Bibliography of Recommended Readings in English
Attitudes Toward Nature
Asquith, Pamela J., and Arne Kalland, eds. Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives. Richmond, Eng.: Curzon Press, 1997.
Berque, Augustin. Japan: Nature, Artifice, and Japanese Culture. Translated by Ros Schwartz. Yelvetoft Manor: Pilkington Press, 1997.
Callicott, J. Baird, and Roger T. Ames, eds. Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
Ellwood, Robert, and Richard Pilgrim. Japanese Religion: A Cultural Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1985.
Higuchi, Tadahiko. The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes. Translated by Charles S. Terry. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983.
Kellert, Stephen. “Japanese Perceptions of Wildlife.” Conservation Biology 5, no. 3 (1991): 297–308.
LaFleur, William. Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
Mayer, Fanny Hagin. “Fauna and Flora in Japanese Folktales.” Asian Folklore Studies 40, no. 1 (1981): 23–32.
Pflugfelder, Gregory M., and Brett L. Walker, eds. JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life. Michigan Monographs in Japanese Studies, no. 52. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2005.
Pilgrim, Richard B. Buddhism and the Arts of Japan. Chambersburg, Pa.: Anima Books, 1993.
Rambelli, Fabio. Vegetal Buddhas: Ideological Effects of Japanese Buddhist Doctrines on the Salvation of Inanimate Beings. Occasional Papers 9. Kyoto: Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’ Asia Orientale, 2001.
Saito, Yuriko. “The Japanese Appreciation of Nature.” British Journal of Aesthetics 25, no. 3 (1985): 239–251.
Shively, Donald. “Buddhahood for the Nonsentient.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 20, nos. 1–2 (1957): 135–161.
Sonoda, Minoru. “Shinto and the Natural Environment.” In Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami, edited by John Breen and Mark Teeuwen, 32–46. Richmond, Eng.: Curzon Press, 2000.
Totman, Conrad. The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Premodern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Ecocriticism and Related Approaches
Arnold, Jean, Lawrence Buell, Michael P. Cohen, Elizabeth Dodd, Simon C. Estok, Ursula K. Heise, Jonathan Levin, et al. “Forum on Literatures of the Environment.” PMLA 114, no. 5 (1999): 1089–1104.
Bate, Jonathan. Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition. London: Routledge, 1991.
Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995.
Corbin, Alain. The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World, 1750–1840. Translated by Joselyn Phelps. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004.
Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. London: Routledge, 2004.
Gifford, Terry. Pastoral. London: Routledge, 1999.
Soper, Kate. What Is Nature? Culture, Politics, and the Non-Human. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500–1800. London: Penguin, 1984.
Anderson, Jennifer L. An Introduction to Japanese Tea Ritual. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.
Hayashiya, Seizō. Chanoyu: Japanese Tea Ceremony. Translated by Emily J. Sano. Essays by H. Paul Varley et al. New York: Japan Society, 1979.
Hayashiya, Tatsusaburō, Masao Nakamura, and Seizō Hayashiya. Japanese Arts and the Tea Ceremony. Translated by Joseph P. Macadam. Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, vol. 15. New York: Weatherhill, 1974.
Hirota, Dennis, ed. Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path. Fremont, Calif.: Asian Humanities Press, 1995.
Ohki, Sadako. Tea Culture of Japan. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2009.
Pitelka, Morgan, ed. Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Plutschow, Herbert E. Historical Chanoyu. Tokyo: Japan Times, 1986.
——. Rediscovering Rikyu and the Beginnings of the Japanese Tea Ceremony. Folkstone, Eng.: Global Oriental, 2003.
Sen, Sōshitsu, ed. The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyu. Translated by V. Dixon Morris. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1998.
Varley, Paul, and Isao Kumakura, eds. Tea in Japan: Essays on the History of Chanoyu. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1989.
Architecture
Coaldrake, William Howard. Architecture and Authority in Japan. London: Routledge, 1996.
Frampton, Kenneth, and Kunio Kudo. Japanese Building Practice: From Ancient Times to the Meiji Period. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997.
Hashimoto, Fumio, ed. Architecture in the Shoin Style: Japanese Feudal Residences. Translated by H. Mack Horton. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1981.
