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This is a bibliography of publications (both books and journal articles) in Western languages (English, French, German and Italian, with a few Russian) on the history of Japan up to 1912.


Survey histories[edit]

H. Cortazzi 1990, The Japanese achievement (London: Sidgwick and Jackson).

W. W. Farris 2009, Japan to 1600: a social and economic history (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i).

K. F. Friday (ed.) 2012, Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

R. S. Green 2020, Shintō in the history and culture of Japan (New York: Columbia University Press).

J. W. Hall 1970, Japan: from prehistory to modern times (New York: Delacorte Press).

J. W. Hall et al. (eds) 1988-99, The Cambridge history of Japan, 6 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

M. Hane 1991, Premodern Japan: a historical survey (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press).

F. Hérail 1986, Histoire du Japon des origines à la fin de Meiji (Paris: Publications Orientalistes de France).

F. Hérail 1990, Histoire du Japon des origines à nos jours (Le Coteau: Horvath).

C. Holcombe 2011, A history of East Asia: from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

J. Murdoch 1925, A history of Japan, 3 vols. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co.).

E. O. Reischauer 1990, Japan: the story of a nation, 4th edition (New York: McGraw Hill).

G. Sansom 1958-63, A history of Japan, 3 vols. (London: Cresset Press).

C. D. Totman 1993, Early modern Japan (Berkeley : University of California Press).

C. D. Totman 1999, A history of Japan (Oxford: Blackwell).

C. D. Totman 2004, A history of Japan, 2nd edition (Oxford: Blackwell).

K. Triplett 2019, Buddhism and medicine in Japan: a topical survey (500-1600 CE) of a complex relationship (Berlin: De Gruyter).

W. M. Tsutsui 2007, A companion to Japanese history (Oxford: Blackwell).


Histories of modern Japan[edit]

W. G. Beasley 1981, The modern history of Japan [3rd edition] (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson).

W. G. Beasley 1990, The rise of modern Japan (London: Weidenfield and Nicholson).

H. Borton 1955, Japan's modern century (New York: Ronald Press).

J. Fujii 1958, Outline of Japanese history in the Meiji era (Tokyo: Obunsha).

M. Hane 1986, Modern Japan: a historical survey (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press).

H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern (eds) 1997, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

R. Hartmann 1996, Geschichte des modernen Japan. Von Meiji bis Heisei (Berlin: Akademie Verlag).

J. Hunter 1989, The emergence of modern Japan (London: Longman).

P. F. Kornicki (ed) 1998, Meiji Japan: political, economic and social history, 1868-1912, 4 vols (London: Routledge).

J. L. McClain 2002, Japan, a modern history (New York: W. W. Norton).

E. H. Norman 1940, Japan's emergence as a modern state (New York: Institute of Pacific Relations).

R. L. Sims 1991, A political history of modern Japan, 1868-1952 (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House).

R. Zöllner 2006, Geschichte Japans. Von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart (Paderborn: Schöningh).


Source books[edit]

Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies 1969-1972, The Meiji period through contemporary sources 3 vols (Tokyo).

W. T. de Bary et al (eds) 2001, Sources of Japanese tradition, vol. 1, second edition (New York: Columbia University Press).

W. T. de Bary, C. Gluck & A. E. Tiedemann (eds) 2006, Sources of Japanese tradition, vol. 2, second edition (New York: Columbia University Press).

H. A. Dettmer 1987, Einführung in das Studium der japanischen Geschichte (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft).

P. Duus (ed) 1997, The Japanese discovery of America: a brief history with documents (Boston: Bedford Books).

J. W. Heisig, T. P. Kasulis & T. C. Maraldo (eds), 2011, Japanese philosophy: a sourcebook (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i).

J. L. Huffman 2010, Modern Japan: a history in documents, 2nd edition (New York: Oxford University Press).

K. Kracht & M. Ruettermann 2001, Grundriss der Japanologie (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz).

V. Linhartová 1996, Sur un fond blanc: écrits japonais sur la peinture du IXe au XIXe siècle (Paris: Gallimard, Le Promeneur).

D. J. Lu 1974, Sources of Japanese History, 2 vols (New York: McGraw-Hill).

D. J. Lu 1997, Japan: a documentary history (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe).

H. Shirane (ed.) 2002, Early modern Japanese literature: an anthology, 1600-1900 (New York: Columbia University Press).

R. Tsunoda, W. T. de Bary & D. Keene 1958, Sources of the Japanese tradition (New York: Columbia University Press).


Reference books[edit]

G. D. Allinson 1999, The Columbia guide to modern Japanese history (New York: Columbia University Press).

A. Berque 1994, Dictionnaire de la civilisation japonaise (Paris: Hazan).

W. M. Bodiford 2006, ‘A Chronology of Religion in Japan’, in P. L. Swanson and C. Chilson, eds., The Nanzan guide to Japanese religions (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press), pp. 395–432.

R. J. Bowring & P. F. Kornicki (eds) 1993, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

P. Corradini 2008, 'New Japanese Chronological Tabels [sic]', Revista degli studi orientali 79, supplement 2.

W. E. Deal 2007, Handbook to life in medieval and early modern Japan (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

K. F. Friday (ed) 2017. Routledge Handbook of premodern Japanese History (London: Routledge).

J. L. Huffman (ed.) 1998, Modern Japan: an encyclopedia of history, culture and nationalism (New York: Garland).

J. E. Hunter 1984, Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History (Berkeley: University of California Press).

S. Iwao 1978, Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History, trans. Burton Watson (Tokyo: International Society for Educational Information).

The Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, 9 vols (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1983).

G. Leinss 2007, ‘Japanische Lunisolarkalender der Jahre Jōkyō 2 (1685) bis Meiji 6 (1873) Zeicheninventar,’ Japonica Humboldtiana 11: 51-76.

S. D. B. Picken 2011, Historical Dictionary of Shinto, 2nd edition (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press).

J. Piggott, I. Smits, I. van Put, M. Vieilard-Baron & C. von Verschuer (eds) 2006, Dictionnaire des sources du Japon classique/ Dictionary of sources of classical Japan (Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Japonaises).

J. M. Pinto dos Santos 2002, ‘Ieyasu (1542-1616) versus Ieyasu (1543-1616): calendrical conversion tables for the 16th and 17th centuries’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 5: 9-26.

S. Saaler & C. W. A. Szpilman (eds) 2017, Routledge handbook of modern Japanese history (Farnham UK: Routledge).

W. M. Tsutsui 2009, A companion to Japanese history (Oxford: Blackwell).


Bibliographies[edit]

N. R. Adami 1991, Russischsprachige Japanliteratur: ein Auswahlverzeichnis, 1980-1990. Literature on Japan in Russian: a selective bibliography (München: Iudicium Verlag).

P. Beillevaire 1993, Le Japon en langue française (Paris: Editons Kimé).

S. Formanek & P. Getreuer 1989, Verzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Japan-Schrifttums 1980-1987 (Vienna).

P. Getreuer 1991, Verzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Japan-Schrifttums 1988-1989 (Vienna).

W. Haenisch & H. Praesent 1940, Bibliographie von Japan 1936-1937 (Leipzig: K. W. Hierseman).

F. Hérail 1986, Bibliographie Japonaise (Paris: Publications orientalistes de France).

I. Hijiya-Kirschnereit (ed) 1999, Kulturbeziehungen zwischen Japan und dem Westen seit 1853. Eine annotierte Bibliographie (München: Iudicium Verlag).

Japan Institut in Berlin & Deutsches Forschungsinstitut 1940, Bibliographischer Alt-Japan-Katalog 1542-1853 (Kyoto: Deutsches Forschunginstitut).

Joseishi sőgő kenkyũkai, ed., Nihon joseishi kenkyū bunken mokuroku, vol 3 (Tokyo Daigaku shuppankai, 1994), pp. 185-91 (bibliography of Western writing on Japanese women).

T. Kampen 1996, 'Die Entwicklung der Ostasienforschung in der DDR: Diplomarbeiten und Dissertationen über China, Japan und Korea (1949-1990)', Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 20: 3-14.

E. S. Kirby 1981, Russian studies of Japan (London: Macmillan).

K. Kleiber 1995, Verzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Japan-Schrifttums 1990-1991 (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften).

K. Kracht 1999, Japanese thought in the Tokugawa era: a bibliography of Western-language materials (Wiesbaden: Harrassowtiz Verlag).

J. Kreiner (ed) 1996, Sources of Ryukyuan history and culture in European collections, Monographien aus dem Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien der Philipp-Franz-Siebold-Stifung, 13 (Munich: Iudicium).

O. Nachod 1928, Bibliography of the Japanese empire 1906-1926, 2 vols (London: Edward Goldston).

O. Nachod 1931, Bibliographie von Japan 1927-1929 (Leipzig: K. W. Hierseman).

O. Nachod 1935, Bibliographie von Japan 1930-1932 (Leipzig: K. W. Hierseman).

G. Pauer 1999, Verzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Japan-Schrifttums 1992-1993 (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften).

R. Perren 1992, Japanese studies from prehistory to 1990: a bibliographic guide (Manchester: Manchester University Press).

A. F. Pinto 2001, ‘Bibliography of Luso-Japanese studies’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 3: 129-152.

H. Praesent & W. Haenisch 1937, Bibliographie von Japan 1933-1935 (Leipzig: K. W. Hierseman).

F. J. Shulman 1970, Japan and Korea; doctoral dissertations,1877-1969 (Chicago).

F. J. Shulman 1976, Doctoral dissertations on Japan and Korea, 1969-74; a classified bibliographical listing of international research (Chicago).

F. J. Shulman 1982, Doctoral dissertations on Japan and on Korea, 1969-79; an annotated bibliography of studies in Western languages (Seattle).

F.J. Shulman 1989, Japan, World Bibliography Series 103 (Oxford : Clio Press): pp.46-119 on history.

H .Webb 1965, Research in Japanese sources: a guide (New York: Columbia University Press).

F. von Wenckstern 1895, A bibliography of the Japanese empire (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.).

F. von Wenckstern 1907, Bibliography of the Japanese empire [vol 2] (Tokyo: Maruzen).


Historiography[edit]

P. Ackermann 1997, 'Open questions concerning method in the study of Japanese culture', Asiatische Studien Etudes Asiatiques 51: 23-34.

G. Akita 1977, 'An examination of E. H. Norman's scholarship', Journal of Japanese Studies 3:375-419.

G. Akita 2008, Evaluating evidence: a positivist approach to reading sources on modern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

P. J. Asquith & A. Kalland 1997, Japanese images of nature: cultural perspectives (NIAS/Curzon Press).

J. C. Baxter and J. A. Fogel (eds) 2007, Writing histories in Japan: texts and their transformations from ancient times through the Meiji era (Tokyo: International Research Center for Japanese Studies).

J. R. Bentley 2002, Historiographical trends in early Japan (Edwin Mellen Press).

M. E. Berry 2012, 'Defining “Early Modern”', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

J-P. Berthon, A. Bouchy & P.F. Souyri (eds) 2001, Identités, marges, mediations. Regards croisés sur la société japonaise (Paris: Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient).

H. P. Bix 1978, 'The pitfalls of scholastic criticism: a reply to Norman's critics', Journal of Japanese Studies 4:391-411.

L. Blusse 1979, 'Japanese historiography and European sources', in P. C. Emmer & H. L. Wesseling, eds, Reappraisals in overseas history (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff).

R. E. Breuker 2005, ‘Contested objectivities: Ikeuchi Hiroshi, Kim Sanggi and the tradition of oriental history’, East Asian History 29: 69-106.

J. S. Brownlee 1983, History in the service of the Japanese nation (University of Toronto-York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia).

J. S. Brownlee 1991, Political thought in Japanese historical writing. From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi yoron (1712) (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).

J. S. Brownlee 1997, Japanese historians and the national myths, 1600-1945: the age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press/University of Tokyo Press).

M. Collcutt, Kato Mikio & R. P. Toby (eds) 2007, Japan and its worlds: Marius Jansen and the internationalization of Japanese studies (Tokyo: I-House Press).

S. Conrad 1999, 'What time is Japan? problem of comparative (intercultural) historiography', History and theory 38: 67-83.

S. Conrad 1999, 'World history, Japanese style: reading the Japanese past through a European lens', Storia della storiografia 35: 97-112.

A. M. Craig 1970, 'Introduction: perspectives on personality in Japanese history', in A. M. Craig & D. H. Shively, eds, Personality in Japanese History (Berkeley: University of California Press).

D. Denoon et al, (eds) 1996, Multicultural Japan: paleolithic to postmodern (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

E. Dufourmont 2021, ‘Japan, a country without revolution? Uses of kakumei and historical debates in the Meiji era (1868-1912), in A. Cheng & S. Kumar, eds, Historians of Asia on political violence (Paris: Collège de France).

G. Figal 1996, 'How to jibunshi: making and marketing self-histories of Showa among the masses in postwar Japan', Journal of Asian Studies 55: 902-933.

E. Fowler 1996, 'Reflections on hegemony, Japanology and oppositional criticism', Journal of Japanese Studies 22: 401-412.

P. Francks 2007, 'Consuming rice: food, ‘traditional’ products and the history of consumption in Japan', Japan Forum 19: 147-168.

H. Fuess 1997, 'A golden age of fatherhood? Parent-child relations in Japanese historiography', Monumenta Nipponica 52: 381-440.

S. Garon 1994, ‘Rethinking modernization and modernity in Japanese history’, Journal of Asian Studies 53: 346-366.

A. Gerow 1998, 'Consuming Asia, consuming Japan: the new neonationalistic revisionism in Japan', Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 30(2): 30-36.

C. Gluck 1998, 'House of Mirrors: American History-Writing on Japan', in A. Molho & G. S. Wood, eds., Imagined histories: American historians interpret the past (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press).

A. E. Goble 2012, 'Defining “Medieval”', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

U. Goch 1994, 'Zur Frau in der japanischen Geschichtsschreibung', Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 18: 87-117.

H. Inokuchi & Y. Nozaki 1998, 'Japanese education, nationalism and Ienaga Saburo's court challenges', Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 30(2): 37-46.

Y. Iwakabe 2018, ‘The Compilation of Imperial Annals by the Imperial Household Ministry since the Meiji Era: The Creation of a New Tradition’, Acta Asiatica 114.

T. Keirstead 1998, 'Inventing medieval Japan: the history and politics of natinal identity', Medieval history journal 1: 47-71.

K. Kijima 1998, 'The Japan-South Korea Joint Study Group on history text books and the continuing legacy of Japanese colonialism', Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 30(2): 47-52.

R. Kowner 2014, From white to yellow: the Japanese in European racial thought, 1300-1735 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press).

J. Kreiner 1989, 'Das Bild Japans in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte', Japanstudien 1: 13-42.

J. Kreiner (ed) 1996, The impact of traditional thought on present-day Japan (Munich: Iudicium Verlag).

G. McCormack 1998, 'The Japanese movement to "correct" history', Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 30(2): 16-23.

A. Macfarlane 1997, ' "Japan" in an English mirror', Modern Asian Studies 31: 763-806.

M. McKinney 2019, Travel with a writing brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyōshū to Bashō (London: Penguin Books).

M. C. Migliore 2018, ‘Notes on diplomatics and palaeography in ancient and medieval Japan’, Rivista degli studi orientali 90: 179-191.

R. H. Minear 1980, 'Orientalism and the study of Japan', Journal of Asian Studies 39:507-517.

M. Miyoshi & H. Harootunian (eds) 1988, 'Postmodernism and Japan', South Atlantic Quarterly 87.3:387-672.

B. Molony and K. Uno (eds.) 2005, Gendering modern Japanese history (Boston, Mass.: Harvard University Press).

T. Morris-Suzuki 1994, 'Creating the frontier: border, identity and history in Japan's far north', East Asian History 7: 1-24.

T. Morris-Suzuki 1998, Re-inventing Japan: time, space, nation (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe).

Y. Murakami 1984, 'Ie society as a pattern of civilization', Journal of Japanese Studies 10: 279-363.

Y. Murakami 1985, 'Ie society as a pattern of civilization: response to criticisms', Journal of Japanese Studies 11: 401-421.

