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General

Acker, Caren, et al. Glimpses of a Gilded Age: The Momoyama Renaissance. Tokyo: College Women's Association of Japan, 1993.

Guth, Christine. Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615-1868. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1996.

Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art. New York: Weatherhill, 1972-1980. 31 vols.

Japanese Arts Library. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1977-1987. 15 vols.

Mason, Penelope E. History of Japanese Art. New York: Abrams, 1993.

Noma, Seiroku. The Arts of Japan. 1st standard ed. New York: Kodansha International, 1978.

Paine, Robert T. & Alexander Soper. The Art and Architecture of Japan. 3rd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

Pearson, Richard J. Ancient Japan. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; New York: Braziller, 1992.

Singer, Robert T. Edo, Art in Japan 1615-1868. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998.

Stanley-Baker, Joan. Japanese Art. Rev. and expanded ed. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000.

Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art from Imperial Collections. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.

Varley, H. Paul. Japanese Culture. 4th ed. updated and expanded. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.

Painting and Calligraphy

Addiss, Stephen. Nanga Paintings. London: Sawers, 1975.

Akiyama, Terukazu. Japanese Painting. New York: Rizzoli, 1977.

Conant, Ellen P. Nihonga: Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting, 1868-1968. St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Art Museum, 1995.

Fu, Shen, et al. From Concept to Context: Approaches to Asian and Islamic Calligraphy. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1986.

Murase, Miyeko. Emaki: Narrative Scrolls from Japan. New York: The Asia Society, 1983.

Murase, Miyeko. Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting: The American Collections. New York: G. Braziller, 1990.

Murase, Miyeko. Tales of Japan: Scrolls and Prints from the New York Public Library. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Nakata, Yujiro. The Art of Japanese Calligraphy. New York: Weatherhill, 1973.

Rosenfield, John M., et al. The Courtly Tradition in Japanese Art and Literature: Selection from the Hofer and Hyde Collections. Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1973. (Calligraphy)

Shimizu, Yoshiaki. Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi Period. Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton Museum, 1976.

Shimizu, Yoshiaki and John M Rosenfield. Masters of Japanese Calligraphy: 8th-19th Century. New York: The Asia Society Galleries and Japan House Gallery, 1984.

Ury, Marion. Tales of Times Past: Sixty-two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, the University of Michigan, 1979.

Wheelwright, Carolyn, ed. Word in Flower: The Visualization of Classical Literature in Seventeenth-Century Japan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1989.

Words in Motion: Modern Japanese Calligraphy: an exhibition by the Library of Congress and the Yomiuri Shimbun, June 15, 1984-September 15, 1984. Tokyo: Yomiuri Shinbun, 1984.

Sculpture

Harris, Victor. Kamakura: The Renaissance of Japanese Sculpture, 1185-1333. London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, 1991.

Hiromitsu, Washizuka et al. Enlightenment Embodied: The Art of the Japanese Buddhist Sculptor (7th-14th centuries). New York: Japan Society, 1997.

Nishikawa, Kyotaro and Emily J. Sano. The Great Age of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture AD 600-1300. Fort Worth: Kimball Art Museum, 1982.

Architecture and Gardens

Bring, Mitchell. Japanese Gardens: Design and Meaning. New York: McGraw, 1981.

Coaldrake, William H. The Way of the Carpenter: Tools and Japanese Architecture. New York: Weatherhill, 1990.

Hashimoto, Fumio. Architecture in the Shoin Style: Japanese Feudal Residences. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1981.

Inoue, Mitsuo. Space in Japanese Architecture. New York: Weatherhill, 1985.

Kuitert, Wybe. Themes, Scenes and Taste in the History of Japanese Garden Art. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1988.

Nishi, Kazuo and Kazuo Hozumi. What is Japanese Architecture? Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983.

Ota, Hirotaro, ed. Japanese Architecture and Gardens. Tokyo: The Society for International Cultural Relations, 1966.

Paine, Robert T. & Alexander Soper. The Art and Architecture of Japan. 3rd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

Buddhist and Shinto Art

Cunningham, Michael R. Buddhist Treasures from Nara. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.

Guth, Christine. The Arts of Shinto. New York: Weatherhill, 1973.

Hiromitsu, Washizuka et al. Enlightenment Embodied: The Art of the Japanese Buddhist Sculptor (7th-14th centuries). New York: Japan Society, 1997.

