alphabetical list of classical Japanese
works
bibliography
NOTES/Abbreviations
Abbreviations
(1) Abbreviations of names of journals/series/acronyms
(2) Abbreviations of frequently cited publications
(1) Abbreviations of names of journals
and series; other acronyms
Some journals not (yet) cited in the bibliography
are included here in the interests of completeness.
- BEFEO:
- BOAS: Bulletin of the School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London
- GSRJ: Gunsho ruiju series*
(1779-1819, ed. Hanawa Hokinoichi)
- HJAS: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
- JALLC: JALLC
Text Archives [source of electronic texts]
- JAOS: Journal of the American Oriental Society
- JATJ: Journal of the Association of Teachers
of Japanese
- JJRS: Journal of Japanese Religious Studies
(Nanzan). URL
- JJS: Journal of Japanese Studies
- KNBT: Kochu nihon bungaku taikei series*
- MOAG: "Mitteilungen" der deutschen Gesellschaft
fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens
- MN: Monumenta Nipponica (Sophia University,
Tokyo). URL
OE: Oriens Extremus (Hamburg)
- O.P.: out of print
POF: Publications Orientalistes de France
- PCCJL: Princeton Companion to Classical
Japanese Literature
- TASJ: Transactions of the Asiatic Society
of Japan
TLS: Times Literary Supplement
tr.: translated, translation
- UP: University Press
*Why are the series KNBT and GSRJ here?
Conveniently out of copyright, they are being used as the base
texts for electronic texts available on Japanese web sites.
(2) Abbreviations of frequently
cited publications
For the sake of clarity and convenience, a mixture of reference
styles are used.
- Aston, History, 1899
- Aston, William. A History of Japanese Literature.
New York, 1899. (+Reprints)
- Benl, Kirschbluetenzweig, 1985
- Benl, Oscar. Der Kirschbluetenzweig: Japanische Liebesgeschichten
aus tausend Jahren. Munchen: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung,
1985.
- Bownas and Thwaite 1964
- Bownas, Geoffrey, and Anthony Thwaite, Penguin
Book of Japanese Verse. Harmondsworth, 1964. [O.P. but
see B&N second-hand.
Revised edition available from Amazon U.K.?]
- Brower and Miner, JSP, 1961
- Brower, Robert H., and Earl Miner. Japanese
Court Poetry. Stanford Studies in the Civilizations of
Eastern Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1961.
- Carter, MJW, 1999
- Carter, Steven D., ed. Medieval
Japanese Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol.
203. Detroit, Washington, London: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book,
1999. 315 pp.
*33 entries on writers and genres from "Abutsu-ni"
to "Zeami (Kanze Motokiyo)" by leading specialists.
- Cranston, "Dark Path," 1975
- Cranston, Edwin A. "The Dark Path: Images of Longing
in Japanese Love Poetry." HJAS 35 (1975): 60-100.
- Daniels, Selections from Japanese Literature,
1953
- Daniels, F. J., ed. Selections from Japanese Literature
(12th to 19th Centuries). London: Lund Humphries, 1958. [Introduction
to excerpt, Japanese text, notes, romanization and translation]
- Florenz, Quellen, 1919
- Florenz, Karl. Die historischen Quellen der Shinto-Religion.
Goettingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1919.
- Hare et al., Distant Isle, 1996
- The
Distant Isle: Studies and Translations of Japanese
Literature in Honor of Robert H. Brower, ed. by Thomas Hare,
Robert Borgen, and Sharalyn Orbaugh. Ann Arbor: The University
of Michigan, 1996
- Gatten and Chambers, New Leaves, 1993
- Gatten, Aileen and Anthony Hood Chambers, eds. New
Leaves: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in
Honor of Edward Seidensticker. Michigan Monograph Series
in Japanese Studies, No. 11. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies,
The University of Michigan, 1993.
- Heinrich, Currents, 1997
- Heinrich, Amy Vladeck, ed. Currents in Japanese Culture:
Translations and Transformations. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1997.
