Yamada Monogatari: To Break the Demon Gate (35 page)

The Confessions of Lady Nijo,
translated by Karen Brazell (Stanford University Press, 1973).

The Diary of Lady Murasaki,
translated by Richard Bowring (Penguin Classics, 1996).

The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman in Heian Japan,
translated by Edward Seidensticker (Tuttle Classics, 1989).

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon,
translated by Ivan Morris (Columbia University Press, 1991).

The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Edward Seidensticker (Knopf, 1978).

The Tale of the Heike,
translated by Helen McCullough (Stanford University Press, 1990).

An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry
by Earl Miner (Stanford University Press, 1968).

A History of Japan to 1334
by George Sansom (Stanford University Press, 1958).

The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
by Ivan Morris (Kodansha USA, 1994).

Hyakunin Isshu
edited by Fujiwara no Teika, translated by Larry Hammer (Cholla Bear Press, 2011).

Richard Parks has been writing and publishing science fiction and fantasy longer than he cares to remember . . . or probably
can
remember. His work has appeared in
Asimov’s, Realms of Fantasy, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,
and several “year’s best” anthologies. Other adventures featuring Yamada no Goji were collected in
Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter
(Prime Books, 2013). A second novel concerning Lord Yamada,
The War God’s Son,
will be published by Prime in late 2015. Parks blogs at “Den of Ego and Iniquity Annex #3,” also known as richard-parks.com.

Books by Richard Parks

The Ogre’s Wife

Hereafter, and After

Worshipping Small Gods

The Long Look

On the Banks of the River of Heaven

The Heavenly Fox

Spirits of Wood and Stone

Black Kath’s Daughter

The Blood Red Scarf

A Warrior of Dreams

Our Lady of 47 Ursae Majoris and Other Stories

Ghost Trouble: The Casefiles of Eli Mothersbaugh

The Ghost War

All the Gates of Hell