Resources

PRIMARY

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• Saikaku shokoku hanashi (Izumi shoin 2012, ed. Morita Masaya): A facsimile of one of the original printings, held at Tenri University Library

• Shinpen Nihon koten bungaku zenshū 67・Ihara Saikaku-shū (2) (Shogakukan 1996, ed. Isoo Munemasa, et. al.): Annotated kakikudashi with modern Japanese translation of the collection.

• Saikaku shokoku hanashi (Miyai shoten 2009, ed. Saikaku Kenkyūkai): kakikudashi with short essays covering each tale.

 

SECONDARY

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• Saikaku shokoku hanashi no kenkyū (Miyazawa Terue. Izumi shoin 2015): An indepth study of the collection, focusing on its features, publication, themes, construction, and secondary research

• Saikaku shokoku banashi (Shogakukan Library Gendai Goyaku 1992, Teruoka Yasutaka, ed): Contemporary Japanese translation -- somewhat abridged version -- of the collection.

 

ENGLISH AND FRENCH TRANSLATIONS

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• Howard Higgins and Osamu Shimizu

• “A Year End Miscalculation” and synopsis of “The Fox’s Four Guardian Kings (1929 Intimate Tales of Old Japan)

• Richard Lane

• “The Umbrella Oracle” (1955 Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century)

• “An Unbalanced Account on New Year’s Day” and “A Love Poem Written on a Folding Fan” (1955 The Atlantic Monthly)

• “How the Flea Escaped His Cage” (1958 Japan Quarterly)

• Chris Drake

• “The Umbrella Oracle” (2002 Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology 1600-1900)

• Josh Dalton

• "The Umbrella Oracle," "The Puzzling Footsteps," and "The Flea's Escape" (2007 BYU Asian Studies Journal)

• René Sieffert

• Saïkaku Contes des provinces (1985 French translation of the collection)