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A History of Japanese Literature, by W.G. Aston, London, Heinemann,1907

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Hyak Nin Is’shiu, or Stanzas by a Century of Poets being Japanese Lyrical Odes, translated into English, with explanatory notes, the text in Japanese and Roman characters, and a full index, by F.V. Dickins,  London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1866

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Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts, translated into English with introductions, notes and glossaries, by Frederick Victor Dickins, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906

The volume on the left contains the translations. View online.

Although the books below have their particular interest, they were obviously written in an imperial, colonial age, and sometimes have - like most books on this subject - conflicting information.

Haruki Murakami, himself a translator from English into Japanese, said that the ‘use-by’ date on translations means they have a ‘50-year limit’ of effectiveness because of changing writing styles in Japanese. The same can be said of translations from Japanese into English.

A Hundred Verses from Old Japan, being a translation of the Hyaku-Nin-Isshiu, by William N. Porter, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1909

Or flip the book online here.

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Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, translated by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi, London, Constable, 1920

Flip the book online.

Contains The Sarashina Diary, The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu, and The Diary of Izumi Shikibu.

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The No Plays of Japan, by Arthur Waley, New York, Knopf, 1922

Online here.

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Librivox recording of One Hundred Verses from Old Japan by Fujiwara no Teika (ed.), transl. William Porter.

Read by Kevin Steinbach.

An Historical Grammar of Japanese, by G.B. Sansom, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1928

Flip book online.

Modern reading list:

- 原色小倉百人一首—朗詠CDつき、鈴木 日出男 (著), 依田 泰 (著), 山口 慎一 、文英堂、2005

- 百人一首の秘密—驚異の歌織物, 林 直道、青木書店; 新装版、2003

- 百人一首の世界、林 直道、青木書店; 新装版、2003

- 百人一首、有吉 保、講談社、1983

- 百人一首大事典—完全絵図解説、 吉海 直人、あかね書房、2007

- えんぴつでなぞる・CDで歌える百人一首、青柳 隆志、ナツメ社、2007

- Pictures of the Heart, The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image, by Joshua S. Mostow, University of Hawai’i Press, 1996

1. -Traditional Japanese Poetry, an Anthology, translated, with an introduction, by Steven D. Carter, Stanford University Press, 1991
   

- Japanese Court Poetry, by Robert H. Brower and Earl Miner, Stanford University Press, 1961

- Hokusai, One Hundred Poets, by Peter Morse, Braziller, 1989

1. -Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary by Haruo Shirane, Columbia University press, 2007
   

1. -Classical Japanese - A Grammar by Haruo Shirane, Columbia University Press, 2005
   

1. -A Handbook to Classical Japanese by J.T. Wixted, Cornell University, 2006
   

1. -The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, by Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, and Robert E. Morell, Princeton University Press, 1985
   

1. -An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry, Earl Miner, Stanford University Press, 1968
   

1. -Traditional Japanese Literature - An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, edited with introductions and commentary by Haruo Shirane, Columbia University Press, New York, 2007
   

1. -Japan - A Short Cultural History, by G. B. Sansom, Stanford University Press, 1952 rev.
   

- A History of Japan to 1334, by George Sansom, Stanford University Press, 1958

百人一首一夕話、尾崎雅嘉、江戸時代

Flip book online.

小倉百人一首

Each of the poets is depicted by a woodblock print created by Hishikawa Moronobu (1618-circa 1694). Morobonu is often considered the first Ukiyo-e artist.