 1985.
Lea, Homer. The Valor of Ignorance. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. It predicted, wrongly, that Japan would attack and defeat the United States.
Lebra, Joyce Chapman. The Indian National Army and Japan. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008. Originally published in 1971 as Jungle Alliance: Japan and the Indian National Army. Fujiwara Iwaichi and the formation of the Indian National Army.
Lifton, Robert Jay, et al. Six Lives, Six Deaths: Portraits from Modern Japan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979. Includes assessments of Nogi Maresuke and Mishima Yukio.
Livingston, Jon; Joe Moore; and Felicia Oldfather. Imperial Japan: 1800–1945. New York: Random House, 1973. A collection of papers and articles.
———. Postwar Japan: 1945 to the Present. New York: Random House, 1973. A collection of papers and articles.
McNelly, Theodore. “The Role of Monarchy in the Political Modernization of Japan.” Comparative Politics, vol. 1. no. 3 (April 1969), 366–81.
Maesaka Toshiyuki. Taiheiyō Sensō to shinbun. Kōdansha, 2007. A history of censorship in modern Japan, with an emphasis on censorship during the Pacific War.
Matsufuji Takejirō. Chitagiru Mishima Yukio “kenpō kaisei.” Mainichi Ones, 2003.
Matsumoto Ken’ichi. Mishima Yukio no 2.26 jiken. Bungei Shunjū, 2005.
Matsumoto Tōru, Mishima Yukio no saigo. Bungei Shunjū, 2000.
———, ed. Nenpyō sakka tokuhon: Mishima Yukio. Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1990. A chronology with quotations and commentaries illustrated with photos.
Mears, Helen. Mirror for Americans: Japan. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1948. A blunt judgment that the US Occupation was based on a distortion of Japanese history.
Mikuriya Takashi and Oshio Kazuto. Wasurerareta Nichibei kankei—Helen Mears no toi. Chikuma Shobō, 1996.
Minakami Tsutomu. Kinkaku enjō. Shichōsha, 1986; originally 1979. A biography of Hayashi Yōken, who burned down the Kinkakuji. Though fictionalized, the account reproduces a number of documents related to Hayashi.
Minear, Richard. Victors’ Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2001; originally Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.
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p; Mishima Yukio. Circus, Tabi no ehon, Daijin, with Sakusha danwa. 2 cassettes. Shinchōsha, 1988. Mishima reading three of his stories.
———. Fukuzatsu na kare. Shūeisha, 1987. With an afterword by Abe Jōji, the model of the novel.
———. Gakusei to no taiwa. 2 cassettes. Shinchōsha, 1988. The recording of the teach-in at Waseda University on October 3, 1968. The transcript included in “Kokka kakumei no genri,” Zenshū 40, 204–307.
———. Gikyokushū. 2 vols. Shinchōsha, 1990. All Mishima plays except for the early ones.
———. Hagakure nyūmon. Shinchōsha, 1983. With Kasahara Nobuo’s translations into modern Japanese of passages Mishima quoted.
———. Jūdai shokanshū. Shinchōsha, 1999.
———. Kamen no kokuhaku. Shinchōsha, 1984. With Fukuda Tsuneari’s commentary.
———. Kinkakuji. Shinchōsha, 1993. With Nakamura Mitsuo’s commentary.
———. Mihappyō shokan. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1998. A total of 97 letters to Donald Keene. All collected in Zenshū 38.
———. Shishū. Yamanakako, Yamanashi: Mishima Yukio Bungakukan, 2000.
———. Shōbu no kokoro: Mishima Yukio taidan-shū. Nihon Kyōbun Sha, 1970.
———. Wakaki samurai no tame ni. Bungei Shunjū Sha, 1966.
——— and Fujita Mitsuo. Shashinshū: Mishima Yukio, ’25~’75. Shinchōsha, 2000; originally 1990. A small selection of photos of Mishima with his wife as one of the editors.
——— and Geoffrey Bownas, eds. New Writing in Japan. London: Penguin, 1972.
Mishima Yukio botsugo 30 nen. The monthly Shinchō special, November 2000. Includes two short stories, five essays, and poems not published till then.
Mishima Yukio: 30-nengo no aratana chihei. The monthly Eureka special, November 2000.