- Herail, Bibliographie, 1986
- Herail, Francine. Bibliographie Japonaise. Paris:
POF, 1986.
- Keene, Anthology, 1955.
- Keene, Donald, ed. Anthology
of Japanese Literature from the earliest era to the Nineteenth
Century. New York: Grove Press, 1955. [pbk 1988]. REV: Roggendorf,
MN 13 (1957).
- Matisoff, Legend, 1978
- Matisoff, Susan. The Legend of Semimaru: Blind Musician
of Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
- McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose, 1990
- McCullough, Helen, compiled and ed. Classical Japanese
Prose: An Anthology. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1990.
- Miner et al., Princeton Companion, 1985 [PCCJL]
- Miner, Earl, Hiroko Odagiri, and Robert E. Morrell. The
Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
- Naumann, Zauberschale, 1973
- Naumann, Nelly and Wolfram. Die Zauberschale: Erzaehlungen
vom Leben japanischer Damen, Moenche, Herren und Knechte.
Munich, Vienna: Carl Hanser. Rpt. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch,
1990.
- NKBD
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten (one volume, "kan'yakuban").
Iwanami, 1986.
- Omori and Doi, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan,
1920
- Omori, Annie Shepley, and Kochi Doi. Diaries of Court
Ladies of Old Japan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920.196 p.
[Sarashina nikki, Murasaki Shikibu nikki, Izumi
Shikibu nikki]
- PCCJL
- Miner, Earl, Hiroko Odagiri, and Robert E. Morrell. Princeton
Companion to Classical Japanese Literature. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1985. [Translates many titles of works.]
- Reischauer and Yamagiwa, Translations, 1951
- Reischauer, Edwin O., and Joseph K. Yamagiwa. Translations
from Early Japanese Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-Yenching
Institute Studies XXIX, 1951.
- Sato and Watson 1981
- Sato, Hiroaki, and Burton Watson, eds. From
the Country of Eight Islands. An Anthology of Japanese Poetry.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981. [Rpt Columbia
UP]
- Sieffert, Le Livre des contes, 1993.
- Sieffert, Rene. Le Livre des contes. Paris: P.O.F.,
1993.
- Skord, Tales of Tears and Laughter, 1991
- Skord, Virginia. Tales of Tears and Laughter: Short Fiction
of Medieval Japan. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 1991.
- Teele, Ono no Komachi, 1993
- Teele, Roy E., Nicholas J. Teele, and H. Rebecca Teele. Ono
no Komachi: Poems, Stories, No Plays. New York & London:
Garland Publishing, 1993
- Tyler, Tales, 1987
- Tyler, Royall. Japanese
Tales. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. [Tales cited here
by number, see index, pp. 367-330 for details.]
- Tyler, JND, 1992
- Tyler, Royall. Japanese No Dramas. Harmondsworth:
Penguin,1992.
Many thanks to everyone who has
written to point out errors and omissions, or to suggest ways
to improve this bibliography. Substantial contributions were received
from: X. Jie Yang, Niel Guelsberg, Lorinda Kiyama, Roberta Strippoli,
and Michael Wachutka.
I am also grateful for suggestions and corrections from Robert
Borgen, Richard Bowring, Rose Bundy, Charo B. D'Etcheverry, Jordi
Escurriola, Karel Fiala, Stephen Forrest, H. Mack Horton, Robert
Khan, Christina Laffin, David Lurie, Robert E. Morrell, Denise
O'Brien, Noel Pinnington, John Schmitt-Weigand, Joseph Sorensen,
Kendon Stubbs, Hitomi Tonomura, Melanie Trede, Klaus Vollmer,
and Joshua Young. Apologies to anyone I've overlooked. Last but
not least, many thanks to Kate Nakai for making the Monumenta
Nipponica index available on the Web:
http://monumenta.cc.sophia.ac.jp/
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