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General

• Ten Shinto Creation Stories

Government

• Jimmu Tenno 
  The story of the first emperor.
• Nintoku Tenno: "The Wealth of the Emperor" from the Nihongi [At WSU]
• Birth and Upbringiung of Prince Shotoku 
• Prince Shotoku: The Seventeen Article Constitution from the Nihongi, 604 CE  [At WSU]
• Ancient Japanese Constitution  [At CCNY]
• Emperor Kotoku: Taika Reform Edicts, 645 CE  [At WSU]
  By which Japan was centralized as one country.

Tokugawa Era

• Tokugawa Iemitsu: Closed Country Edict 1635 [At CCNY]
• Honda Toshiaki: A Secret Plan for Government,  excerpts, 1798 
• Tsuentomo Yamamoto: The Way of the Samauri [At CCNY]

Literature

• Japanese Poetry: from the Manyoshu and other early collections  [At WSU]
  • Anonymous: In the Autumn Fields
  • Mibu no Tadamine: On Kasuga plain
  • Ono no Komachi: The hue of the cherry
  • Sugawara Michizane: The autumn breeze rises
  • Ki no Tsurayuki: The night approaches
  • Prince Otsu: Poem sent by Prince Otsu to Lady Ishikawa
  • Lady Ishikawa: Poem by Lady Ishikawa in response
• Noh Plays, translated by Arthur Waley, 1922  [At UVA]
  • Seami: Kagekiyo,
  • Kwanami Kiyotsugu: Sotoba Komachi
  • Seami (attrib.): Aya No Tsuzumi (The Damask Drum)
  • Seami: Hagoromo
  • Seami: Tsunemasa
  • Zenchiku Ujinobu (1414-1499?)(attrib.): Aoi No Uye (Princess Hollyhock)
  • Zenchiku Ujinobu (1414-1499?)Kumasaka

Culture

• Kokin Wakashu [At Virginia]
  An anthology of 1,111 Japanese poems (in the most widely circulated editions) compiled and edited early in the 10th century CE.
• Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, or, 100 Poems by 100 Poets, [At Virginia]
• Sarashina: The Diary of Lady Sarashina, 1009-1059 CE [At Hanover College]
• Kaibara Ekken or Kaibara Token: Greater Learning for Women, 1762 [At WSU]
• Diaries of the Court Lades of Old Japan, trans. Annie Sheply Omori and Kochi Doi, full text, [At CMU]

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