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    history
  1. A History of Japan to 1334 (George Sansom, 1958)
  2. A History of Japan, 1334-1615 (George Sansom, 1961)
  3. A History of Japan, 1615-1867 (George Sansom, 1963)
  4. A New History of Korea (Lee Ki-baik, 1984)
  5. The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (Ivan Morris, 1964)


    6. pre-modern literature
  6. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (Lady Sarashina, Tr. Ivan Morris, 1989)
  7. Chushingura (Takeda Izumo et al., Tr. Donald Keene, 1971)
  8. The Clear Mirror (Anonymous, Tr. George W. Perkins, 1998)
  9. The Confessions of Lady Nijô (Lady Nijô, Tr. Karen Brazell, 1973)
  10. The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Murasaki Shikibu, Tr. Richard Bowring, 1996)
  11. Hôgen monogatari: Tale of the Disorder in Hôgen (Anonymous, Tr. William R. Wilson, 1971)
  12. The Kagero Diary (Michitsuna no Haha, Tr. Sonja Arntzen, 1997)
  13. The Love Suicide at Amijima (Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Tr. Donald H. Shively, 1953)
  14. Shôkyûki: An Account of the Shôkyû War of 1221 (Anonymous, Tr. William H. McCullough, 1964)
  15. The Taiheiki: A Chronicle of Medieval Japan (Anonymous, Tr. Helen Craig McCullough, 1959)
  16. The Tale of the Heike (Anonymous, Tr. Helen Craig McCullough, 1988)
  17. Yoshitsune (Anonymous, Tr. Helen Craig McCullough, 1966)


    18. modern literature
  18. The Heiké Story (Yoshikawa Eiji, Tr. Uramatsu Fuki Wooyenaka, 1956)
  19. Musashi (Yoshikawa Eiji, Tr. Charles S. Terry, 1971)
  20. Taiko (Yoshikawa Eiji, Tr. William Scott Wilson, 1967)
  21. Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Ueda Akinari, Tr. Leon M. Zolbrod, 1974)


    22. poetry
  22. Five T'ang Poets (Tr. David Young, 1990)
  23. An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry (Earl Miner, 1968)
  24. The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (Tr. Geoffrey Bownas & Anthony Thwaite, 1964)
  25. Po Chü-i: Selected Poems (Tr. Burton Watson, 2000)
  26. The Selected Poems of Li Po (Li Po, Tr. David Hinton, 1996)
  27. Tales of Ise (Anonymous, Tr. Helen Craig McCullough, 1968)
  28. Women Poets of Japan (Tr. Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi, 1977)


    29. cultural studies
  29. The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan (Ivan Morris, 1975)
  30. The Pleasures of Japanese Literature (Donald Keene, 1988)
  31. Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, 2000)
  32. Sanshô Dayû (Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh, 2000)
  33. Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales (Paul Varley, 1994)