translations of classical Japanese works

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Aisome-gawa

  • Muromachi tale
  • Excerpts tr. into French in Pigeot, Michiyuki-bun, p. 28 etc.
  • Akimichi

  • Muromachi tale
  • "Akimichi" tr. in McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose, 1990, pp. 499-509.
  • Childs, Margaret H. "Didacticism in Medieval Short Stories. Hatsuse Monogatari and Akimichi." MN 42.3 (1987): 253-289.
  • Aki no yo no nagamonogatari

  • Muromachi tale
  • Pigeot, Jacqueline, "Longue histoire d'une nuit d'automne," [extract] in Histoire de Yokobue, 1972, pp. 167-172.
  • Akizuki monogatari

  • Muromachi tale
  • Short excerpt tr. in Pigeot, Michiyuki-bun, pp. 339-340. // Study: Pigeot, Jacqueline. "Du mythe au roman populaire - Avatars d'une combinatoire narrative dans le Japan du quinzieme siécle," Journal Asiatique, CCLXIV, 1-2, 1978, pp. 117-174. [n.s.]
  • Amakusabon heike monogatari

  • Romanized version of Heike monogatari (late 16C Jesuit Press)
  • e-text ed. H. Shinozaki
  • Amakusabon esopo monogatari

  • Romanized version of Aesop (late 16C Jesuit Press)
  • e-text ed. A. Okajima (romaji, kana)
  • Ariake no wakare

  • Late Heian monogatari
  • Khan, Robert Omar. [Book I, part of Book II, most of Book III] in 'Ariake no Wakare': Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in a Late Twelfth-century Monogatari. Ph.D. dissertation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1998.
  • Khan, Robert Omar. [Selections] in Stephen Miller, ed., Partings at Dawn,1996, pp. 21-35.
  • Asagao no tsuyu no miya

  • Muromachi tale
  • Opening tr. in Pigeot, Michiyuki-bun, p. 189.
  • Atsumori (noh play)

  • [see noh-trans page for translation of this noh play and all others]
  • Atsumori    (kowaka genre)

  • Araki, The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan, 1964, pp. 150-71. Abridged in Brazell, Traditional Japanese Theater 1998: 295-300.
  • azuma asobi uta

  • early genre of song, principally used in Shinto ritual [NKBD 31]
  • "Suraga Dance" tr. Hiroaki Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:154.
  • azuma uta

  • early genre of "poems from (the provinces) of the East"
  • examples collected in Man'yoshu, book 14.
  • Azuma kagami

  • Chronicle history
  • Shinoda, M. The Founding of the Kamakura Shogunate, 1180-1185, with selected translations from the Azuma Kagami. Columbia UP, 1960 [partial trans. of first five books.]
  • McCullough, William. "The Azuma Kagami Account of the Shokyu War." MN 23 (1968):102-55. [Trans. of book 25, concerning year 1221.]
  • azuma uta

  • "eastern songs," 330 of which are collected in Man'yoshu, vol. 14
  • Bownas and Thwaite 1964: 22.
  • Baishoron (ca. 1349)

  • Historical tale (rekishi monogatari). Account of Ashikaga shogunate.
  • Uyenaka, Shuzo. A study of Baishoron, a source for the ideology of imperial loyalism in medieval Japan. Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1979. [Excerpts]
  • banka

  • genre of elegies. (Fr. "poemes funebres")
  • Ben no naishi nikki

  • Court diary
  • Hulvey, Shirley Yumiko. "The Nocturnal Muse: a Study and Partial Translation of "Ben no Naishi Nikki," a Thirteenth Century Poetic Diary." Ph.D. Berkeley, 1989. Forthcoming: Ben no Naishi Nikki: A Poetic Record of Female Courtiers' Sacred Duties at the Kamakura-Period Court. Cornell East Asia Series.
  • e-text ed. H. Shinozaki (GSRJ)
  • Benkei monogatari

  • Muromachi tale
  • Sieffert, Rene. Histoire de Benkei. Paris: P.O.F., 1995. 95 p.
  • Bokuteikishu

  • Poetry collection by Fujiwara no Kiyosuke (1104-1177)
  • Trans. not known. Title tr. as "Shepherd's Flute Collection" (Putzlar 1973: 63)
  • Bungo fudoki

  • Aoki, Michiko Yamaguchi. Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki, with Introduction and Commentaries. Ann Arbor, 1997.
  • Bunji ninen jugatsu nijuyokka dazai go-no-sochi Tsunefusa uta awase

  • Utawase held 1186. Judgement by Fujiwara no Suetsune (1130-1221)
  • Poem and judgement tr. in Pigeot, Michiyuki-bun, p. 146-7.
  • Bunka shureishu

  • second imperial kanshi collection
  • Bunkyo hifuron

  • Bodman, Richard Wainwright. "A Study and Translation of Kukai's 'Bunkyo Hifuron'." PhD Cornell University, 1978.
  • Bunsho soshi

