From the Book - 1st Evergreen ed.
The luck of the sea and the luck of the mountains
Kūkai and his master / Kūkai
The Tosa diary / Ki No Tsurayuki
Poetry from the six collections
Kagerō Nikki / the mother of Michitsuna
Yūgao (from "The tale of Genji") / Murasaki Shikibu
The Sarashina diary / the daughter of Takasue
The lady who loved insects
An account of my hut / Kamo No Chōmei
Tales from the Uji collection
Essays in idleness / Yoshida Kenkō
The art of the Nō / Seami Motokiyo
Sotoba Komachi / Kanʼami Kiyotsugu
Birds of sorrow / Seami Motokiyo
Atsumori / Seami Motokiyo
The damask drum / Seami Motokiyo
The bird-catcher in Hades
Poems in Chinese by Buddhist monks
What the seasons brought to the almanac-maker / Ihara Saikaku
The umbrella oracle / Ihara Saikaku
The eternal storehouse of Japan / Ihara Saikaku
The narrow road of Oku / Matsuo Bashō
Prose poem on the unreal dwelling / Matsuo Bashō
Conversations with Kyorai / Mukai Kyorai
Haiku by Bashō and his school
Chikamatsu on the art of the puppet stage
The love suicides at Sonezaki / Chikamatsu Monzaemon
A wayward wife / Ejima Kiseki
Hizakurige / Jippensha Ikku
Shino and Hamaji / Takizawa Bakin
Haiku of the middle and late Tokugawa period
Waka of the Tokugawa period
Poetry and prose in Chinese.
