alphabetical list of classical Japanese AUTHORS
translations - studies - electronic texts

I have uploaded this page to the pmjs site, but it is still very much under construction. When finished, it will cover authors through to the Edo period.

  • links on romanized titles lead to details of available translations
  • links on Japanese titles lead to Japanese electronic texts (or information about available e-texts, if more than one text exists)

    • Concerning format, conventions, etc. see opening note on the translation page. See Abbreviations section there for explanation of shortened references like "Herail 1968" or "GSRJ."

    WORK IN PROGRESS. Feedback appreciated. Contributions acknowledged.
    Michael Watson <watson@k.meijigakuin.ac.jp>


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    Abutsu (Abutsu-ni) 阿仏 (阿仏尼) d. 1283

  • Ionushi いほぬし (e-text ed. A. Okajima)
  • Izayoi nikki 十六夜日記 (tr. McCullough; Reischauer; e-text ed. M. Shibata from GSRJ)
  • Utatane うたたね (tr. Wallace; e-text ed. M. Shibata; e-text ed. A. Okajima)
  • Yoru no Tsuru 夜の鶴 (e-text ed. M. Shibata from GSRJ)
  • Menoto no fumi 乳母のふみ (e-text ed. M. Shibata from GSRJ)

    • Akazome Emon 赤染衛門 fl. 976-1041

  • Akazome Emon Shu (personal poetry collection)
  • poetry in Shuishu and later collections
  • possible author/editor of Eiga monogatari 栄花物語 (tr. McCullough and McCullough)

    • Arai Hakuseki 新井白石 1657-1725

  • Oritaku shiba no ki 折たく柴の記 (Told Round a Brushwood Fire, ca. 1716-7)
  • Tokushi yoron / Dokushi yoron 読史余論 (A Reading of History, 1712)
  • Hankanpu (Hankanfu) 1702

    • Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武 1473-1549

  • renga and haikai poet

    • Ariwara (no) Narihira 有原業平 825-80

  • 18 tanka tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:108ff.

    • Ariwara (no) Yukihira 有原行平 ?818-?893

    Asai Ryoi 浅井了意 d. 1691

  • kanazoshi writer
  • Inu hariko 狗張子 (The Toy Dog, 1692)
  • Otogi boko 伽婢子 (The Protective Doll, 1660)
  • (links on Japanese titles lead to e-texts at Yamaguchi Univ.

    • Asukai Masaari (Gayu) 飛鳥井雅有 1241-1301

  • poet, scholar, writer of travel accounts

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    Basho, see Matsuo Basho

    Ben no naishi: see Gofukakusa In Ben no naishi

    Bontoan 梵燈庵 1349-1427

  • renga and waka poet

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    Chikamatsu Hanji 近松半二 (1725-83)

  • joruri dramatist
  • Honcho nijushiko 本朝二十四孝 [1767]
  • Imoseyama Onna Teikin 妹背山女庭訓 [1771]

    • Chikamatsu Monzaemon 近松門左衛門 (1653-1724)

  • joruri and kabuki dramatist
  • Kokusen'ya kassen 国姓爺合戦
  • Meido no hikyaku 冥土飛脚
  • Shinju Ten no Amijima 心中天網島
  • Sonezaki shinju 曾根崎心中
  • Meido no hikyaku 冥途の飛脚
  • Onnagoroshi abura jigoku 女殺油地獄
  • Kokusen'ya gassen 国姓爺合戦
  • Heike nyogo shima 平家女護島
  • (links give further information about available e-texts)

    • Daikaku Zenji 1213-1278

  • Zazen-ron 座禅論 (tr. Leggett)

    • Daisaiin Senshi

  • Hosshin wakashu 発心和歌集 (tr. Kamens)

    • Dogen (Kigen Dogen) 道元（希玄道元) 1200-53

  • Fukan zazengi ("General Advice on the Principles of Zazen") 普観座禅儀
  • Shobogenzo ("The Eye Treasury of the Right Dharma") 正法眼蔵
  • Shobogenzo zuimonki ("Gleanings from Master Dogen's Sayings"--a compilation of sayings by a disciple)正法眼蔵随聞記
  • For other works see Herail 1986: 23-25.

