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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BASHŌ’S HAIKU

Translations, studies, and editions

Selected translations of Bashō’s haiku

Barnhill, David Landis, trans. Bashō’s Haiku: Selected Poems by Matsuo Bashō. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.

-----. Bashō’s Journey: The Literary Prose of Matsuo Bashō. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.

Blyth, R. H., trans. Haiku. 4 vols. Tokyo: Hokuseidō, 1949-52.

Blyth, R. H., trans. A History of Haiku. 2 vols. Tokyo: Hokuseidō, 1963-64.

Carter, Steven, trans. Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology. Stanford, CA.: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Hamill, Sam, trans. The Essential Bashō. Boston: Shambhala, 1999.

Hass, Robert, ed. The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1994.

Miner, Earl, and Hiroko Odagiri, trs. The Monkey’s Straw Raincoat. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Oseko, Toshiharu, trans. Bashō’s Haiku. 2 volumes. Tokyo: Maruzen, 1900.

Shirane, Haruo, ed. Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Stryk, Lucien, trans. On Love and Barley: Haiku of Bashō. Hammondsworth: Penguin, 1985.

Ueda, Makoto, trans. Bashō and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Selected English language secondary sources

Aitken, Robert. A Zen Wave. New York: Weatherhill, 1978.

Barnhill, David Landis. “Aesthetics and Nature in China and Japan.” Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Ed. Bron Taylor. London, England: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005.

------. "Bashō as Bat: Wayfaring and Anti-Structure in the Journals of Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694)," Journal of Asian Studies 49 (May, 1990): 274-290.

-----. “Buddhism -- East Asian.” Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Ed. Bron Taylor. London, England: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005.

-----. “Impermanence, Fate, and the Journey: Bashō and the Problem of Meaning,” Religion 16 (1986): 323-341.

-----. “Kawabata Yasunari.” Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Ed. Bron Taylor. London, England: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005.

-----. “Matsuo Bashō.” Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Ed. Bron Taylor. London, England: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005.

-----. “Of Bashōs and Buddhisms.” Eastern Buddhist 32.2 (Fall 2000): 170-201.

-----. “Zōka: The Creative in Bashō’s View of Nature and Art.” Matsuo Bashō's Poetic Spaces: Exploring Haikai Intersections. Ed. Eleanor Kerkham. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 33-60.

Brazil, Mark A. The Birds of Japan. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

Foard, James. “The Loneliness of Matsuo Bashō.” In The Biographical Process: Studies in the History and Psychology of Religion, 363-391. The Hague: Mouton, 1976.

Henderson, Harold G. An Introduction to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems from Bashō to Shiki. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.

Higginson, William J. The Haiku Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985.

-----. Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1996.

Keene, Donald. Appreciations of Japanese Culture. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1981.

-----. World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867. New York: Grove Press, 1976.

LaFleur, William. The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan. Berkeley, CA.: University of California Press, 1983.

Miner, Earl. An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1968.

-----. Japanese Linked Poetry: An Account with Translations of Renga and Haikai Sequences. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979.

Miner, Earl, and Hiroko Odagiri, trs. The Monkey’s Straw Raincoat . Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press, 1981.

Ōi [Ohwi], Jisaburo. Flora of Japan. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1984.

Qiu, Peipei. Basho and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2005.

Sato, Hiroaki. One Hundred Frogs: From Renga to Haiku in English. New York: Weatherhill, 1983.

Shirane, Haruo. Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashō. Stanford, CA.: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Ueda, Makoto. Matsuo Bashō. New York: Twayne, 1970. Reprinted Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1982.

Watson, Burton, trans. The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.

Wild Bird Society of Japan. A Field Guide to the Birds of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1985

Selected editions of Bashō’s works

Imoto Nōichi, Hori Nobuo, and Muramatsu Tomotsugu, eds. Matsuo Bashō shū. Nihon koten bungaku zenshū Vol. 41. Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1972.

Imoto Nōichi, et al., eds. Bashō bunshū; Kyoraishō. Nihon no koten, Vol. 55. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1985.

Imoto Nōichi, et al., eds. Bashō kushū. Nihon no koten, Vol. 54. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1984.

Komiya Toyotaka et al., eds. Kōhon Bashō zenshū. 10 vols. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1962-69.

Kon Eizō. Bashō kushū. Shinchō koten shūsei, Vol. 51. Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1982.

Ōiso Yoshio and Ōuchi Hatsuo, eds. Shōmon hairon haibunshū. Koten haibungaku taikei, Vol. 10. Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1970.

Ōtani Tokuzō and Nakamura Shunjō, eds. Bashō kushū. Nihon koten bungaku taikei, Vol. 45. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1962.

Sugiwara Shoichiro, et al., eds. Bashō bunshū. Nihon koten bungaku taikei, Vol. 46. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1959.

Toyama Susumu. Bashō bunshū. Shinchō koten shūsei, Vol. 17. Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1978.

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