Japan

Japanese Art & Visual Media

Modern & Contemporary Art/Visual Media

  • Clark, John. Modernities of Japanese Art. Brill, 2012.
  • Havens, Thomas R. H. Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006.
  • Hein, Laura. “Modern Art Patronage and Democratic Citizenship in Japan.”The Journal of Asian Studies 69, no. 3 (2010): 821-41.
  • Ikeda Asato, Ming Tiampo, eds. Art and War in Japan and Its Empire, 1931-1960. Boston: Brill, 2013.
  • Irvine, Gregory. Japonisme and the Rise of the Modern Art Movement: The Arts of the Meiji Period: The Khalili Collection. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2013.
  • Kaneko Maki. Mirroring the Japanese Empire: The Male Figure in Yoga Painting, 1930-1950. Boston: Brill, 2015.
  • Mizoguchi, Akiko. “In Flux: Eight Japanese Artists in the Aftermath of 3/11” Women’s Studies Quarterly. ¾ (2011).
  • Munroe, Alexandra. Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky. Henry N. Abrams, 1994.
  • Murakami Takashi. Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture. New York: Japan Society, 2005.
  • Orbaugh, Sharalyn. “Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture.” Science Fiction Film and Television. 3 (2014).
  • Shimatani, Hiroyuki, Matsushima, Masato, Zeniya, Masami, Franks, Amy C., Sandness, Karen Elsa, and Cleveland Museum of Art, Host Institution.Remaking Tradition : Modern Art of Japan from the Tokyo National Museum. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
  • Sato, Doshin and Nara Hiroshi. Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State. Getty Research Institute, 2011.
  • Vartanian, Ivan., and Wada, Kyōko. See/Saw: Connections between Japanese Art Then and Now. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2011.
  • Volk, Alicia. In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese Modern Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
  • Winther-Tamaki, Bert. Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Postwar Years. University of Hawaii Press, 2001.
  • Yamaguchi Yumi. Warriors of Art: A Guide to Contemporary Japanese Artists. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2007.

Art History

  • Addiss, Stephen, Gerald Groemer, and J. Thomas Rime, eds. Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture. University of Hawaii Press, 2006.
  • A Levine, Gregory P. “Critical Zen Art History.” Journal of Art Historiography. 15 (2016).
  • Aviman, Galit. Zen Paintings in Edo Japan, 1600-1868. Franham Surrey, England; Burlington: Ashgate, 2014.
  • Bennett, Terry.Photography in Japan, 1853-1912. Tokyo; Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 2006.
  • Birk, Melanie., and Frank Lloyd Wright Home Studio Foundation.Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fifty Views of Japan : The 1905 Photo Album. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1996.
  • Brown, Kendall H., et al. Deco Japan, Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945. Alexandria, VA: Art Services International, 2012.
  • Clark, Timoth. Demon Painting; The Art of Kawanabe Kyosai. British Museum Press, 1993.
  • Fischer, Felice, Kinoshita Kyoko and Yukio Lippit. Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Yale University Press, 2015.
  • Fraser, Karen M.Photography and Japan. Exposures (London, England). London: Reaktion Books, 2011.
  • Fowler, Sherry. “Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery.”Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 34 (2007).
  • Gabriella Lukacs. “Unraveling Visions: Women’s Photography in Recessionary Japan.”Boundary 2 42, no. 3 (2015): 171-184.
  • Germer, Andrea. “Visual Propaganda in Wartime East Asia—The Case of Natori Yōnosuke,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus9 (2011): 8-36. http://japanfocus.org/
  • Germer, Andrea. “Visible Cultures, Invisible Politics: Propaganda in the Magazine Nippon Fujin, 1942-1945.” Japan Forum25, no. 4 (2013): 505-39.
  • Gerster, Robin. “Capturing Japan: Australian Photography of the Postwar Military Occupation.”History of Photography 39, no. 3 (2015): 279-99.
  • Hickman, Money and Sato Yasuhiro. The Paintings of Jakuchu. New York: Asia Society Galleries, 1989.
  • Hauser, Katherine. “The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s-1900s.” Journal of Art Historiography. 13 (2015).
  • Hempel, Rose. Golden Age of Japan, 794-1192. New York: Rizzoli, 1983.
  • Hickman, Money L., ed. Japan’s Golden Age: Momoyama. Yale University Press, 1996.
  • Kim, Gyewon. “Tracing the Emperor : Photography, Famous Places, and the Imperial Progresses in Prewar Japan.”Representations, 2012, 115-51.
  • Levy, Dana, Sneider, Lea, Gibney, Frank, and Japan House Gallery.Kanban, Shop Signs of Japan. 1st ed. New York: Weatherhill, 1983.
  • Lippit, Yukio. Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Ito Jakuchu. National Gallery, 2012.
  • Lippit, Yukio. Painting of the Realm: The Kano House of Painters in Seventeenth-Century Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
  • Mason, Penelope E. History of Japanese Art. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005.
  • Machotka, Ewa. Visual Genesis of Japanese National Identity. Bruxelles; New York: PIE Peter Lang, 2009.
  • McCormick, Melissa. Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.
  • Morse, Anne Nishimura. Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating World, 1690-1850. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2007.
  • Pearson, Richard J. Ancient Japan. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; Tokyo: Agency for Cultural Affairs, 1992.
  • Rimer, J. Thomas and Toshiko M. McCallum. Since Meiji, Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000. University of Hawaii Press, 2012.
  • Screech, Timon. Obtaining Images: Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2012.
  • Sharf, Frederic, John Dower, Anne Nishimura Morse, and Jacqueline M. Atkins. The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s. Boston: MFA Publications, 2012.
  • Shimizu Yoshiaki. Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, 1185-1868. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1988.
  • Shirane Haruo. Envisioning the Tale of Genji. Columbia University Press, 2008.
  • Shimizu, Yoshiaki. Masters of Japanese Calligraphy: 8th-19th New York: Asia Society Galleries, 1984.
  • Szostak, John. Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early Twentieth Century Japan. Boston: Brill, 2013.
  • Tiampo, Ming. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
  • Tucker, Anne., Iizawa, Kōtarō, Kinoshita, Naoyuki, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Kokusai Kōryū Kikin.The History of Japanese Photography. New Haven: Yale University Press in Association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2003.
  • Vartanian, Ivan., and Wada, Kyōko. See/Saw: Connections between Japanese Art Then and Now. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2011.
  • Walker, Janet A. “Van Gogh, Collector of ‘Japan’”. The Comparatist. 32 (2008).
  • Weisnfeld, Gennifer. Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923. University of California Press, 2012.
  • Singer, Robert T., Carpenter, John T, and National Gallery of Art.Edo, Art in Japan 1615-1868. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1998.

