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The Pillow Book

FURTHER READING

Beaujard, Andre, Les Notes de chevet de Sei Shōnagon, Paris, 1934. Sei Shōnagon: son temps et son oeuvre, Paris, 1934.

Brower, Robert, and Miner, Earl, Japanese Court Poetry, Stanford, 1961.

Cranston, Edwin, The lzumi Shikibu Diary, Cambridge (U.S.A.), 1969.

de Bary, William Theodore, et al., ed., Sources of the Japanese Tradition, New York, 1958.

Eliot, Sir Charles, Japanese Buddhism, London, 1959.

Frank, Bernard, Kata-imi et kata-tagae: etude sur les interdits de direction a l’epoque Heian, Tokyo, 1958.

Keene, Donald, Anthology of Japanese Literature, New York, 1955. Japanese Literature, London, 1953.

McCullough, Helen Craig, Tales of Ise, Stanford, 1968.

Morris, Ivan, The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan, Penguin Books edition, 1969. Dictionary of Selected Forms in Classical Japanese Literature, New York and London, 1966.

Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, The Manyoshu, Tokyo, 1940.

Omori, Annie, and Koehl Doi, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, Boston, 1935.

Purcell, Dr. T. A., and Aston, William, A Literary Lady of Old Japan, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, XVI. 3, Tokyo, 1888.

Reischauer, Edwin, and Fairbank, John, East Asia: The Great Tradition, Boston, 1958.

Reischauer, Edwin, Enin’s Travels in Tang China, New York, 1955.

Reischauer, R. K., Early Japanese History, Princeton, 1937.

Revon, Michel, Anthologie de la litterature japonaise, des origines au XXe siecle, Paris, 1928.

Sansom, G. B., A History of Japan (Vol. I: to 1334), London, 1958. A Short Cultural History of Japan, London, 1931.

Seidensticker, Edward, The Kagero Nikki: Journal of a 10th Century Noblewoman, Tokyo, 1955.

Waley, Arthur, The Pillow-Book of Sei Shōnagon, London, 1928. Japanese Poetry, London, 1919. The Tale of Genji (originally published in 6 volumes, London, 1925-33).

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SOME OTHER CHINESE AND JAPANESE PENGUIN CLASSICS

BASHO THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH AND OTHER TRAVEL SKETCHES Translated from the Japanese with an Introduction by Nobuyuki Yuasa

LAO TZU TAO TE CHING Translated with an Introduction by D. C. Lau

SIX YUAN PLAYS Translated with an Introduction by Liu Jung-en

MARCO POLO THE TRAVELS Translated with an Introduction by Ronald Latham

SOME OTHER PERSIAN, INDIAN AND ARABIAN PENGUIN CLASSICS

THE BHAGAVAD GITA Translated from the Sanskrit with an Introduction by Juan Mascaro

THE KORAN Translated with Notes by N. ]. Dawood

HINDU MYTHS Translated with an Introduction by Wendy O’Flaherty

TALES FROM THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Translated with an Introduction by N. J. Dawood Engravings on Wood from Original Designs by William Harvey

BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES Translated by Edward Come

THE PENGUIN CLASSICS Some recent volumes

GERALD OF WALES THE JOURNEY THROUGH WALES/ THE DESCRIPTION OF WALES Lewis Thorpe

VICTOR HUGO NOTRE-DAME OF PARIS John Sturrock

JUSTINIAN THE DIGEST OF ROMAN LAW Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult Colin Kolbert

MADAME DE LAFAYETTE THE PRINCESSE DE CLEVES Nancy Mitford

GUY DE MAUPASSANT PIERRE AND JEAN Leonard Tancock

AUGUST STRINDBERG INFERNO/FROM AN OCCULT DIARY Mary Sandbach

IVAN TURGENEV FIRST LOVE Isaiah Berlin

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