Honolulu Academy of Arts. Visions of the Dharma: Japanese Buddhist Paintings and Prints in the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Honolulu: The Academy, 1991.

Kageyama, Haruki and Christine Guth. Shinto Arts: Nature, God and Man in Japan. New York: Japan Society, 1976.

Kurata, Bunsaku. Horyu-ji: Temple of the Exalted Law: Early Buddhist Art from Japan. New York: Japan Society, 1981.

Mino, Yutaka, et al. The Great Eastern Temple: Treasures of Japanese Art from Todaiji. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.

Nishikawa, Kyotaro and Emily J. Sano. The Great Age of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture AD 600-1300. Fort Worth: Kimball Art Museum, 1982.

Object as Insight: Japanese Buddhist Art & Ritual: Katonah Museum of Art. Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 1995.

Prints

Chibbett, David. The History of Japanese Printing and Book Illustration. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1977.

Illing, Richard The Art of Japanese Prints. New York: Gallery Books, 1983. (Ukiyoe)

Jenkins, Donald. Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1983.

Kanada, Margaret Miller. Color Woodblock Printmaking: The Traditional Method of Ukiyo-e. Tokyo: Shufunotomo, 1988. (Ukiyoe)

Kobayashi, Tadashi. Ukiyo-e: An Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Prints. Tokyo: Kodanshai International, 1997. (Ukiyoe)

Lane, Richard. Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print. New York: Dorset Press, 1982. (Ukiyoe)

Merritt, Helen. Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Early Years. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

Smith, Lawrence. Contemporary Japanese Prints: Symbols of a Society in Transition. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Lacquer Work

Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst der Stat Köln. The Splendour of Urushi: The Lacquer Art Collection at the Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne: Inventory Catalogue with Reflections on Cultural History. Köln: Stadt Köln, 1994.

Shiraishi, Masami. Rainbows and Shimmering Bridges: Contemporary Japanese Lacquerware. New York: Japan Society, 1996.

Yonemura, Ann. Japanese Lacquer. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1979.

Decorative Arts

Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke, Familiar and Unfamiliar: New Principles for Collecting. New York: Weatherhill, 1975.

Earle, Joe. Splendors of Meiji: Treasures of Imperial Japan: Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection. St. Petersburg, FL: Broughton International Publications, 1999.

Hutt, Julia. Japanese Inro. London: V & A Publications, 1997.

Impey, Oliver R. The Dragon King of the Sea: Japanese Decorative Art of the Meiji Period from the John R. Young Collection. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1991.

Japan Crafts Sourcebook: A Guide to Today's Traditional Handmade Objects. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1996.

Symmes, Edwin C. Netsuke: Japanese Life and Legend in Miniature. Rutland, Vt.: C.E. Tuttle Co., 1991.

Ceramics

Ayers, John, et al. Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750. London: Oriental Ceramic Society, 1990.

Simpson, Penny, et al. The Japanese Pottery Handbook. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1979.

Weeder, Erica H., ed. The Rise of a Great Tradition: Japanese Archaeological Ceramics of the Jomon through Heian Periods. Tokyo: Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan; New York: Japan Society, 1990.

Wilson, Richard L. Inside Japanese Ceramics: A Primer of Materials, Techniques, and Traditions. New York: Weatherhill, 1995.

Tea Ceremony

Anderson, Jennifer Lea. An Introduction to Japanese Tea Ritual. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.

Hayashiya, Seizo. Chanoyu: Japanese Tea Ceremony. New York: Japan Society, 1979.

Okakura, Kakuzo. The Book of Tea. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1926 (Several reprint editions are available).

Plutschow, Herbert E. Historical Chanoyu. Tokyo: Japan Times, 1986.

Furniture

Koizumi, Kazuko. Wakagu = Traditional Japanese Furniture. Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1996 (In Japanese with an essay and captions also in English).

Textiles

Kennedy, Alan. Japanese Costume: History and Tradition. Paris: A. Biro; New York: Distributed in the United States of America and Canada by Rizzoli International Publications, 1990

Kyoto Shoin=s Art Library of Japanese Textiles. Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1993-1994. 20 vols.

Munsterberg, Hugo. The Japanese Kimono. Hong Kong; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Yang, Sunny. Textile Art of Japan. Tokyo: Shufunotomo ; New York: Kodansha International,1989.

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