Norma Moore Field '65      Bibliography

(Translator) - And Then (Sore Kara by Natsume Soseki). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1978.  With an informative afterword. 

The Splendor of Longing in "The Tale of Genji".  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.  "The Tale of Genji", the world's first novel, was written by a woman. The author examines it in a new and sensitive light. 

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End. New York: Pantheon, 1991. A supermarket owner, an aging widow and the mayor of Nagasaki express their thoughts about postwar Japan. 

(with Garan McCormack) - The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence (Japan in the Modern World). M. E. Sharpe, 1996. A critical evaluation of the dilemmas facing contemporary Japan. 

From my Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo. University of California Press, 1997.  The author wrote this memoir after she returned to Tokyo in 1995 to attend to her dying grandmother. Richly drawn portraits of everyday domestic life gradually give way to the thread of of Field's larger sociopolitical concerns.