K. Nagahara 1984, 'Reflections on recent trends in Japanese historiography', Journal of Japanese Studies 10: 167-183.

T. Nakami 2018, ‘Aspects of the Compilation of Shih-lu / Sillok / Thực Lục / Jitsuroku in East Asia’, Acta Asiatica 114.

M. Nakamura 1998, 'The history textbook controversy and nationalism', Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 30(2): 24-29.

L. Roberts 2007, 'The diverse political languages of Edo-period histories', in J. C Baxter and J. A. Fogel, eds, Writing histories in Japan: texts and their transformations from ancient times through the Meiji era (Kyoto: International Research Centre for Japanese Studies), pp. 223-252.

D. F. Schley 2016, ‘Zum Wandel der japanischen Geschichtsschreibung im 10. Jahrhundert am Beispiel der Erzählung von Taira no Masakado im Shōmonki’, Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 39: 171-200.

B. Steger 2017, ‘Japanese historic “timescapes”: an anthropological approach’, KronoScope 17.1: 37-60.

R. J. Steineck 2017, ‘Time in old Japan: in search of a paradigm’, KronoScope 17.1: 16-36.

K-J. Song 2001, ‘Korean sources for the historical study of China, Japan and other areas’, Seoul journal of Korean studies 14: 3-35.

S. Suzuki 2007, ‘The reformulation of the concept and philosophy of history in modern Japan’, in J. C Baxter and J. A. Fogel, eds, Writing histories in Japan: texts and their transformations from ancient times through the Meiji era (Kyoto: International Research Centre for Japanese Studies), pp. 253-298.

J. A. Thomas 1996, 'Raw photographs and cooked history: photography's ambiguous place in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo', East Asian History 12: 121-134.

J. A. Thomas 2001, 'The cage of nature: modernity's history in Japan', History and theory 40: 16-36.

H. Tomida 1996, 'The evolution of Japanese women's historiography', Japan Forum 8: 189-204.

H. Tonomura, A. Walthall & H. Wakita (eds), Women and class in Japanese history (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan).

K. Triplett 2019, Buddhism and medicine in Japan: a topical survey (500-1600 CE) of a complex relationship (Berlin: De Gruyter).

C. Ueno, Nationalism and gender, trans. Yamamoto (Melbourne, Trans Pacific Press).

K. Wigen 1995, 'Mapping early modernity: geographical meditations on a comparative concept', Early Modern Japan 5.ii: 1-13.

G. M. Wilson 1980, 'Time and history in Japan', American historical review 84: 557-571.

K. Yamamura et al 1985, 'Symposium on Ie society', Journal of Japanese Studies 11: 1-69.

L. Yoshikawa 2017, Making history matter: Kuroita Katsumi and the construction of imperial Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).


History of medicine[edit]

G. Achiwa 1969, Herman Boerhaave 1668-1738. His life, thought and influence upon Japanese medicine in the Period of Dutch Learning (Tokyo: Ogata Bookstore).

T. D. Amos 2010, ‘Outcastes and medical practices in Tokugawa Japan’, Early Modern Japan 18: 5-25.

T. Baelz (ed.) 1974, Awakening Japan: The Diary of a German Doctor: Edwin Baelz (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press).

H. Beukers et al (eds) 1991, Red-hair medicine: Dutch-Japanese medical relations (Amsterdam: Rodopi B. V.).

H. Beukers 1998, The mission of Hippocrates in Japan: the contribution of Philipp Franz von Siebold (Amsterdam: Foundation for Four Centuries of Netherlands-Japan Relations).

L. Blusse, W. Remmelink & I. Smits (eds) 2000, Bridging the divide. 400 years: The Netherlands-Japan (Leiden: Hotei Publishing).

J. Z. Bowers 1970, Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).

J. Z. Bowers 1980, When the twain meet: the rise of Western medicine in Japan (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).

J. Braun 2010, Manase Gensaku (1549-1631): “Wesentliche Punkte für ein langes Leben” (Enju satsuyô). Ein Beitrag zur Tradition der Lebenspflege im Japan der Tokugawa-Zeit (Norderstedt: GRIN).

S. L. Burns 2002, ‘The body as text: Confucianism, reproduction and gender in Tokugawa Japan’, in B. A. Elman, J. B. Duncan & H. Ooms, eds, Rethinking Confucianism: past and present in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam (UCLA Asia Pacific Monograph Series).

S. L. Burns 2008, ‘Nanayama Jundō at work: a village doctor and medical knowledge in nineteenth-century Japan’, East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine 29: 61-82.

S. L. Burns 2019, ‘’Kingdom of the Sick: A History of Leprosy and Japan’’ (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i).

U. A. Casal 1962, ‘Acupuncture, cautery and massage in Japan’, Folklore studies 21: 221-235.

F. Cryns 2005, ‘Translation of Western embryological thought in the Edo period: Tsuboi Shindō and Malpighi’s observations of fertilized eggs’, Japan Review 17: 55-9.

B. A. Elman 2008, ‘Sinophiles and Sinophobes in Tokugawa Japan: politics, classicism, and medicine during the eighteenth century’, East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal 2.1: 93-121.

W. W. Farris 1993, 'Diseases of the premodern period in Japan', in K. F. Kiple, ed., The Cambridge World history of human disease (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 376-85.

H. Fujimoto 2020, 'Miners, Benevolent Government, and Administration: A History of Medical Policy in Tokugawa Japan', ‘’East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine’’ 51/52: 17–49.

A. J. C. Geerts 1882, 'Medicine in Japan', Lancet 640-641.

A. J. C. Geerts 1882, 'Medical literature in Japan', Medical news 8.

A. E. Goble 2001, ‘Medicine and new knowledge in medieval Japan: Kajiwara Shōzen and the Man’anpō’, Nihon ishigaku zasshi 47.1: 226-192, 47.2: 452-432.

A. E. Goble 2005, ‘War and injury: the emergence of wound medicine in medieval Japan’, Monumenta Nipponica 60: 297-338.

A. E. Goble 2008, 'Rhythms of Medicine and Community in Late Sixteenth Century Japan: Yamashina Tokitsune (1543-1611) and his Patients', ‘’East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine’’ 29: 13–61.

A. E. Goble 2009, ‘Images of illness: interpreting the medieval scrolls of afflictions’, in G. B. Berger, A. E. Goble, L. F. Harrington, G. C. Hurst, eds, Currents in medieval Japanese history: essays in honor of Jeffrey P. Mass (Los Angeles: Figueroa Press).

A. E. Goble 2009, ‘Kajiwara Shōzen (1265-1337) and the medical Silk Road: Chinese and Arabic influences on medieval Japanese medicine’, in A. E. Goble, K. R. Robinson and H. Wakabayashi (eds), Tools of culture: Japan’s cultural, intellectual, medical, and technological contacts in East Asia, 1000s-1500s (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Association for Asian Studies), pp. 231-257.

A. E. Goble 2009, ‘Yamashina Tokitsune and patient records’, in Machi Senjūrō, ed., Wākushoppu Manase Dōsan: koisho no kanbun o yomu (Nishōgakusha Daigaku 21 seiki COE puroguramu), pp. 1-73 (=pp. 288-360).

A. E. Goble 2011, Confluences of medicine in medieval Japan Buddhist healing: Chinese knowledge, Islamic formulas, and wounds of war (Honolulu: Hawai'i University Press).

A. E. Goble, K. R. Robinson and H. Wakabayashi (eds) 2009, Tools of culture: Japan’s cultural, intellectual, medical, and technological contacts in East Asia, 1000s-1500s (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Association for Asian Studies).

B. Gramlich-Oka 2009, 'The Body Economic: Japan’s Cholera Epidemic of 1858 in Popular Discourse', ‘’East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine’’ 30 32–73.

B. Gramlich-Oka 2010, ‘A domain doctor and shogunal policies’, in B. Gramlich-Oka & G. Smits, eds, Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

D. C. Greene 1913, ‘The life of Takano Nagahide’, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 41: 390-492.

W. Hansen 2008, ‘The Dao of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Nativist Healing: A Chinese Herbal Supplement to Faith Healing,’ Early Modern Japan 16: 92-103.

T. Harper 2012, ‘The Kurisaki school of sword wound surgery: from Sengoku to Genroku; Nagasaki to Edo (via Manila)’, in A. Beerens and M. Teeuwen, eds, Uncharted waters: intellectual life in the Edo period. Essays in honour of W. J. Boot (Leiden: Brill), pp. 221-240.

H. E. Henkes 1984, 'Dutch influence on Japanese ophthalmology in the nineteenth century', L'histoire d'Ophthalmologie internationale 3: 151-64.

A. Horiuchi 2003, ‘When science develops outside state patronage: Dutch studies in Japan at the turn of the nineteenth century', Early science and medicine 8: 148-72.

P. Huard & Z. Ohya 1963, Panorama de la medicine japonaise traditionelle, Biologie medicale, hors serie.

P. Huard, Z. Ohya & M. Wong 1974, La médicine japonaise des origines a nos jours (Paris: Les editions Roger Dacosta).

M. Izuo 2004, ‘Medical history: Seishu Hanaoka and his success in breast cancer surgery under general anesthesia two hundred years ago’, Breast Cancer 11(4): 319-24.

A. B. Jannetta 1987, Epidemics and mortality in early modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

A. B. Jannetta 1999, ‘Problems of classifying death in nineteenth-century Japan’, Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences 54: 285-95

A. B. Jannetta 2007, The vaccinators: smallpox, medical knowledge, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

A. B. Jannetta 2009, ‘Jennerian vaccination and the creation of a national public health agenda in Japan, 1850–1900’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 83: 125–40.

A. Jannetta & E. Nakamura 2012, ‘Translating Medical Knowledge: Japan's First Medical Journal - Taisei meii ikō’, Historia scientiarum 22: 68-87.

W. Johnston 1995, The modern epidemic : a history of tuberculosis in Japan (Cambridge MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University).

W. Johnston 2009, ‘Sexually transmitted diseases and demographic change in early modern Japan’, East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine 30: 74-92.

Journal of the Japan-Netherlands Institute vol 1 (1989), 'Papers of the workshop on the history of the medical exchange between Japan and the Netherlands'.

A. Koch 2013, ‘Sexual healing: regulating male sexuality in Edo-period books on “nurturing life”’, International Journal of Asian Studies 10:143–170.

P. F. Kornicki 1997, 'Japanese medical and other books at the Wellcome Institute', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60: 489-510.

S. Kuriyama 1992, 'Between mind and eye: Japanese anatomy in the eighteenth century', in C. Leslie & A. Young, eds, Paths to Asian medical knowledge (Berkeley: University of California Press), pp. 21-43.

S. Kuriyama 1997, ‘The historical origins of katakori’, Japan Review 9: 127-149.

M. F. Low 1996, ‘Medical representations of the body in Japan: gender, class, and discourse in the eighteenth century’, Annals of science 53: 345-359.

M. Low 2005, Building a modern Japan: science, technology, and medicine in the Meiji era and beyond (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

G. Lukacs 2009, Kaitai Shinsho, the single most famous Japanese book of medicine & Geka Sôden, an early very important manuscript on surgery ('t Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graaf).

G. Lukacs 2009, Extensive marginalia in old Japanese medical books (Cordillera, Paraguay: J.-P. Wayenborgh).

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Environmental history[edit]

G. L. Barnes 2012, ' Japan’s natural setting', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

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B. Stoltz 2014, Bad water: nature, pollution, and politics in Japan, 1870–1950 (Durham NC: Duke University Press).

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M. Forrer 1985, Eirakuya Tōshirō, publisher at Nagoya (Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben).

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H. Johnson 2005, Western influence on Japanese art: the Akita Ranga art school and foreign books (Amsterdam: Hotei Books).

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G. A. Keyworth 2017, ‘Copying for the kami: the manuscript set of the Buddhist Canon held by Matsuno’o shrine’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 44: 161-190.

H. Kikuchi 2010, 'Letting the copy out of the window: a history of copying texts in Japan', East Asian Library Journal 14.1: 120-157.

K. Kimbrough & S. Shimazaki (eds) 2011, Publishing the stage: print and performance in early modern Japan (Boulder: Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder).

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S. Koda 1939, 'Notes sur la presse jesuite au Japon', Monumenta Nipponica 2: 374-85.

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P. F. Kornicki 1990, ‘Provincial publishing in the Tokugawa period’, in Yu-Ying Brown, ed., Japanese Studies, British Library Occasional Papers 11 (London), pp.188-197.

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P. F. Kornicki 1998a, The book in Japan: a cultural history from the beginnings to the nineteenth century (Leiden: Brill).

P. F. Kornicki 1998b, ‘Agriculture, food and famine in Japan’, in P. K. Fox, ed., Cambridge University Library: the great collections (Cambridge University Press), pp. 107-117.

P. F. Kornicki 2001a, ‘Overcoming the limitations of woodblock printing in Japan’, in J. Michon & J.-Y. Mollier, eds, Les mutations du livre et de l’édition dans le monde du XVIIIe siècle à l’an 2000 (Laval, Quebec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval), 392-8.

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P. F. Kornicki 2007, ‘New books for old’, Monumenta Nipponica 62: 97-105.

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P. F. Kornicki 2013, ‘Hayashi Razan’s vernacular translations and commentaries’, in L. Wong, ed., Towards a History of Translating: In Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: CUHK), pp. 189-212.

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Pre-Nara[edit]

For the English-language journal of the Japanese Archaeological Association, the Japanese journal of archaeology, click here.

General[edit]

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T. Akima 1982, 'The songs of the dead: poetry, drama and ancient death rituals of Japan', Journal of Asian Studies 41 :485-509.

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G. L. Barnes 1990, 'The "idea of prehistory" in Japan', Antiquity 64: 929-40.

G. L. Barnes 1993, China, Korea, Japan: the rise of civilization in East Asia (London: Thames & Hudson).

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Archaeology - Jōmon and Yayoi[edit]

G. L. Barnes 1988, Protohistoric Yamato: archaeology of the first Japanese state (Center for Japanese Studies/Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor).

G. L. Barnes (ed) 1990, Hoabinhian; Jomon, Yayoi; early Korean states (Oxford: Oxbow Books).

G. L. Barnes 2003, State formation in Japan: essays on Yayoi and Kofun period archaeology (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

W. Edwards 1983, 'Event and process in the founding of Japan: the Horserider Theory in archaeological perspective', Journal of Japanese Studies 9: 265-95.

J. Habu 2004, Ancient Jomon of Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

M. Hudson & G. L. Barnes 1991, 'Yoshinogari: a Yayoi settlement in northern Kyushu', Monumenta Nipponica 46: 211-235.

K. Imamura 1996, Prehistoric Japan: new perspectives on insular East Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

S. Kaner 2010, ‘Long-term innovation: the appearance and spread of pottery in the Japanese archipelago’, in P. Jordan and M. Zvelebil, eds, Ceramics before farming: the dispersal of pottery among prehistoric Eurasian hunter-gatherers (Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press; University College London Institute of Archaeology Publications), 93-120.

S. Kaner 2010, ‘The archaeology of religion and ritual in the prehistoric Japanese archipelago’, in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

S. Kaner 2011, ‘Place and identity in Jōmon Japan’, in A. Cannon, ed, Structured worlds: the archaeology of hunter-gatherer thought and action (Sheffield: Equinox Publishing).

S. Kaner 2017, ‘The Jōmon and Yayoi: premodern to hypermodern’, in K. F. Friday, ed., Routledge Handbook of premodern Japanese History (London: Routledge).

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J. E. Kidder 1968, Prehistoric Japanese arts: Jomon pottery (Kodansha).

J. E. Kidder 1985, 'The archaeology of the early horse-riders in Japan' Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 20: 89-123.

J. E. Kidder 1987, 'The Fujinoki tomb and its grave-goods', Monumenta Nipponica 42:57-87.

J. E. Kidder 1989, 'The Fujinoki sarcophagus', Monumenta Nipponica 44:415-460.

K. Mizoguchi 2002, An Archaeological History of Japan: 30,000 B.C. to A.D. 700 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press).

K. Mizoguchi 2014, The Archaeology of Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

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R. J. Pearson et al. 1986, Windows on the Japanese past: studies in archaeology and prehistory (Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan).

R. J. Pearson 2013, Ancient Ryukyu: an archaeological study of island communities (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

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K. Tsuboi 1992a, 'Issues in Japanese archaeology', Acta Asiatica 63: 1-20.

