Japanese literature: Bibliography

See R. Brower and E. Miner, Japanese Court Poetry (1961); D. Keene, World within Walls (1976) and Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era (1984); T. Takaya, Modern Japanese Drama (1979); E. Miner et al., ed., The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature (1985); Ooka and Fitzsimmons, ed., A Play of Mirrors: Eight Major Poets of Modern Japan (1987); H. C. McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose (1990); S. D. Carter, Traditional Japanese Poetry (1991).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Postwar Literature
• Western Influence
• Literary Forms of the Edo Era
• Medieval Literature
• The Heian Era
• Earliest Writings
• Bibliography

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