Hirai, Kiyoshi. Feudal Architecture of Japan. Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, vol. 13. Chicago: Art Media Resources, 1974.
Itoh, Teiji, and Richard L. Gage. Traditional Domestic Architecture of Japan. Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, vol. 21. Chicago: Art Media Resources, 1972.
Kirby, John B. From Castle to Teahouse: Japanese Architecture of the Momoyama Period. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1962.
Nishi, Kazuo, and Kazuo Hozumi. What Is Japanese Architecture? A Survey of Traditional Japanese Architecture. Translated by H. Mark Horton. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1985.
Paine, Robert Treat, and Alexander Soper. The Art and Architecture of Japan. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1955.
Young, David E., and Michiko Young. The Art of Japanese Architecture. Rev. and expanded ed. Tokyo: Tuttle, 2007.
Aesthetics and Nature
Hume, Nancy G. Japanese Aesthetics and Culture: A Reader. SUNY Series on Asian Studies Development. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
Ikegami, Eiko. Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Inouye, Charles Shiro. Evanescence and Form: An Introduction to Japanese Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Izutsu, Toshihiko, and Toyo Izutsu. The Theory of Beauty in the Classical Aesthetics of Japan. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1981.
Ueda, Makoto. Literary and Art Theories in Japan. Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies, no. 6. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1991.
Gardens
Goto, Seiko. The Japanese Garden: Gateway to the Human Spirit. Asian Thought and Culture, vol. 56. New York: Lang, 2003.
Hayakawa, Masao. The Garden Art of Japan. Translated by Richard L. Gage. Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, vol. 28. New York: Weatherhill, 1973.
Inaji, Toshiro. The Garden as Architecture: Form and Spirit in the Gardens of Japan, China, and Korea. Translated by Pamela Virgilio. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1998.
Itoh, Teiji. The Gardens of Japan. 2nd ed. New York: Kodansha, 1998.
Keane, Marc Peter. Japanese Garden Design. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1996.
Kuck, Loraine E. The World of the Japanese Garden: From Chinese Origins to Modern Landscape Art. New York: Weatherhill, 1980.
Kuitert, Wybe. Themes, Scenes, and Taste in the History of Japanese Garden Art. Amsterdam: Gieben, 1988.
——. Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art. Rev. ed. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2002.
Slawson, David A. Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens: Design Principles, Aesthetic Values. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1987.
Takei, Jiro, and Marc P. Keane. Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden: A Modern Translation of Japan’s Gardening Classic. Boston: Tuttle, 2008.
Fujiwara, Yuchiku. Rikkp: The Soul of Japanese Flower Arrangement. Translated by Norman Sparnon. Tokyo: Shufunotomo, 1976.
Kudo, Masanobu. The History of Ikebana. Translated by Jay Gluck and Sumi Gluck. Tokyo: Shufunotomo, 1986.
Nippon Bonsai Association. Classic Bonsai of Japan. Translated by John Bester. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1989.
Ohi, Minobu. Best of Ikebana: History of Ikebana. Tokyo: Shufunotomo, 1962.
Ohi, Minobu, et al. Flower Arrangement: The Ikebana Way. Edited by William C. Steere. Tokyo: Shufunotomo, 1972.
Richie, Donald, and Meredith Weatherby, eds. The Masters’ Book of Ikebana: Background and Principles of Japanese Flower Arrangement. Tokyo: Bijutsu shuppansha, 1966.
Ink Painting and Landscape
Fontein, Jan, and Money L. Hickman. Zen Painting and Calligraphy: An Exhibition of Works of Art Lent by Temples, Private Collectors, and Public and Private Museums in Japan. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1970.
Kanazawa, Hiroshi. Japanese Ink Painting: Early Zen Masterpieces. Translated and adapted by Barbara Ford. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1979.
Matsushita, Takaaki. Ink Painting. Arts of Japan, no. 7. Translated and adapted by Martin Collcutt. New York: Weatherhill, 1974.
Tanaka, Ichimatsu. Japanese Ink Painting: Shubun to Sesshu. Translated by Bruce Darling. Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, vol. 12. New York: Weatherhill, 1972.
Shimizu, Yoshiaki, and Carolyn Wheelwright, eds. Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi Period: An Exhibition in Honor of Shūjirō Shimada. Princeton, N.J.: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976.