K. Tsuboi 1992b, 'The excavation of ancient palaces and capitals', Acta Asiatica 63: 87-98.


Continental connections[edit]

C. T. Allen 2003, ‘Prince Misahun: Silla’s hostage to Wa from the late fourth century’, Korean Studies 27: 1-15.

J. K. Ash 1971, 'Korea in the making of the early Japanese state', Journal of the Social Sciences and the Humanities (Seoul) 35: 33-48.

W. Edwards 1983, 'Event and process in the founding of Japan: the Horserider Theory in archaeological perspective', Journal of Japanese Studies 9: 265-95.

J. H. Grayson 2002, ‘Susa-no-o: a culture hero from Korea’, Japan Froum 14: 465-487.

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J. H. Grayson 1980, 'The role of early Korean Buddhism in the history of East Asia', Asiatische Studien Etudes Asiatiques 34.2:51-68.

T. Hatada 1979, 'An interpretation of the King Kwanggaet'o inscription', Korean studies 3: 1-17.

K. Hirano 1977, 'The Yamato state and Korea in the fourth and fifth centuries', Acta Asiatica 31: 51-82.

C. Holcombe 1999, 'Trade-buddhism: maritime trade, immigration, and the Buddhist landfall in early Japan', Journal of the American Oriental Society 119: 280-292.

S-h. Kim 1985, 'Origins of the Japanese polity: a textual reconsideration of the horse-rider theory', Korea Journal 25.12: 4-23.

J. R. Kirkland 1981, 'The horseriders in Korea: a critical evaluation of a historical theory', Korean Studies 5:109-128.

Y. S. Kuno, 1937 & 1940, Japanese expansion on the Asiatic continent: a study in the history of Japan with special reference to her international relations with China, Korea, and Russia, 2 volumes (University of California Press, Berkeley).

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Z. Wang 2005, Ambassadors from the islands of immortals China-Japan relations in the Han-Tang period (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

Yamatai/Yamato[edit]

G. L. Barnes 1988, Protohistoric Yamato: archaeology of the first Japanese state (Center for Japanese Studies/Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor).

D. M. Brown 1993, 'The Yamato kingdom', in Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 1.

W. Edwards 1996, 'In pursuit of Himiko: postwar archaeology and the location of Yamatai', Monumenta Nipponica 51: 53-80.

W. Edwards 1999, 'Mirrors on ancient Yamato. The Kurozuka Kofun discovery and the question of Yamatai', Monumenta Nipponica 54: 75-110.

J. E. Kidder 1991, 'Yoshinogari and the Yamatai problem', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (4th series) 6: 115-140.

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J. Young 1957, The location of Yamatai: a case study in Japanese historiography,720-1945, The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science LXXV No.2 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).

Shōtoku Taishi[edit]

H. Bohner 1940, Shotoku Taishi, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens Supplementband 15 (Tokyo).

M. Como 2008, Shōtoku: ethnicity, ritual, and violence in the Japanese Buddhist tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

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Nara period[edit]

General[edit]

K. Asakawa 1903, The early institutional life of Japan: a study in the reform of 645 AD (Tokyo: Shueisha; reprinted by Paragon Books, New York, 1963).

G. L. Barnes 1986, 'Jichao, Tonghao: peer relations in East Asia', in A. C. Renfrew & J. Cherry, eds, Peer polity interaction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

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G. L. Barnes 2006, ‘Women in the Shoku Nihongi: mates, mothers, mystics, militarists, maids, manufacturers, monarchs, messengers and managers', Durham University East Asia Papers #20.

G. L. Barnes 2012, 'The Emergence of political rulership and the state in early Japan', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

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M. Bauer 2020, The History of the Fujiwara House: an introduction to and translation of the Tōshi Kaden (Folkestone: Renaissance Books).

M. Bauer 2020, ‘Tracing Yamashinadera’, Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu 5: 17-28.

R. Bender 1979, 'The Hachiman cult and the Dokyo incident', Monumenta Nipponica 34:125-153.

R. Bender 2009, “Performative loci of the imperial edicts in Nara Japan, 749-70”, Oral Tradition 24: 249-268.

R. Bender 2010, ‘Changing the calendar: royal political theology and the suppression of the Tachibana Naramaro conspiracy of 757’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 37: 223–245.

R. Bender 2012, 'Emperor, aristocracy, and the ritsuryō state: court politics in Nara', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

R. Bender 2012, ‘Shoku Nihongi - the year Tenpyō Shōhō 1: a translation with introduction and annotations’, PMJS Papers.

R. Bender 2015, Nara Japan, 749-757: a translation from the Shoku Nihongi (Amazon).

R. Bender 2016, ‘Shinto in Nara Japan, 749-770: deities, priests, offerings, prayers, and edicts in Shoku Nihongi’, PMJS Papers.

R. Bender 2016, Nara Japan, 758-763: a translation from the Shoku Nihongi (Amazon).

R. Bender 2016, Nara Japan, 764-766: a translation from the Shoku Nihongi (Amazon).

R. Bender 2016, Nara Japan, 767-770: a translation from the Shoku Nihongi (Amazon).

R. Bender 2018, The imperial edicts in the Shoku Nihongi: a translation with text and transliteration (Amazon).

R. Bender 2020, ‘Japan’, in A companion to the global middle ages (Amsterdam University Press).

M. Bingenheimer 2001, 'Biographical Dictionary of the Japanese Student Monks of the Seventh and Early Eighth Centuries: their travels to China and their role in the transmission of Buddhism', Buddhist studies 4: 1-138.

F. G. Bock 1985, Classical learning and Taoist practices in early Japan, Center for Asian Studies occasional Paper 17 (Arizona State University).

R. W. Bodman 2020, Poetics and prosody in early mediaeval China: a study and translation of Kūkai’s 空海 ‘Bunkyō Hifuron’ 文鏡秘府論 (Basel: Quirin Press).

R.S. Borgen 1975, 'The origins of the Sugawara: a history of the Haji family', Monumenta Nipponica 30:405-422.

R. S. Borgen 1986, Sugawara no Michizane and the early Heian court (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

D. M. Brown 1993, 'The Yamato kingdom', in Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 1.

A. Ceugniet 2000, L'office des études supérieures au Japon du VIIIe au XIIe siècles et les dissertations de fin d'étude (Geneva: Droz).

W. H. Coaldrake 1991, 'City planning and palace architecture in the creation of the Nara political order: the accommodation of place and purpose at Heijo-kyo', East Asian History 1:37-54.

A. Cobbing 2009, Kyushu: Gateway to Japan (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

M. Como 2003, ‘Ethnicity, sagehood, and the politics of literacy in Asuka Japan’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 30: 61-84.

M. Como 2005, ‘Silkworms and consorts in Nara Japan,’ Asian Folklore Studies 63.1: 111-131.

M. Como 2007, ‘Horses, dragons, and disease in Nara Japan’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34: 393-415.

M. Como 2015, ‘Daoist deities in ancient Japan: household deities, jade women and popular religious practice’, in J. L. Richey, ed, Daoism in Japan: Chinese traditions and their influence on Japanese religious culture (London: Routledge), pp. 24-36.

E. A. Cranston 1993, 'Asuka and Nara culture: literacy, literature, and music', in Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 1.

A. Defrance 2019, ‘Une traduction des fragments du Recueil thematique des enseignements prives Kibi no Makibi’, Asiatische Studien Etudes Asiatiques 73: 219-256.

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Buddhism and Buddhist temples[edit]

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Ritsuryō system[edit]

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Ancient texts, mokkan and writing[edit]

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K. A. Popova 1969, Drevnie fudoki (Moscow: Nauka).

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K. A. Popova 1989, Svod zakonov Taiho ritsuryo (Moscow: Nauka).

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Female rulers[edit]

M. Y. Aoki 1991b, 'Jitō tennō: the female sovereign', in C. I. Mulhern, ed., Heroic with grace: legendary women of Japan (New York: M. E. Sharpe Inc.).

T. Araki 2003, 'Asian female sovereigns and the Empress Wu', Sino-Japanese Studies 15: 145-147.

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J. R. Piggott 2003, ‘The last classical female sovereign: Kōken-Shōtoku Tennō’, in D. Ko, J. Kim Haboush & J. R. Piggott, eds, Women and Confucian cultures in premodern China, Korea, and Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

K. Takagi 2018, The eight female emperors of Japan: a brief introduction to their lives and legacies, trans. by M. Hamada et al. (Tokyo: Fuzambo International).

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Japan and the continent[edit]

J. K. Ash 1971, 'Korea in the making of the early Japanese state', Journal of the Social Sciences and the Humanities (Seoul) 35: 33-48.

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J. I. Crump 1953, 'Tang penal law in early Japan', Occasional Papers 4 (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan).

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The provinces and the continent[edit]

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C. von Verschuer 1997, 'Jôjin découvre la ville de Hangzhou en 1072', in J. Pigeot & H.O. Rotermund, eds, La vase de Béryl: Études sur le Japon et la Chine en hommage à Bernard Frank (Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier).

C. von Verschuer 2006, Across the perilous sea: Japanese trade with China and Korea from the seventh to the sixteenth centuries, trans K. L. Hunter (Ithaca NY: Cornell East Asia Series).

C. von Verschuer 2007, ‘Life of commoners in the provinces: the Owari no gebumi of 988’, in M. Adolphson, E. Kamens, & S. Matsumoto, eds., Heian Japan, centers and peripheries (Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press).

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C. von Verschuer 2010, 'Bodhisena and the Encounters of Indians and Japanese in 8th to 11th Centuries', in Kamal Sheel, Lalji Shravak, Charles Willemen, eds., India on the Silk Road (Delhi: Buddhist World Press), pp. 167-196.

C. von Verschuer 2012, 'The Provinces and the Public Economy, 700-1100', in Karl Friday, ed., Japan emerging, introductionary essays on premodern Japanese History (Boulder CO: Westview Press), pp. 157-166.

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Buddhism and warrior monks[edit]

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M. S. Adolphson 2006, The teeth and claws of the Buddha: monastic warriors and Sōhei in Japanese history (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i).

M. S. Adolphson 2007, ‘Institutional diversity and religious integration: the establishment of temple networks in the Heian age’, in M. Adolphson, E. Kamens, & S. Matsumoto, eds., Heian Japan, centers and peripheries (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i).

M. S. Adolphson 2009, ‘Benkei’s ancestors: monastic warriors in Heian Japan’, in G. B. Berger, A. E. Goble, L. F. Harrington, G. C. Hurst, eds, Currents in medieval Japanese history: essays in honor of Jeffrey P. Mass (LA: Figueroa Press).

M. S. Adolphson 2012, 'Aristocratic Buddhism', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

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M. Bingenheimer 2001. 'Biographical Dictionary of the Japanese Student Monks of the Seventh and Early Eighth Centuries: their travels to China and their role in the transmission of Buddhism', Buddhist studies 4: 1-138.

H. Buck-Albulet 2018, ‘Die Ursprünge der Klöster Kōyasan und Hieizan: zwei Erzählungen aus dem Konjaku monogatari shū’, in M. Wachutka, M. Schrimpf, & B. Staemmler, eds, Religion, Politik und Ideologie: Beiträge zu einer kritischen Kulturwissenschaft. Festschrift für Klaus Antoni zum 65. Geburtstag (Munich: Iudicium).

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F. Deleanu 2010, ‘Transmission and creation: ordinations for nuns in ancient and early medieval Japan’, Journal of the International College for Postgraduate Studies 14: 1-99.

A. G. Grapard 1999, 'Religious practices', Cambridge History of Japan 2.

N. Gunji 2015, ‘A miracle at Morihisa's execution: reading legends of the origin of Kiyomizudera’, in M. S. Adolphson & A. Commons, eds, Lovable losers: the Heike in action and memory (Honolulu: University of Hawai?i Press).

Y. S. Hakeda 1972, Kūkai: Major Works (New York: Columbia University Press).

A. G. Grapard 1988, 'Institution, ritual and ideology: the twenty-two shrine-temple multiplexes of Heian Japan', History of Religions 27:246-269.

M. Kyoraku 1999, 'Taking the tonsure in eleventh-century Heian-kyo: Buddhism, women, and the city', in H. Wakita, A. Bouchy & C. Ueno (eds), Gender and Japanese history, 2 vols (Osaka University Press).

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N. McMullin 1989, 'The Lotus Sutra and politics in the mid-Heian period', in G. J. Tanabe and W. J. Tanabe, eds, The Lotus Sutra in Japanese culture (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

A. Matsunaga 1969, The Buddhist philosophy of assimilation: the historical development of the Honji-Suijaku theory, Monumenta Nipponica monographs 31 (Sophia University).

L. Meeks 2010, ‘Buddhist renunciation and the female life cycle: understanding nunhood in Heian and Kamakura Japan’, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 70: 1-59.

S. C. Morse 2007, ‘The Buddhist transformation of Japan in the ninth century: the case of eleven-Headed Kannon’, in M. Adolphson, E. Kamens, & S. Matsumoto, eds., Heian Japan, centers and peripheries (Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press).

Y. Motoki and M. S. Adolphson 2006, ‘Kōfukuji in the late Heian period’, in J. R. Piggott, ed, Capital and countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese historians interpreted in English (Ithaca NY: Cornell East Asia Series).

J. B. Quenzer 2018, ‘Das Gokurakukoku Mida wasan des Senkan (918–983): Übersetzung und buddhologisch-literaturgeschichtliche Kontextualisierung’, in M. Wachutka, M. Schrimpf, & B. Staemmler, eds, Religion, Politik und Ideologie: Beiträge zu einer kritischen Kulturwissenschaft. Festschrift für Klaus Antoni zum 65. Geburtstag (Munich: Iudicium).

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G. Renondeau 1957, 'Histoire du moins guerriers du Japan', in Melanges publies par l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, tome premier (Bibliothèque de l¹Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, vol. XI; Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1957), pp. 159-346.

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R. F. Rhodes 2007, 'Ōjōyōshū, Nihon Ōjō Gokuraku-ki, and the Construction of Pure Land discourse in Heian Japan', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34: 249–270.

P. Rouzer 2004, ‘Early Buddhist Kanshi: court, country, and Kūkai’, Monumenta Nipponica 59: 431-461.

B. D. Ruppert 2000, Jewel in the ashes: Buddha relics and power in early medieval Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

A. Sango 2015, The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

S. Weinstein 1999, 'Aristocratic Buddhism', Cambridge History of Japan 2.

M. H. Yiengpruksawan 1993, 'Downloading the lotus - from the public to the private at Kiyohira¹s Chũson-ji', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 20: 55-72.

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Retired emperors (Insei)[edit]

M. P. J. Bauer 2012, ‘Conflating monastic and imperial lineage: the Retired Emperors’ period reformulated’, Monumenta Nipponica 67: 239-262.

A. Broton 2000, 'Le quatrieme pélérinage impérial à Kumano de l'empereur retiré Gotoba, en 1201, selon le Meigetsuki, notes journalieres de Fujiwara Teika', Ebisu 24: 49-105.

G. C. Hurst 1974, 'The development of the Insei: a problem in Japanese history and historiography', in J. W. Hall & J. P. Mass, eds, Medieval Japan: essays in institutional history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

G. C. Hurst 1976, Insei: abdicated sovereigns in the politics of late Heian Japan, 1086-1185 (New York: Columbia University Press).

G. C. Hurst 1999, 'Insei', Cambridge History of Japan 2.

S. Kondo 1999, 'Insei: the rule of abdicated emperors', Romanian journal of Japanese studies 1.

E. Sato 1969, 'Oyama estate and insei land policies', Monumenta Nipponica 34: 73-99.


Rise of the samurai[edit]

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M. S. Adolphson and A. Commons (eds) 2015, Lovable losers: the Heike in action and memory (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i).

M. S. Adolphson & A. Commons 2015, ‘Blurring the lines: repositioning the Taira’, in M. S. Adolphson & A. Commons, eds, Lovable losers: the Heike in action and memory (Honolulu: University of Press of Hawai'i).

M. S. Adolphson & A. Commons 2015, ‘Fukuhara: Kiyomori's lost capital’, in M. S. Adolphson & A. Commons, eds, Lovable losers: the Heike in action and memory (Honolulu: University of Press of Hawai'i).

H. Blair 2013, ‘Kiyomori at Itsukushima and Fukuhara’, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 73: 1-42.

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K. Friday 1988, 'Teeth and claws: provincial warriors and the Heian court', Monumenta Nipponica 43: 153-185.

