References & Resources Part A

REFERENCE RESOURCES Part A

Alphabetical from Abacus to Emperor

The following list of references is by no means intended to be comprehensive. These are merely some of the books I have in my own collection (approximately 300 of the more than 500 I own) which are listed here to give you a potential resource for a certain topic. I have used each on of these books at one time or another during the time I have been fascinated with Japan and all things Japanese - which stretch back to a brief visit when I was about 15 years old. That age for me is farther backin history than I care to admit. However, it does explain some of the unique and odd books I have acquired over the years from various books sales, yard sales, trips to Japan and donations from too many persons or libraries to be able to remember of thank individually. If you have other sources that would perhaps be of interest to visitors to this web site, please contact me and I will add additional resource information - crediting you with the additions.

Sincerely

Michael J. Peterson

BOOK TITLE/ AUTHOR/ ISBN/ YEAR/ PUBLISHER/ CATEGORY

ABACUS

  • The Japanese Abacus Explained

    Yoshino,ISBN 0-486-21109-6, Dover, 1963

    ANIME

  • Anime - from Akira to Princess Mononoke

    Napier, Susan J., ISBN 0-312-23863-0, Palgrave,2001

  • Hayao Miyazaki - Master of Japanese Animation

    McCarthy, Helen, ISBN 1-880656-41-8, Stonebridge Press, 1999

  • The Anime Companion

    Poitras, Gilles, ISBN 1-880656-32-9,Stonebridge Press, 1999

    ART-ARCHITECTURE

  • What is Japanese Architecture

    Nishi, Kazuo & Hozumi, Kazuo ISBN 4-7700-1991-0, Kodansha Int'l, 1983

    ART-BONSAI

  • Miniature Living Bonsai Landscapes-The art of Sakei

    Gustafson, H.L., ISBN 0-8069-0734-7, Sterling Publishing, 1994

    ART-CALLIGRAPHY

  • Brush Meditation

    Davey, H.E., 1-880656-38-8, Stonebridge Press, 1999

  • Beautiful Characters with small brush

    Hamada, Sozan, ISBN 4-537-00019-8, Nihon, 1994

  • The Art and Technique of SUMI-E

    Thompson, Kay Morrissey, ISBN 0-8048-1959-9, Charles E. Tuttle, 1994

  • The Way of the Brush

    van Biessen. Fritz, ISBN 0-8048-3194-7, Charles E. Tuttle, 1998

    ART-COMICS.MANGA

  • How to Draw Japanese Comics

    , Hart, Christopher, ISBN 0-8230-3035-0, Watson-Guptill Pub.,2001

  • Perspective Without Pain

    Metzger, ISBN 0-89134-4146-2, Hong Kong, 1992

    ART-IKEBANA/Flower Arranging

  • Flower Arrangements through the year

    Roberts, Patricia E., LCC 63-12362, Viking Press, 1963

  • Flower Arranging - better homes and gardens

    N/A, ISBN N/A, Meredith Publishing, 1965

  • Ikebana - FLower arranging by the seasons ( in Japanese)

    Teshigahara, Soofu & Kasumi, ISBN 2376-312202-3068, Nihon, 1974

  • Japanese Flower Arrangement Notebook

    (First Edition), Kroh, Patricia LCC 62-7396, Doubleday, 1962

  • Japanese Flower Arrangements

    Teshigahara, Wafu, ISBN 0-87011-036-5, Kodansha, 1972

  • The Complete Book of Flower Arrangement

    Rockwell, F., Grayson, Esther C. ISBN N/A,Doubleday & Co.1948

    ART-GARDENS

  • Creating Japanese Gardens

    Ortho, ISBN 0-89721-148-0, Ortho, 1994

    ART-GEISHA

  • GEISHA

    (first paperback edition), Dalby, Liza, ISBN 0-520-20495-6, Univ. of CA Press, 1998

  • GEISHA - the life, the voices, the art

    Cobb, Jodi, ISBN 0-679-43774-6, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995