General Texts on Japanese Art

  • Addiss, Stephen. How to Look at Japanese Art. New York: Abrams, 1996.
  • Baird, Merrily C. Symbols of Japan, Thematic Motifs in Art and Design. New York: Rizzoli, 2001.
  • Bru, Ricard. “Nature in Japanese Art”: http://museuculturesmon.bcn.cat/en/collection/discover-the-collections/discover-more/Nature-in-Japanese-art
  • Elisseeff, Vadime, and Danielle Elisseef. Art of Japan. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1985.
  • Jasny, Aaron. Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts. Studies on Asia.1 (2014).
  • Levine, Gregory P.A., Andrew M. Watsky, and Gennifer Weisenfeld, eds. Crossing the Sea, Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu. Princeton University Press, 2012.
  • Morse, Anne Nishimura, Joe Earle, Sarah Thompson, and Rachel Saunders. Arts of Japan, MFA Highlights. Boston: MFA Publications, 2008.
  • Murase Miyeko, Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Giggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. FREE PDF DOWNLOAD: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Bridge_of_Dreams_The_Mary_Griggs_Burke_Collection_of_Japanese_Art#
  • Murase Miyeko, Judith G. Smith. The Arts of Japan: An International Symposium. New York: Department of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
  • Sadao, Tsuneko S., Tomoko Miho, and Stephanie Wada. Discovering the Arts of Japan. Kodansha International, 2003.
  • Self, James and Hirose Nobuko. Japanese Art Signatures, A Handbook and Practical Guide.
  • Shimizu, Yoshiaki, and Carolyn Wheelwright, eds. Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections. Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University. 1997.
  • Stanley-Baker, Joan. Japanese Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014.
  • Suzuki, Yuuko. An Introduction to Japanese Calligraphy. Turnbridge Wells: Search, 2005.
  • Tokyo National Museum. Elegant Perfection, Masterpieces of Courtly and Religious Art from the Tokyo National Museum. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2012.
  • “Seasonal Imagery in Japanese Art”: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/seim/hd_seim.htm

Woodblock Prints

  • Brown, Kendall H. Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints.Amsterdam: Hotei, 2003.
  • Brown, Kendall H., and Hollis Goodall-Cristante. Shin-Hanga: New Prints in Modern Japan. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1996.
  • Calza, Gian Carlo, Matthi Forrer, and Roger S. Keyes. London: Phaidon, 2003.
  • Carpenter, John T. Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints, With a Catalogue of the Marino Lusy Collection. Zurich: Museum Rietberg, 2008.
  • Clark, Timothy AR, Anne Nishimura Morse, Louise E. Virgin, and Allen Hockley. The Dawn of the Floating World, 1650-1765. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2001.
  • Clark, Timothy. The Actor’s Image: Print Makers of the Katsukawa School. Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.
  • Clark, Timothy. Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2009.
  • Clark, Timothy and Julian Opie. Kitagawa Utamaro: Woodblock Prints from the British Museum. British Museum, 2010.
  • Hiller, Jack. The Art of the Japanese Book. London: Published for Sotheby’s Publications by P. Wilson.
  • Forrer, Matthi. Hiroshige, Prints and Drawings. Munich: Prestel, 2011.
  • Keene, Donald, Anne Nishimura, and Frederic A. Sharf. Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Woodblock Prints from the Meiji Era, 1868-1912. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2001.
  • Lane, Richard. Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print. New York: Dorset, 1978.
  • Luyken, Gunda and Beat Wismer, eds. Kuniyoshi and Kunisada: Samurai and Beautiful Women. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012.
  • Mark, Andreas. Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers, and Masterworks, 1680-1900. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2010.
  • Mark, Andreas. Seven Masters: 20thCentury Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2015.
  • Marks, Andreas. Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints, a Compendium. Amsterdam: Hotei, 2001.
  • McKee, Daniel. Colored in the Year’s New Light: Japanese Surimono from the Becker Collection. Ithaca: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2008.
  • Meech, Julia and Jane Oliver, eds. Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860. Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America, 2008.
  • Merritt, Helen. Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints, the Early Years. University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
  • Newland, Amy Reigle, ed. The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2001.
  • Singer, Robert T. and Nabuho Kakeya. Munakata Shiko: Japanese Master of the Modern Print. Kamakura: Munakata Museum, 2002.
  • Stevenson, John. Yoshitoshi’s Strange Tales. Amsterdam: Hotei, 2005.
  • Thompson, Sarah E. and HD Harootunian. Undercurrents in the Floating World: Censorship and Japanese Prints. New York: Asia Society Galleries, 1991.
  • Till, Barry. Japan Awakens: Woodblock Prints of the Meiji Period (1868-1912). San Francisco: Pomegranate Communications, 2008.
  • Thompson, Sarah E. Utagawa Kuniyoshi: The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2008.
  • Uhlenbeck, Chris and Marije Jansen. Hiroshige: Shaping the Image of Japan. Hotei Publishing, 2008.
  • Waterhouse, David. The Harunobu Decade. Hotei Publishing, 2013.
  • Waterhouse, David. Harunobu and His Age: The Development of Color Printing in Japan. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1964.
  • Yonemura, Ann. Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.
  • Yonemura, Ann. Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints in the Anne Van Biema Collection. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2003.

