Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Kondo, K. C.
2. Wheeler, Post, 1869-1956
3. Haiku Society of America

Description

1. 2.7 linear feet (7 boxes).

Summary

1. Collection consists of correspondence, writings, notes, and printed matter.

Subject

1. Lecturers
2. Authors
3. Drawings
4. Zen Buddhism
5. Japanese literature
6. Japanese language > Grammar, Classical
7. Haiku, American
8. Haiku
9. Art, Japanese
10. Henderson, Harold Gould

Genre/Form

1. Drawings.

Call number

1. MssCol 1378

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Source (note)

1. Henderson, Mary Benjamin

Biography (note)

1. Harold Gould Henderson (1889-1974) was an American author, teacher, translator, and anthologist of Japanese poetry.

Processing action (note)

1. Cataloged

Author

1. Henderson, Harold Gould.

Title

1. Harold Gould Henderson papers, 1750-1974, bulk (1959-1974).

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

1. Harold Gould Henderson (1889-1974) was an American author, teacher, translator, and anthologist of Japanese poetry. He taught the history of Japanese art at Columbia University, was president of the Society of Japanese Studies and the Japan Society from 1948 to 1952. In 1945 he served in Japan on General Douglas MacArthur's staff as special advisor on education, religion and art. His works included books and articles on Japanese poetry and grammar and his own Haiku poems.

Finding aids

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. Authors.
2. Lecturers.

Added author

1. Kondo, K. C.
2. Wheeler, Post, 1869-1956.
3. Haiku Society of America.

Research call number

1. MssCol 1378