Hanabi Bibliography

Sources Featured in Hanabi
A Selection of Other Sources

Sources Featured in Hanabi
Brophy, P (ed.) 1994 Kaboom! Explosive Animation from America and Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Contains Rosemary Iwamura's article about Sailor Moon manga, together with other articles about manga.

Machi Tawara 1989, Salad Anniversary, trans. J. W. Carpenter, Kodansha International, Tokyo.
Apart from the sequence of tanka, 'So, Good Luck', this book also includes a variety of other examples of Machi Tawara's work. Many are appropriate for study.

Matsuo Basho 1966, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, trans. Noboyuki Yuasa, Penguin, Harmondsworth.

Schodt, FL 1983, Manga! Manga! the World of Japanese Comics, Kodansha International, Tokyo.
Now some years old but still a standard English-language reference about manga.

A Selection of Other Sources
Banana Yoshimoto 1993, Kitchen, trans. M. Backus, Washington Square Press (Simon & Schuster), New York.
One of the best known contemporary Japanese writers. Apart from the title story, also includes the shorter `Moonlight Shadow'.

Carroll, S 1994, Momoko, McPhee Gribble Penguin Books Australia, Ringwood, Vic.
Australian author Steven Carroll's novel is set in post-war Japan and Melbourne. Suitable for senior high school students.

Kuniko Mukoda 1994, The Name of the Flower, Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley.
The story, `The Fake Egg', which features in the teaching and learning activities on this site, is from this collection. Kuniko Mukoda's stories often illustrate women's strength and endurance.

Shusaku Endo 1993, The Final Martyrs, trans. Van C. Gessel, Peter Owen Publishers, London.
Shusaku Endo was one of Japan's most famous writers and often mentioned as a candidate for a Nobel Prize. Other works (among many) include Stained Glass Elegies, The Sea and Poison, Wonderful Fool and The Girl I Left Behind.

Schodt, F L 1996, Dreamland Japan, Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley.
Frederik L Schodt's latest work about manga. Described by the author as `a personal and provocative collection of short illustrated essays, with chapters on issues in modern manga, manga magazines, artists and their works, Osamu Tezuka, manga and other media, and manga in the English-speaking world'.