Japanese Buddhism & Buddhist Art

  • Addiss, Stephen. The Art of Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy by Japanese Monks, 1600-1925. New York: HN Abrams, 1989.
  • Biswas, Sampa. Inidan Influence on the Art of Japan. New Delhi: Northern Book Centre, 2010.
  • Brinker, Helmut, and Kanazawa Hiroshi. Zen Masters of Meditation in Images and Writings. Zurich: Artibus Asia, 1996.
  • Deal, William E. and Brian Douglas Ruppert. A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism. Malden, MA: Wiley, Blackwell, 2015.
  • Elacqua, Joseph P. “A Review of Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia: A History.” Journal of Buddhist Ethics. 21 (2014).
  • Eubanks, Charlotte. Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan. University of California Press, 2011.
  • Fowler, Sherry D. Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2016.
  • Glassman, Hank. The Face of Jizo: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2012.
  • Graham, Patricia Jane. Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600-2005. University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
  • Grotenhuis, Elizabeth. Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
  • Harris, Victor, ed. Shinto: The Sacred Art of Ancient Japan. London: British Museum, 2001.
  • Kaminish, Ikumi. Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006.
  • Kiyota, Minoru, and U.S.-Japan Conference on Japanese Buddhism.Japanese Buddhism : Its Tradition, New Religions, and Interaction with Christianity. Tokyo ; Los Angeles: Buddhist Books International, 1987.
  • Levine, Gregory and Yukio Lippit. Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan. New York: Japan Society, 2007.
  • Mino Yutaka and John M. Rosenfield, et al. The Great Eastern Temple: Treasures of Japanese Buddhist Art from Todai-ji. Art Institute of Chicago, Indiana University Press, 1986.
  • Mizuno Seiichi, and Richard L. Gage (trans.). Asuka Buddhist Art. New York: Weatherhill, 1974.
  • Mori, Hisashi. Sculpture of the Kamakura Period. New York: Weatherhill, 1974.
  • Nishikawa, Kyotaro, Emily J. Sano. The Great Age of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture, AD 600-1300. Kimbell Art Museum; New York: Japan Society, 1982.
  • Okazaki, Joji. Pure Land Buddhist Paintings. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1977.
  • Olson, Carl. The Different Paths of Buddhism: A Narrative-Historical Introduction. Rutgers University Press, 2005.
  • Picken, Stuart D. B.Buddhism, Japan’s Cultural Identity. Tokyo ; New York : New York, N.Y.: Kodansha International ; Distributed in the United States by Kodansha International/USA through Harper & Row, 1982.
  • Pollard, Clare and John Stevens. Zen Mind Zen Brush. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006.
  • Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza. Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics. Stanford University Press, 2003.
  • Rosenfield, John M. Preserving the Dharma: Hozan Tankai and Japanese Buddhist Art of the Early Modern Era. Princeton University Press, 2015.
  • Rosenfield, John M. Portraits of Chogen, The Transformation of Buddhist Art in Early Medieval Japan. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
  • Seckel, Dietrich and John M. Rosenfield. Before and Beyond the Image: Aniconic Symbolism in Buddhist Art. Zurich: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 2004.
  • Seo, Audrey Yoshiko and Stephen Addiss. The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin. Boston: Shambhala, 2010.
  • Sugiyama, Jiro. Classic Buddhist Sculpture. Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International, 1982.
  • Suzuki, Daisetz T. Zen and Japanese Culture. Princeton University Press, 2010.
  • Swanson, Eric Haruki. “Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kukai and Dogen on the Art of Enlightenment.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 2 (2014).
  • Washizuka Horimitsu and Youngbok, Kim Lena. Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan. New York: Japan Society, 2003.
  • Winfield, Pamela D. “Esoteric Images of Light and Life at Osaka Kokubunji, Japan.” Southeast Review of Asian Studies. 34 (2012).