Mitani Makoto. Kyūyū Mishima Yukio. Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 1999; originally 1985. Mishima and Mitani, his classmate at Peers School, had regular correspondence the two called “Saturday communications” from late 1944 to the fall of 1945. Following Mishima’s death, Mitani assembled what he had kept and published them with comments, along with essays remembering his friend. The letters are collected in Zenshū 38.
Mitani Takanobu. Kaikoroku: Jijūchō no Shōwa-shi. Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 1999; originally 1980.
Miyoshi, Masao. As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2005; originally 1979.
Mizuki Shigeru. Musume ni kataru o-tōsan no senki. Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1995.
Morris, Ivan. The Nobility of Failure. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. Morris dedicated the book to Mishima.
Murakami Tateo. Kimi-tachi ni wa wakaranai: Tate no Kai de mita Mishima Yukio. Shinchōsha, 2010. A Shield Society member’s recollections of a month-long military experience with Mishima.
Muramatsu Takeshi (also Gō). Mishima Yukio no sekai. Shinchōsha, 1996; originally 1990. An excellent literary biography by a scholar of French literature, though as a friend close to the Mishima family he apparently felt obliged to downplay if not deny Mishima’s homosexuality (bisexuality) and rightwing tilt. With Romano Vulpitta’s afterword.
———. Shi no Nihon bungaku-shi. Kadokawa Shoten, 1981.
Murayama Tomoyoshi. Shinobi no mono. 5 vols. Iwanami Shoten, 2003.
Nagai Kafū, trans. Sango-shū. Iwanami Shoten, 1991. Nagai’s small anthology of French poetry in his translation, originally in 1912.
Nagai Yōnosuke. Jūkōzō shakai to bōryoku. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1971.
Nakamura Akihiko. Resshi to yobareru otoko: Morita Masakatsu no monogatari. Bungei Shunjū, 2003. A biography of the man who disemboweled himself along with Mishima.
Nakamura Mitsuo. Jidai no kanshoku. Bungei Shunjū, 1970.
———. Nihon no kindai. Bungei Shunjū, 1968.
——— and Mishima Yuko. Taidan: Ningen to bungaku. Kōdansha, 2002. A series of taidan between the two writers originally published in book form in 1968. Included in Zenshū 40, 43–173.
Nakano Yoshio. Akunin raisan. Edited by Anno Mitsumasa. Chikuma Shobō, 1990.
Nanakita Kazuto, ed. Abe Sada densetsu. Chikuma Shobō, 1998.
Nathan, John. Mishima: A Biography. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. An account by a scholar Mishima once regarded as his official English translator.
Natsume Sōseki. Sōseki zenshū, vol. 11. Iwanami Shoten, 1966. Includes a reference to Hiraoka Sadatarō.
Nelms, Henning. Scene Design: A Guide to the Stage. New York: Dover Publications, 1970.
Noda Utarō. Hai no kisetsu. Shūdōsha, 1958.
Nosaka Akiyuki. Kakuyaku-taru gyakkō. Bungei Shunjū, 1991. A biography by a writer who found certain parallels in his life and Mishima’s.
Odakane Jirō. Hasuda Zenmei to sono shi. Chikuma Shobō, 1970.
———. Shijin, sono shōgai to unmei: shokan to sakuhin kara mita Itō Shizuo. Shinchōsha, 1965.
Ōe Kenzaburō. Hiroshima note. Iwanami Shoten, 2005.
———. Kojinteki-na taiken. Shinchōsha, 1995.
———. Seiteki ningen. Shinchōsha, 1989.
Okamoto Shirō. Kabuki o sukutta otoko. Shūeisha, 1998. Translated and adapted by Samuel L. Leiter as The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001).
Oketani Hideaki. Shōwa seishinshi. Bungei Shunjū, 1996.
———. Shōwa seishinshi: sengo-hen. Bungei Shunjū, 2003.
Okuno Takeo. Mishima Yukio densetsu. Shinchōsha, 1993. Largely a collection of Okuno’s reviews of Mishima’s works.
Onna-tachi no Genzai o Tou Kai, ed. 55-nen taisei seiritsu to onna-tachi. Impact Shuppankai, 1987.
