Coba jelasin Kehidupan awal dari Tōson Shimazaki dong

Tōson lahir di tempat yang saat ini berada di Nakatsugawa, Prefektur Gifu

Bourdaghs, Michael. (2003). The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese Nationalism. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12980-7

McClellan, Edwin. (1969). Two Japanese Novelists: Sōseki & Tōson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 10-ISBN 0-226-55652-2 13-ISBN 978-0-226-55652-9 (cloth) [reprinted by Tuttle Publishing, Tokyo, 1971–2004. 10-ISBN 0-8048-3340-0, 13-ISBN 978-0-8048-3340-0 (paper)]

Naff, William. (2011). The Kiso Road: The Life and Times of Shimazaki Tōson. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-3218-3

Shimazaki Tōson. [Trans. Cecilia Sagawa Seigle] (1976). The Family. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-165-6

Shimazaki Tōson. [Trans. William E. Naff] (1987). Before the Dawn. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-0914-9

Shimazaki Tōson. [Trans. Kenneth Strong] (1995). The Broken Commandment. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-191-5