Japanese Society and Aesthetics

  • Avenell, Simon Andrew. Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan. University of California Press, 2010.
  • Bailey, Jackson H., McLaren, Ronald, Keene, Donald, and Wood, Richard.Aesthetic & Ethical Values in Japanese Culture. Occasional Papers (Earlham College. Institute for Education on Japan) ; v. 1, No. 4. Richmond, Ind.: Institute for Education on Japan, Earlham College, 1990.
  • Carriere, Peter M. “Writing as Tea Ceremony: Kawabata’s Geido Aesthetics.” International Fiction Review. 1-2 (2002).
  • Christopher, Robert C. The Japanese Mind. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1984.
  • Cross, Tim. The Ideologies of Japanese Tea: Subjectivity, Transience and National Identity. Folkstone, UK: Global Oriental, 2009.
  • Kingston, Jeff. Japan’s Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the 21stRoutledge, 2004.
  • Kumagai, Fumie. “Forty Years of Family Change in Japan: A Society Experiencing Population Aging and Declining Fertility.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies. 4 (2010).
  • Long, Hoyt. On Uneven Ground: Miyazaki Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan. Stanford University Press, 2012.
  • Muramatsu, Naoko, and Akiyama, Hiroko. “Japan: Super-Aging Society Preparing for the Future.”Gerontologist 51, no. 4 (2011): 425-32.
  • Kakuzo Okakura. The Book of Tea. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002.
  • Pitelka, Morgan. Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History and Practice. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
  • Smits, Gregory. “Shaking up Japan: Edo Society and the 1855 Catfish Picture Prints.” Journal of Social History. 4 (2006).
  • Sugimoto, Yoshio.An Introduction to Japanese Society. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Tanizaki Junichiro, In Praise of Shadows
  • Varley, Paul H. Tea in Japan: Essays on the History of Chanoyu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.
  • Wainwright, Samuel H.Beauty in Japan. Kegan Paul Japan Library. London : New York: New York : Kegan Paul ; Columbia University Press, Distributor, 2003.

Japanese Music

  • Aoyagi, Hiroshi.Island of Eight Million Smiles: Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan. Harvard University Asia Center, 2005.
  • Atkins, E. Taylor.Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan. Duke UP, 2001.
  • Atkins, E. Taylor. “The Dual Career of ‘Arirang’: The Korean Resistance Anthem That Became a Japanese Pop Hit.”Journal of Asian Studies 66.3 (August 2007): 645-87.
  • Bender, Shawn. “Drumming Between Tradition and Modernity: Taiko and Neo-Folk Performance in Japan.” Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of California-San Diego, 2003.
  • Condry, Ian.Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization. Duke UP, 2006. See also companion web site: http://web.mit.edu/condry/www/jhh/.
  • de Ferranti, Hugh. “‘Japanese Music’ Can Be Popular.”Popular Music 2: 195-208.
  • de Ferranti, Hugh. Japanese Musical Instruments(Oxford UP, 2000).
  • Eppstein, Ury.The Beginnings of Western Music in Meiji Era Japan. Mellen, 1994.
  • Galliano, Luciana.Yōgaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century. Scarecrow, 2002.
  • Hattori, Koh-ichi.36,000 Days of Japanese Music: The Culture of Japan Through a Look at Its Music. Pacific Vision, 1996.
  • Groemer, Gerald. Goze: Women, Musical Performance, and Visual Disability in Traditional Japan. Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • Herd, Judith Ann. “The Neonationalist Movement: Origins of Japanese Contemporary Music.”Perspectives of New Music 2 (1989): 118-63.
  • Hosokawa, Shūhei. “‘Salsa no tiene frontera’: Orquesta de la Luz and the Globalization of Popular Music.”Cultural Studies 3 (1999): 509-34.
  • Kaeppler, Adrienne L. “Music and Dance as Export and Import: A Case Study of Japan in Europe, and Hawai’i in Japan.” Yearbook for Traditional Music. 45 (2013).
  • Karpati, Janos. “Music of Female Shamans in Japan.”Studia Musicologica 54, no. 3 (2013): 225-56.
  • Keister, Jay.Shaped by Japanese Music: Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisen in Tokyo. Routledge, 2004.
  • Kiuchi, Yuya. “Idols You Can Meet: AKB48 and a New Trend in Japan’s Music Industry.”Journal of Popular Culture 50, no. 1 (2017): 30-49.
  • Lewis, Michael.A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan. Kegan Paul/Routledge, 2008.
  • Malm, William.Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music. of California Press, 1986.
  • Malm, William.Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments. Kōdansha, 2001.
  • Manabe, Noriko. “Globalization and Japanese Creativity: Adaptations of Japanese Language to Rap.”Ethnomusicology 1 (Winter 2006): 1-36.
  • Manabe, Noriko. The Revolution will not be Televised: Protest Music after Fukushima. Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • Martin, Harris I. “Popular Music and Social Change in Prewar Japan.”Japan Interpreter 3-4 (1972): 332-52.
  • Mathews, Gordon. “Fence, Flavour and Phantasm: Japanese Musicians and the Meanings of ‘Japaneseness.’”Japanese Studies 3 (2004): 335-50.
  • Matsue, Jennifer.Making Music in Japan’s Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene. Routledge, 2008.
  • McClimon, Sarah J. “Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-Making in Yaeyama and Okinawa.” 4 (2013).
  • McClure, Steve.Nippon Pop: Sounds from the Land of the Rising Sun. Tuttle, 1998.
  • Minor, William.Jazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart Within. of Michigan Press, 2004.
  • Mitsui, Tōru, and Shūhei Hosokawa, eds.Karaoke Around the World. Routledge, 2001.
  • Norbeck, Edward.Folk Music of Japan. Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries. New York, N.Y.: Folkways Records, 1962.
  • Oba, Junko. “To Fight the Losing War, to Remember the Lost War: The Changing Role of Gunka, Japanese War Songs.” In Timothy J. Craig and Richard King, eds.,Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia. of British Columbia Press, 2002.
  • Provine, Robert C., ed. East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea.Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 7. Routledge, 2001.
  • Schilling, Mark.The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture. Weatherhill, 1997.
  • Stevens, Carolyn.Japanese Popular Music: Culture, Authenticity and Power. Routledge, 2007.
  • Tokita, Alison McQueen, and David W. Hughes, eds.The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music. SOAS Musicology Series. Ashgate, 2008.
  • Tokita, Alison McQueen, and David W. Hughes, eds.Japanese Music: History, Performance, Research. Cambridge UP, 2006.
  • Tsukahara, Yasuko. “State Ceremony and Music in Meiji-era Japan.”Nineteenth-Century Music Review 10, no. 2 (2013): 223-38.
  • Wade, Bonnie C.Music in Japan: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. Oxford UP, 2004.
  • Waseda, Minako. “Gospel Music in Japan: Transplantation and Localization of African American Religious Singing.” Yearbook for Traditional Music. 45 (2013).
  • Yano, Christine R.Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song. Harvard University Asia Center, 2003.
  • Zhou, Xun, and Francesca Tarocco. Karaoke:The Global Phenomenon. Reaktion, 2007.

