Japanese Tanka in Translation (English)
A Book of Tanka. Trans. James Kirkup. Salzburg, Austria: Salzburg University, 1996.
A Long Rainy Season. Trans. Miyuki Aoyama, Leza Lowitz, and Miyuki Tomioka. Berkeley:
Stone Bridge Press, 1994.
A Waka Anthology, Volume One: The Gem-Glistening Cup. Trans. Edwin A. Cranston.
Stanford University Press, 1998.
Baron, Virginia Olsen, ed. The Seasons of Time: Tanka Poetry of Ancient Japan. New York:
The Dial Press, Inc., 1968.
Emperor Akihito & Empress Michiko. Philomene, Marie and Masako Saito, eds. Tomoshibi
Light. New York: Weatherhill, 1991.
Gurgal, Thomas. Japanese Tanka: The Court Poetry of a Golden Age. Peter Pauper Press,
1972.
Hamill, Sam, ed. Love Poems from the Japanese. Trans. Kenneth Rexroth. Hardcover: 141 pp.
Publisher: Shambhala; 2003.
Heavenly Maiden Tanka. Trans. Akiko Baba, Hatsue Kawamura, and Jane Reichhold. Gualala,
California: AHA Books, 1999.
Ishigaki, Choko. Airports. Quebec, Canada: KDC, 1998.
Miyoko, Goto. I Am Alive: The Tanka Poems of Goto Miyoko, 1898-1978. Trans. Reiko
Tsukimura. Oakland University, Michigan: Katydid Books, 1988.
Modern Japanese Tanka. Trans. Makoto Ueda. New York: Columbia University Press,
1996.Essential for anyone new to tanka.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu from Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets) and Nori no
Hatsu-Ne (The Dominant Note of the Law) Trans. Clay MacCauley. Yokohama: Kelly and
Walsh, Ltd., 1917 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/macauley.html
One Hundred Tanka by Young Students Today. Trans. Dilenschneider, Joseph J. and Naoshi
Koriyama. Tokyo: Toyo University, published annually.
Reichhold, Jane (translator) with Kawamura, Hatsue. A String of Flowers, Untied...Love Poems
from The Tale of Genji. Stone Bridge Press, 2003.
Saigyo. Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home. Trans. Burton Watson. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1991.
Saito, Fumi. White Letter Poems. Trans. Hatsue Kawamura and Jane Reichhold. Gualala,
California: AHA Books, 1998.
Shiki, Masaoka. Songs from a Bamboo Village. Trans. Sanford Goldstein and Seishi Shinoda.
Charles E. Tuttle, 1998.
Tawara, Machi. Salad Anniversary. Trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter. Tokyo: Kodansha
International, 1989.
---. Salad Anniversary. Trans. Jack Stamm. Japan: Kawade Bunko, 1989.
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the
Ancient Court of Japan. Trans. Jane Hirshfield. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of the Man'yoshu. Trans. Ian Hideo Levy. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.
The Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets. Trans. Andrew J. Pekarik. New York: George Braziller,
Inc., 1991.
Written on Water: Five Hundred Poems from the Man'yoshu. Trans. Takashi Kojima. Tokyo:
Charles E. Tuttle, 1995.
Yosano, Akiko. River of Stars. Trans. Sam Hamill and Keiko Matsui Gibson. Boston:
Shambhala, 1996.
---. Tangled Hair. Trans. Sanford Goldstein and Seishi Shinoda. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1990.
