Nancy G. Hume is Associate Professor of English at Essex Community College, Baltimore, Maryland.

Introduction

Historical Periods

Notes on Language, Pronunciation, Names

1. Japanese Literature: Four Polarities
J. Thomas Rimer

2. Japanese Aesthetics
Donald Keene

3. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics, I, II, III
Wm. Theodore De Bary, Ed.

4. Ways of Japanese Thinking
Graham Parkes

5. Feminine Sensibility in the Heian Era
Donald Keene

6. "Approach to Haiku" and "Basic Principles"
Kenneth Yasuda

7. Basho on the Art of the Haiku: Impersonality in Poetry
Makoto Ueda

8. Zeami and the Art of the No Drama: Imitation, Yugen , and Sublimity
Makoto Ueda

9. The Social Environment of Tokugawa Kabuki
Donald H. Shively

10. The Wabi Aesthetic through the Ages
Haga Koshiro

11. Bushido: Mode or Ethic?
Roger T. Ames

12. Culture in the Present Age
H. Paul Varley

Glossary

Annotated Bibliography