Chapter 9 Suggested Readings, Weblinks, and Other Media

Readings

Basho, Matsuo. Haiku. www.poemhunter.com/matsuo-basho/.

Dalby, Liza. The Tale of Murasaki. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

Izumo, Takeda, Miyoshi Shoraku, and Namiki Senryu. Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers. Translated by Donald Keene. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.

Kenko, Yoshido. Essays in Idleness (Tsureguregusa). Translated by Donald Keene. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.

McCullough, Helen, trans. Tale of Heike. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988.

Murasaki Shikibu, Tale of Genji. Translated by Edward Seidensticker. New York: Knopf, 1978.

Rowland, Laura Joh. Shinju. New York: Villard, 1996.

St. Clair Robson, Lucia. The Tokaido Road: A Novel of Feudal Japan. New York: Ballantine, 1991.

Yamashita, Karen Tei. I Hotel. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 2010.

Popular Films

The Last Samurai (2003), starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe.

Ran (1986).

Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1990), Yume.

Sugata Sanshiro (1943).

Ikiru (1952), by Akira Kurosawa.

The Seven Samurai (1954).

Weblinks

Encyclopedia of Shinto—www.eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp—maintained by the Kokugakuin University

Tsubaki Grand Shrine in North America—www.tsubakishrine.com 

napajlit.blogspot.com/2009/10/shinto.html

www.joyofsects.com/world/shinto.shtml

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage short videos—https://ich.unesco.org/en/lists—Yama, Hoko, Yatai, Float Festivals in Japan, 2016; Nachi no Dengaku: A Religious Performing Art held at the Nachi Fire Festival, 2012; Sada Shin Noh: Sacred Dancing at Sada Shrine, 2011; Dainichido Bugaku, Ritual Dance, 2009; Hayachine Kagura; Chakkirako; Gagaku; Daimokutate, 2009

This Video Explores the Shinto Spirituality of Hayao Miyazaki's Films—https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-video-explores-the-shinto-spirituality-of-hayao-mi-1827087045

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