K. Friday 1992, Hired swords: the rise of private warrior power in early Japan (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press).

K. Friday 2007, 'Lordship interdicted: Taira no Tadatsune and the limited horizons of warrior ambition’, in M. Adolphson, E. Kamens, & S. Matsumoto, eds., Heian Japan, centers and peripheries (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i).

K. F. Friday 2012, 'The Dawn of the Samurai’, in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

J-P. Giraud 2000/01, ‘L’image du guerrier dans les mythes et les legendes du Japon’, Daruma 8/9, 37–54.

S. Ishii 1985, 'The formation of bushi bands', Acta Asiatica 49: 1-14.

L. Meeks 2015, ‘Horrified victors: spirit pacification of Taira losers’, in M. S. Adolphson & A. Commons, eds, Lovable losers: the Heike in action and memory (Honolulu: University of Hawai?i Press).

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J. N. Rabinovitch 1986, Shōmonki: the story of Masakado's rebellion, Monumenta Nipponica Monographs (Sophia University).

E. O. Reischauer 1951, 'The Heiji Monogatari', in E. O. Reischauer & J. K. Yamagiwa, Translations from Early Japanese Literature (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

G. Stramiglioli 1973. 'Preliminary notes on Masakadoki and the Taira no Masakado story,' Monumenta Nipponica 28: 261-293.

G. Stramiglioli 1979, 'Masakadoki', Rivista degli Studi Orientali 53: 1-69.

R. Takeuchi 1999, 'The rise of the warriors', Cambridge History of Japan 2.

C. von Verschuer 2015, ‘Demystifying the Taira trade network’, in M. Adolphson & A. Commons, eds., Loveable losers: the Heike in action and memory (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

C. von Verschuer 2015, ‘Kiyomori, Itsukushima, and Fukuhara’, in M. S. Adolphson & A. Commons, eds, Lovable losers: the Heike in action and memory (Honolulu: University of Hawai?i Press).

H. Wakabayashi 2016, ‘Disaster in the making: Taira no Kiyomori’s move of the capital to Fukuhara’, Monumenta Nipponica 70: 1-38.


Literary and other writing[edit]

R. Abe 2007, ‘Scholasticism, exegesis, and ritual practice: on renovation in the history of Buddhist writing in the early Heian period’, in M. Adolphson, E. Kamens, & S. Matsumoto, eds., Heian Japan, centers and peripheries (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i).

D. G. Bargen 1997. A Woman’s Weapon: Spirit Possession in The Tale of Genji (Honolulu: University of Hawai‛i Press).

D. G. Bargen 2015. Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors (Honolulu: University of Hawai‛i Press).

J. R Bentley 2006, The Authenticity of Sendai Kuji Hongi (Leiden: Brill).

D. T. Bialock 2007, Eccentric spaces, hidden histories: narrative, ritual, and royal authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike (Stanford University Press).

F. G. Bock 1970-72, The Engi-Shiki: Procedures of the Engi Era, 2 vols, Monumenta Nipponica Monographs (Sophia University, Tokyo).

R. S. Borgen 1987, 'State sponsorship of Chinese literature in early Japan', Ajia bunka kenkyū (Asian Cultural Studies) 16: 141-160.

R. S. Borgen 1990, 'Through several glasses brightly: a Japanese copy of a Chinese account of Japan', Sino-Japanese Studies 2.2: 5-56.

R. S. Borgen 1993, ‘The case of the plagiaristic journal: a curious passage from Jōjin’s diary,’ in A. Gatten & A. H. Chambers, eds, New leaves: studies and translations of Japanese literature in honor of Edward Seidensticker (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, Univ of Michigan).

R. S. Borgen 2005, ‘The politics of Classical Chinese in the early Japanese court’, in D. R. Knechtges and E. Vance, eds, Rhetoric and the discourses of power in court culture: China, Europe, and Japan (Seattle: University of Washington Press), 199–238.

K. Brazell 1984, 'Three tales of Michinaga,' Journal of Japanese Studies 10: 185-196.

C-A. Brisset 2006, ‘Du pouvoir de l'écriture : la légende du moine Kūkai (774-835)’, in Anne Kerlan-Stephens et Cécile Sakai, eds, Du visible au lisible. Texte et image en Chine et au Japon (Paris: Philippe Picquier, 2006) pp. 83-109.

A. Broton 2000, 'Le quatrieme pélérinage impérial à Kumano de l'empereur retiré Gotoba, en 1201, selon le Meigetsuki, notes journalieres de Fujiwara Teika', Ebisu 24: 49-105.

J. S. Brownlee 1987, 'Ideological control in ancient Japan', Historical reflections 14: 113-33.

J. S. Brownlee 1991, Political thought in Japanese historical writing: from Kojiki (712) to Tokushi yoron (1712) (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).

H. Buck-Albulet 2018, ‘Die Ursprünge der Klöster Kōyasan und Hieizan: zwei Erzählungen aus dem Konjaku monogatari shū’, in M. Wachutka, M. Schrimpf, & B. Staemmler, eds, Religion, Politik und Ideologie: Beiträge zu einer kritischen Kulturwissenschaft. Festschrift für Klaus Antoni zum 65. Geburtstag (Munich: Iudicium).

A. Commons 2015, ‘Heike nōkyō as repertoire: contextualizing Kiyomori's devotional practice of copying sutras’, in M. S. Adolphson & A. Commons, eds, Lovable losers: the Heike in action and memory (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

W. Denecke 2004, ‘Chinese antiquity and court spectacle in early Kanshi’, Journal of Japanese Studies 30: 97–122.

M. Dix 2015, ‘Fact and fiction in the Heike monogatari’, in M. S. Adolphson & A. Commons, eds, Lovable losers: the Heike in action and memory (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai'i).

J. Faury 2011, ‘Les banquets poétiques au Japon à l'époque Heian (794-1192)’, Journal Asiatique 199: 651-676.

N. Field 1987, The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press).

P. Glum 1988, The Hikohohodemi no mikoto emaki, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens 98.

F. Hérail 1987-91, Notes journalières de Fujiwara no Michinaga, ministre à la cour de Heian (995-1018): traduction du Midô kanpakuki, 3 vols, (Geneva: Librairie Droz).

F. Hérail 1993, Poèmes de Fujiwara no Michinaga, ministre de la cour de Heian (Geneva, Paris : Librairie Droz).

F. Hérail 1994, Fujiwara no Sukefusa, Notes de l’hiver 1039 (Paris: Editions Gallimard).

F. Hérail 1997, 'De la lecture des notes journalières', Japon pluriel. Actes du troisième colloque de la Société française d’études japonaises (Arles: Philippe Picquier), pp. 327-336.

F. Hérail 1997, 'Lire et écrire dans le Japon ancien', in Viviane Alleton, ed., Paroles à dire, paroles à écrire (Paris: EHESS).

F. Hérail 2001, 'La cour de Heian à travers le Shunki de Fujiwara no Sukefusa', Ebisu 27: 45-68.

F. Hérail 2001-2004, Notes journalières de Fujiwara no Sukefusa, Traduction du Shunki, 2 vols (Geneva: Librairie Droz, Paris: Librairie Champion).

F. Hérail 2004, Gouverneurs de province et guerriers dans les Histoires qui sont maintenant du passé (traductions du Konjaku monogatari), (Paris: Collège de France).

F. Hérail 2007, 'La législation japonaise des VIIIe et IXe siècles - D’après le Ruiju sandai kyaku (Décrets des trois ères méthodiquement classés)', Ebisu 38, Automne-Hiver, pp. 105-130.

H. M. Horton 1993, ‘Japanese spirit and Chinese learning: scribes and storytellers in pre-modern Japan’, in J. Boyarin, ed., The Ethnography of reading (Berkeley: University of California Press), 156–79.

F. Hérail 2008-11, Recueil de décrets des trois ères méthodiquement classés, livres 1 à 7, livres 8 à 20 (Geneva: Librairie Droz).

F. Jouon des Longrais 1965, Tashi, le roman de celle qui épousa deux empereurs - Nidai no kisaki - 1140-1202 (Maison Franco-japonaise. Institut de Recherches d'Histoire Etrangère, Paris).

Y-H. Kim 1993, Songs to make the dust dance: the Ryōjin hisho of twelfth-century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

E. Kamens 2007, ‘Terrains of text in mid-Heian court culture’, in M. Adolphson, E. Kamens, & S. Matsumoto, eds., Heian Japan, centers and peripheries (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i).

D. B. Lurie 2007, ‘The subterranean archives of early Japan: recently discovered sources for the study of writing and literacy’, in W. L. Idema, ed, Books in numbers (Cambridge MA: Harvard-Yenching Library), pp. 91-112.

D. B. Lurie 2011, Realms of literacy: early Japan and the history of writing (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

D. B. Lurie 2012, ‘The Development of writing in Japan’, in S. D. Houston, ed., The Shape of script: how and why writing systems change (Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press).

H. C. McCullough 1964-65, 'A tale of Mutsu', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 25: 178-211.

H. C. McCullough 1980, Okagami (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press).

H. C. McCullough & W. H. McCullough 1980, A tale of flowering fortunes (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press).

J. S. Mostow 2004, At the house of gathered leaves: Shorter biographical and autobiographical narratives from Japanese court liberature (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

J. R. Piggott and S. Yoshida 2008, Teishinkōki: the year 939 in the journal of regent Fujiwara no Tadahira (Ithaca, NY: East Asia Program, Cornell University).

J. B. Quenzer 2018, ‘Das Gokurakukoku Mida wasan des Senkan (918–983): Übersetzung und buddhologisch-literaturgeschichtliche Kontextualisierung’, in M. Wachutka, M. Schrimpf, & B. Staemmler, eds, Religion, Politik und Ideologie: Beiträge zu einer kritischen Kulturwissenschaft. Festschrift für Klaus Antoni zum 65. Geburtstag (Munich: Iudicium).

J. N. Rabinovitch 1986, Shōmonki: the story of Masakado's rebellion, Monumenta Nipponica Monographs (Sophia University).

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M. Rüttermann 2007, 'Amtsstile im frühstaatlichen Urkundenwesen des japanischen Verwaltungsrechts (Kushiki ryô) Übersetzung und Kommentar,’ Japonica Humboldtiana 11: 5-50.

H. Shirane 1987, The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

H. Shirane (ed.) 2008, Envisioning The Tale of Genji (New York: Columbia University Press).

I. Smits 2000a, 'Song as cultural history: reading Wakan Rōeishū (Texts)', Monumenta Nipponica 55: 225-256.

I. Smits 2000b, 'Song as cultural history: reading Wakan Rōeishū (Interpretations)', Monumenta Nipponica 55: 399-427.

I. Smits 2007, ‘The Way of the literati: Chinese learning and literary practice in mid-Heian Japan’, in M. Adolphson, E. Kamens, & S. Matsumoto, eds., Heian Japan, centers and peripheries (Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press).

J. T. Sorensen 2012, ‘The politics of screen poetry: Michinaga, Sanesuke, and the court entrance of Shōshi’, Journal of Japanese Studies 38: 85-107.

T. Takahashi 2006, ‘The classical polity and its frontier’, in J. R. Piggott, ed, Capital and countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese historians interpreted in English (Ithaca NY: Cornell East Asia Series).

M. Teeuwen 2007, 'Sendai Kuji Hongi: Authentic Myths or Forged History?', Monumenta Nipponica 62: 87-96.

J. P. Webb 2014, ‘The big business of writing: monjô-keikoku in the early Heian court of Saga tennō’, Sino-Japanese Studies 21.

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Medieval Japan[edit]

General[edit]

Y. Amino 1994, 'Le moyen age japonais et quelques questions qu'il pose aux historiens aujourd'hui', Cipango 3: 125-158.

Y. Amino 1994, 'Emperor, rice and commoners, Japanese Studies 14: 1-12.

Y. Amino 1996, 'Emperor, rice and commoners’, in D. Denoon, M. Hudson, G. McCormack & T. Morris-Suzuki (eds), Multicultural Japan: palaeolithic to postmodern (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Y. Amino 2007, ‘Medieval Japanese constructions of peace and liberty: muen, kugai, and raku’, International Journal of Asian Studies 4: 3-14 & 161-172.

Y. Amino 2012, Rethinking Japanese history, translated and with an Introduction by Alan S. Christy, Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 74.

P. S. Atkins 2006, ‘Nijō v. Reizei: land rights, litigation, and literary authority on medieval Japan’, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 66: 495-529.

P. S. Atkins 2008, ‘Chigo in the medieval Japanese imagination,’ Journal of Asian Studies 67: 947-970.

D. C. Bailey 1960, 'Early Japanese Lexicography', Monumenta Nipponica 16:1-52.

D. C. Bailey 1961-62, 'The Rakuyōshū', Monumenta Nipponica 16: 289-376 & 17: 214-264.

M. P. J. Bauer 2019, ‘The chronicle of Muchimaro: the lower part of the History of the Fujiwara House by the monk Enkei’, Asiatische Studien Etudes Asiatiques 73: 203-218.

O. Benl 1954, 'Minamoto Sanetomo, Shogun und Dichter', Oriens Extremus 1: 89-106.

G. B. Berger, A. E. Goble, L. F. Harrington, G. C. Hurst (eds) 2009, Currents in medieval Japanese history: essays in honor of Jeffrey P. Mass (Los Angeles: Figueroa Press).

M. E. Berry 1994, The culture of civil war in Kyoto (Berkeley: University of California Press).

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Political history[edit]

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N. Asao 1981, 'Shogun and Tenno', in J. W. Hall, K. Nagahara & K. Yamamura, eds, Japan before Tokugawa: political consolidation and economic growth, 1500-1650 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

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T. D. Conlan 2010, ‘Instruments of change: organizational technology and the consolidation of regional power in Japan’, in J. A. Ferejohn and F. M. Rosenbluth, eds., War and state building in medieval Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

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J. W. Hall 1966, Government and local power in Japan, 500-1700. A study based on Bizen province (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

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J. P. Mass 1974, 'Jitō Land Possession in the thirteenth century: the case of the Shitaji Chūbun', in J. W. Hall & J. P. Mass, eds, Medieval Japan: essays in institutional history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

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J. P. Mass 1993, 'The missing Minamoto in the twelfth-century Kanto', Journal of Japanese Studies 19: 121-145.

J. P. Mass 1997, 'Of hierarchy and authority at the end of Kamakura', in J. P. Mass (ed), The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors and peasants in the fourteenth century (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

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Kamakura Bakufu and the Hōjō[edit]

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A. E. Goble 1985, 'The Kamakura Bakufu and its officials', in J. P. Mass & W. B. Hauser, eds, The Bakufu in Japanese history (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

J. W. Hall 1982, 'Epilogue', in J. P. Mass, ed, Court and Bakufu in Japan: essays in Kamakura history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

G. C. Hurst 1982, 'The Kobu polity: Court-Bakufu relations in Kamakura Japan', in J. P. Mass, ed, Court and Bakufu in Japan: essays in Kamakura history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

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C. J. Kiley 1982, 'The Imperial Court as a legal authority in the Kamakura age', in J. P. Mass, ed, Court and Bakufu in Japan: essays in Kamakura history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

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J. P. Mass 1974, Warrior Government in early medieval Japan: a study of the Kamakura Bakufu, Shugo, and Jito (New Haven: Yale University Press).

J. P. Mass 1974, 'The Emergence of the Kamakura Bakufu', in J. W. Hall & J. P. Mass, eds, Medieval Japan: essays in institutional history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

J. P. Mass 1976, The Kamakura Bakufu: a study in documents (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

J. P. Mass 1977, The origins of Kamakura justice', Journal of Japanese Studies 3: 299-322.

J. P. Mass 1979, The Development of Kamakura rule, 1180-1250: a history with documents (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

J. P. Mass (ed) 1982, Court and Bakufu in Japan: essays in Kamakura history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

J. P. Mass 1982, 'The Early Bakufu and Feudalism',in J. P. Mass, ed, Court and Bakufu in Japan: essays in Kamakura history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

J. P. Mass 1985, 'What can we not know about the Kamakura Bakufu?', in J. P. Mass & W. B. Hauser, eds, The Bakufu in Japanese history (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

J. P. Mass 1990, 'The Kamakura bakufu', in Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 3.

E. Segal 2012, 'Kamakura and the challenges of governance', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

M. Shinoda 1960, The Founding of the Kamakura Shogunate, 1180-1185: with selected translations from the Azuma Kagami (New York: Columbia University Press).

