Sei Shōnagon
His many translations include "A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems" (1918), "Japanese Poetry: The Uta" (1919), "The No Plays of Japan" (1921), "The Tale of Genji" (published in 6 volumes from 1921 to 1933), "The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon" (1928), The "Kutune Shirka" (1951), "Monkey" (1942, an abridged version of "Journey to the West"), "The Poetry and Career of Li Po" (1959) and "The Secret History of the Mongols and Other Pieces" (1964). Waley received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his translation of "Monkey", and his translations of the classics, the "Analects of Confucius" and "The Way and Its Power" (Tao Te Ching), are still in print, as is his interpretive presentation of classical Chinese philosophy, "Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China" (1939).