    • Ejima Kiseki 江島其碩 1666-1735

  • Seken musuko katagi 世間息子気質
  • Seken musume katagi 世間娘気質 (1.2 tr. by H. Hibbett in Keene 1955; Hibbett, Howard. The Floating World in Japanese Fiction. OUP, 1959.)

    • Ennin 円仁 793-864

  • Nitto guho junrei gyoki 入唐求法巡礼行記

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    Fujiwara Akihira 藤原明衡 989-1016

  • compiler of collection of Chinese prose and poetry Honcho monzui 本朝文粋

    • Fujiwara Fuyutsugu

  • compiler of Heian kanshi collection Bunka shureishu 文化秀麗集

    • Fujiwara Hamanari 藤原浜成 724-790

  • Kakyo hyoshiki 歌経票式 (tr. Rabinovitch)

    • Fujiwara Kinto 藤原公任 966-1041

  • Shinsen zuino 新撰髄脳 ("Essentials of Poetry, Newly Compiled," tr. Teele)
  • Waka kuhon 和歌九品 (tr. Teele)
  • Wakan roei shu 和漢朗詠集 (tr. Rimer and Chaves)
  • Benl, Oscar. "Fujiwara Kinto: Dichter und Kritiker der Heianzeit." MN 7 (1944): 311-18.

    • Fujiwara Kiyosuke 藤原清輔1104-1177

  • Bokuteikishu 牧笛集

    • Fujiwara Michinaga 藤原道長 966-1027

  • Mido kanpakki 御堂関白記 (tr. Herail 1987-91)
  • Poetry (tr. Herail 1993)
  • see also account of Michinaga in Okagami and Eiga monogatari

    • Fujiwara Michitsuna no haha 藤原道綱母

  • Kagero nikki 蜻蛉日記 (tr. Arntzen; Seidensticker)

    • Fujiwara Mototoshi 藤原基俊 ?-1142/3.

    Fujiwara Shunzei (Toshinari) 藤原俊成 1114-1204

  • compiler of Senzaishu 千歳集
  • Korai Futeisho 古来風体抄 ("Poetic Styles Past and Present")
  • 30 tanka tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:163-8

    • Fujiwara Shunzei (Toshinari) no musume 藤原俊成女 ?1175-?1250

  • sometimes said to be author of Mumyozoshi 無名草子 (tr. Marra)
  • e-text of 越部禅尼消息 ed. M. Shibata (GSRJ)

    • Fujiwara Tameie 藤原為家 1198-1275

  • Eiga ittei 詠歌一体 ("The Style of Composition," 1274). Brower, Robert H. The Foremost Style of Poetic Composition: Fujiwara Tameie's Eiga no Ittei. MN 42 (1987): 391-429.
  • compiler of Shokugosenshu 続後撰和歌集
  • compiler of Shokukokinshu 続古今和歌集

    • Fujiwara Teika (Sadaie) 藤原定家 1180-1235

  • Kindai shuka 近代秀歌 (tr. Brower and Miner; tr. Sato as A Compendium of Good Tanka in Sato and Watson 1981:205-218)
  • Maigetsu sho 毎月抄 [Monthly Notes, 1219]
  • Matsura no miya monogatari 松浦宮物語 (tr. Lammers 1992 as The Tale of Matsura)
  • Meigetsuki 明月記 [The Record of the Clear Moon]
  • Ogura hyakunin isshu 小倉百人一首 (tr. Mostow)
  • Shoji ninen in shodo onhyakushu 正治二年院初度御百首 (tr. Brower)
  • Shogaku Hyakushu. (tr. Bundy, MN 45: 157-88).
  • Eiga taigai (Eika taigai) 詠歌大概 (An Outline for Composing Tanka, 1216, tr. Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:202-43)
  • 84 tanka tr. Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:192-201

    • Fujiwara (Kujo) Yoshitsune 藤原良経 ( 藤原九条良経)1169-1206

  • 79 poems selected for Shinkokinshu
  • private collection: Akishino gesseishu 秋篠月清集

    • Fujiwara Yorinaga (1120-1156)