    ART-GENERAL

  • Far Eastern Art

    Doherty, Charles, ISBN 0-8160-3335-8, Facts on File,Inc, 1997

  • JAPAN - a History in Art

    Smith, Bradley, LCC 64-21410, Gemini Inc - Japan 1964

  • The Enduring Art of Japan

    Langdon, Warner, ISBN 0-8021-3132-8, Grove Press, 1952

  • The Wisdom of the East, the Flight of the Dragon

    Binyon, Lawrence, ISBN N/A, Lewis Reprints, 1972

  • The Great Wave - the influence or Japanese woodcuts

    Ives, Colta Feller, ISBN 0-87099-098-5, Met. Museum of Art, 1974

    ART-MUSIC

  • Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments

    Malm, William P., ISBN 4-7700-23-95-2, Kodansha, 2000

    ART-NETSUKE

  • Netsuke - Japanese Life and Legend in Miniature

    Symmes, Edwin C. Jr., ISBN 0-8048-2026-0,Theodore Tuttle, 1995

  • The Wonderful World of Netsuke

    Bushell, Raymond, ISBN 0-8048-2022-8, Theodore Tuttle, 1995

    ART-ORIGAMI

  • Origami -Creative Origami

    Kasahara, Kunihiko, ISBN 0-87040-411-3, Japan Publications, 1993

  • Origami- Encyclopedia of Origami and Papercrafts

    Callery, Emma, ISBN 0-7858-0441-2, Chartwell Books, 1995

  • Teach Yourself Origami

    Harbin, Robert, ISBN 0-8442-3935-6, NTC Publishing, 1992

    ART-TATTOOS

  • The Japanese Tattoo

    Richie, Donald & Buruma, Ian, ISBN 0-834800228-7, Weatherhill Inc, NY, 1996

    ART-THEATRE & FILM

  • Clint Eastwood - Quote, Unquote

    McCabe, Bob, ISBN 0-517-18449-4, Crescent Books, 1996

  • Japan's Favorite Mon-Star the unauthorized biography

    Ryfle, Steve, ISBN 1-55022-348-8, ECW Press, 1998

  • Monster Madness

    Zito, Neuhaus, Lederman, ISBN 0-7651-0885-2, Smithmark Publ., 1998

  • Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo - under the American occupation

    Hirano, Kyoko 1-560098-402-3, Smithsonian Inst., 1992

  • Seven Samurai and Other Screenplays

    Akira Kurosawa/Richie, ISBN 0-571-16224-x, Faber & Faber Ltd., 1992

  • The Asian Film Industry

    Lent, John A., ISBN 0-292-9-70422-4, Univ. of Texas Press, 1990

  • The Films of Akira Kurosawa

    Richie, Donald 0-520-20026-8, Univ. of California, 1996

  • The Kabuki Theatre of Japan

    Scott, ISBN N/A, Collier Books, 1966

  • The Making of Godzilla

    Aberly, Rachel, ISBN 0-06-107317-2, HarperPrism, 1998

  • The Western

    Fenin, G. & Everson, W., ISBN 0-1400-4416-7, Penguin, 1973

    ART-UKIYO-E / woodblock prints

  • Hiroshige [wood block prints (In Japanese)

    Mosley, Leonard, ISBN 0371-526011-3041, Shueisha 1975

    ATOMIC ISSUES

  • Hiroshima

    Hersey, John, ISBN N/A, Alfred A. Knopf, 1946

  • Hiroshima no pika

    Maruki, ISBN 8393-7701-2349, Published in Japan, 1981

  • Rain of Ruin-a photo history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Goldstein,Dillon, Wenger, ISBN 1-57488-033-0, Brasseys, 1995

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    Rhodes, Richard, ISBN 0-684-81378-5, Simon&Schuster, 1988

