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Welcome to the WikiProject Japan Reference library. It is designed to help editors find printed (offline) sources for relevant articles that fall under this WikiProject.

Instructions for users

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Find a book that may contain source information that you are looking for. Contact any of the users that own that book for more information.

Instructions for contributors

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If you wish to contribute to the project, please add your personal books to those below and follow the general table format. The archive is arranged alphabetically by book title. If the book you wish to list is already present then just add your name to the table. Otherwise create a new table row in the archive with the title of the book. Remember to add your username (please keep them alphabetical) into the contact field for books you own. Please be thorough when checking books.

Note: If a title fits in more than one area, feel free to place it more than one section. However, please limit placement to two (perhaps three) areas so the list doesn't get too out of control. Thanks!

Additional note: For Japanese references, please include a romanized title. For authors, please include the romanized version as well. This will help those who can not read Japanese to know if the book will be useful to them. Thanks!

Requesting Additional Resources

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Editors can request access to specific articles or books or information on a specific topic at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request.

General websites

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These sites have many useful resources:

  • International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan

Titles

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Titles are listed in alphabetical order.

Anime and manga

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Architecture

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
Architecture in Japan Philip Jodidio ISBN 3-8228-3988-4 English Nihonjoe
The Architecture of Japan Arthur Drexler ISBN none English Nihonjoe
The Art and Architecture of Japan Robert Treat Paine ISBN 0-300-05333-9 English Bamse
The Art of Japanese Joinery Kiyosi Seike ISBN 0-8348-1516-8 English Nihonjoe
Bruno Taut in Japan --- Das Tagebuch vol 1, 2 (1933, 1934) Bruno Taut ISBN 978-3-7861-2692-8, ISBN 978-3-7861-2702-4 German Bamse
Japan Country Living Amy Sylvester Katoh ISBN 0-8048-1858-4 English Nihonjoe
The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House Atsushi Ueda ISBN 4-7700-2353-7 English Nihonjoe
Japan's Folk Architecture: Traditional Thatched Farmhouses Chūji Kawashima ISBN 4-7700-2506-8 English Nihonjoe
The Japanese Bath Bruce Smith and Yoshiko Yamamoto ISBN 1-58685-027-X English Nihonjoe
The Japanese House: Architecture and Interiors Noboru Murata and Alexandra Black ISBN 0-8048-3262-5 English Nihonjoe
Japanese Detail: Architecture Sadao Hibi ISBN 0-8118-3675-4 English Nihonjoe
Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings Edward S. Morse ISBN 0-486-20746-3 English Nihonjoe
The Japanese Home Stylebook: Architectural Details and Motifs Saburo Yamagata ISBN 1-880656-01-9 English Nihonjoe
奥村昭雄のディテール
Okumura Akio no Detail
Akio Okumura ISBN 4-395-11047-9 Japanese Nihonjoe
都市緑地の計画と設計
Toshiryokuchi no Keikaku to Sekkei
Masao Uchiyama ISBN 4-395-00232-3 Japanese Nihonjoe
What is Japanese Architecture? Kazuo Nishi and Kazuo Hozumi ISBN 978-4-7700-1992-9 English Bamse
Zen Gardening Sunniva Harte ISBN 1-55670-929-3 English Nihonjoe

Art

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
Ancient and Medieval: Ancient and Medieval Vol 1 Seiroku Noma ISBN 4770029772 English Bamse
The Art and Architecture of Japan Robert Treat Paine ISBN 0-300-05333-9 English Bamse
The Connoisseur's Book of Japanese Swords Kokan Nagayama ISBN 978-1-56836-581-7 English Bamse
History of Japanese art Penelope E. Mason, Donald Dinwiddie ISBN 0131176013 English Bamse
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Melanie Trede, Lorenz Bichler ISBN 3836521202 English Bamse

Biographies

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
The Nine Magazines of Kodansha: The Autobiography of a Japanese Publisher Seiji Noma none (published in 1934) English Nihonjoe