  • Taiki (one norito from diary entry for year 1142 tr. Philippi [ref])

    • Fun'ya Yasuhide 文室康秀 (late 9th century)

    Fushimiin no nakatsukasa naishi 伏見院中務内侍 (late Kamakura)

  • Nakatsukasa naishi nikki 中務内侍日記 (years 1280-92)

    • Genshin 源信 942-1017

  • Ojoyoshu 往生要集 "Essentials of Deliverance" (tr. Andrews; Reischauer)

    • Gofukakusa In Ben no Naishi 後深草院弁内侍 (Kamakura)

  • Ben no naishi nikki 弁内侍日記 (tr. Hulvey).

    • Gofukakusa In Nijo 後深草院二条 b. 1258

  • Towazugatari とはずがたり(Origlia 1996, Brazell 1973; Krempien 1973)
  • also known as: 中院雅忠女 (Nakanoin Masatada no musume)

    • Gotoba 後鳥羽 1180-1239 (r.1183-98)

  • Gotoba no in gokuden 後鳥羽院御口伝 ("Secret Teachings...")

    • Gusai (Kyuzai, Kyusei, Kasei) 救済 1294-1378

  • Bunna senku (*) "Highly Renowned" tr. by Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:239-240 (partial trans. of renga senquence led by Gusai).

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    Hakuin 白隠 1685-1768

  • Rinzai Zen master, poet

    • Hayashi Razan 林羅山 1583-1657

    Hino Tamemuki 日野竹向き fl. ca. 1330-1350

  • Takemuki ga ki 日野竹向きが記 ("The Diary of Takemuki")

    • Hiraga Gennai 平賀源内 1728-1779

  • Furyu shidoken-den 風流志道軒伝 ("The Dashing Life of Shidoken")
  • ?????, Histoire galante de Shidoken : traduction du Furyu Shidoken-den de Furai Sanjin; suivi de "Attractions foraines au Japon sous les Tokugawa" et de "Les voyages fictifs dans la litterature japonaise de l'epoque d'Edo." Paris : L'Asiatheque, 1979. // Boscaro, Adriana. La bella storia di Shidoken. Venice: Marsilio editori, 1990 (ISBN: 8831753320).
  • Delprat, Adriana. "Gesaku...Hiraga Gennai." Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1985. [*Confirm details]

    • Hirata Atsutane 平田篤胤 1776-1843

    Honen 法然 1133-1212

  • Senchaku [hongan nenbutsu] shu 選択本願念仏集 (tr. Senchakushu English Translation Project 1998; Augustine and Kondo 1997)

    • Hosokawa Yusai 細川幽斎 1534-1620

  • [Ikeda-Yuba, Janet. Triumphant survivor on Japan's cultural battlefield of the sixteenth century. Hosokawa Yusai, 1534-1610: warrior, Nijo poet and guardian of the Kokin denju. Ph. D. Princeton, 1993.]

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    Ichijo Kanera (Kaneyoshi) 一条兼良 1402-1481

  • Carter, Steven D. "Ichijo Kaneyoshi and the Literary Arts," in Carter, Literary Patronage, 1993.