Japanese Architecture & Gardens 

  • Attlee, Helena.The Gardens of Japan. London: Frances Lincoln, 2010.
  • Carver, Norman F.Form & Space in Japanese Architecture. 2nd ed. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Documan Press, 1993.
  • Coaldrake, William H. The Way of the Carpenter, Tools and Japanese Architecture. New York, Weatherhill, 1990.
  • Coaldrake, William. Architecture and Authority in Japan. New York: Routledge, 1996.
  • Inaji, Toshirō, and Virgilio, Pamela. The Garden as Architecture: Form and Spirit in the Gardens of Japan, China, and Korea. 1st ed. Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International, 1998.
  • Isozaki Arata: The Contemporary Tea House: Japan’s Top Architects Redefine a Tradition. New York: Kodansha International, 2007.
  • Isozaki, Arata., and Stewart, David B.Japan-ness in Architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006.
  • Iwamiya, Takeji., Itō, Teiji, Osaragi, Jirō, and Mishima, Yukio.Imperial Gardens of Japan : Sento Gosho, Katsura. New York: Weatherill/Tankosha, 1970.
  • Lippit, Yikio and Seng Kuan. Kenzo Tange: Architecture for the World. London: Springer, 2012.
  • Lin, Zhongjie. Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement. New York: Routledge, 2010.
  • Locher, Mira., Kuma, Kengo, and Simmons, Ben. Traditional Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of Elements and Forms. Tokyo: Enfield: Tuttle; Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2010.
  • Nishi, Kazuo, Hozumi, Kazuo, and Horton, H. Mack. What Is Japanese Architecture?1st US ed. New York: Kodansha USA, 2012.
  • Nute, Kevin. Place, Time, and Being in Japanese Architecture. London; New York: Routledge, 2004.
  • Schittich, Christian.Japan : Architecture, Constructions, Ambiances. In Detail. München : Boston: Edition Detail – Institut Für Internationale Architektur-Dokumentation ; Birkhäuser – Publishers for Architecture, 2002.
  • Seki, Akihiko, and Daniell, Thomas. Houses and Gardens of Kyoto. Tokyo: Tuttle Pub., 2010.
  • Shelton, Barrie. Learning from the Japanese City: West Meets East in Urban Design. London; New York: E & FN Spon, 1999.
  • Stauskis, Gintaras. “Japanese Gardens outside of Japan: From the Export of Art to the Art of Export.”Town Planning and Architecture 35, no. 3 (2011): 212-21.
  • Sumner, Yuki., Pollock, Naomi R, Littlefield, David, and Sumner, Edmund.New Architecture in Japan. London ; New York: Merrell, 2010.
  • Watanabe Yasutada, Robert Ricketts, trans. Shinto Art: Ise and Izumo Shrines. New York, Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1974.
  • Wong, C. Dorothy and M. Eric Field. Horyuji Reconsidered. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
  • Young, David E. Introduction to Japanese Architecture. Tuttle Publishing, 2004.Young, David E., and Young, Michiko.The Art of Japanese Architecture. Tokyo ; Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, 2007.

