Makoto Ueda (poetry critic)

Makoto Ueda (上田 真 Ueda Makoto, born 1931), professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Stanford University, is an author of numerous books about Japanese poetry, including haiku, tanka and senryū. He earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1961.

Bibliography

• The Old Pine Tree (1962)
• Literary and Art Theories in Japan (1967)
• Matsuo Bashō: 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)
• Bashō and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku With Commentary (1992)
• Modern Japanese Tanka (1996)
• Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature (1996)
• 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 (2000)
• Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women (2003)
• Dew on the Grass: The Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa (2004)
• Mother of Dreams: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction (2004)