- Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year (2004): Early Modern Japanese Literature, An Anthology (Columbia UP).
- Ishida Hakyō Prize (Dec. 2002), for Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho (Bashō no Fūkei, Bunka no kioku, Kadokawa shoten, 2001), for the most outstanding critical study of haiku in 2001.
- Haiku Society of America Book Award (1998) for Traces of Dreams: Landscape,Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho, for best critical work on haiku.
- Kadokawa Gen'yoshi Prize (1993) for Yume no ukihashi: Genji monogatari no shigaku (Chūō kōron sha, 1992), for the most outstanding work on Japanese literature in the year 1992.
- Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year (1987): The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji (Stanford UP).