C. Steenstrup 1974, 'Hōjō Sōun's Twenty-one Articles: the code of conduct of Odawara Hōjō', Monumenta Nipponica 29: 283-303.

C. Steenstrup 1977, 'The Gokurakuji letter: Hōjō Shigetoki's compendium of political and religious ideas of thirteenth-century Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 32: 1-34.

C. Steenstrup 1979, Hōjō Shigetoki (1198-1261) and his role in the history of political and ethical ideas in Japan, Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monographs (London: Curzon Press).

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H. P. Varley 1982, 'The Hōjō family and succession to power', in J. P. Mass, ed, Court and Bakufu in Japan: essays in Kamakura history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

A. Yoshie 1985, 'The Kamamura Bakufu as a legitimate public authority', Acta Asiatica 49: 15-33.

M. Miyagawa 1977, 'From Shōen to Chigyō: proprietary lordship and the structure of local power', in J. W. Hall & T. Toyoda, eds, Japan in the Muromachi age (Berkeley: University of California Press).

T. Nelson 1997, 'Bakufu and shugo under the early Ashikaga', in J. P. Mass (ed), The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors and peasants in the fourteenth century (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

E. Oyler 2006, Swords, oaths, and prophetic visions: authoring warrior rule in medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

B. D. Ruppert 2000, Jewel in the ashes: Buddha relics and power in early medieval Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

J. Sasaki 1981, 'The changing rationale of daimyo control in the emergence of the Bakuhan state', in J. W. Hall, K. Nagahara & K. Yamamura, eds, Japan before Tokugawa: political consolidation and economic growth, 1500-1650 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

D. Schley 2014, ‘Zu den religioesen Aspekten tugendhafter Politik (tokusei) zum Schutz von Herrscher und Volk im frühen Mittelalter’, Asiatische Studien Etudes Asiatiques 68: 285-316.

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D. Spafford 2013, A sense of place: the political landscape in medieval Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

M. Stavros 2006, ‘Building warrior legitimacy in medieval Kyoto’, EastAsian History 31: 1-28.

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H. P. Varley 1971, Imperial Restoration in medieval Japan (New York: Columbia University Press).

O. Wakita 1975, 'The Kokudaka system: a device for unification', Journal of Japanese Studies 1:297-320.

P. J. Wintersteen 1974, 'The Muromachi Shugo and Hanzei', in J. W. Hall & J. P. Mass, eds, Medieval Japan: essays in institutional history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

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R. Zoellner 1995, Die Ludowinger und die Takeda: Feudale Herrschaft in Thuringen und Kai no kuni (Bonn: Dieter Born).

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Muromachi Bakufu[edit]

M. Collcutt 1982, 'Kings of Japan? The political authority of the Ashikaga shoguns', Monumenta Nipponica 37: 523-529.

S. Gay 1985, 'Muromachi Bakufu rule in Kyoto: administrative and judicial aspects', in J. P. Mass & W. B. Hauser, eds, The Bakufu in Japanese history (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

A. E. Goble 1996, Kenmu: Go-Daigo's revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University).

A. E. Goble 2012, 'Go-Daigo, Takauji, and the Muromachi Shogunate', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

K. A. Grossberg 1976, 'From feudal chieftain to secular monarch: the development of shogunal power in early Muromachi Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 31: 29-49.

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J. W. Hall 1977, 'The Muromachi power structure', in J. W. Hall & T. Toyoda, eds, Japan in the Muromachi age (Berkeley: University of California Press).

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L. F. Harrington 1985, 'Regional outposts of Muromachi Bakufu Rule: the Kanto and Kyushu', in J. P. Mass & W. B. Hauser, eds, The Bakufu in Japanese history (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

A. Imatani & K. Yamamura 1992, 'Not for lack of will or wile: Yoshimitsu's failure to supplant the imperial lineage', Journal of Japanese Studies 18: 45-78.

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Daimyo[edit]

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P. J. Arnesen 1982, 'Suō Province in the age of Kamakura', in J. P. Mass, ed, Court and Bakufu in Japan: essays in Kamakura history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

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K. Nagahara 1977, 'Village Communities and daimyo power', in J. W. Hall & T. Toyoda, eds, Japan in the Muromachi age (Berkeley: University of California Press).

K. Nagahara 1981, 'The Sengoku daimyo and the Kandaka system', in J. W. Hall, K. Nagahara & K. Yamamura, eds, Japan before Tokugawa: political consolidation and economic growth, 1500-1650 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

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Oda Nobunaga[edit]

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi[edit]

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M. E. Berry 1983, 'Restoring the past: the documents of Hideyoshi's magistrate in Kyoto', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 43: 57-95.

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L. A. Cort 1982. ‘The grand Kitano tea gathering’, Chanoyu quarterly 31: 15-31.

G. Elison 1981, 'Hideyoshi, the bountiful minister', in G. Elison & B. L. Smith, eds, Warlords, artists, and commoners; Japan in the sixteenth century (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii).

G. Elison 1988, 'The priest Keinen and his account of the campaign in Korea, 1597-1598: an introduction', in Nihon kyoikushi ronsō (Kyoto: Shibunkaku).

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J. W. Hall 1981, 'Hideyoshi's domestic policies', in J. W. Hall, K. Nagahara & K. Yamamura, eds, Japan before Tokugawa: political consolidation and economic growth, 1500-1650 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

J. W. Hall 1981, 'Japan's sixteenth-century revolution', in G. Elison & B. L. Smith, eds, Warlords, artists, and commoners; Japan in the sixteenth century (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii).

J. Ikeda 1995, 'Memorialized in verse: Hideyoshi's Daigo Hanami of 1598', Oboegaki 5.i: 1-6.

A. Kleiser 1938, 'P. Alexander Valignani's Gesandtschaftsreise nach Japan zum Quambacudono Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1588-1591', Monumenta Nipponica 1: 70-98.

R. Leca 2017, ‘Turning “sites of remembrance” into “sites of imagination”: the case of Hideyoshi’s Great Buddha’, Journal of Asian humanities at Kyushu University 2: 125-135.

D. Massarella 2005, ’Envoys and illusions: the Japanese embassy to Europe, 1582–90, De Missione Legatorum Iaponensium, and the Portuguese viceregal embassy to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1591’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 15: 329-350.

G. Morhand 1966, 'Taiko kenchi: le Cadastre de Hideyoshi Toyotomi', Bulletin de l'ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient 53: 7-70.

H. Nakano 2003, 'Concerning Toyotomi Hideyoshi's signed letter dated June 3rd, 1593', Interactions and transformations: bulletin of the JSPS 21st Century COE Program (Humanities; Kyushu University), 1: 273-289.

Y. Nogami 2018, Hideyoshi and Rikyu, trans. M. N. LaFleur and M. Beard (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

W. H. Samonides 1996, ‘Patronizing images: Kōdai-in and Toyotomi Hideyoshi at Kōdai-ji’, Japan Review 7: 99-126.

A. Schwade 1982, 'Hideyoshis Pläne zur Eroberung der Philippinen', Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 5: 294-322.

G. Stramiglioli 1954, 'Hideyoshi's expansionist policy on the Asiatic mainland', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 3: 74-116.

B. Susser 1982, 'The structure of the Toyotomi regime', Baika tanki daigaku kenkyu kiyō 31: 1-23.

B. Susser 1985, 'The Toyotomi regime and the daimyo', in J. P. Mass & W. B. Hauser, eds, The Bakufu in Japanese history (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

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S. Takagi 2004, ‘Hideyoshi’s and Ieyasu’s views of Japan as a land of the Gods and its antecedents: with reference to the “Writ for the Expulsion of Missionaries” of 1614’, Acta Asiatica 87: 59–84 S. Takayanagi 1977, 'The glory that was Azuchi', Monumenta Nipponica 32: 515-24.

O. Wakita 1982, 'The emergence of the state in sixteenth-century Japan: from Oda to Tokugawa', Journal of Japanese Studies 8: 343-368.

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Bushi and warfare[edit]

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M. S. Adolphson 2004, 'Social change and contained transformations: warriors and merchants in Japan, 1000–1300’, in J. P. Arnason and B. Wittrock, eds., Eurasian transformations, tenth to thirteenth centuries: crystalizations, divergences, renaissances (Leiden: Brill).

M. E. Berry 1994, The culture of civil war in Kyoto (Berkeley: University of California Press).

G. Bierwirth 2005, Bushido. Der Weg des Kriegers ist ambivalent (Munchen: Iudicium Verlag).

M. P. Birt 1985, 'Samurai in passage: the transformation of the sixteenth-century Kantō', Journal of Japanese Studies 11: 369-399.

J. S. Brownlee 1969, 'The Shōkyū War and the political rise of the warriors', Monumenta Nipponica 24: 59-77.

J. S. Brownlee 1975, 'Crisis as reinforcement of the imperial institution: the case of the Jōkyũ Incident, 1221', Monumenta Nipponica 30: 193-201.

M. Collcutt 1996, 'The "Emergence of the Samurai" and the military history of early Japan', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 56: 151-164.

T. D. Conlan 1999, 'The nature of warfare in fourteenth-century Japan: the Record of Nomoto Tomoyuki', Journal of Japanese Studies 25: 299-330.

T. D. Conlan 2001, In little need of divine intervention: scrolls of the Mongol invasions of Japan (Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series).

T. D. Conlan 2004, State of war: the violent order of fourteenth-century Japan (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan).

T. D. Conlan 2012, 'Medieval warfare', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

D. L. Davis 1974, 'Ikki in Late Medieval Japan', in J. W. Hall & J. P. Mass, eds, Medieval Japan: essays in institutional history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

D. L. Davis 1978, 'The evolution of bushido to the year 1500', Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 13: 38-56.

D. Eason 2012, 'Warriors, warlords, and domains', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

M. von Eucken-Addenhausen 1967, 'Die Wandlung der Sozialen Struktur des Ritterstandes in der Muromachi-Zeit', Oriens Extremus 14: 69-128, 199-234.

W. W. Farris 1992, Heavenly warriors: the evolution of Japan's military, 500-1300 (Cambridge MA: Council of East Asian Studies, Harvard University).

J. A. Ferejohn and F. M. Rosenbluth (eds) 2010, War and state building in medieval Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

K. Friday 1993, 'Valorous butchers: the art of war during the golden age of the samurai', Japan Forum 5: 1-19.

K. Friday 1996, Hired swords: the rise of private warrior power in early Japan (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press).

K. Friday 2004, Samurai, warfare and the state in early medieval Japan (London: Routledge).

K. Friday 2009, ‘What a difference a bow makes: the rules of war in early medieval Japan’, in G. B. Berger, A. E. Goble, L. F. Harrington, G. C. Hurst, eds, Currents in medieval Japanese history: essays in honor of Jeffrey P. Mass (Los Angeles: Figueroa Press).

K. Friday 2010, ‘They were soldiers once: the early samurai and the imperial court’, in J. A. Ferejohn and F. M. Rosenbluth, eds., War and state building in medieval Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

K. F. Friday & F. Seki 1997, Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryū and Samurai Martial Culture (Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press).

S. Gay 1986, 'The Kawashima: warrior peasants of medieval Japan', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 46:81-119.

R. H. Hesselink 1991, 'The introduction of the art of mounted archery into Japan', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (4th series) 6: 27-47.

G. C. Hurst 1997, 'The warrior as ideal for a new age', in J. P. Mass (ed), The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors and peasants in the fourteenth century (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

R. Huey 1997, 'Warrior control over the imperial anthology', in J. P. Mass (ed), The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors and peasants in the fourteenth century (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

S. Ishii 1985, 'The Formation of Bushi bands', Acta Asiatica 49: 1-14.

W. H. McCullough 1964, 'Shōkyūki: an account of the Shōkyū War of 1221', Monumenta Nipponica 19: 163-215 & 420-455.

W. H. McCullough 1968, 'The Azuma kagami account of the Shōkyū War', Monumenta Nipponica 23: 102-155.

H. Moon 2009, ‘The Matsura pirate-warriors of northwestern Kyushu in the Kamakura age’, in G. B. Berger, A. E. Goble, L. F. Harrington, G. C. Hurst, eds, Currents in medieval Japanese history: essays in honor of Jeffrey P. Mass (Los Angeles: Figueroa Press).

I. Morris 1975, 'Minamoto no Yoshitsune' & 'Kusunoki Masashige', in The nobility of failure (London: Secker and Warburg).

M. Oxenboell 2006, ‘The Mineaiki and discourses on social unrest in medieval Japan’, Japan Forum 18: 1-21.

M. Oxenboell 2007, ’The vicissitudes of a medieval Japanese warrior’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 17: 43-54.

M. Ozenboell 2018, Akutō and rural conflict in medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

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K. U. W. Pauly, 1985, Ikko-ikki: Die Ikko-Aufstaende und ihre Entwicklung aus den Aufstaenden der bündischen Bauern und Provinzialen des japanischen Mittelalters (dissertation, Bonn University).

G. Renondeau, 'Histoire des moines guerriers du Japon', in Melanges publiés par l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, tome premier (Bibliotheque de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, vol. XI; Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1957), pp. 159-346.

T. Solum 2003, Saga of the Samurai: Takeda Rises to Power: The Kai Takada 1 (1130-1467) (Newbury: Brookhurst Press).

T. Solum 2009, Takeda Nobutora: The Kai Takeda 1494-1574 (Newbury: Brookhurst Press).

T. Solum 2009, Shingen in Command: The Kai Takeda 1549-1558 (Newbury: Brookhurst Press).

T. Solum and A. K. Rue 2005, Saga of the Samurai - Takeda Shingen: The Kai Tekeda 3 (1521-1548) (Newbury: Brookhurst Press).

P. Souyri 2010, ‘Autonomy and war in the sixteenth-century Iga region and the birth of the ninja phenomenon’, in J. A. Ferejohn and F. M. Rosenbluth, eds., War and state building in medieval Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

D. Spafford 2017, ‘Warrior regimes and the regulation of violence in medieval Japan’, in D. Tor, H. Zurndorfer & R. W. Kaeuper, eds, The Cambridge world history of violence, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

M. Stavros 2013, ‘Military revolution in early modern Japan’, Japanese Studies 35: 243-261.

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C. R. Tsang 2007, War and faith: Ikkō ikki in late Muromachi Japan (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center).

S. R. Turnbull 2000, Nagashino 1575: slaughter at the barricades (Oxford: Osprey Military).

H. P. Varley 1967, The Ōnin War: history of its origins and background with a selective translation of The Chronicle of Ōnin (New York: Columbia University Press).

H. Wakabayashi 2009, ‘The Mongol Invasions and the making of the iconography of foreign enemies: the case of Shikaumi jinja engi’, in A. E. Goble, K. K. Robinson and H. Wakabayashi, eds, Tools of Culture (Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies), 105-133.

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Social history[edit]

Religion[edit]

M. S. Adolphson 1997, 'Enryakuji - an old power in a new era', in J. P. Mass (ed), The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors and peasants in the fourteenth century (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

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M. S. Adolphson 2006, The teeth and claws of the Buddha: monastic warriors and Sōhei in Japanese history (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

M. S. Adolphson 2009, ‘Benkei’s ancestors: monastic warriors in Heian Japan’, in G. B. Berger, A. E. Goble, L. F. Harrington, G. C. Hurst, eds, Currents in medieval Japanese history: essays in honor of Jeffrey P. Mass (LA: Figueroa Press).

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T. Akamatsu & P. Yampolsky 1977, 'Muromachi Zen and the Gozan System', in J. W. Hall & T. Toyoda, eds, Japan in the Muromachi age (Berkeley: University of California Press).

M. Bathgate 2007, 'Exemplary lives: form and function in Pure Land sacred biography', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34: 271–303.

C. Bielefeldt 1997, 'Kokan Shiren and the sectarian uses of history', in J. P. Mass (ed), The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors and peasants in the fourteenth century (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

M. Bito 1991, 'Thought and religion', Cambridge History of Japan 4.

W. M. Bodiford 1993, Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press).

W. M. Bodiford 2012, ‘Medieval religion’, in K. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder: Westview Press).

