Yampolsky, ed., Selected Writings of Nichiren (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990). Social references: B. H. Chamberlain, Things Japanese (or Japanese Things in the reprint edition: Tokyo: Tuttle, 1971); E. Papinot, Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan (reprint edition; Tokyo: Tuttle, 1972). Both originally published early in the 20th century, they often provide just the right sort of information for The Silver Spoon. Certain festivals: U. A. Casal’s Five Sacred Festivals of Ancient Japan: Their Symbolism and Historical Development (Tokyo: Sophia University and Tuttle, 1967), a Swiss businessman’s loving report on the go-sekku, the five seasonal turning points. Casal arrived in Japan in 1912 and lived there for fifty years. The translations of tanka from the One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu): those by F. V. Dickins that appeared in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1909. There are a number of English translations of this mini-anthology—Dickins (1838–1915) himself had made an earlier, completely different one, published in 1866.
