Additional Reading

Textbooks:

• Edwin O. Reischauer, John K. Fairbank and Albert M. Craig,
  East Asia: Tradition and Transformation
• The Cambridge History of Japan (6 volumes)
• Peter Duus, The Rise of Modern Japan
• Kenneth Pyle, The Making of Modern Japan
• W.G. Beasley, The Modern History of Japan
• George Sansom, A History of Japan (3 volumes)
• George Sansom, Japan: A Short Cultural History
• John W. Hall, Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times

History:

• Ivan Morris, The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan
• Mary Elizabeth Berry, Hideyoshi
• John W. Hall, Nagahara Keiji and Kozo Yamamura, ed.,
  Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500 to 1650
• Louis Frederic, Daily Life in Japan at the Time of the Samurai, 1185-1603
• Stephen R. Turnbull, Samurai – A Military History
• Conrad Totman, Japan before Perry
• Harold Bolitho, Treasures among Men: The Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan
• Marius Jansen and Gilbert Rozman, ed., Japan in Transition, from Tokugawa to Meiji
• Tsuboi Kiyotari, ed., Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Japan

General:

• Peter Spry-Leverton, Peter Kornicki, Japan
• Jean-Pierre Lehmann, The Roots of Modern Japan
• Victoria Manthorpe, ed., The Japan Diaries of Richard Gordon Smith
• Kurt Singer, Mirror, Sword and Jewel: The Geometry of Japanese Life
• Philipp Franz von Siebold, Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century
• Arthur E. Tiedemann, An Introduction to Japanese Civilization
• E. Papinot, Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan
• Martin Collcutt, Marius Jansen and Isao Kumakura, Cultural Atlas of Japan
• Yoshiaki Shimizu, ed., Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, 1185-1868
• Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (9 volumes)
• Hugh Cortazzi, Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports
• Patricia Barr, The Coming of the Barbarians: A Story of Western Settlement in Japan, 1853-1970
• Patricia Barr, The Deer Cry Pavilion: A Story of Westerners in Japan, 1868-1905
• Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese
• Engelbert Kaempfer, The History of Japan (3 volumes)
• Carmen Blacker, The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan

Politics:

• Hans H. Baerwald, Party Politics in Japan
• J.A.A. Stockwin, Japan: Divided Politics in a Growth Economy

Economics:

• Tadafusa Nakamura, Economic Growth in Prewar Japan
• Tadafusa Nakamura, The Postwar Japanese Economy

Society:

• Harumi Befu, Japan, An Anthropological Introduction
• Ezra Vogel, Japan as Number One
• Hugh T. Patrick, ed., Japanese Industrialization and its Social Consequences
• Thomas C. Smith, The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan
• Tadashi Fukutake, Japanese Rural Society
• Chie Nakane, Japanese Society

Literature:

• Howard Hibbett, Contemporary Japanese Literature: an Anthology of Fiction, Film and other Writing since 1945
• Howard Hibbett, The Floating World in Japanese Fiction
• Donald Keene, World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867
• Donald Keene, Anthology of Japanese Literature: from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
• Donald Keene, Travelers of a Hundred Ages
• J. Thomas Rimer, A Reader’s Guide to Japanese Literature
• Shimazaki Toson, Before the Dawn
• Shimazaki Toson, Chikuma River Sketches
• Ikku Jippenshu, Hizakurige or Shanks’ Mare

Geography:

• Edward Seidensticker, Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake: How the Shogun’s Ancient Capital became a Great Modern City, 1867-1923
• Edward Seidensticker, Tokyo Rising, The City since the Great Earthquake
• Glenn Trewartha, Japan: A Cultural Geography
• Donald MacDonald, A Geography of Modern Japan
• David H. Kornhauser, Urban Japan, Its Foundation and Growth
• Masuo Minato, Japan and Its Nature
• T. Yazaki, Social Change and the City in Japan: From Earliest Times through the Industrial Revolution
• Junichi Saga, Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan
• Ronald P. Dore, Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village
• Paul Wheatley and Thomas See, From Court to Capital: A Tentative Interpretation of the Origins of Japanese Urban Tradition

Travelogues:

• Isabella Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
• Ernest Mason Satow and Lt. A.G.S. Hawes, A Handbook for Travellers in Central and Northern Japan
• Basil Hall Chamberlain and Ernest Mason Satow, A Handbook for Travelers in Japan
• Gilbert Watson, Three Rolling Stones in Japan
• Albert Tracy, Rambles through Japan without a Guide
• Ikku Jippenshu, Hizakurige or Shanks’ Mare

Nakasendo and related topics:

• “Preserving Historical Landmarks in Harmony with Residents’ Lives,” Pacific Friend: A Window on Japan, vol. 24, no. 7 (November 1996), p. 12-16.