W. M. Bodiford 2006, ‘Remembering Dōgen: Eiheiji and Dōgen hagiography’, Journal of Japanese Studies 32: 1–21.

W. M. Bodiford 2006, ‘The Medieval period: eleventh to sixteenth centuries’, in P. L. Swanson & C. Chilson, eds., The Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press).

R. Borgen 2007, ‘A history of Dōmyōji to 1572 (or maybe 1575): an attempted reconstruction’, Monumenta Nipponica 62: 1-74.

K. G. Carr 2012, Plotting the prince: Shotoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism (Honolulu:University of Hawai’i Press).

M. Collcutt 1981, Five Mountains: the Rinzai Zen monastic institution in medieval Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

M. Collcutt 1982a, 'The Zen Monastery in Kamakura Society', in J. P. Mass, ed, Court and Bakufu in Japan: essays in Kamakura history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

M. Collcutt 1990, 'Zen and the Gozan', in Cambridge History of Japan, vol.3.

M. Collcutt 1996, 'Religion in the life of Minamoto Yoritomo and the early Kamakura bakufu', in P. F. Kornicki & I. J. McMullen, eds, Religion in Japan: arrows to heaven and earth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

M. Collcutt 1997, 'Musō Soseki', in J. P. Mass (ed), The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors and peasants in the fourteenth century (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

W. E. Deal 1999, 'Nichiren's Rissho ankoku ron and canon formation', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 26: 325-48.

J. C. Dobbins 1989, Jōdō Shinshū: Shin Buddhism in medieval Japan (Bloomingont: Indiana University Press).

J. C. Dobbins 2004, Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of pure land Buddhism in Medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

L. Dolce 1992, 'Awareness of mappō: soteriological interpretations of time in Nichiren', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (4th series) 7: 81-106.

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E. R. Drott 2010, ‘Gods, Buddhas, and organs: Buddhist physicians and theories of longevity in early medieval Japan’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 37: 247-273.

E. R. Drott 2016, Buddhism and the transformation of old age in medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

J. H. Foard 1977, 'Ippen Shonin and popular Buddhism in Kamakura Japan', PhD dissertation, Stanford University.

J. H. Foard et al. (eds) 1996, The Pure Land tradition: history and development (Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley & Institute of Buddhist Studies).

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F. Girard 1990b, Un moine de la secte Kegon à l'epoque de Kamakura, Myoe (1173-1232) et le 'journal de ses reves' (Paris: Ecole francaise d'extreme-orient).

A. E. Goble 1989, 'Truth, contradiction and harmony in medieval Japan: Emperor Hanazono (1297-1348) and Buddhism', Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 12:21-63.

J. R. Goodwin 1987, 'Alms for Kasagi temple', Journal of Asian Studies 46: 827-841.

J. R. Goodwin 1990, 'The Buddhist monarch: Go-Shirakawa and the rebuilding of Tōdaiji', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 17: 219-242.

J. R. Goodwin 1994, Alms and vagabonds: Buddhist temples and popular patronage in medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

A. G. Grapard 1992, 'The Shinto of Yoshida Kanetomo', Monumenta Nipponica 47: 27-58 & 137-161.

A. G. Grapard 1992, The protocol of the gods: a study of the Kasuga cult in Japanese history (Berkeley: University of California Press).

C. J. Griffiths 2016, Tracing the itinerant path: Jishū nuns of medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

E. Joskovich 2019, ‘Relying on words and letters: scripture recitation in the Japanese Rinzai tradition’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 46: 53-78.

H. Kawai 1992, The buddhist priest Myōe: a life of dreams, trans Mark Unno (Venice: Lapis Press).

T. Kuroda (trans F. Rambelli) 1996, 'The discourse on the 'Land of Kami' (Shinkoku) in Medieval Japan: national consciousness and international awareness', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23: 353-386.

T. Kuroda (trans S. Gay) 1996, 'Buddhism and society in the medieval estate system', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23: 287-320.

T. Kuroda (trans J.I. Stone) 1996, 'The imperial law and the Buddhist law', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23: 271-286.

H. Lietieu 1975, 'The Yasutoki-Myōe Discussion: a translation from Togano-o Myōe Shōnin Denki', Monumenta Nipponica 30:203-210.

M. Marra 1993, 'The Buddhist mythmaking of defilement: sacred courtesans in medieval Japan', Journal of Asian Studies 52: 49-65.

N. McMullin 1984, Buddhism and the state in sixteenth-century Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

A. Matsunaga 1969, The Buddhist philosophy of assimilation: the historical development of the Honji-Suijaku theory, Monumenta Nipponica monographs (Sophia University).

K. Matsuo 2001, ‘Official monks and reclusive monks: focusing on the salvation of women’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 64: 369-380.

S. Mauclaire 2013, ‘Repenser l'histoire de la religion villageoise dans le Japon médiéval à partir d'archives de l'économie rurale, de la littérature populaire religieuse, et de matériaux recueillis sur le terrain’, Journal Asiatique 301: 543-559.

F. Miyazaki 1992, 'Religious life of the Kamakura bushi: Kumagai Naozane and his decendants', Monumenta Nipponica 47: 435-67.

B. Nishibe 1981, 'Zen monks and the formation of the Way of Tea', Chanoyu 28: 7-46.

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F. Rambelli 1996, 'Religion, ideology of domination, and nationalism: Kuroda Toshio on the discourse of Shinkoku', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23: 387-426.

G. Renondeau, 'Histoire des moines guerriers du Japon', in Melanges publiés par l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, tome premier (Bibliotheque de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, vol. XI; Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1957), pp. 159-346.

H. Rotermund 1968, Die Yamabushi. Aspekte ihres Glaubens, Lebens und ihrer sozialen Funktion im japanischen Mittelalter, Monographien zur Volkerkunde 5 (Hamburg).

B. D. Ruppert 2000, Jewel in the ashes: Buddha relics and power in early medieval Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

A. Sango 2012, ‘Buddhist debate and the production and transmission of Shōgyō in medieval Japan’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 39: 241-273.

B. Scheid 2001, Der eine und einzige Weg der Götter: Yoshida Kanetomo und die Erfindung des Shinto (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften).

I. M. Solomon 1972, 'Rennyo and the rise of Honganji in Muromachi Japan', PhD dissertation, Columbia University.

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S. Thal 2005, Rearranging the landscape of the gods: the politics of a pilgrimage site in Japan, 1573-1912 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

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A. M. Watsky 2004, Chikubushima: deploying the sacred arts in Momoyama Japan (Seattle: University of Washington Press).

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P. Wetzler 1983-86, 'Confucian ethics and rebirth in Amida's Pure Land: aristocratic expectations and disappointments in medieval Japan', Oriens Extremus 30: 141-153.

Women[edit]

General[edit]

M. F. Benton 1991, 'Hōjō Masako: the dowager shogun', in C. I. Mulhern, ed., Heroic with grace: legendary women of Japan (New York: M. E. Sharpe Inc.).

S. T. Brown 1998, 'From woman warrior to peripatetic entertainer: the multiple histories of Tomoe', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 58: 183-200.

P. Fister 2011, ‘Sanmi no Tsubone: Ashikaga wife, imperial consort, Buddhist devotee, and patron’, Japan Review 23: 3-21.

K. M. Gerhart 2017, ‘Reconstructing the life of Uesugi Kiyoko’, Japan Review 31: 3-24.

K. M. Gerhart 2019, ‘Akahashi Nariko (1306-1365): a force to be reckoned with’, Journal of Asian humanities at Kyushu University 4: 1-20.

A. E. Goble 2016, ‘Women and Medicine in late 16th century Japan: the example of the Honganji religious community in Osaka and Kyoto as recorded in the diary of physician Yamashina Tokitsune’, Asia Pacific perspectives 14.1.

J. R. Goodwin 2007, Selling songs and smiles: the sex trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

M. Goto 2006, ‘The lives and roles of women of various classes in the ie of late medieval Japan’, International Journal of Asian Studies 3: 183-210.

G. M. Karen 2019, ‘Akahashi Nariko (1306-1365): a force to be reckoned with’, Journal of Asian humanities at Kyushu University 4: 1-20.

M. Kato 1999, 'Women's associations and religious expression in the medieval Japanese village', in H. Tonomura, A. Walthall & H. Walita (eds), Women and class in Japanese history (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan).

T. L. Kitagawa 2013, ‘Women’s black-seal letters in sixteenth-century Japan’, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8 (2013): 323–26.

D. Ko 2008, ‘The creation of patriarchy in Japan: Wakita Haruko's Women in medieval japan from a comparative perspective,’ International Journal of Asian Studies 5: 87-96.

N. Kurushima 2004, ‘Marriage and female inheritance in medieval Japan’, International Journal of Asian Studies 1: 223-245.

C. Laffin 2013, Rewriting medieval Japanese women: politics, personality, and literary production in the life of Nun Abutsu (Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press).

L. R. Meeks 2007, 'In her likeness: female divinity and leadership at medieval Chũgũji', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34: 351–392.

R. Pandey 1998, 'Representation of female sexuality and enlightenment in Japanese medieval tale literature', Asiatica Venetiana 3: 125-137.

R. Pandey 2004, ‘Poetry, sex and salvation: the courtesan and the noblewoman in medieval Japanese narratives’, Japanese Studies 24: 61-79.

R. Pandey 2005, ‘Medieval experience, modern visions: women in Buddhism’, Monumenta Nipponica 60: 195-234.

J. Pigeot 2003, Femmes galantes, femmes artistes dans le Japon ancien XIe-XIIIe siècles (Paris: Gallimard).

M. Stein 1997, Japans Kurtisanen. Eine Kulturgeschichte der japanischen Meisterinnen der Unterhaltungskunst und Erotik aus zwoelf Jahrhunderten (Munich: Iudicium).

Y. Tabata 1999, 'Female attendants and wives of the medieval warrior class', in H. Wakita, A. Bouchy & C. Ueno (eds), Gender and Japanese history, 2 vols (Osaka: Osaka University Press).

Y. Tabata 1999, 'Women's work and status in the changing medieval economy', in H. Tonomura, A. Walthall & H. Wakita (eds), Women and class in Japanese history (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan).

Y. Takagi 2015, ‘“Princesse consacrée aux sanctuaires d'Ise” au XIIe siècle’, Journal Asiatique 303: 259-268.

D. Tan 2020, ‘The body as place in time(s): concepts of the female body in medieval Japan’, KronoScope 20: 17-40.

H. Tonomura 1990, 'Women and inheritance in Japan's early warrior society', Comparative Studies in Society and History 32: 592-623.

H. Tonomura 1994, 'Black hair and red trousers: gendering the flesh in medieval Japan', American historical review 99: 129-54.

H. Tonomura 1997, 'Re-envisioning women in the post-Kamakura age', in J. P. Mass (ed), The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors and peasants in the fourteenth century (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

H. Tonomura 2006, ‘Coercive sex in the medieval Japanese court: Lady Nijō's memoirs’, Monumenta Nipponica 61: 283-338.

H. Tonomura 2007, ‘Birth-giving and avoidance taboo: women’s body versus the historiography of ubuya’, Japan Review 19: 3-45.

H. Tonomura 2007, ‘Rewriting the ubuya (parturition hut): its historicity and historiography’, in J. C Baxter and J. A. Fogel, eds, Writing histories in Japan: texts and their transformations from ancient times through the Meiji era (Kyoto: International Research Centre for Japanese Studies), pp. 41-84.

H. Tonomura 2012, 'Gender relations in the age of violence', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

H. Wakita 1984, 'Marriage and property in premodern Japan from the perspective of women's history', Journal of Japanese Studies 10:73-99.

H. Wakita 1999, ‘The medieval household and gender roles within the imperial family, nobility, merchants and commoners’, in H. Tonomura, A. Walthall and H. Wakita, eds, Women and class in Japanese history (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan), pp. 81-97.

H. Wakita 1999, 'L'histoire des femmes au Japon: la "maison", l'épouse et la maternité dans la société mediévale', Annales 54: 29-53.

H. Wakita 2006, Women in medieval Japan: motherhood, household management and sexuality, trans A. Tokita (Melbourne: Monash University Press and Tokyo University Press).

H. N. Ward 2009, Women religious leaders in Japan’s Christian century, 1549-1650 (Farnham, England: Ashgate).


Nuns[edit]

F. Deleanu 2010, ‘Transmission and creation: ordinations for nuns in ancient and early medieval Japan’, Journal of the International College for Postgraduate Studies 14: 1-99.

J. C. Dobbins 2004, Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of pure land Buddhism in Medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

C. J. Griffiths 2016, Tracing the itinerant path: Jishū nuns of medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

M. Harada 2009, ‘Nuns and Convents in Medieval Japan’, Acta Asiatica 97: 57-73.

R. Hosokawa 1999, 'Medieval nuns and nunneries: the case of Hokkeji', in H. Tonomura, A. Walthall & H. Walita (eds), Women and class in Japanese history (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan).

R. Hosokawa 1999, 'Kamakura period nuns and convents: exploring Hokkeji convent', in H. Wakita, A. Bouchy & C. Ueno (eds), Gender and Japanese history, 2 vols (Osaka: Osaka University Press).

L. R. Meeks 2010, Hokkeji and the reemergence of female monastic orders in premodern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

L. R. Meeks 2010, ‘Buddhist renunciation and the female life cycle: understanding nunhood in Heian and Kamakura Japan’, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 70: 1-59.

R. Pandey 2005, ‘Medieval experience, modern visions: women in Buddhism’, Monumenta Nipponica 60: 195-234.


Towns and cities[edit]

B. L. Batten 2005, Gateway to Japan: Hakata in war and peace, 500-1300 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

J. Barth 1969, Kamakura: Die Geschichte einer Stadt und einer Epoche, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens Supplementband 15 (Hamburg).

J. Barth 1970, Kamakura. Teil II: Unterwegs zu den wichtigsten Kultstätten in und um Kamakura, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens Supplementband 30.

N. Fieve 1996, L'architecture et la ville du Japon ancien: espace architectural de la ville de Kyoto et des residences Shogunales aux 14e et 15e siècles (Paris: Masonneuve & Larose).

J. W. Hall 1974, 'Kyoto as historical background', in J. W. Hall & J. P. Mass, eds, Medieval Japan: essays in institutional history (New Haven: Yale University Press).

T. Hayashiya 1977, 'Kyoto in the Muromachi age', in J. W. Hall & T. Toyoda, eds, Japan in the Muromachi age (Berkeley: University of California Press).

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Kanagawa Prefectural Government 1985, The history of Kanagawa (Yokohama).

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M. P. McKelway 2006, Capitalscapes. Folding screens and political imagination in late medieval Kyoto (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

V. D. Morris 1970, 'Sakai: the history of a city in medieval Japan', unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Washington.

V. D. Morris 1977, 'Sakai: from shōen to port city', in J. W. Hall & T. Toyoda, eds, Japan in the Muromachi age (Berkeley: University of California Press).

V. D. Morris 1981, 'The city of Sakai and urban autonomy', in G. Elison & B. L. Smith, eds, Warlords, artists, and commoners; Japan in the sixteenth century (Honlulu: University Press of Hawaii).

D. Pacheco 1970, 'The Founding of the port of Nagasaki and its cession to the Society of Jesus', Monumenta Nipponica 25: 303-324.

R. Pearson 2020, ‘Japanese medieval trading towns: Sakai and Tosaminato’, in S. Kaner, B. Ayers, R. Pearson and O. Wrenn, eds, The archaeology of medieval towns: case studies from Japan and Europe (Oxford: Archaeopress).

Y. Sato 2007, 'Perspectives on "Scenes of the Capital."', Monumenta Nipponica 62: 211-219 .

M. Stavros 2009, ‘Locational pedigree and warrior status in medieval Kyoto: the residences of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu,’ Japanese Studies 29: 3-18.

M. Stavros 2010, ‘The Sanjō bōmon temple-palace complex: the first locus of Ashikaga authority in medieval Kyoto’, Japan Review 22: 3-29.

M. Stavros 2014, Kyoto: an urban history of Japan’s premodern capital (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

M. Stavros 2017, ‘Monuments and mandalas in medieval Kyoto: reading Buddhist kingship in the urban plan of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu’, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 77: 321-361.

Y. Takahashi 2003, 'Castles in Kyoto at the close of the Age of Warring States: the urban fortresses of the Ashikaga shoguns Yoshiteru and Yoshiaki', in N. Fieve & P. Waley (eds), Japanese capitals in historical perspective: place, power and memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo (London- RoutledgeCurzon).

