Waka

:See Waka (disambiguation) and Tanka (disambiguation) for other usages.

Resources

Waka anthologies

• Brower, Robert H., and Earl Miner, Japanese Court Poetry, Stanford University Press, © 1961 ISBN 0-8047-1524-6 pbk
• Carter, Steven D., editor and translator, Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology. Stanford University Press, 1991
• Carter, Steven D., editor and translator, Waiting for the Wind: Thirty-six Poets of Japan's Late Medieval Age, Columbia University Press, 1989
• Cranston, Edwin, editor and translator, A Waka Anthology, Volume: The Gem-Glistening Cup, Stanford University Press, © 1993 ISBN 0-8047-1922-5 cloth ISBN 0-80470315708 pbk
• Keene, Donald, compiled and edited, Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Grove Press, 1955
• McCullough, Helen Craig, Brocade by Night: 'Kokin Wakashū' and the Court Style in Japanese Classical Poetry, Stanford University Press, 1985
• McCullough, Helen Craig, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry, with 'Tosa Nikki' and 'Shinsen Waka, Stanford University Press 1985
• Miner, Earl, An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry, Stanford University Press © 1968
• Philippi, Donald, translator, This Wine of Peace, the Wine of Laughter: A Complete Anthology of Japan's Earliest Songs, New York, Grossman, 1968
• Sato, Hiroaki, and Burton Watson, editors and translators, From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry (multiple editions available)

Modern tanka anthologies

• Nakano, Jiro, Outcry from the Inferno: Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology, Honolulu, Hawaii, Bamboo Ridge Press © 1995 ISBN 0-910043-38-8
• Shiffert, Edith, and Yuki Sawa, editors and translators, Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry, Rutland, Vermont, Tuttle, 1972
• Ueda, Makoto, Modern Japanese Tanka: An Anthology, Columbia University Press, © 1996 ISBN 0-231-10432-4 cloth ISBN 0-231-10433-2 pbk

Tanka written in English

• McClintock, Michael, Pamela Miller Ness and Jim Kacian, the tanka anthology: 800 of the best tanka in English by 68 of its finest practitioners, Winchester, VA, Red Moon Press © 2003 ISBN 1-89359-40-6
• Welch, Michael Dylan, footsteps in the fog, Foster City, CA USA, Press Here © 1994 ISBN 1-878798-12-X