The following books are required and available through the UCI bookstore (they are also on 2-hour reserve at the Main Library):

Royall Tyler, Japanese Nô Dramas (Penguin, 1992)
Karen Brazell, Traditional Japanese Theater (Columbia University Press, 1998)
Royall Tyler, Japanese Tales (Pantheon Books, 1987)

All other readings are available at on-line via the course website. For full citations see course bibliography below.

Bibliography

Carmen Blacker, The Catalpa Bow (Japan Library 1999), "The Bridge" pp. 19-33, "The Sacred Beings" pp. 34-50, "Witch Animals" pp. 51-68, "Exorcism" pp. 298-314.

Robert Ellwood, Japanese Religion: A Cultural Perspective (NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985)
“Japanese Religion in Historical Perspective” pp. 19-50, 56-58.

Robert Borgen, Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court (Harvard University Press, 1986),
chapter 8, "Michizane as Tenjin," pp. 307-336.

Ivan Morris, trans., The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 1991)
" The House had a Spacious Courtyard" pp. 260-261

Richard Bowring, Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs (NY: Princeton University Press, 1982)
Section 8, "On the ninth of the ninth month…", pp. 49-59

Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, Edward Seidensticker, trans. (Vintage Books, 1985)
Excerpts from ch. 6 "Heartvine," pp. 146-172 and ch. 7 "The Sacred Tree," pp. 186-195.

Helen McCullough, The Taiheiki (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1959)
"Suicide of the Protector of Etchû," pp. 330-333

Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, Japanese Noh Drama Vol. 2 (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1959)
"Aoi no Ue," pp. 89-102

Michele Marra, "The Michizane Legend as seen in the Nô Drama, Raiden" Osaka Gaikokugo Daigaku gakuhô vol. 64 (1984), pp. 437-446.

Royall Tyler, trans., Granny Mountains: A Cycle of Nô Plays (Cornell East Asia Series, 1978),
"Asaina," pp. 55-62.

Janet Goff, "Foxes in Japanese Culture: Beautiful or Beastly?" Japan Quarterly (April-June 1997), pp. 66-77.

Basil Hall Chamberlin, trans., Classical Poetry of the Japanese (London: Trubner, 1880)
"The Death-Stone," pp. 147-56.

Richard McKinnon, trans., Selected Plays of Kyôgen (Tokyo: Japan Society, 1968)
"Tsurigitsune" (The Fox and the Trapper) pp. 27-42

Stephen Addiss, ed., Japanese Ghosts and Demons (George Braziller,1985)
Brenda Jordan, "Yûrei: Tales of Female Ghosts" pp. 25-33

James Brandon and Samuel Leiter, ed., Kabuki Plays on Stage vol. 3 (University of Hawaii Press, 2002)
Acts III and V, "The Ghost Stories at Yotsuya on the Tôkaidô" (Tokaidô Yotsuya Kaidan) pp. 134-163

Anne Walthall, Peasant Uprisings in Japan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
"The Sakura Sôgôro Story" pp. 35-75