As writer •
Nationalism and the Right Wing in Japan: A Study of Postwar Trends, Oxford University Press, 1960 •
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan, Alfred A. Knopf, 1964 •
Dictionary of Selected Forms in Classical Japanese Literature, Columbia University Press, 1966 •
The Tale of Genji Scroll, Kodansha, 1971 •
The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975
As translator •
The Crazy Iris by
Masuji Ibuse,
Encounter, Vol. 6 no. 5, 1956 •
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (translation of
Sarashina Nikki), The Dial Press, 1971 •
The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon, Oxford University Press, 1967 •
The Journey by
Jirō Osaragi, Charles E. Tuttle, 1967 •
The Life of an Amorous Woman by
Ihara Saikaku, Unesco/New Directions Books, 1963 •
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by
Yukio Mishima, Alfred A. Knopf, 1959 •
Fires on the Plain by
Shōhei Ōoka, Martin Secker & Warburg, 1957 • "The Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love" by Yukio Mishima, in
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1966 • "Swaddling Clothes" by Yukio Mishima, in
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1966
As editor •
Modern Japanese Stories, Charles E. Tuttle, 1962 •
Thought and Behaviour in Modern Japanese Politics, by
Masao Maruyama, Oxford University Press, 1963 •
Japan, 1931–45: Militarism, Fascism, Japanism?, Heath, 1963 •
The Pillow-Book Puzzles, Bodley Head, 1969 •
Madly Singing in the Mountains: An Appreciation and Anthology of Arthur Waley, Walker, 1970 ==References==