H. Wakita 1981, 'Dimensions of development: cities in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Japan', in J. W. Hall, K. Nagahara & K. Yamamura, eds, Japan before Tokugawa: political consolidation and economic growth, 1500-1650 (Princeton" Princeton University Press).

H. Wakita 1983, 'Cities in medieval Japan', Acta Asiatica 44: 28-52.

H. Wakita 1997, 'Fêtes et communautes urbaines dans le Japon mediéval. La fête de Gion a Kyoto', Annales 52: 1039-1056.


Tea[edit]

B. M. Bodart 1977, 'Tea and counsel: the political role of Sen Rikyū', Monumenta Nipponica 32:49-74.

M. Cooper, 1989, 'The early Europeans and tea', in P. Varley & I. Kumakura, eds., Tea in Japan: essays on the history of chanoyu (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

L. A. Cort 1982. ‘The grand Kitano tea gathering’, Chanoyu quarterly 31: 15-31.

I. Kumakura 1989, 'Sen no Rikyū: inquiries into his life and tea', in P. Varley & I. Kumakura, eds., Tea in Japan: essays on the history of chanoyu (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

T. M. Ludwig 1981, 'Before Rikyū: religious and aesthetic influences in the early history of the Tea Ceremony', Monumenta Nipponica 36: 367-390.

M. Pitelka (ed) 2003, Japanese tea culture: art, history, and practice (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

Sen Soshitsu XV (V. D. Morris trans) 1998, The Japanese Way of tea: from its origins in China to Sen Rikyū (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

D. Slusser 2003, ‘The transformation of tea practice in sixteenth-century Japan’, in M. Pitelka, ed, Japanese tea culture: art, history, and practice (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

H. P. Varley & G. Elison 1981, 'The Culture of Tea: from its origins to Sen no Rikyū', in G. Elison & B. L. Smith, eds, Warlords, artists, and commoners; Japan in the sixteenth century (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii).

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A. M. Watsky 1995, 'Commerce, politics, and tea: the career of Imai Sōkyū', Monumenta Nipponica 50: 47-65.

A. M. Watsky 2003, ‘Commerce, politics, and tea: the career of Imai Sōkyū (1520-1593)’, in M. Pitelka, ed, Japanese tea culture: art, history, and practice (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

Laws[edit]

M. S. Adolphson 2003, 'Laws of the land in medieval Japan: komonjo at Harvard University', in Patrick Hanan, ed, Treasures of the Yenching (Cambridge MA: Harvard-Yenching Library), pp. 155-178.

K. A. Grossberg & N. Kanamoto 1981, The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu: Kemmu Shikimoku (1336) and Muromachi Bakufu Tsuikaho, Monumenta Nipponica Monographs (Sophia University Press).

J. C. Hall 1906, 'Japanese feudal laws: the Institutes of Judicature; being a translation of "Go Seibai Shikimoku"; the Magisterial Code of the Hojo power-holders (AD 1232)', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 34.i: 1-44.

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Economic history[edit]

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O. Wakita 1981, 'The commercial and urban policies of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi', in J. W. Hall, K. Nagahara & K. Yamamura, eds, Japan before Tokugawa: political consolidation and economic growth, 1500-1650 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

K. Yamamura (ed) 1975, 'Workshop papers on the economic and institutional history of medieval Japan', Journal of Japanese Studies 1:255-345.

K. Yamamura 1973, 'The development of Za in medieval Japan', Business History Review 47: 438-465.

K. Yamamura 1981, 'Tara in transition: a study of a Kamakura shoen', Journal of Japanese Studies 7: 349-391.

K. Yamamura 1981, 'Returns on unification: economic growth in Japan, 1550-1650', in J. W. Hall, K. Nagahara & K. Yamamura, eds, Japan before Tokugawa: political consolidation and economic growth, 1500-1650 (Princeton: Pricneton University Press).

K. Yamamura 1988, 'From coins to rice: hypotheses on the kandaka and kokudaka systems', Journal of Japanese Studies 14: 341-367.

K. Yamamura 1990, 'The growth of commerce in medieval Japan', in Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 3.

K. Yamamura & T. Kamiki 1983, 'Silver mines and Sung coins: a monetary history of medieval and modern Japan in international perspective', in J. F. Richards, ed, Precious metals in the later medieval and early modern periods (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press).


Historiography[edit]

J. Ackroyd 1982, Lessons from history: Arai Hakuseki’s Tokushi Yoron (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press).

D. T. Bialock 2007, Eccentric spaces, hidden histories: narrative, ritual, and royal authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press).

C. Bielefeldt 1997, 'Kokan Shiren and the sectarian uses of history', in J. P. Mass (ed), The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors and peasants in the fourteenth century (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

E. L. Brightwell 2020, Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

D. M. Brown & I. Ishida 1979, The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the Gukansho, an Interpretative history of Japan written in 1219 (Berkeley: University of California Press) .

J. S. Brownlee 1991, Political thought in Japanese historical writing: from Kojiki (712) to Tokushi yoron (1712) (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).

T. D. Conlan 2009, ‘Traces of the past: documents, literacy, and liturgy in medieval Japan’, in G. M. Berger, A. E. Goble, L. F. Harrington, & G. C. Hurst III, eds, Currents in medieval Japanese history: essays in honor of Jeffrey P. Mass (Los Angeles: Figueroa Press), pp. 19-50.

Feng Zuozhe & Wang Xiaoqiu (trans Joshua A. Fogel) 1989, 'Azuma kagami and Wuqi jing bu: historical evidence of Sino-Japanese cultural interaction', Sino-Japanese Studies 1.2: 28-40.

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T. Kuroda 1959, 'Gukansho and Jinnō Shōtōki: observations on medieval historiography', in J. A. Harrison (ed), New light on early and medieval Japanese historiography (Gainesville: University of Florida Press).

M. McCarty 2020, 'A Monk for All Seasons: Visions of Jien (1155–1225) in Medieval Japan', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 80: 1-36.

K. W. Nakai 2007, ‘The Age of the Gods in medieval and early modern historiography’, in J. C Baxter and J. A. Fogel, eds, Writing histories in Japan: texts and their transformations from ancient times through the Meiji era (Kyoto: International Research Centre for Japanese Studies), pp. 11-40.

G. W. Robinson & W. G. Beasley 1961, 'Japanese historical writing in the eleventh to fourteenth centuries', in W. G. Beasley & E. G. Pulleyblank, eds, Historians of China and Japan (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

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H. P. Varley 1980, A Chronicle of gods and sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa (New York: Columbia University Press).

H. Wakabayashi 2009, ‘The Mongol Invasions and the making of the iconography of foreign enemies: the case of Shikaumi jinja engi’, in A. E. Goble, K. K. Robinson and H. Wakabayashi, eds, Tools of Culture (Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies), 105-133.

H. Wakita 2007, ‘The creation of fabricated myths in the medieval age: an examination of Shintōshū, histories (engi), Noh plays, and other sources’, in J. C Baxter and J. A. Fogel, eds, Writing histories in Japan: texts and their transformations from ancient times through the Meiji era (Kyoto: International Research Centre for Japanese Studies), pp. 85-104.

U. Wolff 1987-88, 'Rakushu: Spott- und Protestgedichte in den Gunki Monogatari des japanischer Mittelalters', Oriens Extremus 31: 5-195.

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General[edit]

Y. Arano 1994, 'The entrenchment of the concept of "National Seclusion"', Acta Asiatica 67: 83-103.

Y. Arano 2005, ‘The formation of a japanocentric world order’, International Journal of Asian Studies 2: 185-216.

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B. L. Batten 2005, Gateway to Japan: Hakata in war and peace, 500-1300 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

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A. Clulow 2010, ‘From global entrepôt to early modern domain: Hirado, 1609-1641’, Monumenta Nipponica 65: 1-35.

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A. Cobbing 2009, Kyushu: Gateway to Japan (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

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W. Enomoto 2012, ‘The current state of research on the history of Japan’s contacts with other countries in the first half of the medieval period’, Acta Asiatica 103: 95-120.

A. E. Goble 2009, ‘Kajiwara Shozen (1265-1337) and the medical Silk Road: Chinese and Arabic influences on medieval Japanese medicine’, in A. E. Goble, K. R. Robinson and H. Wakabayashi (eds), Tools of culture: Japan’s cultural, intellectual, medical, and technological contacts in East Asia, 1000s-1500s (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Association for Asian Studies), pp. 231-257

A. E. Goble, K. R. Robinson and H. Wakabayashi (eds) 2009, Tools of culture: Japan’s cultural, intellectual, medical, and technological contacts in East Asia, 1000s-1500s (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Association for Asian Studies).

G. C. Gunn 2017, World Trade Systems of the East and West: Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks (Leiden: Brill).

R. I. Hellyer 2009, Defining engagement: Japan and global contexts, 1640-1868 (Harvard University Asia Center).

A. Horiuchi 2007, ‘Le Kaikoku heidan (De la défense des pays maritimes) de Hayashi Shihei – Présentation et traduction de la preface,’ Ebisu 38: 83-101.

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Y. Ishii 2007, The junk trade from southeast Asia: translations from the Tōsen fūsetugaki, 1674-1723 (Singapore: Institute of Southeast asian Studies, 1998.

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S. Iwao 1963, 'Reopening of the diplomatic and commercial relations between Japan and Siam during Tokugawa days', Acta Asiatica 4: 1-31.

S. Iwao 1970, 'Japanese emigrants to Batavia', Acta Asiatica 18: 1-25.

S. Iwao 1976, 'Japanese foreign trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries', Acta Asiatica 30: 1-18.

N. Kamiya 1994, 'Japanese control of Ezochi and the role of northern Koryo', Acta Asiatica 67: 49-68.

E. Kato 1991, 'Shuinsen licence trade and the Dutch in Southeast Asia', 'in Ancient town of Hoi An: an international symposium held in Danang on 22-23 March 1990 (Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House), pp. 142-148.

E. Kato 1994, 'Research trends in the study of the history of Japanese foreign relations at the start of the early modern period: on the reexamination of "National Seclusion" ­ from the 1970s to 1990s', Acta Asiatica 67: 1-29.

T. Kitagawa & M. Okamoto 2016, ‘Correspondence between Cambodia and Japan in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko 73: 65-110.

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Y. S. Kuno 1937 & 1940, Japanese expansion on the Asiatic continent: a study in the history of Japan with special reference to her international relations with China, Korea, and Russia, 2 volumes (Berkeley: University of California Press).

M. Laver 2012, 'Diplomacy, piracy, and the space between: Japan and East Asia in the medieval period', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

M. Laver 2012, 'A whole new world (order): early modern Japanese foreign relations, 1550–1850', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

D. Massarella 2007, ‘What was happening in East Asia around 1600?’, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 21: 13-33.

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Y. Nagazumi 1999, ‘Ayutthaya and Japan: embassies and trade’, in K. Breazeale, ed, From Japan to Arabia: Ayutthaya’s maritime relations with Asia (Bangkok: Foundation for the Promotion of the Social Sciences and Humanities Textbooks), pp. 89-103.

S. Nakayama 1969, A History of Japanese astronomy: Chinese background and Western impact, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monographs 18 (Harvard University Press)

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F. Opitz 1977, 'Ka-i tsusho, ein Aussenhandelshandbuch des Edo-Zeit', Nachrichten der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens 121/122: 63-81.

J. Reckel 1995, Bohai. Geschichte und Kultur eines manschurisch-koreanischen Kônigreiches der Tang-Zeit (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag).

M. Paske-Smith 1914, 'Japanese trade and residence in the Philippines before and during the Spanish occupation', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 42: 685-710

K. Saeki 2003, 'The Hakata merchant Sokin and relations with East Asia in the Muromachi period', Interactions and transformations: bulletin of the JSPS 21st Century COE Program (Humanities; Kyushu University), 1: 167-182.

E. M. Satow 1884, 'Notes on the intercourse between Japan and Siam in the seventeenth century', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of apanJ 13: 139-210.

G. Sattler 2021, ‘The ideological underpinnings of private trade in East Asia, ca. 800-1127’, Journal of Asian humanities at Kyushu University 6: 41-60.

V. V. Shchepkin 2019, ‘Creating a minority: the views of Japanese intellectuals and Japan’s policy towards Ainu in the 18th and 19th centuries’, Russian Japanology Review 2.1: 128-145.

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I. Smits 2009, ‘China as classic text: Chinese books and twlefth-century Japanese collectors’, in A. E. Goble, K. R. Robinson and H. Wakabayashi (eds), Tools of culture: Japan’s cultural, intellectual, medical, and technological contacts in East Asia, 1000s-1500s (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Association for Asian Studies), pp. 185-210.

Y. Takekoshi 1940, The story of the Wako, Japanese pioneers in the southern regions (Tokyo: Kenkyusha).

T. Tanaka 1977, 'Japan's relations with overseas countries', in J. W. Hall & T. Toyoda, eds, Japan in the Muromachi Age (Berkeley: University of California Press).

K. Tashiro 1982, 'Foreign relations during the Edo period: Sakoku reconsidered', Journal of Japanese Studies 8: 283-306.

M-L. M. Tjoa 1990, 'Sakoku: the full range of Tokugawa foreign relations?', in E. De Poorter, ed., As the twig is bent: essays in honour of Frits Vos (Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben).

R. P. Toby 1977, 'Reopening the question of Sakoku: diplomacy in the legitimation of the Tokugawa Bakufu', Journal of Japanese Studies 3: 323-363.

R. P. Toby 1984, State and diplomacy in early modern Japan; Asia in the development of the Tokugawa Bakufu (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

S. Turnbull 2010, ‘Onward, Christian samurai! The Japanese expeditions to Taiwan in 1609 and 1616’, Japanese studies 30: 3-21.

S. Turnbull 2016, ‘Wars and rumours of Wars: Japanese Plans to invade the Philippines, 1593-1637’, Naval War College Review 69.4: 107-120.

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C. von Verschuer 1988, Le commerce du Japon: des origines au XVIe siècle (Paris: Editions Maisoneuve & Larose).

C. von Verschuer 1999, 'Japan’s Foreign Relations 600 to 1200 AD; a translation from Zenkokuhōki, Monumenta Nipponica 54: 1-39.

C. von Verschuer 2000, 'Looking from within and without: ancient and medieval external relations', Monumenta Nipponica 55: 537-566.

C. von Verschuer 2002, 'Japan's Foreign Relations 1200 to 1392 A.D. A translation from Zenrin Kokuhōki', Monumenta Nipponica 57: 413-454.

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China[edit]

L. J. W. Berger 2003, ‘The overseas Chinese in seventeenth century Nagasaki’, unpublished PhD thesis, Harvard University.

W. J. Boot 2009, ‘The transfer of learning: the import of Chinese and Dutch books in Tokugawa Japan’, in E. Groenendijk, C. Viallé and J. L. Blussé, eds., Canton and Nagasaki compared, 1730-1830. Dutch, Chinese, Japanese Relations. Transactions (Leiden: IGEER), pp. 45-56.

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O. Csaba 2007, ‘Debatten über den japanischen Tribut nach dem Zwischenfall in Ningbo (1523) und der chinesische Umgang mit der ersten darauf folgenden japanischen Gesandschaft (1539-40)’, in A. Schottenhammer, ed., The East Asian maritime world 1400-1800: its fabrics of power and dynamics of exchanges (Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz), pp. 169-218.

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S. Döll 2010, Im Osten des Meeres. Chinesische Emigrantenmönche und die frühen Institutionen des japanischen Zen-Buddhismus (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag)

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J. A. Fogel (ed.) 2007, Crossing the Yellow Sea: Sino-Japanese cultural contacts 1600-1950 (Norwalk CT: EastBridge 2007).

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J. A. Fogel 2013, ‘Sino-Japanese shipping connections as reported in Chinese and Japanese sources’, Sino-Japanese Studies 20.

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J. W. Hall 1949, 'Notes on the early Ching copper trade with Japan', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 12: 444-461.

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B. H. Hazard 1967, 'The formative years of the Wako', Monumenta Nipponica 22:260­-277.

B. Hazard 1976, ‘The wako and Korean responses’, in J. B. Parsons, ed., Papers in honor of Professor Woodbridge Bingham: a festschrift for his seventy-fifth birthday (San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center).