    • Ihara Saikaku 井原西鶴

  • *add links to e-texts (M. Shibata)
  • Buke giri monogatari 武家義理物語 (tr. Callahan, Caryl Ann, ed. Tales of Samurai Honor, Buke giri monogatari. Tokyo, 1982.)
  • Honcho niju fuko 本朝二十不孝 (tr. Sieffert, Rene. Ihara Saikaku. Contes des Provinces suive de Vingt parangons d'impiete filiale de notre pays. Paris, 1985.)
  • Koshoku gonin onna 好色五人女 (tr. de Bary, Wm. Theodore. Ihara Saikaku. Five Japanese Love Stories. Tokyo, 1955. // Bonmarchand, Georges. Cinq amoureuses par Ihara Saikaku. Paris, 1959.
  • Koshoku ichidai otoko 好色一代男 (tr. Hamada, Kengi. The life of an amorous man. Tokyo, 1964.)
  • Koshoku ichidai onna 好色一代女 (tr. Morris, Ivan. The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings. New York, 1963. // Bonmarchand, Georges. Ihara Saikaku: Vie d'une amie de la volupte. Paris, 1975. // selection in Hibbett, Howard. The Floating World in Japanese Fiction. London, 1959.)
  • Nihon eitaigura 日本永代蔵 (tr. Sargent, G. W. The Japanese family storehouse or the millionaire's gospel modernized (Nippon Eitaigura). Cambridge, 1959.// selection in Morris 1963. // selection in German in Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 341-6
  • Saikaku oridome 西鶴織留 (tr. Hammitzsch, Horst, and E. May. Saikaku Oridome. Szenen aus dem japanischen Volksleben im 17. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1974.)
  • Saikaku shokoku banashi 西鶴諸国ばなし (tr. Sieffert, Rene. Ihara Saikaku. Contes des Provinces suive de Vingt parangons d'impiete filiale de notre pays. Paris, 1985.)
  • Seken mune san'yo / Seken munazan'yo 世間胸算用 (tr. Befu, B. Worldly Mental Calculation. Berkeley, 1976; selection in Morris 1963)

    • Ikkyu Sojun 一休宗純 1394-1481

  • Kyounshu 狂雲集 (tr. Arntzen 1973; 1979; 1986)
  • five poems tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:232-3

    • Imagawa Ryoshun 今川了俊 b. 1326

    Ise 伊勢 ?877-?940 ("Lady Ise")

  • Heian waka poet.
  • Ise-shu
  • 11 tanka tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:127-9

    • Izumi shikibu 和泉式部

  • Izumi shikibu nikki 和泉式部日記 (tr. Cranston; Miner)
  • Izumi shikibu shu 和泉式部集 (tr. Hirshfield)
  • 51 tanka tr. Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:142-8

    • [*cross-check with Princeton Companion to be continued from J]

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    Jien

  • Gukansho 愚管抄 (tr. Brown)

    • Jojin azari no haha 成尋阿闍梨母

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

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    Kaibara Ekiken 貝原益軒 (1630-1714)

  • Kaibara Ekiden Archive (Nakamura Gakuen Univ.)
  • Yojokun 養生訓
  • 和俗童子訓

    • Kamo no Chomei 鴨長明 (1155-1216)

  • Hojoki 方丈記 (tr. McCullough, Sadler, etc.)
  • Hosshinshu 発心集 (tr. Ury, Seiffert, etc.)
  • Mumyosho 無名抄 (tr. Kato)
  • See individual entries in translation database.
  • e-text of poetry collection (長明集)
  • Pandey, Rajyashree. Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan. The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 21. Ann Arbor, 1999.

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

  • Kenreimon'in ukyo no daibu shu 建礼門院右京大夫集 (tr. Harries1980)

    • Ki no Tsurayuki

  • Tosa nikki 土佐日記 (tr. McCullough; Miner; Aston).
  • Sieffert, Rene. Kino Tsurayuki: Le Journal de Tosa ; Poemes du Kokin-shu. Paris: P.O.F., 1993. 95 p.
  • 35 tanka tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:130-136

    • Kitabatake Chikafusa 北畠親房 (1293-1354)

  • Jinno shotoki 神皇正統記 (tr. Varley)

    • Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶

  • Ora ga haru おらが春 (tr. Yuasa, Nobuyuki. The Year of My Life: A Translation of Issa's Ora ga Haru: University of California Press, 1973. // + German trans.)
  • 「歳末風景」

    • Kogon'in (Emperor)

  • Wilson, William Ritchie. "Three tanka Chains from the Private Collection of the Emperor Kogon'in." MN 24 (1969): 21-29.

    • Komparu Zenchiku 金春禅竹 b.1405

  • noh plays Basho; Tamakazura; Ugetsu; ...
  • possibly author of noh plays Kogo; ... ; Teika (tr. Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:241-253)
  • Rokurin ichiro no ki "A Record of the Six Rings and the One Word" 六輪一露之記 ( tr. Nearman1996).

    • Kukai 空海

  • Hakeda, Yoshito S. Kukai. New York: Columbia UP. 1972.
  • Bunkyo hifuron 文鏡秘府論 (tr. Bodman 1978).
  • ishi, Shio. The Ink Smeared Lady and Other Kyogen. Tokyo, 1960.