Ōoka Shōhei. Leyte senki. 3 vols. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1974.
———. Nakahara Chūya. Kōdansha, 1989. A biography of the poet Nakahara Chūya based on Ōoka’s association with him.
———. Sensō. Iwanami Shoten, 2007; originally 1970.
Ōsugi Kazuo. Nitchū 15-nen sensō-shi. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1996. An exploration of whether China and Japan could not have prevented the expansion of the conflict before Japan’s occupation of Nanjing at the end of 1937.
Ōtani Kenshirō, trans. Nihon no Tennō seiji. Simul Shuppankai, 1979. Translation of David Titus, Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974).
Ōuchi Tsutomu. Fascism e no michi. Nihon no rekishi series, vol. 24. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1967.
Pacific War Research Society, comp. and trans. Japan’s Longest Day. Tokyo and Palo Alto: Kodansha International, 1968.
Pal, Radhabinod. Dissentient Judgment of Justice Pal. Kokusho-Kankokai, 1999.
Passin, Herbert. Encounter with Japan. Kodansha International, 1982.
———. Society and Education in Japan. Kodansha International, 1985; originally 1965.
Poe, Edgar Allan. Complete Tales and Poems. New York: Vintage Books, 1975.
Proust, Marcel. Pleasures and Days. Translated by Andres Brown. London: Hesperus Classics, 2004.
Richie, Donald. Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese. Kodansha International, 1987. Contains thumbnail sketches of a wide variety of people, including Mishima and Kawabata. Japanese Portraits: Pictures of Different People (Clarendon, VT: Tuttle, 2006), is a somewhat expanded edition.
———. The Japan Journals: 1947–2004. Edited by Leza Lowitz. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2004.
Rilke, Rainer Maria. The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge. Translated by M. D. Herter Norton. New York: W. W. Norton, 1949.
Rimer, J. Thomas, ed. Not a Song Like Any Other: An Anthology of Writings by Mori Ōgai. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004. Includes Hiroaki Sato’s translation of Ōshio Heihachirō.
———. Toward a Modern Japanese Theatre: Kishida Kunio. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.
———, trans., and Yamazaki Masakazu, ed. On the Art of Nō Drama: The Major Treaties of Zeami. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1984.
Ross, Christopher. Mishima’s Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006.
Rōyama Masamichi. Yomigaeru Nihon. Nihon no rekishi series, vol. 26. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1967.
Saeki Shōichi. Hyōden: Mishima Yukio. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1988. A collection of critical essays by Mishima Yukio’s friend and professor of American literature.
St. Andrews Review, vol. 1, no. 4, 1972. Includes one of the earliest assessments in English of Mishima’s death based on his work: Irina Kirk’s “Death—Life—Work of Yukio Mishima.” There was only a handful of translations of Mishima’s work at the time, with Kirk assuming that Sun and Steel was Mishima’s “last book.” But her appraisal was unerring.
Sakurai Chūichi and Lindley Williams Hubbell et al., trans. Ze-Ami Kadensho. Kyoto: Sumiya-Shinobe Publishing Institute, 1968.
Sansom, George. A History of Japan 1615–1867. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1963.
———. A History of Japan to 1334. London: Cresset Press, 1958.
———. The Western World and Japan. New York: Knopf, 1949.
Saotome Katsumoto. Tokyo dai-kūshū. Iwanami Shoten, 1971. A survivor’s reconstruction of the air raid on the night of March 9 (early March 10), 1945.
Sassa Atsuyuki. Tōdai rakujō: Yasuda Kōdō kōbō 72 jikan. Bungei Shunjū, 1996.
Sato, Hiroaki, trans. and ed. Legends of the Samurai. New York: Overlook Press, 1995. Translations from Hagakure in Chapter Twenty-two are from this book.
———, trans. Mishima Yukio: Silk and Insight: A Novel. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998.
———, trans. and ed. My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Scammell, Michael. Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. New York: Random House, 2009.
Schaller, Michael. The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Schrader, Paul, director. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. DVD of the 1985 film. New York: Criterion Collection. Date not given.
Scott-Stokes, Henry. The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. A biography by a journalist who knew Mishima in his last several years.