Haruo Shirane Faculty Profile

BOOKS IN ENGLISH

• Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts.
  Columbia University Press, February, 2012. 300 pages. [amazon.com - paperback ]

• The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales.
  Edited with introduction by Haruo Shirane. Translated by Burton Watson. Columbia University Press, fall 2010. [amazon.com - paperback ]

• New Horizons in Literary Studies: Canon Formation, Gender, and Media.
  Editor and author. Benseisha Press, June, 2009.[amazon.co.jp - paperback ]

• Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production.
  Editor and author. Columbia University Press, May, 2008. [Columbia University Press] [amazon.com - hardcover][amazon.com - paperback]

• Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Abridged Edition, March 2008)
  [Columbia University Press] [amazon.com - hardcover]

• Traditional Japanese Literature, Beginnings to 1600, An Anthology.
  Editor and author. Columbia University Press, March, 2007. 1200 pages. [Columbia University Press] [amazon.com - paperback ]

• Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary.
  Columbia University Press, Feb., 2007. [Columbia University Press] [amazon.com - hardcover ]

• The Tale of Heike.
  Editor. Translated by Burton Watson. Columbia University Press, June 2006 (issued in paperback, 2008). [Columbia University Press] [amazon.com - paperback ]

• Classical Japanese, A Grammar.
  Columbia University Press, August 2005. [Columbia University Press] [amazon.com - hardcover ]

• The Longman Anthology of World Literature, The Medieval Era.
  Co-editor. Pearson Longman, 2004. [amazon.com - paperback ]

• The Longman Anthology of World Literature, The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
  Co-editor. Pearson Longman, 2004. [amazon.com - paperback ]

• Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology.
  Editor and author. Columbia University Press, 2002. 1130 pages. [Columbia University Press]

• Inventing the Classics: Canon Formation, National Identity, and Japanese Literature.
  Co-editor with Tomi Suzuki and author. Stanford University Press, 2001. 300 pages. Korean edition translated by Sook Young Wang, published by Somyong Publishing Company, Dec. 2002. [amazon.com - paperback ]

• Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho.
  Stanford University Press, 1997. 300 pages.[amazon.com - paperback ]

• The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji.
  Stanford University Press, 1987.[amazon.com - paperback ]

BOOKS IN JAPANESE

• From the Perspective of the Environment: Japanese Literature and the Ecocriticism (Kankyō to iu shiza, Nihon bungaku to ekokuritishizumu).
  Co-editor with Watanabe Kenji, Noda Kenichi, and Komine Yasuaki. Benseisha, 2011.

• Viewing Japanese Literature from Literary Theory (Nihon bungaku kara no hihyō riron).
  Editor (with Fujii Sadakazu and Matsui Kenji) and author. Kasama shoin, July, 2009.

• Bungaku ni egakareta Nihon no shoku no sugata 文学に描かれた日本の「食」のすがた (Food in Japanese Literature)
  Co-editor with Komine Kazuaki and Watanabe Kenji, and author. Shibundō, Sept. 2008. [Google Books]

• Kōza Genji monogatari no kenkyū: Kaigai ni okeru Genji kenkyū. 講座源氏物語研究.
  Editor and author. Ōfū, March, 2008. [amazon.co.jp]

• Bashō no fūkei: bunka no kioku. 芭蕉の風景 文化の記憶.
  Kadokawa shoten, 2001. [amazon.co.jp]

• Sōzōsareta koten: kanon keisei, kokumin kokka, Nihon bungaku. 創造された古典－カノン形成・国民国家・日本文学.
  Co-editor with Tomi Suzuki and author. Shinyôsha, 1999. [amazon.co.jp]

• Yume no ukihashi: Genji monogatari no shigaku. 夢の浮橋－『源氏物語』の詩学.
  Chūō kōron sha, 1992. [amazon.co.jp]

EDITOR OF SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES

• Special Issue In Memory of Marian Ury, Japanese Language and Literature
  Editor. Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Oct. 2003, Vol. 37, No. 2. [JSTOR]

By Kyosen, Murasaki Shikibu at Ishiyama Temple

 

BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO JAPANESE LITERATURE

Haruo Shirane, Columbia University
(With the aid of many Japanese literature PhD students over the years)

INTRODUCTION

GENERAL REMARKS: CLASSICAL AND MODERN
PRE‑MODERN LITERATURE
MODERN LITERATURE

PART I
MULTI-VOLUME COMPENDIA OF JAPANESE LITERATURE

PREMODERN COLLECTIONS
MODERN COLLECTIONS
WAKA COMPENDIA
OTHER IMPORTANT LITERARY COMPENDIA BY GENRE
GUIDES TO ZENSHÛ AND SERIAL COLLECTIONS
FASCIMILE EDITIONS AND EARLY-MODERN MOVEABLE TYPE BOOKS (HANPON)

PART II
MODERN SCHOLARSHIP

JOURNALS AND COLLECTIONS OF ARTICLES
BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF MODERN SCHOLARSHIP

PART III
LITERATURE DICTIONARIES

GENERAL JAPANESE LITERATURE AND RESEARCH REFERENCE DICTIONARIES
LITERARY DICTIONARIES BY PERIOD
GENRE DICTIONARIES
EDO PERIOD GENRE DICTIONARIES
DRAMA, PERFORMANCE DICTIONARIES
BASIC SOURCES FOR CHINESE REFERENCES AND SINO-JAPANESE LITERATURE
LITERARY CHARACTERS, LEGENDARY FIGURES, AND LEGENDS REFERENCES

PART IV
LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES

GENERAL JAPANESE LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES
GENERAL CLASSICAL JAPANESE DICTIONARIES
JAPANESE LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES BY PERIOD
JAPANESE GRAMMAR DICTIONARIES, PARTICULARLY CLASSICAL
CHINESE-JAPANESE CHARACTER DICTIONARIES
ELECTRONIC KANJI DICTIONARIES
WAKA, POETIC WORDS, AND LITERARY PLACES DICTIONARIES
GAIRAIGO AND CURRENT WORD DICTIONARIES
PROVERB DICTIONARIES

PART V
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES AND LITERARY HISTORY

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES
LITERARY HISTORIES

PART VI
ENGLISH REFERENCE AND TRANSLATION

TRANSLATIONS OF JAPANESE LITERATURE AND REFERENCE WORKS IN ENGLISH
FOR TRANSLATING PREMODERN OFFICIAL TITLES AND RANKS

PART VII
ENCYCLOPEDIAS

JAPANESE ENCYCLOPEDIAS

PART VIII
MISCELLANEOUS

ON THE CITY OF EDO AND EDO CULTURE

PART IX

CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORY, WORLD LITERATURE

PART X

GENERAL ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDES
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE JOURNALS AVAILABLE ONLINE

PART XI

OTHER RECOMMENDED WEB SITES