  • Araki, James. "Bunsho Soshi: The Tale of Bunsho, the Saltmaker," MN 38:3 (1983).
  • Rumpf, Fritz. Japanische Volksmaerchen. Jena, 1938. [n.s.]
  • Bussokuseki no uta (bussokuseikika)

  • Mills, Douglas E. "The Footprints of the Buddha." Journal of the American Oriental Society 80.3 (July-Sept. 1960): 229-242.
  • see Princeton Companion [hereafter PCCJL] p. 271.
  • byobu uta [byobu no uta]

  • genre of poems written to accompany screen paintings. PCCJL p. 31.
  • Discussion in Pigeot, Michiyuki-bun, 93-103 ("poemes pour paravents")
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    Chikurinsho

  • "Bamboo Grove Notes" by Sogi, 1476
  • Chiteiki (982)

  • Watson, Burton. "Record of the Pond Pavilion," in Japanese Literature in Chinese, vol. 1. New York: Columbia UP, 1975; pp. 57-64.
  • Dong, Donald D. Yoshishige no Yasutane, Chiteiki. MS 26 (1963): 445-53.
  • see PCCJL entry for Yoshishige no Yasutane
  • choka

  • Genre of poem with alternating lines of five and seven syllables. Typical of Man'yoshu, but found in later collections (e.g. Kokinshu, book 19).
  • Dainihonkoku hokekyo genki

  • Dykstra, Yoshiko K. Miraculous Tales of the Lotus Sutra from Ancient Japan. U of Hawaii Press, 1984.
  • Dainihonshi 1657-1906, see part 2

    Eiga ittei

  • "The Style of Composition," 1274, by Fujiwara Tameie
  • Brower, Robert H. The Foremost Style of Poetic Composition: Fujiwara Tameie's Eiga no Ittei. MN 42 (1987): 391-429.
  • Eiga monogatari

  • McCullough, Helen C., and William H. McCullough. Tale of Flowering Fortunes: Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period. 2 vols. Stanford, California: Stanford UP, 1980.
  • Hurst, G. Cameron, III. "Michinaga's Maladies." MN 34.1 (1979): 101-112.
  • Engi shiki

  • attrib. to Fujiwara Tokihira (871-909)
  • Bock, Felicia G. Classical Learning and Taoist Practices in Early Japan, with a translation of Books XVI and XX of the Engi-Shiki. Occasional Paper No. 17, Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State Univ., 1985. // "The Enthronement Rites: The Text of Engishiki, 927." MN 35 (1982): 307-37. // Engi-shiki : procedures of the Engi Era. Monumenta Nipponica monograph. 2 vols. Tokyo: Sophia University, 1970-1972. REV: Hurst MN 28 (1973). // "Engi-shiki: ceremonial procedures of the Engi era, 901-922." PhD dissertation. Berkeley, University of California, 1966.
  • Ellwood, Robert S. The Feast of Kingship. Accession Ceremonies in Ancient Japan. [**] REV. Bock, MN 28 (1973).
  • See Norito for Donald Philippi's translation of Engi shiki, book 8.
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    Fudoki

  • Prose genre: "topographies" (PCCJL p. 148), "geographical treatises"
  • Bungo fudoki, Harima fudoki, Hitachi fudoki, Hizen fudoki, and Izumo fudoki (all references gathered here]
  • Aoki, Michiko Yamaguchi. Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki, with Introduction and Commentaries. Ann Arbor: Association of Asian Studies Monograph Series, 1997. [OP / AAS]
  • Story of Urashima tr. in Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973, 27f.
  • Florenz, Karl. Japanische Mythologie. MOAG (1901): 282-308. [Trans. of short passages]
  • Fubokusho / Fubokuwakasho

  • Kamakura waka collection (1310?) compiled by Fujiwara Nagakiyo
  • Fugashu / Fugawakashu (1349)

  • 17th imperial anthology. ("FGS"). "Collection of Japanese Poetry of Elegance"
  • 36 poems tr. in Brower and Miner, JCP, 1961.
  • Fukan zazengi (1227)

  • "General Advice on the Principles of Zazen" (Dogen)
  • Yokoi Yuho. Master Dogen. An introduction with selected writings. New York,1976.
  • Dumoulin, Heinrich. "Allgemeine Lehren zur Foerderung des Zazen von Zen-Meister Dogen." MN 14 (1958-9).
  • Masunaga Reiho. Introduction to Hukanzazangi... Tokyo, 1956.
  • Fukutomi soshi

  • (Muromachi-period otogizoshi)
  • Fushimi in nakatsukasa naishi nikki

  • diary (1292)
  • e-text ed. M. Shibata under prep. (Yomeido bunko)
  • Fuyoshu / Fuyowakashu

  • "The Collection of Wind-Blown Leaves" (mid-Kamakura collection of poems from monogatari)
  • fuzoku uta (genre)

  • Heian court song to accompaniment of wagon [PCCJL 274]
  • four songs tr. Hiroaki Sato in Sato and Watson 1981:155-6.
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