Kokinshu - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Cranston, Edwin A. "The Dark Path: Images of Longing in Japanese Love Poetry." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 35 (1975): 60-100.
Reviews dozens of examples of Japanese love poetry and its prevailing imagery.
Harper, T. J. "Norinaga on the Translation of Waka: His Preface to A Kokinshu Telescope." In The Distant Isle. Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Robert H. Brower, pp. 205-30, edited by Thomas Hare, Robert Borgen, and Sharalyn Orbaugh. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1996.
Reprints and discusses Motoori Norinaga's preface (much of it in Japanese) to his A Kokinshu Telescope, which deals with problems in translating Japanese poetry.
Keene, Donald. Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993, 1,280 p.
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