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

Keene, Donald, trans. The Narrow Road to Oku. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1996.

Kerkham, Eleanor, trans. “Notes from the Traveler’s Satchel.” The Tea Leaves 2 (1965): 26-46.

McCullough, Helen Craig, ed. Classical Japanese Prose: An Anthology. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990.

Miner, Earl, trans. Japanese Poetic Diaries. Berkeley, Calif.: The University of California Press, 1969.

Sato, Hiroaki, trans. Bashō’s Narrow Road; Spring and Autumn Passages. Berkeley: Stone Bridge, 1996.

Terasaki, Etsuko, trans. “The Saga Diary.” Literature East and West 16 (1971-72): 701-718.

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

Yuasa, Nobuyuki, trans. The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and Other Travel Sketches. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966.

Selected secondary sources

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.

-----, ed. At Home on the Earth: Becoming Native to our Place. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Elder, John. Following the Brush: An American Encounter with Classical Japanese Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

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.

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

-----. Travelers of a Hundred Ages. New York: Henry Holt, 1989.

-----. 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, Calif.: University of California Press, 1983.

Qiu, Peipei. Adaptation and Transformation: Seventeenth Century Haikai and the Zhuangzi. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, forthcoming.

Ross, Bruce, ed. Journey to the Interior: American Versions of Haibun. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle, 1998.

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

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

Snyder, Gary. The Back Country. New York: New Directions, 1968.

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.

Selected editions of Bashō’s literary prose

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.

Nakamura Shunjō. Bashō Jiten. Tokyo: Shunjūsha, 1978.

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

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.