Japanese Pop Culture

  • Allen, Matthew, and Sakamoto, Rumi.Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan. Routledge Studies in Asia’s Transformations. London ; New York: Routledge, 2006.
  • Berndt, Jaqueline, and Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina. Manga’s Cultural Crossroads. Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies; 5. New York; London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
  • Bouquillard, J., & Marquet, Christophe. Hokusai, first manga master. New York: Abrams, 2007.
  • Freedman, Alisa, and Slade, Toby.Introducing Japanese Popular Culture. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, an Imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
  • Fruhstuck, Sabine. Uneasy Warriors: Gender, memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army. University of California Press, 2007.
  • García, Hector. A geek in Japan: [discovering the land of manga, anime, Zen, and the tea ceremony](1st English-language ed.). Tokyo; Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Pub, 2010.
  • Ito, Kinko. “A History of Manga in the Context of Japanese Culture and Society.” Journal of Popular Culture38, no. 3 (2005): 456-75.
  • Iwabuchi, K. “Pop-culture diplomacy in Japan: soft power, nation branding and the question of ‘international cultural exchange,” International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2015. 419-425.
  • Johnson-Woods, Toni. Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives. New York: Continuum, 2010.
  • Kern, Adam L. “Kybyōshi: The World’s First Comicbook?” International Journal of Comic Art9, no. 1 (2007): 3-197.
  • Kern, Adam L. Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan. Harvard East Asian Monographs; 279. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.
  • LaMarre, Thomas. Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Junʾichirō on Cinema and “Oriental” Aesthetics. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2005.
  • McGray, Douglas. “Japan’s Gross National Cool,” Foreign Policy, 2002.
  • McKevitt, Andrew C. Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America. University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
  • Mcleod, Ken. “Visual Kei: Hybridity and Gender in Japanese Popular Culture.”Young 21, no. 4 (2013): 309-25.
  • Moeran, Brian.Language and Popular Culture in Japan. Japanese Studies (Manchester, England). Manchester; New York : New York: Manchester University Press ; Distributed Exclusively in the U.S.A. and Canada by St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
  • Nakazawa Keiji. Barefoot Gen. https://archive.org/details/manga_BarefootGen-v01
  • Nash, Eric P., and Schodt, Frederick L. Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater. New York, NY: Abrams, 2009.
  • Otmazgin, Nissim. “A Regional Gateway: Japanese Popular Culture in Hong Kong, 1990-2005.”Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 15, no. 2 (2014): 323-35.
  • Powers, Richard Gid, Katō, Hidetoshi, and Stronach, Bruce.Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
  • Richie, Donald. A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos. Kodansha America, 2005.
  • Schodt, Frederik L. Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga. Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, 1996.
  • Schodt, Frederik L. Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics. 1st ed. Tokyo; New York: New York, N.Y.: Kodansha International; Distributed in the U.S. by Kodansha International/USA through Harper & Row, 1983.
  • Slaymaker, Douglas.A Century of Popular Culture in Japan. Japanese Studies (Lewiston, N.Y.) ; v. 9. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
  • Treat, John Whittier.Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture. ConsumAsiaN Book Series. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
  • White, Merry. Coffee Life in Japan. University of California Press, 2012.
  • Yuen, Shu Min. “Kusanagi Tsuyoshi X Chonangang: Transcending Japanese/Korean Ethnic Boundaries in Japanese Popular Culture.”Asian Studies Review 35, no. 1 (2011): 1-20.

Japanese History

Early Japanese History

  • Barnes, Gina L. State Formation in Japan: Emergence of a Fourth-century Ruling Elite. London: Routledge. 2007.
  • Como, Michael I. Shotoku: Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2008.
  • Como, Michael. Weaving and Binding: Immigrant Gods and Female Immortals in Ancient Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2009.
  • Farris, William Wayne. Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 1998.
  • Kidder, J. Edward. Himiko and Japan’s Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai: Archaeology, History, and Mythology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2007.
  • Ledyard, Gari. “Galloping Along with the Horseriders: Looking for the Founders of Japan.” The Journal of Japanese Studies(1: 1975)
  • Miller, Richard J. Ancient Japanese Nobility: The KabaneRanking System. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1974.
  • Ooms, Herman. Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty, 650-800. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2009.
  • Pearson, Richard J. and Gina Lee Barnes, Karl L. Hutterer, eds. Windows on the Japanese Past: Studies in Archaeology and Prehistory. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. 1986.
  • Piggott, Joan R. The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1997.
  • Wang Zhenping. Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China-Japan Relations in the Han-Tang Period. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2005.

Classical Japan

  • Adolphson, Mikael S. The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2000.
  • Adolphson, Mikael, Edward Kamens, and Stacie Matsumoto, eds. Heian Japan: Centers and Peripheries. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2007.
  • Batten, Bruce. To the Ends of Japan: Premodern Frontiers, Boundaries, and Interactions. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2003.
  • Farris, Wayne. Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan’s Military, 500-1300. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University. 1992.
  • Friday, Karl F. Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1992.
  • Hempel, Rose. Translated by Katherine Watson. The Golden Age of Japan, 794-1192. New York: Rizzoli. 1983.
  • Keene, Donald. Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. New York: Henry Holt. 1993.
  • McCullough, William “The Heian Court” in Cambridge History of Japan 1999
  • McCullough, William H. “Japanese Marriage Institutions in the Heian Period. In Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 27:1967. 103-167.
  • Piggott, Joan Capital and Countryside. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2006
  • Toby, Ronald P. “Why Leave Nara? Kammu and the Transfer of the Capital.” In Monumenta Nipponica. 40: 1985. 331-347.
  • Varley, H. Paul. Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 1994.