Culture and sociology

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions
(about chindōgu)
Kenji Kawakami ISBN 0-393-31369-7 English Nihonjoe
The Anatomy of Dependence Takeo Doi ISBN 0-87011-494-8
ISBN 4-7700-0979-8
English Nihonjoe
Behind the Japanese Bow Boye Lafayette De Mente ISBN 0-8442-8491-2 English Nihonjoe
Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 Christina Klein ISBN 0520232305 English JadeFox
Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s Jeff Kingston ISBN 1405191937 English Bamse
Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan William E. Deal ISBN 0-8160-5622-6 English Bamse
Heisei no hitto-kyoko Tomonori Shiba ISBN 9784106109294 Japanese Goroth (de)
Japan - A Short Cultural History George Bailey Sansom ISBN 1-4474-2350-X English Bamse
Japan: Its History and Culture (3rd ed.) W. Scott Morton ISBN 0-07-043423-9 English Nihonjoe
JadeFox
Japan Country Living Amy Sylvester Katoh ISBN 0-8048-1858-4 English Nihonjoe
Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture Edited by Timothy J. Craig ISBN 0-7656-0561-9 English JadeFox
The Japanese: A Major Exploration of Modern Japan Peter Tasker ISBN none English Nihonjoe
Japanese Culture (4th ed.) Paul H. Varley 0824821521 English JadeFox and Bamse
Japanese Society Chie Nakane ISBN 0-520-02154-1 English Nihonjoe
Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History William Wayne Farris ISBN 0824833791 English Bamse
Modern Japan (2nd ed.) Peter Duus ISBN 0-395-74604-3 English Nihonjoe
Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism Koichi Iwabuchi ISBN 0822328917 English JadeFox
Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society Joseph J. Tobin (editor) ISBN 0-300-06082-3 English Nihonjoe
Western World and Japan: A Study in the Interaction of European and Asia Cultures George B. Sansom ISBN 0804815100 English JadeFox
The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures Edited by Dolores Martinez ISBN 0521637295 English JadeFox
Zen and Japanese Culture Daisetz T. Suzuki ISBN 0-691-01770-0 English Nihonjoe

Economics

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History William Wayne Farris ISBN 0824833791 English Bamse
The Job Hunter's Guide to Japan Terra Brockman ISBN 0-87011-984-2
ISBN 4-7700-1484-8
English Nihonjoe
Land of Promise 1999: Japan's Chugoku Region Energia ISBN none English Nihonjoe
Modern Japan (2nd ed.) Peter Duus ISBN 0-395-74604-3 English Nihonjoe

Games

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
An Easy Introduction to Go Hideo Otake and Sotoyoshi Futakuchi
Translated by James Davies
ISBN none English Nihonjoe
Go and Go-moku: The Oriental Board Games Edward Lasker ISBN 0-486-20613-0 English Nihonjoe

General

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
平成11年版新郵便番号簿
New Postal Code Book, Heisei 11 Edition
Japan Post ISBN none Japanese Nihonjoe
Japan Insight Guides ISBN 0-395-66433-0 English Nihonjoe
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia Kodansha ISBN 4-06-205938-X English Dekimasu
丹沢
Tanzawa
Chiaki Watanabe and Osamu Miyake ISBN 4-7887-8810-1 English Nihonjoe
Japan: Profile of a Nation Kodansha International ISBN 4-7700-1918-1 English Brandmeister

Geography

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
Land of Promise 1999: Japan's Chugoku Region Energia ISBN none English Nihonjoe

History

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
The Cambridge History of Japan 6 vol. various English Bamse
A companion to Japanese History William M. Tsutsui ISBN 1405193395 English Bamse
Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s Jeff Kingston ISBN 1405191937 English Bamse
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan Charles J. Dunn ISBN 0804813841 English JadeFox
Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan William E. Deal ISBN 0-8160-5622-6 English Bamse
Hiroshima John Hersey ISBN 0679721037 English JadeFox
History of Japanese art Penelope E. Mason, Donald Dinwiddie ISBN 0131176013 English Bamse
A History of Japan to 1334 George Sansom ISBN 0-8047-0523-2 English Nihonjoe
Bamse
A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds L. M. Cullen ISBN 978-0-511-07697-8 English Bamse
Japan - A Short Cultural History George Bailey Sansom ISBN 1-4474-2350-X English Bamse
Japan: Its History and Culture (3rd ed.) W. Scott Morton ISBN 0-07-043423-9 English Nihonjoe
JadeFox
The Japanese: A Major Exploration of Modern Japan Peter Tasker ISBN none English Nihonjoe
Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History William Wayne Farris ISBN 0824833791 English Bamse
Modern Japan (2nd ed.) Peter Duus ISBN 0-395-74604-3 English Nihonjoe
A New History of Shinto John Breen, Mark Teeuwen ISBN 1405155167 English Bamse
Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War, 1592–1598 Stephen Turnbull ISBN 0-304-35948-3 English Bamse
Shinto the Kami Way Sokyo Ono ISBN 0804835578 English Bamse
Ninja The Invisible Assassins Andrew Adams ISBN none, Library of Congress catalog card number 75-136760 English Brandmeister
Die Mythen des alten Japan [The Myths of old Japan] Nelly Naumann German Bamse
Die Samurai [The Samurai] Wolfgang Schwentker German Bamse

