I have kept the Selected Bibliography concise because this is not a book of scholarship in the usual sense of the term. I am indebted to all the books I have had the good fortune to encounter in my life, from the children’s books I returned to again and again for pleasure to the tomes on literary theory I struggled through but now look back on with a sense of gratitude mixed with nostalgia.
Anderson, Benedict. “Global Bases for Early Asian Nationalisms.” Lectures presented at Waseda University, Tokyo, April 23, 2005. [Also published in Japanese in Naoyuki Umemori, ed., Benedict Anderson globalization wo kataru. Tokyo: Kōbunsha, 2007.]
. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Rev. ed. London: Verso, 2006. Kindle ed.
Atsuji Tetsuji. Sengo Nihon kanji shi. Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2010.
Fukuda Tsuneari. Watashi no kokugo kyōshitsu. 1960. Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1961.
Fukuzawa Yukichi. The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa. Translated by Eiichi Kiyooka. 1966. Reprint, New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Funabashi Yōichi. Aete Eigo kōyōgo ron. Tokyo: Bungei Shunjū, 2000.
I Yeonsuk. Kokugo to iu shisō: Kindai Nihon no gengo ninshiki. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1996.
Katō Shūichi and Maruyama Masao. “Hon’yaku no shisō.” In Nihon kindai shisō taikei. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1991.
Kin Bunkyō. Kanbun to higashi Asia. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2010.
Maruyama Masao and Katō Shūichi. Hon’yaku to Nihon no kindai. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1998.
Natsume Sōseki. “Gendai Nihon no kaika.” Amazon Services International, ASIN: B009IXK2EO, 1911. Kindle ed.
. Sanshirō. Amazon Services International, ASIN: B009IXLLU8, 1909. Kindle ed.
. Shokanshū. Edited by Komiya Hōryū. Sōseki zenshū 28. 1956. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1980.
. Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings. Edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs, Atsuko Ueda, and Joseph A. Murphy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. Kindle ed.
Shinada Yoshikazu. “Kokumin kashū toshite no ‘Man’yōshū.’” In Sōzōsareta koten: Canon keisei, kokumin kokka, Nihon bungaku, edited by Haruo Shirane and Suzuki Tomi. Tokyo: Shin’yōsha, 1999.
Suzuki Yoshisato and Chūko Shinsho Rakure Henshūbu, eds. Ronsō: Eigo ga kōyōgo ni naru hi. Tokyo: Chūo Kōrōn Shinsha, 2002.
Yamaguchi Nakami. Nihongo no rekishi. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2006.