David Barnhill
Study Aids
Here are various Study Aids that will help your understanding of Japanese nature poetry.
Introductory Material
"Nature" - More Complicated Than You Think: PowerPoint, Outline
Asian Religions: PowerPoint, Outline
A Ridiculously Brief History of Buddhism in East Asia (webpage)
Buddhism: Major Doctrines: PowerPoint, Outline
Paradoxes in Buddhism (webpage)
Nature: An East Asian View: PowerPoint
Chinese Views of Nature and Art: PowerPoint, Outline
Seasonality of Nature: PowerPoint, Outline
On Japanese Religion and Classical Japanese Literature
Japanese History: Early and Heian
Japanese History: Medieval and Tokugawa
Selected Court Poetry with Multiple Translations
Sorrow and Blossoms: The Poetry of Saigyo
Selected Poems by Saigyo with Multiple Translations
Ways of Experiencing Nature in the Moment
On Matsuo Basho
Glossary of Terms Relevant to Haiku
Selected Hokku by Basho with Multiple Translations
Basho's Hokku in Japanese (complete)
Major Nature Images in Basho's Hokku, Alphabetical
Major Nature Images in Basho's Hokku, by Season
The Poetics of the Basho School
Selections from the Treatises of the Basho School
Western Writers on Direct Perception & Western Writers on Spontaneity in Writing
Ten translations of the opening of The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Barnhill. "Moments, Seasons, and Mysticism: The Complexity of Time in Basho's Haiku."
Barnhill interview with Robert D. Wilson, Simply Haiku
On Kawabata & Snow Country
The Narrative Outline of Snow Country
The theme of an "Other World" in Snow Country
Selections from Japan, The Beautiful, and Myself
Selected quotations by scholars on Kawabata
Secondary sources on:
* Narrative Mode
* Imagery & Symbolism
* Unreality
* Nature
* Nature and Humans
* Komako Yoko & Shimamura
* Beauty
* Clean and Pure
* Climactic Fire Scene at the End of the Novel
