Seeds in the heart : Japanese literature from earliest times to the late sixteenth century / Donald Keene.

The Kojiki
Writings in Chinese or the Nara period
The Man'yōshū
Poetry and prose in Chinese of the early Heian period
The transition from the Man'yōshū to the Kokinshū
The Kokinshū
Late Heian collections of Waka poetry
Late Heian poetry and prose in Chinese
Heian diaries
The pillow book of Sei Shōnagon
The beginnings of fiction
The tale of Genji
Courtly fiction after The tale of Genji
Mirrors of history
Tale literature
Tales of warfare
The age of the Shin Kokinshū
Waka poetry of the Kamakura and Muromachi periods
Buddhist writings of the Kamakura period
Courtly fiction of the Kamakura period
Diaries of the Kamakura period
Essays in idleness
Medieval war tales
Renga
Diaries and other prose of the Muromachi period
Nō and Kyōgen as literature
Literature of the Five Mountains
Muromachi fiction : otogi-zōshi
The late sixteenth century.