    • Kyogoku Tamekane 京極為兼 1243-1332

  • Tamekane kyo wakasho 為兼卿和歌抄 (ca. 1287), "Notes on Poetry," tr. Huey, Robert N. & Susan Matisoff, MN 40 (1986): 127-46.
  • 23 tanka tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:224-8.

    • Kyokutei Bakin 曲亭馬琴 = Takizawa Bakin 滝沢馬琴　(1767-1848)

  • Kumo no taema ama no yo no tsuki 雲妙間雨夜月 (1804). Edward Greey, A Captive of Love... (Boston/New York, 1886; London and Glasgow, 1911, 119 pp.) is "founded" on this work. German tr. by A. Pfizmaier, Die Einkehr in der Strasse von Kanzaki..., Vienna, 1876, 76 p.
  • Sanshichi zenden nanka no yume 三七全伝南柯夢 (1808) in abridged tr. by J. Ingram Bryan and Shinichi Takaki, The Japan Magazine, 7-8, 1916-8.
  • Musobyoe kocho monogatari 夢想兵衛胡蝶物語 (1809-1810) in abridged tr. by L. Mordwin as "Glimpses of dreamland," Chrysanthemum II, 1881-2.
  • Chinzsetsu yumiharizuki 椿説弓張月 (The Crescent Moon), 1811.
  • Otoshibanashi ambai joshi 落噺… ?? (1799), Nimaze no ki [熟-丸]雑の記, Aoto Fujitsuna moryo-an 青砥藤綱模稜案 (1811), extracts tr. in Adam Gowans, Two wives exchange sprits and other tales, London and Glasgow, 1930.
  • Itozakura shuncho kien 絲桜春蝶奇縁(1812) tr. T. Wakameda, The Japan Magazine 11-12, 1920-1922.
  • Hachijo kidan 八条奇談?? (1813) tr. as "Okama" by F. Regamey, Paris: Plon, 1883.
  • Nanso Satomi hakkenden 南総里見八犬伝 (The Story of Eight Virtuous Hiroes), 1814-32. Excerpt from book 25 tr. by Donald Keene as "Shino and Hamaji" in Keene, Anthology, 423-8.
  • Kiryo manroku 羇旅漫録 (1802). E-text [seems to have moved]
  • Zolbrod, Leon. Takizawa Bakin. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967.
  • Kataki-uchi Nomitori Manako 敵討蚤取眼 (1801) tr. Leon Zolbrod, MN 20 (1965): 121-34.
  • [I have not personally seen the earlier items with the exception of A Captive of Love (a lucky Kanda discovery). Citations are from Herail, Bibliographie Japonaise, 105, with addition of Japanese titles from NKBD 501-3. Can anyone help with the missing titles?]

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    Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉

  • e-texts (links on Japanese titles)
  • Basho haikuzenshu 芭蕉俳句全集 ("complete haiku")
  • Basho shokanshu 芭蕉書簡集 (letters)
  • Genjuan no ki 幻住庵の記 (1690)
  • Kashima mode 鹿島詣 (1687)
  • Nozarashi kiko 野ざらし紀行 (1687)
  • Oi no kobumi 笈の小文
  • Oku no hosomichi 奥の細道 (other e-texts available)
  • Yuasa, Nobuyuki. The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and other Travel Sketches. Penguin, 1966.
  • Saga nikki 嵯峨日記 (1691)
  • Sarashina kiko 更科紀行
  • many other texts available. See voyager.co koten page for links to following:
  • 秋の朝寝 // 明智が妻の話 // 鵜舟 // 雲竹自画像の讃 // 骸骨の絵讃 // 垣穂の梅 // 笠の記 // 堅田十六夜の弁 // 紙衾の記 // 寒夜の辞 // 栖去の弁 // 四山の瓢 // 四条の河原涼み // 自得の箴 // 柴の戸 // 島田の時雨 // 酒楽堂の記 // 十八楼の記 // 月侘斎 // 机の銘 // 夏野の画賛 // 芭蕉庵十三夜 // 芭蕉を移す詞 // 芭蕉句集 // 深川の雪の夜 // 深川八貧 // 閉関の説 // 茅舎の感 // 雪の枯尾花 // 雪丸げ