  • Unforgettable Fire

    NHK Japan Broadcasting, ISBN 0-394-74823-9, Random House, 1981

  • US Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders - Day of 2 Suns

    Dibblin, Jane, ISBN 0-941533-83-2, New Amsterdam, 1990

    BIOGRAPHIES

  • Hirohito - Behind the Myth

    Behr, Edward, ISBN 0-394-5807-9, Villard Books, 1989

  • Hirohito Emperor of Japan

    Mosley, Leonard, LCC66-15138, Prentice Hall - Inc., 1966

  • Hirohito, the War Years

    Manning, Paul, ISBN 0-553-34795-0, Bantam Books, 1989

  • Images Across the Ages - Japanese Portraits

    Hoobler, Dorothy & Thomas, ISBN 0-8114-6381-8, Steck-Vaughn TX, 1994

  • Sensei, the Life Story of Irene Webster-Smith

    Hitt, Russell T., LCC 65-20452, Harper and Row, 1965

  • The Giants of Japan

    Weston, Mark, ISBN 1-56836-286-2, Kodansha, 1999

  • The Last Emperor - biography of 20th century China

    Behr, Edward, ISBN 0-553-34474-9, Bantam, 1987

  • Windows for the Crown Prince

    Vining, Elizabeth Gray, LCC 52-5098, JB Lippincott, 1952

    BUSINESS

  • Gaishi - the foreign company in Japan

    Kang, T.W., ISBN 0-465-02660-5, Harper Collins, 1990

  • Japanese Etiquette and Ethics in Business

    DeMonte, Boye, ISBN 0-8442-8507-2 1990, NTC, 1990

  • Japanese for the Business Traveller

    Akiyama, Nobuo & Carol, ISBN 0-8120-1770-6, Barron's, 1994

  • Talking Business in Japanese

    Akiyma, Nobuo & Akiyama, Carol, ISBN 0-8120-3848-7, Barron, 1988

  • The Art of Japanese Management

    Pascale, Richard T. & Athos, A., ISBN 0-671-22539-1, Simon and Schuster, 1981

  • The Unspoken Way - Haragei: Silence in Japanese Business & Society

    Matsumoto. Michihiro, ISBN 4-7700-1389-2, Kodansha, 1989

    COOKING & FOOD

  • At the Japanese Table - New and Traditional

    Downer, Lesley , ISBN 0-8118-0319-8, Chronicle Books, 1993

  • Japanese Family Style Recipes

    Urakami, Hiroko, ISBN 4-7700-1583-6, Kodansha, 1992

  • The Book of Tofu - food for mankind

    Shurtleff, W & Aoyage, A, ISBN 0-0345-30806-9, MacMillan, 1983

  • The Cooking of China

    Hahn, Emily, LCC 68-56965, Time Life, 1973

  • The Cooking of Japan

    Steinberg, Rafael, LCC 75-84632, Time Life, 1969

  • The Do of Cooking (Spring) Ryorido)

    Aihara, Cornelia, ISBN 0-918860-12-1, Macrobiotic Foundation, 1977

  • The Japanese American Cookbook

    Marjorie Young, ISBN 8375-6750-5, Publisher Unknown, 1972

  • Kombucha the miracle fungus

    Tietze, Harald, ISBN 1-85860-029-4, Atrium Publishers, 1995

    CULTURE

  • A Voice from Japan - an outsider looks in

    Meyer, Carolyn, ISBN 0-15-200634-6, Gulliver Books, 1988

  • Japan Today - A westerners guide

    Welch, Theodore / Kato Hiroki, ISBN 0-8442-8534-x, Passport Books, 1991

  • Japan: the Culture

    Kalman, Bobbie. ISBN 0-86505-286-7, Crabtree Publishing 1977

  • Japan: the Land

    Kalman, Bobbie, ISBN 0-86505-284-0, Crabtree Publishing, 1977

  • Japan: the People

    Kalman, Bobbie, ISBN 0-86505-285-9, Crabtree Publishing, 1977

  • Japanese and English Gesture

    Brosnahan, Leger, ISBN 4-469-24287-x, Taishukan Publishing, 1990

  • Moons, Months and Seasons (a pre-intermediate Japanese Reader)