Watanabe, Akiyoshi, Kanazawa Hiroshi, and Paul Varley. Of Water and Ink: Muromachi-Period Paintings from Japan, 1392–1568. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986.
Kimono and Decorative Arts
Dalby, Liza Crihfield. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1993.
Gluckman, Dale Carolyn, and Sharon Sadako Takeda. When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-Period Japan. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Weatherhill, 1992.
Ishimura, Hayao, Nobuhiko Maruyama, and Tomoyuki Yamanobe. Robes of Elegance: Japanese Kimonos of the Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Liddell, Jill. The Story of the Kimono. New York: Dutton, 1989.
Morrison, Michael, and Lorna Price, eds. Four Centuries of Fashion: Classical Kimono from the Kyoto National Museum. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 1997.
Munsterberg, Hugo. The Japanese Kimono. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Noma, Seiroku. Japanese Costume and Textile Arts. Translated by Armins Nikovskis. Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, vol. 16. New York: Weatherhill, 1974.
Rousmaniere, Nicole Coolidge, ed. Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan, Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Japan Society; London: British Museum Press, 2002.
——. “Ornament and Culture: Style and Meaning in Edo Japan.” In Robert T. Singer, Edo: Art in Japan, 1615–1868, 51–67. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998.
Stinchecum, Amanda Mayer. “Images of Fidelity and Infidelity in Kosode Design.” In Currents in Japanese Culture: Translations and Transformations, edited by Amy Vladeck Heinrech, 337–352. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Tsuji, Nobuo. “Ornament (Kazari)—An Approach to Japanese Culture.” Archives of Asian Art 47 (1994): 34–45.
Screen Painting and Nature
Doi, Tsugiyoshi. Momoyama Decorative Painting. Translated by Edna B. Crawford. Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, vol. 14. New York: Weatherhill, 1977.
Grilli, Elise. The Art of the Japanese Screen. New York: Walker / Weatherhill, 1970.
——. Golden Screen Paintings of Japan. Art of the East. New York: Crown, 1960.
Hickman, Money L. Japan’s Golden Age: Momoyama. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996.
Impey, Oliver. Art of the Japanese Folding Screen: The Collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007.
Katz, Janice, ed. Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; St. Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum; New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009.
Klein, Bettina, with Carolyn Wheelwright. “Japanese Kinbyōbu: The Gold-Leafed Folding Screens of the Muromachi Period (1333–1573).” Artibus Asiae 45, no. 1 (1984): 5–34; nos. 2–3 (1984): 101–174.
Kuroda, Taizō, Melinda Takeuchi, and Yūzō Yamane. Worlds Seen and Imagined: Japanese Screens from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts. New York: Asia Society, 1995.
McKelway, Matthew P. Capitalscapes: Folding Screens and Political Imagination in Late Medieval Kyoto. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006.
Murase, Miyeko. Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting: The American Collections. New York: Braziller, 1990.
Shimizu, Yoshiaki. “Seasons and Places in Yamato Landscape and Poetry.” Ars Orientalis 12 (1981): 1–14.
Animals, Plants, and Painting
Rosenfield, John M. Mynah Birds and Flying Rocks: Word and Image in the Art of Yosa Buson. Franklin D. Murphy Lectures, no. 18. Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2003.
Schaap, Robert. A Brush with Animals: Japanese Painting, 1700–1950. Leiden: Society for Japanese Arts, with Hotei Publishing, 2007.
Shimizu, Yoshiaki. “The Vegetable Nehan of Itō Jakuchū.” In Flowing Traces: Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan, edited by James H. Sanford, William R. LaFleur, and Masatoshi Nagatomi, 201–233. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Watsky, Andrew. “Floral Motifs and Mortality: Restoring Numinous Meaning to a Momoyama Building.” Archives of Asian Art 50 (1997–1998): 62–92.
Food and Sweets
Ashkenazi, Michael, and Jeanne Jacob. Food Culture in Japan. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003.
Ishige, Naomichi. The History and Culture of Japanese Food. London: Kegan Paul, 2001.
Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Rath, Eric C. Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Rath, Eric C., and Stephanie Assman, eds. Japanese Foodways, Past and Present. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
Ukiyo-e, Bird-and-Flower Genre, and Mitate
Andō Hiroshige. Hiroshige: Birds and Flowers. Introduction by Cynthea J. Bogel. Commentaries by Israel Goldman. Poetry translated by Alfred H. Marks. New York: Braziller, 1988.
Asano, Shūgō, and Timothy Clark. The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro. 2 vols. Tokyo: Asahi shinbun; London: British Museum Press, 1995.
Clark, Timothy T. “Mitate-e: Some Thoughts, and a Summary of Recent Writings.” Impressions 19 (1997): 6–27.
Hayakawa, Monta. “Shunga and Mitate: Suzuki Harunobu’s Eight Modern Views of the Interior (Fūryū zashiki hakkei)’.’ In Imaging/Reading Eros, edited by Sumie Jones, 122–128. Bloomington: East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, 1996.
Keyes, Roger. Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan. New York: New York Public Library; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.
Kitagawa Utamaro. Utamaro: A Chorus of Birds. Introduction by Julia Meech-Pekarik. Note on kyōka and translations by James T. Kenney. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Viking Press, 1981.
Kobayashi, Tadashi. “Mitate in the Art of the Ukiyo-e Artist Suzuki Harunobu.” In The Floating World Revisited, edited by Donald Jenkins, 85–91. Portland, Ore.: Portland Art Museum, 1993.
Narazaki, Muneshige. Studies in Nature: Hokusai—Hiroshige. Translated by John Bester. Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e, vol. 11. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1970.
Shirane, Haruo. “Dressing Up, Dressing Down: Poetry, Image, and Transposition in the Eight Views” Impressions 31 (2010): 51–72.
Poetry, Poetics, and Nature
Carter, Steven D. Householders: The Reizei Family in Japanese History. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, no. 61. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2007.
——. Road to Komatsubara: A Classical Reading of the Renga Hyakuin. Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 124. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1987.
——. Three Poets at Yuyama. Japan Research Monograph, no. 4. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Center for Japanese Studies, 1983.
Cranston, Edwin, trans. A Waka Anthology. 3 vols. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Ebersole, Gary L. Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Kamens, Edward. Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.
McCullough, Helen. Brocade by Night: Kokin wakashu and the Court Style in Japanese Classical Poetry. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985.
Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza. Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008.
Shirane, Haruo. Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashō. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Shōtetsu. Conversations with Shōtetsu. Translated by Robert H. Brower. Introduction and notes by Steven D. Carter. Michigan Monographs in Japanese Studies, no. 7. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992.
Ueda, Makoto. Bashō and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992.
Theater, Prose Literature, and Nature
Atkins, Paul. Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku. Michigan Monographs in Japanese Studies, no. 55. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2006.
Bialock, David T. Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007.
Brazell, Karen, ed. Twelve Plays of the Noh and Kyōgen Theaters. Cornell University East Asia Papers, no. 50. Rev. ed. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1990.
Goff, Janet. Noh Drama and The Tale of Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Haynes, Carolyn. “Parody in Kyōgen: Makura Monogurui and Tako.” Monumenta Nipponica 39 (1984): 261–279.
Japanese Classics Translation Committee, ed. The Noh Drama: Ten Plays from the Japanese. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1955.
Kawatake, Toshio. Japan on Stage: Japanese Concepts of Beauty as Shown in the Traditional Theater. Translated by P. G. O’Neill. Tokyo: 3A Corp., 1990.
Keene, Donald. The Pleasures of Japanese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Kim, Yung-Hee. Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryōjin hishō in Twelfth-Century Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Marra, Michele. The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1991.
Mayer, Fanny Hagin. “Fauna and Flora in Japanese Folktales.” Asian Folklore Studies 40, no. 1 (1981): 23–32.
Mills, D. E., trans. A Collection of Tales from Uji: A Study and Translation of Uji shui monogatari. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
Shirane, Haruo. Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987.
——, ed.. Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600–1900. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
——, ed.. Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
——, ed. Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Smethurst, Mae, and Christina Laffin, eds. The Noh Ominameshi: A Flower Viewed from Many Directions. Cornell East Asia Series, no. 118. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2003.
Waley, Arthur. The Nō Plays of Japan. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1976.