Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary

Haruo Shirane

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March, 2007
Cloth, 280 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13990-8
$55.00 / £38.00

Preface

Acknowledgments

Major Historical Periods

Romanization

Grammatical Terms and Abbreviations

Part I. Base Texts

1. An Account of a Ten-foot-square Hut

2. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

Part II. Heian Period

3. The Tales of Ise

4. The Pillow Book

5. The Tale of Genji

6. Sarashina Diary

7. Collection of Tales of Times Now Past

Part III. Kamakura Period

8. Hundred Poets, Hundred Poems

9. Collection of Tales from Uji

10. The Tales of the Heike

11. Essays in Idleness

Part IV. Edo/Tokugawa Period

12. Japan's Eternal Storehouse

13. Narrow Road to the Deep North

14. Tales of Moonlight and Rain

15. The Tale of Genji, a Small Jeweled Comb

Part V. Meiji Period

16. Encouragement of Learning

Part VI. Nara Period

17. Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves

Essential Dictionary

About the Author

Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Columbia University. His many books include Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900; Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho; and The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji.

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