    • Michitsuna no haha (藤原)道綱母

  • Kagero nikki 蜻蛉日記 (tr. Arntzen; McCullough; Seidensticker)

    • Minamoto no Sanetomo 源実朝 1192-1219

  • 24 tanka tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:219-223

    • Minamoto no Shitago 源順 911-983

  • Song of the Tailless Ox tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:140-1

    • Minamoto no Tamenori

  • Sanboe 三宝絵 (tr. Kamens)

    • Miura Baien 三浦梅園 (1723-89)

  • 玄語
  • 多賀墨卿君にこたふる書

    • Morikawa Kyoroku 森川許六 (1656-1715)

  • compiler of haibun collection Fuzoku monzen {風俗文選} (1706)
  • two essays annotated and tr. in Daniels, Selections from Japanese Literature, 1953, 52-64146-151.

    • Motoori Norinaga 本居宣長

  • Wehmeyer, Ann. Kojiki-den, Motoori Norinaga, Book 1, Cornell University East Asia Series, Number 87. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell East Asia Program, 1997.
  • Kanji san'on ko 漢字三音考
  • Tamakushige 玉櫛笥

    • Muju Ichien

  • Shasekishu 少石集 (tr. Morrell; Rotermund; other)

    • Murasaki shikibu 紫式部

  • Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (tr. Seidensticker; Sieffert; Benl; Waley...)
  • Murasaki shikibu nikki 紫式部日記 (tr. Bowring; Sieffert)
  • Murasaki shikibu shu 紫式部集 (tr. Sieffert)

    • Myoe 明恵 1173-1232

  • 10 tanka tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:190-1
  • subject of noh Kasuga ryujin 春日龍神 (tr. Tyler, JND, 1992)

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    Nichiren

  • Yampolsky, Philip B., ed. Selected Writings of Nichiren, Transl. by Burton Watson and others. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

    • Nijo (Lady) see Gofukakusa In Nijo 後深草院二条

    Nijo Yoshimoto

  • participant in Gusai's renga sequence Bunna senku (*) "Highly Renowned" (partial trans. by Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:239-240)

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    Oe no Asatsuna

  • Rhyme-prose on the Marriage of Man and Woman tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:137-9

    • Oe no Masafusa

  • Honcho shinsen den (*) (tr. Bohner)
  • Ury, Marian. "The Oe Conversations." MN 48 (1993): 359-80.
  • Ury, Marian. "A Heian Note on the Supernatural," JATJ 22.2 (*?), 189-194. ["A Record of Fox-Magic," "Kobi no ki" ]
  • Borgen, Robert. "Oe no Masafusa and the Spirit of Michizane." 50 (1995): 357-84.

    • Ogyu Sorai

  • Linden, O. G. Ogyu Sorai's Journey to Kai in 1705, With a translation of the Kyochukiko. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 48. London and Malmo: Curzon Press, 1983.
  • Lidin, Olof G. The Life of Ogyu Sorai, A Tokugawa Confucian Scholar. [**] REV. Goedertier, MN 30 (1975).

    • Ono no Komachi 小野小町

  • poems (tr. Hirshfield; Weber-Shafer)
  • 19 tanka tr. in Sato and Watson 1981:113ff.
  • Teele, Roy E., Nicholas J. Teele, and H. Rebecca Teele. Ono no Komachi: Poems, Stories, No Plays. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1993

    • Otomo Yakamochi 大伴家持

  • Yakamochishu 家持集（大伴家持）[e-text | info]

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    Rai San'yo 頼山陽 (1780-1832)

  • Nihon gaishi, 1836
  • 11 kanshi tr. by Watson in Sato and Watson, Anthology, 1981, 403-9.

    • Ryokan 良寛

  • Yuasa, Nobuyuki. The Zen Poems of Ryokan: Princeton University Press, 1981. REV: LaFleur, JJS 11,1 (1985)
  • Watson, Burton. Ryokan, Zen Monk-poet of Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.
  • 7 tanka, 3 choka, 1 sedoka, 10 kanshi tr. by Watson in Sato and Watson, Anthology, 1981, 369-377.
  • Titus-Carmel, Joan. Les 99 Haiku de Ryokan. Paris: Verdier, 1986.

