Man'yoshu (8th century) and
Kokinshu (c. 905)

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FACULTY RESOURCES

Women's Literature

Sappho of Lesbos
Li Ch'ing Chao
Murasaki Shikibu
Sei Shonagon
Mirabai
Virginia Woolf

Chinese/Japanese Literature

Book of Songs
Confucius
Tao Ch'ien
Tang Poetry
The Manyoshu & The Kokinshu
The Tale of the Heike
Yoshida Kenko
Zeami Motokiyo
Higuchi Ichiyo
Wu Ch'eng-en
K'ung Shang-jen
Ts'ao Hsueh-Ch'in
Lu Xun
Ihara Saikaku
Matsuo Basho
Ueda Akinari
Tanizaki Junichiro
Kawabata Yasunari

Indian Literature

The Ramayana
The Mahabharata
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Kalidasa
Medieval Devotional Lyrics
Mahasweta Devi
Anita Desai
Rabindranath Tagore
Premchand

 

 

 

RECOMMENDED READING

Man'yoshu

  • Brower, Robert Hopkins & Earl Miner, Japanese Court Poetry (1961) PL865 .B7
  • Hall, John Whitney, Japan from Prehistory to Modern Times (1970) DS835 .H23 1970
  • Keene, Donald, The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, (1988) PL726.1 .K44 1988
  • Levy, Ian H., Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism (1984) PL728.15.L48 1984
  • Man'yoshu: The Ten Thousand Leaves, trans. Ian Hideo Levy (1981) PL758.15 .A3 1981
  • The Manyoshu, trans. Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai (1969) PL782.E3 M3 1969

Kokinshu

  • Brower, Robert Hopkins & Earl Miner, Japanese Court Poetry (1961) PL865 .B7
  • Carter, Steven D., Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (1991) PL782.E3T7 1991
  • McCullough, Helen C., Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985)
  • -----, Brocade by Night: 'Kokin Wakashu' & and the Court Style in Japan (1985) PL728.22.M35 1985
  • Rodd, Laura Rasplica & Mary Katherine Henkenius, Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (1984)

 

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