Full bibliographical references for frequently cited works

This page supplements the alphabetical list of translations of classical Japanese works.

Bownas and Thwaite, Japanese Verse (1964)
Bownas, Geoffrey and Anthony Thwaite. The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse. Harmondsworth: 1964.
Carter, Literary Patronage, 1993.
Carter, Steven D., ed. Literary Patronage in Late Medieval Japan. Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies, Number 23. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1993
McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose (1990)
Miller ed., Partings at Dawn (1996)
Miller, Stephen, ed. Partings at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature (Gay Sunshine Press, 1996).
Miner et al., Princeton Companion
Miner, Earl, Hiroko Odagiri, and Robert E. Morrell. The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Yamagiwa and Reischauer, Translations (1951)
Yamagiwa, Joseph K., and Edwin O. Reischauer. "Tsutsumi chunagon monogatari." Translations from Early Japanese Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies XXIX, 1951.
Sato and Watson, Anthology, 1981
Sato, Hiroaki, and Burton Watson, eds. From the Country of Eight Islands. An Anthology of Japanese Poetry. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981.
Tyler, Tales (1987)
Tyler, Royall. Japanese Tales. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987.


  • Hochstedler, Carol Yoder. The Tale of Nezame, part 3 of Yowa no Nezame-monogatari. Cornell University East Asia Papers No. 22. Ithaca, New York: China-Japan Program, 1979.
  • Tahara, Mildred. Tales of Yamato: A Tenth-Century Poem-Tale. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1980.