The Kamakura Period

  • Adolphson, Mikael S., and Commons, Anne. Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi, 2015.
  • Batten, Bruce L. Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2006.
  • Cobbing, Michael. Kyushu: Gateway to Japan: A Concise History. 2008.
  • Conlan, Thomas D. In Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga’s Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan. Ithaca: East Asian Program, Cornell University. 2001.
  • Farris, William Wayne. Japan’s Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2006.
  • Friday, Karl F. Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan. New York: Routledge. 2004.
  • Goble, Andrew. “Images of Illness: Interpreting the Medieval Scrolls of Afflictions.” In Currents in Medieval Japanese History. (163-216)
  • Goble, Andrew Edmund. Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2011.
  • Keirstead, Thomas. The Geography of Power in Medieval Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1992.
  • Keirstead, Thomas. “Outcastes before the Law: Pollution and Purification in Medieval Japan.” In Currents in Medieval Japanese History. 2009
  • Mass, Jeffrey P. Yoritomo and the Founding of the First Bakufu: The Origins of Dual Government in Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1999.
  • Segal, Ethan Isaac. Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center. 2011.
  • Souyri, Pierre Francois The World Turned Upside Down. Columbia University Press, 2001
  • Tonomura, Hitomi. “Women and Inheritance in Japan’s Early Warrior Society,” Comparative Studies in Society and History32, no. 3 (1990): 592-623.
  • Varley, Paul. “The Hojo Family and Succession to Power.” In Court and Bakufu in Japan: Essays in Kamakura History. Edited by Jeffrey P. Mass. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1982.
  • Von Verschuer, Charlotte. Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series. 2006

The Muromachi Period

  • Goble, Andrew. Kenmu: Go-Daigo’s Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1996.
  • Mass, Jeffrey P. editor. The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1997.
  • Gay, Suzanne. The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2001.
  • Conlan, Thomas Donald. State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. 2003.
  • Goble, Andrew. “War and Injury: The Emergence of Would Medicine in Medieval japan.” In Monumenta Nipponica. 2005:60. 297-338.
  • Butler, Lee. “Washing off the Dust: Baths and Bathing in Late Medieval Japan.” In Monumenta Nipponica. 2005: 60. 1-41.

 

Sengoku Period and Unification

  • Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Hideyoshi. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1982.
  • Berry, Mary Elizabeth. The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto. Berkeley. University of California Press. 1994.
  • Cooper, Michael. They Came to Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1965.
  • Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith, eds. Warlords, Artists, and Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 1981.
  • Ferejohn, John A. and Rances McCall Rosenbluth, eds. War and State Building in Medieval Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2010.
  • Lamers, Jeroen. Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered. Leiden: Hotei Publishing. 2000.
  • Lidin, Olof G. Tanagashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan. Copenhagen: NIAS Press. 2002.
  • McMullin, Neil. Buddhism and the State in Sixteenth-Century Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1984.
  • Nagahara, Keiji and Yamamura Kozo. “Shaping the Process of Unification: Technological Progress in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan.” In The Journal for Japanese Studies. 1988:1. 77-109
  • Turnbull, Stephen. Samurai Invasion: Japan’s Korean War, 1592-1598. Cassell, dist. by Sterling. 2002.

Japan Premodern Religious History

  • Adolphson, Mikael S. The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Soheiin Japanese History. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2007.
  • Bowring, Richard. The Religious Traditions of Japan, 500-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005.
  • Collcutt, Martin. Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institutions in Medieval Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1981.
  • Elison, George. Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1973.
  • Hur, Nam-Lin. Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2007.
  • Kimbrough, R. Keller. Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Japan Studies. 2008.
  • LaFleur, William R. The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1983.
  • Ruppert, Brian D. The Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center. 2000.
  • Teiser, Stephen F. and Jacqueline Stone. Readings of the Lotus Sutra.New York: Columbia University Press. 2009.
  • Williams, Duncan Ryuken. The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005.

Tokugawa Period

  • Friday, Karl F. “Bushido or Bull? A Medieval Historian’s Perspective on the Imperial Army and the Japanese Warrior Tradition.” In The History Teacher, (3:1994). 339-349.
  • Gramlick-Oka, Bettina, and Gregory Smits, eds. Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan, Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill. 2010.
  • Hellyer, Robert I. Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center. 2009.
  • Ikegami, Eiko. The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan. Harvard: Harvard University Press. 1995.
  • Jannetta, Ann The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2007.
  • Laver, Michael. The Sakoku Edicts and the Politics of Tokugawa Hegemony. Amherst: Cambria Press. 2011
  • Lewis, James B. Frontier Contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan. London: RoutledgeCurzon. 2003
  • Najita, Tetsuo. Ordinary Economies in Japan: A Historical Perspective, 1750-1950. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2009.
  • Nakamura, Ellen Gardner. Practical Pursuits: Takano Choei, Takahashi Keiaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005.
  • Rath, Eric. Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2010.
  • Rubinger, Richard. Popular Literacy in Early Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2007.
  • Smith, Thomas C. Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
  • Swope, Kenneth M. “Crouching Tigers, Secret Weapons: Military Technology Employed during the Sino-Japanese-Korean War, 1592-1598.” In The Journal of Military History, (2005: 1) 11-41.
  • Tetsuo, Najita, Japan: The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Japanese Politics, 1980
  • Toby, Ronald P. State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1984.
  • Totman, Conrad. Tokugawa Ieyasu: Shogun. San Francisco: Heian International. 1983.
  • Totman, Conrad. Early Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1993.
  • Vaporis, Constantine Nomikos. Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2008.
  • Walker, Brett. The Conquest of the Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2001.

