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Record of Miraculous Events in Japan
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Ono no Komachi
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Sugawara no Michizane
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Classical Poetry
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Brower, Robert H., and Earl Miner. “Formative Elements in the Japanese Poetic Tradition.” Journal of Asian Studies 16 (1957): 503–527.
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Konishi Jin’ichi. “Association and Progression: Principles of Integration in Anthologies and Sequences of Japanese Court Poetry: A.D. 900–1350.” Translated by Robert H. Brower and Earl Miner. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 21 (1958): 67–127.
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Ooka Makoto. “Color, Colors, and Colorlessness in Early Japanese Poetry.” Translated by Hiroaki Sato. Chanoyu Quarterly 41 (1985): 35–49.
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Rexroth, Kenneth, trans. One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese. New York: New Directions, 1976.
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Rexroth, Kenneth, and Ikuko Atsumi, trans. The Burning Heart: Women Poets of Japan. New York: Seabury Press, 1977.
Smits, Ivo. “The Poem as a Painting: Landscape Poetry in Late Heian Japan.” Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 4th ser., 6 (1991): 61–86.
Smits, Ivo. The Pursuit of Loneliness: Chinese and Japanese Nature Poetry in Medieval Japan, ca. 1050–1150. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1995.
Smits, Ivo. “Unusual Expressions: Minamoto no Toshiyori and Poetic Innovation in Medieval Japan.” Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 4th ser., 8 (1993): 85–106.
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Kokinshū
Ceadel, E. B. “The Two Prefaces of the Kokinshū.” Asia Major, n.s., 7, pts. 1–2 (1968):40–51.
Konishi Jin’ichi. “The Genesis of the Kokinshū Style.” Translated by Helen Craig Mc-Cullough. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 38 (1978): 61–170.
McCullough, Helen Craig. Brocade by Night: Kokin wakashū and the Court Style in Classical Japanese Poetry. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985.
McCullough, Helen Craig, trans. Kokin wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry, with Tosa nikki and Shinsen waka. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985.
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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter and Other Early Tales
Cranston, Edwin A. “Atemiya, a Translation from the Utsubo monogatari.” Monumenta Nipponica 24, no. 3 (1969): 289–314.
Keene, Donald, trans. “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.” Monumenta Nipponica 11, no. 4 (1956): 1–127.
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The Tales of Ise and Other Poem Tales
Bowring, Richard. “The Ise monogatari: A Short Cultural History.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 52 (1992): 401–480.
Harris, H. Jay, trans. Tales of Ise. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1972.
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Tahara, Mildred. “Heichū, as Seen in Yamato monogatari.” Monumenta Nipponica 26, nos. 1–2 (1971): 17–48.
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Tosa Diary
McCullough, Helen Craig, trans. Kokin wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry, with Tosa nikki and Shinsen waka. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985.
Viswanathan, Meera. “Poetry, Play, and the Court in the Tosa nikki.” Comparative Literature Studies 28, no. 4 (1991): 416–432.
Kagerō Diary
Arntzen, Sonja, trans. The Kagero Diary. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Mostow, Joshua S. “The Amorous Statesman and the Poetess: The Politics of Autobiography and the Kagerō nikki.” Japan Forum 4, no. 2 (1992): 305–315.
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Seidensticker, Edward G., trans. The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1964.
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The Pillow Book
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Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing
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The Tale of Genji
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Gatten, Aileen. “Weird Ladies: Narrative Strategy in the Genji monogatari.” Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 20, no. 1 (1986): 29–48.
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Harper, Thomas J., trans. “More Genji Gossip.” Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 28 (1994): 175–182.
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Kobayashi, Yoshiko. “The Function of Music in the Tale of Genji.” Journal of Comparative Literature 33 (1990): 253–260.
Mills, Douglas E. “Murasaki Shikibu—Saint or Sinner?” Japan Society of London Bulletin 90 (1980): 3–14.
Morris, Ivan. The Tale of Genji Scroll. Palo Alto, Calif.: Kodansha, 1971.
Morris, Ivan, ed. Madly Singing in the Mountains. London: Allen & Unwin, 1970.
Mostow, Joshua S. “E no gotoshi: The Picture Simile and the Feminine Re-guard in Japanese Illustrated Romances.” Word & Image 11, no. 1 (1995): 37–54.
Murase, Miyeko. Iconography of the Tale of Genji: Genji monogatari ekotoba. Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1983.
Noguchi, Takehiko. “The Substratum Constituting Monogatari: Prose Structure and Narrative in the Genji monogatari.” In Principles of Classical Japanese Literature, edited by Earl Miner, 130–150. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Okada, H. Richard. Figures of Resistance: Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991.
Pekarik, Andrew, ed. Ukifune: Love in the Tale of Genji. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
Pollack, David. “The Informing Image: ‘China’ in Genji monogatari.” Monumenta Nipponica 38, no. 4 (1983): 359–375.
Puette, William J. Guide to The Tale of Genji. Rutland, Vt: Tuttle, 1983.
Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza. “The Operation of the Lyrical Mode in the Genji monogatari.” In Ukifune: Love in the Tale of Genji, edited by Andrew Pekarik, 21–61. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
Rimer, J. Thomas. Modern Japanese Fiction and Its Traditions: An Introduction. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Rowley, G. G. Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2000.
Seidensticker, Edward G. “Chiefly on Translating the Genji.” Journal of Japanese Studies 6, no. 1 (1980): 16–47.
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Shirane, Haruo. “The Aesthetics of Power: Politics in The Tale of Genji.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 45, no. 2 (1985): 615–647.
Shirane, Haruo. The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987.
Shirane, Haruo. “The Uji Chapters and the Denial of the Romance.” In Ukifune: Love in the Tale of Genji, edited by Andrew Pekarik, 113–138. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
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Murasaki Shikibu’s Diary
Bowring, Richard. The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu. London: Penguin, 1996.
Omori, Annie Shepley, and Kōchi Doi. Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan. Tokyo: Kenkyūsha, 1961.
Sarashina Diary
Morris, Ivan, trans. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan. New York: Dial Press, 1971.
Other Literary Diaries
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Brazell, Karen W., trans. The Confessions of Lady Nijō. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1976.
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Kristeva, Tsvetana. “Japanese Lyrical Diaries and the European Autobiographical Tradition.” In Europe Interprets Japan, edited by Gorden Daniels, 155–162. Tenterden: Norbury, 1984.
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Miner, Earl, trans. Japanese Poetic Diaries. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.
Omori, Annie Shepley, and Kōchi Doi. Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan. Tokyo: Kenkyūsha, 1961.
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