    • A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - M - N - O - R - S - T - U - W - Y - Z

    Saigyo 西行

  • Sanka shu 山家集 (tr. Watson; LaFleur)
  • Watson, Burton. Saigyo. Poems of a Mountain Home. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
  • 64 tanka tr. Watson in Sato and Watson 1981:169-180
  • Heldt, Gustav, tr. "Saigyo's Traveling Tale: A Translation of Saigyo Monogatari." MN 52 (1997): 467-522.

    • Saikaku, see Ihara Sakaku

    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.

    • Sei Shonagon 清少納言

  • Makura no soshi 枕草子 (tr. Morris; Beujard; Waley; other)

    • Shikishi naishinno (Shokushi naishinno) 式子内親王 ("Princess Shikishi")

  • Shikishi naishinno shu 式子内親王集 (tr. Sato)
  • 78 tanka tr. Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:181-9

    • Shinkei 心敬 (1406-1475)

  • renga poet
  • Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, Heart's Flower : The Life and Poetry of Shinkei (1994)

    • Shohaku 肖柏 (1443-1527)

  • Muromachi poet. Participant in renga sequences with Sogi and Socho.

    • Shoko 正広 (1412-93)

  • Muromachi poet
  • Tsurusaki Hiro tr. Steven D. Carter, "The Poet Shoko and the Salons of Sakai" in Carter, Literary Patronage, 1993.

    • Socho 宗長 (Saiokuken Socho) (1448-1532)

  • excerpts from many works tr. in H. Mack Horton, "Saiokuken Socho and Imagawa Daimyo Patronage" in Carter, Literary Patronage, 1993.

    • Sogi 宗祇 (1421-1502)

  • Minase sangin hyakuin 水無瀬三吟百韻 (tr. Miner; Yasuda)
  • with Shohaku and Socho
  • Kato, Eileen, tr. "Pilgrimage to Dazaifu: Sogi's Tsukushi no Michi no Ki." MN 34 (1979): 333-67.
  • Carter, Steven D. "Sogi in the East Country: Shirakawa Kiko." 42 (1987): 167-209.
  • Kaneko Kinjiro, tr. H. Mack Horton, "Sogi and the Imperial House" in Carter, Literary Patronage, 1993.
  • * Chikurinsho (Bamboo Grove Notes, by Sogi, 1476)

    • Sugawara no Michizane 菅原道真

  • Kanke bunso 菅家文草 (tr. Borgen)
  • 8 kanshi tr. in Sato and Watson 1981:121-6

    • Sugawara Takasue no Musume 菅原孝標女 (b. 1008)

  • Sarashina nikki 更級日記 (tr. Morris)
  • Hamamatsu chunagon monogatari 浜松中納言物語 (tr. Rohlich)
  • (Yowa no nezame has also been attributed to her)
  • PCCJL, pp. 238-242.

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    Tachibana no Hayanari

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

    • Takebe Ayatari 建部綾足 (1719-74)

  • e-texts at JALLC of following: 折々草 // 歌文要語 // 古今物忘れ // すずみ草 // 西山物語 // はしがきぶり // 芭蕉翁頭陀物語 // 本朝水滸伝 // 由良物語

    • Takeda Izumo 竹田出雲

  • Kanadehon chushingura 仮名手本忠臣蔵
  • Yoshitsune senbonzakura 義経千本桜

    • Takizawa Bakin 滝沢馬琴 = Kyokutei Bakin 曲亭馬琴

    Tamenaga Shunsui 為永春水 (1790-1843)

  • (Shunshoku) Umegoyomi (春色) 梅児誉美 ("The [Love-Tinted] Plum Calendar," 1832-3)
  • Eiri kyokun chikamichi (?) 絵入教訓近道

    • Tsuga Teisho 都賀庭鐘 (1718-94)

