Haruo Shirane
Biographic Data
| ID | 607047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Haruo Shirane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Haruo |
| FAMILY NAME | Shirane |
| SIGNATURE | SHIRANE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5996-9981 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Defilement, Outcasts, and Disability in Medieval Japan: Reassessing Oguri and Sermon Ballads as Regenerative Narratives
This article explores four major types of defilement in premodern Japan—what I call contact defilement, transgressive defilement, Buddhistic defilement, and cyclical defilement—that are critical to understanding a wide range of premodern Japanese cultural and social phenomena and that lie behind the emergence of outcasts and the belief in serious illness as defilement from the mid-twelfth century. I demonstrate how these different types of defile…
Haiku
Haiku Haruo Shirane (bio) The seventeen-syllable (5/7/5) haiku is often said to be the shortest poetic genre in the world. How is it possible for it to be so short and still be poetry? How did the haiku come to be? Is the haiku really short? What impact did the genre have in the global marketplace? Let us begin with a famous haiku by Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694): kareeda nikarasu no tomarikeriaki no kure on a leafless brancha crow comes to rest—autum…
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. With images from the original scroll paintings, it illuminates a rich world of literary, Buddhist, and visual culture
The rise of haikai: Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa
The first extant setsuwa collection is the aforementioned Nihon ryoiki, a Buddhist collection edited and compiled in the early Heian period. Godansho is a setsuwa collection that records stories narrated by Oe no Masafusa, one of the leading scholars and poets of the time. The systematic attempt to provide knowledge of the past, particularly of the aristocratic past, is evident in Kokon chomonju, which was edited around 1254 by Tachibana Narisue,…
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. …
Reading "The Tale of Genji": Sources from the First Millennium
Written one thousand years ago, The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, often regarded as its best prose fiction. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets, scholars, dramatists, artists, and novelists, the tale has left a legacy as rich and reflective as the work itself. The most comprehensive record of The Tale of Genji's reception to date, this sourcebook presents a range of landmark texts relating to the work during its f…
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology 1600-1900
Historical Periods, Measurements, and Other Matters1. Early Modern Japan2. Kana Booklets and the Emergence of a Print Culture3. Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World4. Early Haikai Poetry and Poetics5. The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Bash_6. Chikamatsu Monzaemon and the Puppet Theater7. Confucian Studies and Literary Perspectives8. Confucianism in Action: An Autobiography of a Bakufu Official9. Chinese Poetry and the Literatus Ideal10.…
Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature
Today the term "Japanese literary classics" implies such texts as the Man'yoshu, Kojiki, Tale of Genji, Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, and the works of Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho, which are considered the wellspring and embodiment of Japanese tradition and culture. Most of these texts, however, did not become "classics" until the end of the nineteenth century, in a process closely related to the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state and …
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
A Woman's Weapon: Spirit Possession in The Tale of Genji
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and yet there has been remarkably little serious scholarship in English on his achievement. This book is intended to address that virtual void by establishing the ground for critical discussion and reading of a central figure in Japanese culture, placing the works of Basho and his disciples in the context of broader social change. Intended for both the general rea…
A Waka Anthology, Volume One: The Gem-Glistening Cup
Figures of Resistance: Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts
Matsuo Basho and The Poetics of Scent
Tales of Genji
The Pleasure of Reading the Genji
Lyricism and Intertextuality: An Approach to Shunzei's Poetics
Domesticating the Tale of Genji
The Road to Komatsubara: A Classical Reading of the Renga Hyakuin
The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of 'The Tale of Genji
The Bridge of Dreams is a brilliant reading of The Tale of Genji that succeeds both as a sophisticated work of literary criticism and as an introduction this world masterpiece. Taking account of current literary theory and a long tradition of Japanese commentary, the author guides both the general reader and the specialist to a new appreciation of the structure and poetics of this complex and often seemingly baffling work. The Tale of Genji, writ…
Interpreting Literary History
