Makoto Ueda

MAKOTO UEDA is Professor Emeritus of Japanese at Stanford University. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Asian Languages and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the university. Professor Ueda's numerous publications in English include Literary and Art Theories in Japan (Western Reserve University Press), Matsuo Basho (Kodansha International), Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature (Stanford University Press), Modern Japanese Haiku (University of Toronto...See more

MAKOTO UEDA is Professor Emeritus of Japanese at Stanford University. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Asian Languages and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the university. Professor Ueda's numerous publications in English include Literary and Art Theories in Japan (Western Reserve University Press), Matsuo Basho (Kodansha International), Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature (Stanford University Press), Modern Japanese Haiku (University of Toronto Press), Modern Japanese Tanka (Columbia University Press), and The Path of Flowering Thorn: The Life and Poetry of Yosa Buson (Stanford University Press). See less