↑ Keene, Donald. 1976. World within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600–1867. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
↑ Hamada, Kengi. "About the Author". In Tales of Moonlight and Rain. New York: Columbia University Press.
↑ Zolbrod, Leon M., trans. and ed. Introduction. Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974.
↑ Donald Keene World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era 1978 Page 371 "... of antiquity, the product of his long association with kokugaku scholars, occupied him during most of his mature years, and only at the end of his life did he tum again to fiction, when he wrote Harusame Monogatari (Tales of the Spring Rain)."
