Makoto Ueda (poetry critic)

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Makoto Ueda (上田真 Ueda Makoto), professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Stanford University, is an author of numerous books about Japanese poetry, including haiku, tanka and senryu. He earned Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1962.

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• Matsuo Basho: The Master Haiku Poet (1970)
• Modern Japanese Haiku, an Anthology (1976)
• Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature (1976)
• Explorations: Essays in Comparative Literature (1986), ISBN 0-8191-5513-6
• Basho and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku With Commentary (1992)
• Modern Japanese Tanka (1996)
• Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women (2003)
• The Path of Flowering Thorn: The Life and Poetry of Yosa Buson (1998).
• Light Verse from the Floating World: An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu (1999) (electronic book)
• Dew on the Grass: The Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa (2004), ISBN 90-04-13723-8