The Fall of the Tokugawa and the Meiji Period

  • Ammons, Timothy D. Embodying Difference: The Making of Burakumin in Modern Japan. 2011.
  • Botsman, Daniel V. Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan. Princeton University Press, 2005
  • Duke, Benjamin. The History of Modern Japanese Education: Constructing the National School System, 1872-1890. Rutgers University Press, 2009.
  • Figal, Gerald. Civilization and Monster. Duke University Press, 1999.
  • Fujitani, Splendid Monarchy, University of California Press, 1996.
  • Gluck, Carol. Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. Princeton University Press, 1985
  • Hane, Mikiso. Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
  • Hardacre, Shinto and the State. Princeton University Press, 1989.
  • Howell, Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan. University of California Press, 2005.
  • Karlin.Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2014.
  • Kim, Kyu Hyun. The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan. Harvard East Asian Monographs; 247. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.
  • Lewis, Michael. Becoming Apart: National Power and Local Politics in Toyama. Harvard University Asia Center, 2000.
  • Lublin, Elizabeth Dorn. Reforming Japan: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period. UBC Press, 2010.
  • Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation. M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
  • Platt, Brian. Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan. Harvard University Press, 2004
  • Ravina, Mark.The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004
  • Smith, Thomas. “Japan’s Aristocratic Revolution.”Yale Review 50, no. 3 (1961): 370-83.
  • Steele, M. William. “Edo in 1868: The View from Below.” Monumenta Nipponica 45, no. 2 (1990): 127-55.
  • Najita, Tetsuo. Ordinary Economies in Japan: A Historical Perspective, 1750-1950. University of California Press, 2009.

Late Meiji & Taisho Period

  • Duus, Peter. Party Rivalry and Political Change in Taisho Japan. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. 1968.
  • Hanes, Jeffrey E., and Seki, Hajime. The City as Subject Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka. University of California Press, 2002.
  • Hoston, Germaine A. Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1986.
  • Metzler, Mark. Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2006.
  • Najita, Testuo. Hara Kei in the Politics of Compromise. 1905-1915. Harvard University Press, 1967.
  • Silberberg, Miriam. Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. 2006.
  • Smethurst, Richard. From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan’sKeynes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2007.
  • Tipton, Elise. Society and the State in Interwar Japan. London: Routledge. 1997.
  • Tipton and Clark, Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s.2000.

 Japanese Colonialism & Imperialism

  • Atkins, Taylor E. Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2010.
  • Beasley, William. Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2014.
  • Ching, Leo T. S. Becoming “Japanese”: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2001.
  • Duus, Peter, Ramon Myers, and Mark Peattie. The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1984.
  • Duus, Peter, Ramon Myers, and Mark Peattie, eds. The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1996.
  • Duus, Peter. The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1995.
  • Duus, Peter, Raymon Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds. The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1989.
  • Matsuksaka, Yoshihisa Tak. The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center. 2001.
  • Wilson, Sandra. The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931-33. London: Routledge. 2002.
  • Young, Louise. Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1998.

Wartime Japan

  • Baskett, Michael. The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2008.
  • Berger, Gordon M. Parties out of Power in Japan, 1931-1941. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1977.
  • Cook, Haruko and Theodore F. Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: New Press. 1992.
  • Dower, John. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon. 1986.
  • Drea, Edward J. In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1998.
  • Havens, Thomas R.H. Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two. New York: W.W. Norton and Co. 1978.
  • Iriye, Akira. Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War: A Brief History with Documents and Essays. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 1999.
  • Kasza, Gregory J., The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
  • Kort, Michael The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima.Columbia University Press,2007.
  • Kushner, Barak. The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2006.
  • LaFeber, Walter. The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. 1997.
  • Mimura, Janis. Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State. Itacha: Cornell University Press. 2011.
  • Minear, Richard. The Scars of War: Tokyo During World War II. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 2007.
  • Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006.
  • Shillony, Ben-Ami. Revolt in Japan: The Young Officers and the February 26, 1936 Incident. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1973.
  • Shillony, Ben-Ami. Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan. New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 1981.
  • Spector, Ronald. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan. New York: Vintage Books. 1985.
  • Tansman, Alan, ed. The Culture of Japanese Fascism. Durham: Duke University Press. 2009.
  • Yamashita, Samuel Hideo. Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2006.

 Postwar Japan

  • Dower, John W., and Rogers D. Spotswood Collection. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton &, 1999.
  • Hein, Laura. Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-century Japan. 2004.
  • Gordon, Andrew. Postwar Japan as History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
  • Molasky, Michael S.The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory. Asia’s Transformations. London; New York: Routledge, 1999.
  • Sodei, Rinjirō, and Junkerman, John. Dear General MacArthur: Letters from the Japanese during the American Occupation. Asian Voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.). Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: Distributed by National Book Network, 2001.
  • Spector, Ronald H., and Rogers D. Spotswood Collection. In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 2007
  • Takemae, Eiji., Rogers D. Spotswood Collection, Ricketts, Robert, and Swann, Sebastian. The Allied Occupation of Japan. New York: Continuum, 2003.