Language

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
A Case Study in Diachronic Phonology: The Japanese Onbin Sound Changes Bjarke Frellesvig ISBN 87-7288-489-4 English Bendono
邦訳日葡辞書
Hōyaku Nippo Jisho
土井忠生
Tadao Doi
ISBN 4-0008-0021-3 Japanese Bendono
The Japanese Language Through Time Samuel Martin ISBN 0-300-03729-5 English Bendono
時代別国語大辞典:上代編
Jidaibetsu Kokugo Daijiten: Jōdaihen
澤瀉久孝
Hisataka Omodaka
ISBN 4-385-13237-2 Japanese Bendono
仮名遣と上代語
Kanazukai to Jōdaigo
大野晋
Susumu Ōno
(None) Japanese Bendono
The languages of Japan Masayoshi Shibatani ISBN 0-521-36918-5 English Bendono
Mangajin's Basic Japanese Through Comics Mangajin ISBN 0-8348-0452-2 English / Japanese Nihonjoe
日本文法大辞典
Nihon Bunpō Daijiten
松村明
Akira Matsumura
ISBN 4-6254-0055-4 Japanese Bendono
日本大文典
Nihon Daibunten
土井忠生
Tadao Doi
ISBN 978-48301-02974 Japanese Bendono
日本語の形成
Nihongo no Keisei
大野晋
Susumu Ōno
ISBN 4-00-001758-6 Japanese Bendono
日本語の歴史
Nihongo no Rekishi
山口明穂
Akiho Yamaguchi
ISBN 4-13-082004-4 Japanese Bendono
日本語の歴史
Nihongo no Rekishi
近藤泰弘
Yasuhiro Kondō
ISBN 4-595-30547-8 Japanese Bendono
日本語小文典
Nihongo Shōbunten
池上岑夫
Mineo Ikegami
ISBN 4-00-336811-8
ISBN 4-00-336812-6
Japanese Bendono
日本小文典
Nihon Shōbunten
日埜博
Hiroshi Hino
ISBN 4-404-02080-5 Japanese Bendono
The Phonology of Eighth-Century Japanese Roland A. Lange (None) English Bendono
A Reference Grammar of Japanese Samuel E. Martin ISBN 0-8048-1550-X English Bendono
諸本集成 倭名類聚抄:本文篇
Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen
京都大学文学部国語学国文学研究室
Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu
ISBN 4-653-00507-9 Japanese Bendono
諸本集成 倭名類聚抄:索引篇
Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Sakuinhen
京都大学文学部国語学国文学研究室
Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu
ISBN 4-653-00509-5 Japanese Bendono
諸本集成 倭名類聚抄:外篇
Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Gaihen
京都大学文学部国語学国文学研究室
Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu
ISBN 4-653-00508-7 Japanese Bendono

Literature

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
岩波日本古典文学辞典
Iwanami Nihon Koten Bungaku Jiten
久保田淳
Jun Kubota
ISBN 978-4-00-080310-6 Japanese Bendono
日本古典文学大辞典:簡約版
Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten: Kan'yakuban
日本古典文学大辞典編集委員会
Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten Henshū Iinkai
ISBN 4-00-080067-1 Japanese Bendono
日本古典文学大系
Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei
100 volumes. Most. Ask for details.
岩波書店
Iwanami Shoten
Japanese Bendono
A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature J. Thomas Rimer ISBN 4-7700-2359-6 English Nihonjoe
新日本古典文学大系
Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei
100 volumes. Most. Ask for details.
岩波書店
Iwanami Shoten
Japanese Bendono
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century Donald Keene English Bamse

Works of Literature

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
Das Ise Monogatari Siegfried Schaarschmidt (transl.) ISBN 3-45804788-3 German Bamse
The Izumi Shikibu Diary Izumi Shikibu, Edwin A. Cranston (transl.) SBN: 674-46985-2 English Bamse
Kagerō Nikki Satoshi Tsukakoshi (transl.) German Bamse
Ki no Tsurayuki--Elegische Heimreise Peter Olbricht (transl.) ISBN 3-458-19222-0 German Bamse
Murasaki Shikibu---Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs Murasaki Shikibu, Richard Bowring (transl.) English Bamse
The Sarashina Diary Takasue's daughter ISBN 978-0231167185 English Bamse
The Tale of the Heike Helen Craigh McCullough (transl.) ISBN 0-8047-1418-5 English Bamse

Mythology and religion

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experiences in Japanese Death Legends Michiko Iwasaka, Barre Toelken ISBN 0874211794 English MightyAtom
Myths and Legends: Hindus and Buddists The Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble) and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy ISBN none English Nihonjoe
Myths and Legends of China E. T. C. Werner ISBN none English Nihonjoe
Myths and Legends of Japan F. Hadland Davis ISBN none English Nihonjoe
A New History of Shinto John Breen, Mark Teeuwen ISBN 1405155167 English Bamse
Shinto the Kami Way Sokyo Ono ISBN 0804835578 English Bamse
The Legends of Tono Kunio Yanagita ISBN 978-0-7391-2767-4 English Bamse

Sports and martial arts

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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
Iai: The Art of Drawing the Sword Darrell Craig ISBN 0-8048-7023-3 English Nihonjoe
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Title Author(s) ISBN Language Who owns it
Asian Americans Joann Faung Jean Lee ISBN 1-56584-023-2 English Nihonjoe
Asian Americans: An Interpretive History Secheng Chan ISBN 0-8057-8437-3 English Nihonjoe