History
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Religion
Primary Sources
Hakeda, Yoshito S., tr., Kukai: Major Works (New York: Columbia University Press, 1972)
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Secondary Sources
Anesaki, Masaharu, History of Japanese Religion (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1963; Original edition, Tokyo, 1933)
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Holtom, Daniel C., "The Meaning of Kami," Monumenta Nipponica 3 (1940): 1-27
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Women
Primary Sources
Bowring, Richard, tr., Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs, A Translation and Study (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982)
Brewster, Jennifer, tr., The Emperor Horikawa Diary (Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1977)
Cranston, Edwin A., The Izumi Shikibu Diary (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969)
Fischer, Felice, The Collected Poems of Ono no Komachi (Master's thesis, Columbia University, 1967)
McCullough, William H., and Helen Craig McCullough, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes: Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period 2 vols. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980)
Morris, Ivan, tr., The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967) 2 vols.
Secondary Sources
Cranston, Edwin A., "Izumi Shikibu," Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
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Morris, Ivan, The World of the Shining Prince (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1969)
Mulhern, Chieko, Heroic with Grace: Legendary Women of Japan (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1991)
Mulhern, Chieko I., ed., Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-critical Sourcebook (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994)
Vos, Frits, A Study of the Ise-monogatari (The Hague: 1957) 2 vols
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Literature
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Bownas, Geoffrey, and Anthony Thwaite, The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (New York: Penguin Books, 1964)
Bowring, Richard, tr., Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs, A Translation and Study (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982)
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Brower, Robert H. and Earl Miner, Fujiwara Teika's Superior Poems of Our Time: A Thirteenth Century Poetic Treatise and Sequence (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967)
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Cranston, Edwin A., "Atemiya: A Translation from the Utsubo monogatari ," Monumenta Nipponica 24 (1969)
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Fischer, Felice, The Collected Poems of Ono no Komachi (Master's thesis, Columbia University, 1967)
Keene, Donald, ed, Anthology of Japanese Literature (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1968)
LaFleur, William R., tr., Mirror for the Moon: A Selection of Poems by Saigyo (1118-1190) (New York: New Directions, 1978)
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Rodd, Laurel Rasplica, Mary Catherine Henkenius, Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984)
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Visual Arts and Architecture
Secondary Sources
Egami, Namio, The Beginnings of Japanese Art , tr. John Bester (New York: Weatherhill, 1973)
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Music
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Language and Writing
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