Edward Kamens

Education

Major publications

• Utamakura, Allusion and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
• "Dragon-Girl, Maidenflower, Buddha: The Transformation of a Waka Topos, 'The Five Obstructions'", in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies vol. 53 no. 2, pp. 389–442.
• Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji. New York: Modern Language Association, 1993.
• The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no.5 Center for Japanese Studies, University of *Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998.
• "The Past in the Present: Fujiwara Teika and the Traditions of Japanese Poetry" and "Translation of Teika's Poems on Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months", in Word in Flower: The Visualization of Classical Literature in Seveneteenth-Century Japan, Carolyn Wheelwright, editor, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
• The Three Jewels: A Study and Translation of Minamoto Tamenori's Sanboe. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no.2 Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• "Waking the Dead: Fujiwara Teika's Sotoba kuyo Poems," in Journal of Japanese Studies vol. 28 no. 2
• , Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007.

  Honors and Grants

• 1998, Hitomi Arisawa Award "for outstanding merit in the field of Japanese studies...", given by the American Association of University Presses for Utamakura, Allusion and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry
• 1991-Mellon Fellowship in the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
• 1990 summer, A. Whitney Griswold Fund grant for research travel to Japan
• 1989-90 Morse Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University
• 1987 summer, Concurrent grants from the Association for Asian Studies, Northeast Asia Council; Enders Fund, Yale Graduate School; and Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University for research in Japan for Buddhist Poetry
• 1984 Association for Asian Studies, Northeast Asian Council Research Grant
• 1980 Japan Foundation Dissertation Grant
• 1977-82 Sumitomo and NDFL Fellowships, Yale University
• 1975 Williams Prize, East Asian Studies, Yale University