r HE second volume of Konishi Jin'ichi's five-volume Japanese Literatarehistory of Japanese literature is primarily a history VOLjTW:P.EARILEaE of Heian literature. The first part of the book focuses 'By 5n'ichi onashi on the development of poetry and prose in Chinese and on the emergence of waka in the early Heian period. The second part offers a definition of the 'middle ages', by which Konishi means the Heian, medieval, and Tokugawa periods, a…
The Riverside Counselor's Stories: Vernacular Fiction of Late Heian Japan
Haiku
Haiku Haruo Shirane (bio) The seventeen-syllable (5/7/5) haiku is often said to be the shortest poetic genre in the world. How is it possible for it to be so short and still be poetry? How did the haiku come to be? Is the haiku really short? What impact did the genre have in the global marketplace? Let us begin with a famous haiku by Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694): kareeda nikarasu no tomarikeriaki no kure on a leafless brancha crow comes to rest—autum…
Lyricism and Intertextuality: An Approach to Shunzei's Poetics
The Aesthetics of Power: Politics in The Tale of Genji
Interpreting Literary History
r HE second volume of Konishi Jin'ichi's five-volume Japanese Literatarehistory of Japanese literature is primarily a history VOLjTW:P.EARILEaE of Heian literature. The first part of the book focuses 'By 5n'ichi onashi on the development of poetry and prose in Chinese and on the emergence of waka in the early Heian period. The second part offers a definition of the 'middle ages', by which Konishi means the Heian, medieval, and Tokugawa periods, a…
The Riverside Counselor's Stories: Vernacular Fiction of Late Heian Japan
Shōmonki: The Story of Masakado's Rebellion
The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of 'The Tale of Genji
The Bridge of Dreams is a brilliant reading of The Tale of Genji that succeeds both as a sophisticated work of literary criticism and as an introduction this world masterpiece. Taking account of current literary theory and a long tradition of Japanese commentary, the author guides both the general reader and the specialist to a new appreciation of the structure and poetics of this complex and often seemingly baffling work. The Tale of Genji, writ…
The Road to Komatsubara: A Classical Reading of the Renga Hyakuin
Lyricism and Intertextuality: An Approach to Shunzei's Poetics
Domesticating the Tale of Genji
Tales of Genji
The Pleasure of Reading the Genji
Matsuo Basho and The Poetics of Scent
Figures of Resistance: Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts
A Waka Anthology, Volume One: The Gem-Glistening Cup
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and yet there has been remarkably little serious scholarship in English on his achievement. This book is intended to address that virtual void by establishing the ground for critical discussion and reading of a central figure in Japanese culture, placing the works of Basho and his disciples in the context of broader social change. Intended for both the general rea…
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
A Woman's Weapon: Spirit Possession in The Tale of Genji
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature
Today the term "Japanese literary classics" implies such texts as the Man'yoshu, Kojiki, Tale of Genji, Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, and the works of Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho, which are considered the wellspring and embodiment of Japanese tradition and culture. Most of these texts, however, did not become "classics" until the end of the nineteenth century, in a process closely related to the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state and …
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology 1600-1900
Historical Periods, Measurements, and Other Matters1. Early Modern Japan2. Kana Booklets and the Emergence of a Print Culture3. Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World4. Early Haikai Poetry and Poetics5. The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Bash_6. Chikamatsu Monzaemon and the Puppet Theater7. Confucian Studies and Literary Perspectives8. Confucianism in Action: An Autobiography of a Bakufu Official9. Chinese Poetry and the Literatus Ideal10.…
The rise of haikai: Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa
The first extant setsuwa collection is the aforementioned Nihon ryoiki, a Buddhist collection edited and compiled in the early Heian period. Godansho is a setsuwa collection that records stories narrated by Oe no Masafusa, one of the leading scholars and poets of the time. The systematic attempt to provide knowledge of the past, particularly of the aristocratic past, is evident in Kokon chomonju, which was edited around 1254 by Tachibana Narisue,…
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. …
Reading "The Tale of Genji": Sources from the First Millennium
Written one thousand years ago, The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, often regarded as its best prose fiction. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets, scholars, dramatists, artists, and novelists, the tale has left a legacy as rich and reflective as the work itself. The most comprehensive record of The Tale of Genji's reception to date, this sourcebook presents a range of landmark texts relating to the work during its f…
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. With images from the original scroll paintings, it illuminates a rich world of literary, Buddhist, and visual culture
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