Author:William George Aston

William George Aston
(1841–1911)

William George Aston

Works

Books

• A Grammar of the Japanese Spoken Language (1888, 4th ed.) (transcription project)
• A History of Japanese Literature (1899)
• Shinto: The Way of the Gods (1905)

Translations

• Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 (as translator, 1896)
  • Seventeen-article constitution
• In Praise of Japan (No. 2 from Man'yōshū, the poem is attributed to Emperor Jomei)

From Arakida Moritake

• Thought I, the fallen flowers

From Nishiyama Sōin

• 'Tis the cuckoo

From Matsuo Basho

• A cloud of flowers
• Ah! the waving lespedeza
• An ancient pond
• I come weary
• Of Miidera
• On a whithered branch
• The cry of the cicada
• 'Tis the first snow

Works about Aston

• "Aston, William George," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Aston, William George," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.