  • yomihon writer
  • Hanabusa soshi 英草紙 (1749)
  • Shigeshige yawa 繁野話 (1750)
  • Hitsujigusa 莠句冊 (1786)

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    Ueda Akinari 上田秋成 (1734-1809)

  • e-texts available of following works: 「雨月物語」「区柴々副微」「自伝」「書初機嫌海」「春雨梅花歌文巻」「春雨物語」「諸道聴耳世間猿」「世間妾形気」「胆大小心録」「茶か酔言」「藤簍冊子」「文反古」「ますらを物語」「麻知文」(list thanks to: koten page of voyager.co)
  • Ugetsu monogatari 雨月物語 (JALLC). Also: (2) (3)
  • Zolbrod, Leon. Tales of Moonlight and Rain. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1974. REV: Mills, MN 30 (1975). // Hamada, Kengi. Tales of Moonlight and Rain: Univ. of Tokyo Press, 1971. // Benl, Oscar. Unter den Regenmond: Klette Cotta, 1980 (extract reprinted in Benl, Der Kirschbluetenzweig, 1985).
  • Harusame monogatari 春雨物語
  • Jackman, Barry. Tales of the Spring Rain. Tokyo: Univ. of Tokyo Press, 1975.

    • Urabe Kenko see Yoshida Kenko

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    Yamanoue Okura 山上 憶良 (660?-733?)

  • Man'yo poet
  • see Man'yo entry in translation database

    • Yo Yodai (Yoo Yoodai) 容楊黛

  • Kagamiyama kokkyo no nishikie ("The Women's Chushingura"), bunraku play, written 1783. Etext: 加賀見山旧錦絵 (ed. 山縣元氏）
  • trans. forthcoming see kabuki51
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    Yokoi Yayu 横井也有 (1702-1783)

  • Uzuragoromo ("Rags and Tatters"). Selections tr. into German as "Das Wachtelkleid" in Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 349-371.

    • Yosa Buson 與謝蕪村

  • Buson kushu 蕪村句集

    • Yoshishige no Yasutane 慶滋保胤

  • Chiteiki 池亭記録 (982) (tr. Watson; Dong)

    • Yoshida Kenko / Yoshida Kaneyoshi / Urabe Kenko 兼好 (ca. 1283-ca. 1352)

  • Tsurezuregusa 徒然草 (tr. Keene; Grosbois and Yoshida)

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    Zeami 世阿弥 (1363-1443)

  • Hare, Thomas Blenman. Zeami's Style. The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo. Stanford UP, 1986. Includes translations of Takasago, Izutsu, Tadanori, and of passages from several other plays.
  • Treatises Zeami juroku bushu 世阿弥十六部集 (tr. Rimer and Yamazaki; see link for more).
  • De Poorter, Erika. Zeami's talks on sarugaku : an annotated translation of the Sarugaku dangi: with an introduction on Zeami Motokiyo. Amsterdam: J.G. Gieben, 1986. 303 p. (申楽談義・猿楽談義）
  • Matisoff, Susan. "Images of Exile and Pilgrimage: Zeami's Kintosho." MN 34 (1979): 449-65.
  • for noh plays see separate bibliography under titles: Aridoshi, Atsumori, Hanagatami, Higaki, Izutsu, Kiyotsune, Koi no omoni, Koya monogurui, Nishiki, Nomori, Nue, Oimatsu, Saigyozakura, Sakuragawa, Sanemori, Sekidera Komachi, Semimaru, Suma Genji, Tadanori, Taema, Takasago, Toru, Tsuchiguruma, Ukon, Unoha, Yashima, Yoro, Yumi Yawata. (for more plays possibly written or revised by Zeami see Hare 1986:44-47 [Table 1])

    • Zenchiku

  • Rokurin ichiro no ki 六輪一露之記 (tr. Nearman)

    • Many thanks to Kenneth J. Bryson for pointing out numerous errors and omissions.


    Note (1) The Japanese title for Bakin's Nimase no ki cannot be written in the limited JIS character set. The first kanji is 熟 without the element 丸. I'll add a mojikyo link sometime. -->return to entry

    This page added 99/12/19. Updated 2001/02/13
    Michael Watson <watson@k.meijigakuin.ac.jp>