Makoto Ueda (上田 真 Ueda Makoto, born 1931), professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Stanford University, is an author of numerous books about Japanese literature, and in particular Japanese poetry. He earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1961. Bibliography The Old Pine Tree (1962) Literary and Art Theories in Japan (1967) Matsuo Bashō: The Master Haiku Poet (1970) Modern Japanese Haiku, an Anthology (1976) Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature (1976) Explorations: Essays in Comparative Literature (1986) Bashō and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku With Commentary (1992) Modern Japanese Tanka (1996) Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature (1996) The Path of Flowering Thorn: The Life and Poetry of Yosa Buson (1998). Light Verse from the Floating World: An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu (2000) Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women (2003) Dew on the Grass: The Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa (2004) Mother of Dreams: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction (2004)