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Resources for ORIENTAL GENRES
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BOOKS RELATED TO JAPANESE GENRES or MIXED

Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Donald Keene, Editor. 1988.

Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry by Edith Shiffert and Yuki Sawa Translators. 1985

Cybertry Parts I - IV by Werner Reichhold. 

Dawn to the West by Donald Keene. Henry Holt, 1984.

From the Country of Eight Islands by Hiroaki Sato and Burton Watson.

Layers of Content. Werner Reichhold.. AHA Books, 1992.

Little Songs of the Geisha : Traditional Japanese Ko-Uta by Liza Dalby, Editor. Paperback - November 2000.

Medieval Japanese Writers (Dictionary of Literary Biography, V. 203) by Steven D. Carter, Editor. Hardcover -March 1999.

My Asakusa – Coming of Age in Pre-war Tokyo, a memoir by Sadako Sawamura translated by Norman E. Stafford and Yasuhiro Kawamura. Tuttle 2000.

Modern Japanese Diaries by Donald Keene. Henry Holt.

No Other Business Here: A Haiku Correspondence by Steve Sanfield, John Brandi.

Notationen (in German) by Werner Reichhold. 

Poems of the Five Mountains : An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Monasteries (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No 10) by Marian Ury (Hardcover - April 1992)

Regent Redux : A Life of the Statesman-Scholar Ichijo Kaneyoshi (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No 16) by Steven D. Carter. Hardcover - December 1996.

Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan by Gary L. Ebersole. Paperback.

Seeds in the Heart by Donald Keene. Henry Holt, 1993.

The Rice Papers. Pat Shelley. Saratoga Trunk, 1992.

The Pleasures of Japanese Literature (Companions to Asian Studies Series) by Donald Keene, William Theodore de Bary, Editor. Henry Holt.

Traditional Japanese Poetry : An Anthology by Steven D. Carter, Editor. Stanford, 1991.

Travelers of a Hundred Ages by Donald Keene. Henry Holt, 1999.

Triumph of the Sparrow : Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi translated by Lucien Stryk. Paperback.

Unforgotten Dreams (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Shotetsu, Steven D. Carter, Editor.

Wherever I went : travel sketches in the forms of Japanese origin, tanka, renga, haiku by Carl Heinz Kurz.

World Within Walls by Donald Keene. Henry Holt, 1976.

Zen Poems of China & Japan : The Crane's Bill by Lucien Stryk, Translator. An Evergreen Book, 1988.

Zen : Poems, Prayers, Sermons, Anecdotes, Interviews by Lucien and Takashi Ikemoto Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto, Translator.

SIJO BOOKS

 

Modern Sijo by Kim Unsong, San Bruno, CA.

Around The Tree Of Light by Elizabeth St Jacques. Sault Ste. Marie, ON Canada, 1998.

Modern Korean Verse In Sijo Form. Translated by Jaihiun Kim and Ronald B. Hatch. Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ronsdale Press, 1997.

How To Write & Publish Poetry by Dr. Larry Gross, PhD. Tallahassee, FL, 1990.  

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