Anthology of Japanese literature from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century

Anthology of Japanese literature from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century /

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This extensive anthology includes excerpts from plays and novels plus stories, fairy tales, and many poems.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Keene, Donald (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Japanese
Published: New York : Grove Press, 1960, ©1955.
Edition:1st Evergreen ed.
Series:UNESCO collection of representative works. Japanese series
Subjects:
Johannes > Stobaeus > ca. 5. Jh. > Anthologium.
Japanese literature > Translations into English.
English literature > Translations from Japanese.
Japanese literature.
Japanisch
Literatur
Fictional Work
Fiction.
Translations.
Romans.
Table of Contents:
  • Manʼyōshū
  • The luck of the sea and the luck of the mountains
  • Kaifūsō
  • Kūkai and his master / Kūkai
  • The tales of Ise
  • Kokinshū
  • The Tosa diary / Ki No Tsurayuki
  • Poetry from the six collections
  • Kagerō Nikki / the mother of Michitsuna
  • Yūgao (from "The tale of Genji") / Murasaki Shikibu
  • The Sarashina diary / the daughter of Takasue
  • Poetry in Chinese
  • Ryōjin Hishō
  • The lady who loved insects
  • The tale of the Heike
  • Shinkokinshū
  • An account of my hut / Kamo No Chōmei
  • Tales from the Uji collection
  • The captain of Naruto
  • Essays in idleness / Yoshida Kenkō
  • The exile of Godaigo
  • The art of the Nō / Seami Motokiyo
  • Plan of the Nō stage
  • Sotoba Komachi / Kanʼami Kiyotsugu
  • Birds of sorrow / Seami Motokiyo
  • Atsumori / Seami Motokiyo
  • The damask drum / Seami Motokiyo
  • The bird-catcher in Hades
  • Busu
  • Poems in Chinese by Buddhist monks
  • Three poets at Minase
  • The three priests
  • What the seasons brought to the almanac-maker / Ihara Saikaku
  • The umbrella oracle / Ihara Saikaku
  • The eternal storehouse of Japan / Ihara Saikaku
  • The narrow road of Oku / Matsuo Bashō
  • Prose poem on the unreal dwelling / Matsuo Bashō
  • Conversations with Kyorai / Mukai Kyorai
  • Haiku by Bashō and his school
  • Chikamatsu on the art of the puppet stage
  • The love suicides at Sonezaki / Chikamatsu Monzaemon
  • A wayward wife / Ejima Kiseki
  • Hizakurige / Jippensha Ikku
  • Shino and Hamaji / Takizawa Bakin
  • Haiku of the middle and late Tokugawa period
  • Waka of the Tokugawa period
  • Poetry and prose in Chinese.

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