    Usuda, Usami, Sato, Hanada, M., ISBN 4-905737-12-5, Apricot, 1992

  • Multicultural Manners

    Dresser, Norine, ISBN 0-471-11819-2, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1996

  • On Track with the Japanese

    Gercik, Patricia, ISBN 4-7700-1602-6, Kodansha, 1992

  • The Japan of Today

    Intl Society for Educational Info, ISBN N/A, Intl Society, 1996

    CULTURE / SOCIETY

  • 100 Million Japanese

    Koraka, ISBN 0-87011-182-5, Kodansha Intl. Ltd., Unkown Date

  • An Introduction to Japan

    Webb, H., ISBN N/A, Columbia Univ.1957

  • Discovering Cultural Japan

    DeMente, Boye, ISBN 0-8442-48511-0, NTC Passport Bks, 1988

  • Japanese Cultural Encounters & How to Handle Them

    Kataoka, Hiroko 0-8442-8531-5, NTC Passport Bks., 1991

  • Mysterious Japan

    Street, Julian, ISBN N/A, Doubleday, 1922

  • Nippon the Land and its people

    Ogawa, Kazumi, ISBN N/A, Nippon Steel, 1982

  • Nippon the Land and its people (older copy)

    Ogawa, Kazumi, ISBN N/A, Nippon Steel, 1978

  • Peasants, Rebels and Outcasts

    Mikiso Hane, ISBN 0-394-71040-1, Pantheon Books, 1982

  • The Japanese Overseas-Can they go home again?

    White, Merry, ISBN 0-691-00871-x, Princeton Press, 1992

  • Two Japans

    Dilts, Marion M., LCC 63-17983, David McKay Co., 1963

  • We the Japanese

    John A. Mahi, LCC 75-121849, Praeger Publishers, 1972

  • Japanese Culture

    Varley, Paul H, ISBN 0-8248-0927-0, Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1984

  • Japan - Crossroads of East and West

    Kirk, Ruth, LCC 66-10146, Thomas Nelson, 1966

  • Japan - world in color series

    Ogrizek, Dore Ed., ISBN N/A, McGraw-Hill, 1957

    DIARIES & LETTERS

  • A Day in the Life of Japan

    Photo Collaboration, ISBN 0-00-217580-0, Collins Publishers, 1985

  • A Treasury of the Worlds Great Diaries

    Dunaway and Evans, LCC 57-9502, Doubleday & Co.1957

  • Citizen 13660

    Okubo,Mine, ISBN 0-295-95989-4, Univ. of Wash. Press, 1983

  • Journey to the Far Pacific

    Dewey, Thomas E., LCC 52-5222, Doubleday, 1952

  • Nurtured by Love

    Suzuki, Shinichi, ISBN 0-682-47518-1, Exposition Press, 1969

  • Ten Years in Japan

    Grew, Joseph C., ISBN N/A, Morrison & Gibb , 1945

  • The Diary of Lady Murasaki

    Bowring, Richard ed., ISBN 0-14-043576-x, Penguin, 1996

  • The Kikuchi Diary … from an American Concentration Camp

    Kikuchi, Charles, ISBN 0-252-06283-3, Univ. of Illinois Press, 1993

    EDUCATION

  • The Japanese Educational Challenge

    White, Merry, ISBN 0-02-933801-8, Free Press- McMillan, 1987

    EMPEROR

  • Hirohito - Behind the Myth

    Bear, Edward, ISBN 0-679-73171-7, Vintage Books, 1990

  • Hirohito - Behind the Myth

    First American ed., Bear, Edward, ISBN 0-394-58072-9, Random House, 1989

  • In the Realm of a Dying Emperor

    Field, Norma, ISBN 0-679-40504-6, Pantheon Books, 1991

  • The Yamato Dynasty - The Secret ….. Imperial Family

    Seagrave, S. & Seagrave, P., ISBN 0-7679-0496-6, Broadway Books, 1999

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