W. C. Hedberg 2013, ‘The Chinese afterlives of Coxinga and the Forty-Seven Rōnin of Akō: Japanese puppet theatre and cultural encounter in Edo-period Nagasaki’, Sino-Japanese Studies 20.

J. Ching 1979, 'The practical learning of Chu Shun-shui', in W. T. de Bary & I. Bloom, eds, Principle and practicality: essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning (New York: Columbia University Press).

N-L. Hur 2015, ‘The celestial warriors: Ming military aid and abuse during the Korean war, 1592-8’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 236-255.

S. Iwao 1958, 'Li Tan, chief of the Chinese residents at Hirado: Japan in the last days of the Ming Dynasty', Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko 17: 27-83.

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O. G. Lidin 2011, ‘Vernacular Chinese in Tokugawa Japan: the inquiries of Ogyu Sorai’, Japonica Humboldtiana 14: 5-36.

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A. C. Moule 1953, ‘Relics of the monk Sakugen’s visit to China’, Asia major, 2nd series, 3.1: 59-64.

O. Oba 2002, ‘Chinese travellers to Nagasaki in the Mid-Qing period: the case of Wang Peng’, in J. A. Fogel, ed., Sagacious monks and bloodthirsty warriors (Norwalk: EastBridge).

C. Oláh 2009, Räuberische Chinesen und tückische Japaner. Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen China und Japan im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert (Wiesbaden: Harrassowiz).

E. D. Rockstein 1973, ‘Maritime Trade and Japanese Pirates: Chinese and Korean Responses in Ming Times’, Asian and Pacific Quarterly of Cultural and Social Affairs 5.2: 10-19.

N. Ôtsuka 2012, ‘The introduction of Southern Sung Buddhism to Japan by Japanese monks who visited China and its repercussion’, Acta Asiatica 103: 1-22.

K. Saeki 2015, ‘Japanese-Korean and Japanese-Chinese relations in the sixteenth century’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 11-21.

A. Schottenhammer 2013, ‘Empire and periphery? The Qing Empire’s Relations with Japan and the Ryukyus (1644-c.1800), a Comparison’, The Medieval History Journal 16: 139-196.

K-W. So 1975, Japanese piracy in Ming China during the 16th century (Michigan State University Press).

M. Suda 2012, ‘The experiences of Japanese monks sent as envoys to Ming China’, Acta Asiatica 103: 53-75.

K. M. Swope 2002, 'Deceit, disguise, and dependence: China, Japan, and the future of the tributary system, 1592-1596', International history review 24: 757-782.

H. Tono 1995, 'Japanese embassies to T'ang China and their ships', Acta Asiatica 69: 39-62.

B. Tremml-Werner 2015, Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644: local comparisons and global connections (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press).

C. von Verschuer 1985, Les relations officielles du Japon avec la Chine aux VIIIe et IXe siècles, Hautes Etudes orientales 21 (Geneva & Paris: Librairie Droz).

C. von Verschuer 2001, 'Le moine Shunjô (1166-1227), sa jeunesse et son voyage en Chine', Bulletin de l’Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient 88: 161-189.

C. von Verschuer 2003, 'Official missions to Tang China and information technology', in Soaring the Silk Road : Japanese Envoys to the Sui and Tang (Nara: Research Center for Silk Roadology).

C. von Verschuer 2005, 'Journal de voyage de Jôjin en 1072: la vie sur le Grand Canal dans la Chine des Song', Revue d'Etudes Japonaises du CEEJA 1 (Colmar : Centre européen d’études japonaises d’Alsace), pp. 79-124.

C. von Verschuer 2006, Across the perilous sea : Japanese trade with China and Korea from the seventh to the sixteenth centuries, trans. K. L. Hunter (Ithaca, NY: East Asia Program, Cornell University).

C. von Verschuer 2011, ‘Les relations diplomatiques entre la Chine et le Japon au début du XVe siècle, d’après une lettre adressée par l’empereur Yongle au shôgun Ashikaga Yoshimochi ', Société des historiens médiévistes de l’Enseignement supérieur public, ed., Les relations diplomatiques au Moyen Âge (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne), pp. 197-208.

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Y­T Wang 1953, Official relations between China and Japan, 1368­-1549 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

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Mongol invasions[edit]

W. Chase 1997, 'Mongol intentions toward Japan in 1266: evidence from a Mongol letter to the Sung', Sino-Japanese Studies 9.2: 13-23.

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Korea[edit]

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M. Finch 2009, 'Civilian life in Chosǒn during the Japanese invasion of 1592: the “Namhaeng illok” and “Imjin illok” in Swaemirok by O Hǔimun', Acta Koreana 12.2: 55–77.

V. Grépinet 2010, ‘Arai Hakuseki et les envoyés coréens à Edo en 1711’, Cipango 17: 63-106 (includes ‘Kôkan hitsudan. Conversation à pinceau à Edo avec les envoyés coréens’).

W. R. Ha 2015, ‘War and cultural exchange’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 323-339.

J. K. Haboush & K. R. Robinson (ed. and trans.) 2016, A Korean war captive in Japan, 1597-1600: the writings of Kang Hang (New York: Columbia University Press).

M-G. Han 2015, ‘”The inestimable benevolence of saving a country on the brink of ruin”: Choson-Ming and Choson-Later Jin relations in the seventeenth century’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 277-293.

M. J. Han 2015, ‘Korea’s prewar domestic situation and relations with Japan’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 22-41.

Y. Hashimoto 2012, ‘Korea in Muromachi culture: cultural exchange between Japan and Korea and between Ryukyu and Korea’, Acta Asiatica 103: 23-52.

S. Hawley 2005, The Imjin War: Japan’s sixteenth-century invasion of Korea and attempt to conquer China (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies).

B. Hazard 1976, ‘The wako and Korean responses’, in J. B. Parsons, ed., Papers in honor of Professor Woodbridge Bingham: a festschrift for his seventy-fifth birthday (San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center).

H. M. Horton 2012, Traversing the frontier : the Man'yōshū Account of a Japanese mission to Silla in 736-737 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

K-J. Hur & Y-S. Cho 2016, ‘Aspects of Korea-Japan cultural exchanges analyzed through Tongshinsa delegations during the National Seclusion period’, Athens journal of history 2.2: 129-136.

N-L. Hur 1997, ‘The International Context of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Invasion of Korea in 1592: A Clash between Chinese Culturalism and Japanese Militarism’, Korea Observer 28: 687-707.

N-L. Hur 2000, ‘A Korean Envoy Encounters Tokugawa Japan: Shin Yuhan and the Korean Embassy of 1719’, (Aichi daigaku kokusai komyunikeeshon gakkai) Bunmei 21 4 (2000:3): 61-73.

N-L. Hur 2015, ‘The celestial warriors: Ming military aid and abuse during the Korean war, 1592-8’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 236-255.

E. Jung 2010, ‘Korean clothing and the emperor of Japan in the 1682 Korean embassy to Japan’, Acta Koreana 13.1:35-51.

E. H. Kang 1998, ‘Diplomacy and Ideology in Early Modern Korean-Japanese Relations’, in Sang-Oak Lee and Duk-Soo Park, eds, Perspectives on Korea (Sydney: Wild Peony).

E. H. Kang 1997, Diplomacy and ideology in Japanese-Korean relations from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century (New York: St Martin’s Press).

S. Kawazoe 1990, 'Japan and East Asia', in Cambridge History of Japan vol. 3.

S. Kim 2014, ‘The logic and method of justifying foreign invasions: comparing the Hideyoshi and Manchu invasions of Chosŏn’, Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 27: 187-209.

M. Kitajima 2015, ‘The Imjin Waeran: contrasting the first and the second invasions of Korea’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 73-92.

Y. S. Kuno 1937 & 1940, Japanese expansion on the Asiatic continent: a study in the history of Japan with special reference to her international relations with China, Korea, and Russia, 2 volumes (Berkeley: University of California Press).

J-M. Lee 2019, 'Amicable Diplomacy? Korean Embassies and Japanese Intellectuals in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', Japanese Studies 39: 353-370.

J. B. Lewis 1985, 'Beyond Sakoku: the Korean envoy to Edo and the 1719 diary of Shin Yu-han', Korea Journal 25: 22-41.

J. B. Lewis 2003, Frontier contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan (London: RoutledgeCurzon)

J. B. Lewis 2010, ‘A scroll of the 1748 Korean embassy to Japan preserved in the British Museum’, Acta Koreana 13.1: 53-89.

J. B. Lewis 2015, ‘International relations and Imjin Waeran’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 256-273.

J. B. Lewis (ed.), 2015. The East Asian war, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge).

G. M. McCune 1946, ‘The exchange of envoys between Korea and Japan during the Tokugawa period’, FarEastern Quarterly 5: 308-325.

G. M. McCune 1948, ‘The Japanese trading post at Pusan’, Korean review 1: 11-15.

N. Mizuno 2009, ‘The Tenno in early modern Japanese policy toward East Asia: the case of Japanese-Korean diplomatic relations,' Journal of Asian History 43: 52-72.

S. Murai 2015, ‘Post-war domain source material on Hideyoshi’s invasion of Korea: the wartime memoirs of Shimazu soldiers’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 108-119.

M. Nukii 2015, ‘Righteous army activity in the Imjin War’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 141-162.

D. Park 2013, ‘A new perspective on the Korean embassy (Chōsen Tsūshinshi): the view from the intellectuals in Tokugawa Japan’, Studies on Asia Series IV 3.1: 6-24.

S-R. Park 1992, ‘Korea-Japan Relations and the History of Science and Technology’, Korea Journal 32.4: 80-88.

K. R. Robinson 1996, ‘The Tsushima governor and regulation of Japanese access to Choson in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries’, Korean studies 20: 23-50.

K. R. Robinson 1997, ‘The Jiubian and Ezogachishima embassies to Choson, 1478-1482’, Chōsenshi kenkyūkai ronbunshū 35: 55-86.

K. R. Robinson 1999, ‘The imposter branch of the Hatakeyama family and Japanese-Choson Korea court relations’, Ajia bunka kenkyū 25: 67-88.

K. R. Robinson 2000, ‘Centering the King of Choson: aspects of Korean maritime diplomacy, 1392-1592’, Journal of Asian Studies 59: 109-125.

K. R. Robinson 2001, 'Treated as treasures: the circulation of sutras in maritime Northeast Asia, from 1388 to the mid-sixteenth century', East Asian History 21: 33-54.

K. R. Robinson 2006, ‘An island's place in history: Tsushima in Japan and in Chosošn, 1392-1592’, Korean studies 30: 40-66

K. R. Robinson 2009, ‘A Japanese trade mission to Choson Korea, 1537-1540: the Sonkai tokai nikki and the Korean tribute system’, in A. E. Goble, K. R. Robinson and H. Wakabayashi (eds), Tools of culture: Japan’s cultural, intellectual, medical, and technological contacts in East Asia, 1000s-1500s (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Association for Asian Studies), pp. 71-101.

K. R. Robinson 2010, ‘Japanese presence, Korean military bases, and Korean maps in the late fifteenth century’, Acta Koreana 13.1: 7-34.

K. R. Robinson 2015, ‘Violence, trade, and imposters in Korean-Japanese relations, 1510-1609’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 42-69.

E. D. Rockstein 1973, ‘Maritime Trade and Japanese Pirates: Chinese and Korean Responses in Ming Times’, Asian and Pacific Quarterly of Cultural and Social Affairs 5.2: 10-19.

K. S. Ryang 1982, ‘The Korean-Japanese Relations in the 17th Century’, Korea Observer 13.4: 434-450.

A. L. Sadler 1937, ‘The Naval Campaign in the Korean War of Hideyoshi (1592-1598)’, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan second Series, 14: 179-208.

K. Saeki 2015, ‘Japanese-Korean and Japanese-Chinese relations in the sixteenth century’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 11-21.

A. Sajima 2015, ‘Hideyoshi’s view of Choson Korea and Japanese-Ming negotiations’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 93-107.

B. Seyock 2005, ‘Pirates and traders on Tsushima island during the late 14th to the early 16th century: as seen from historical and archaeological perspectives’, in A. Schottenhammer, ed., Trade and transfer across the East Asian “Mediterranean” (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), pp. 91-124.

I. Smits 2007, ‘Royal pains: how the king of Koryo became the empress of China’, in R. Breuker, ed., Korea in the Middle: Korean Studies and Area Studies (Leiden: CNWS), pp. 333-340.

G. Stramiglioli 1954, 'Hideyoshi's expansionist policy on the Asiatic mainland', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 3: 74­-116.

K. M. Swope 2005, 'Crouching tigers, secret weapons: military technology employed during the Sino-Japanese Korean War, 1592-1598', Journal of military history 69: 11-42.

K. M. Swope 2008, Bestowing the double-edged sword: Wanli as supreme military commander', in D. M. Robinson, ed., Culture, courtiers, an competiion: The Ming court (1368-1644) (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center), pp. 61-115.

K. M. Swope 2009, A Dragon's head and a serpent's tail: Ming China and the first great East Asian war, 1592–1598 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press).

K. W. Swope 2015, ‘Ming grand strategy and the intervention in Korea’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 163-196.

F. Tamamuro 2000, ‘The Korean Embassy to Tokugawa Japan in 1748: Protocol and Reception by the Tokugawa Bakufu’, in Chang Yun-Shik, Donald L. Baker, Hur Nam-lin, and Ross King, eds, Korea Between Tradition and Modernity: Selected Papers from the Fourth Pacific and Asian Conference on Korean Studies (Vancouver: Institute for Asian Research, University of British Columbia).

K. Tashiro 1976, 'Tsushima-han's Korean trade, 1684­1710', Acta Asiatica 30: 85-105.

M-L. M. Tjoa 1983, ‘A Dutch View of the Korean Embassy to Japan in 1636’, Korea Journal 23.1: 21-25.

R. P. Toby 1986, 'Carnival of the aliens: Korean embassies in Edo-period art and popular culture', Monumenta Nipponica 41: 415-56.

D. Trambaiolo 2014, 'Diplomatic journeys and medical brush talks: eighteenth-century dialogues between Korean and Japanese medicine', in O. Gal and Y. Zheng, eds, Motion and knowledge in the changing early modern world: orbits, routes and vessels (Dordrecht: Springer Verlag), pp. 93-113.

K. Tsuruta 1994, 'The establishment and characteristics of the "Tsushima gate"', Acta Asiatica 67: 30-48.

S. Turnbull 2002, Samurai Invasion: Japan’s Korean War 1592–98 (London: Cassell & Co).

C. von Verschuer 2006, Across the perilous sea : Japanese trade with China and Korea from the seventh to the sixteenth centuries, trans. K. L. Hunter (Ithaca, NY: East Asia Program, Cornell University).

M. Yi 2015, ‘The role of the Choson navy and major naval battles during the Imjin Waeran’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 120-140.

H. T. Zurndorfer 2015, ‘Wanli China versus Hideyoshi’s Japan: rethinking China’s involvement in the Imjin Waeran’, in J. B. Lewis, ed., The East Asian War, 1592-1598: international relations, violence, and memory (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 197-235.

Vietnam[edit]

Ancient town of Hoi An: an international symposium held in Danang on 22-23 March 1990 (Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1991).

D. Chihara 1991, 'About the construction described in Chaya Shinrokuro's "Sea map - trade with the state of Jiazhi"', in Ancient town of Hoi An: an international symposium held in Danang on 22-23 March 1990 (Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House), pp. 28-33.

Y. Ishii 2007, The junk trade from southeast Asia: translations from the Tōsen fūsetugaki, 1674-1723 (Singapore: Institute of Southeast asian Studies, 1998.

K. Kawamoto 1991, 'The international outlook of the Quang Nam (Nguyen) regime as revealed in Gaiban Tsuusho', in Ancient town of Hoi An: an international symposium held in Danang on 22-23 March 1990 (Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House), pp. 109-116.

T. A. Nguyen & Y. Ishizawa (eds) 1999, Commerce et navigation en Asie du Sud-Est (XIVe-XIXe siècles) (Paris: l'Harmattan).

S. Ogura 1991, 'About two Japanese scrolls: "Sea map - trade with the state of Jiazhi" and "Avalokitesvara"', in Ancient town of Hoi An: an international symposium held in Danang on 22-23 March 1990 (Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House), pp. 128-134.

N. Peri 1923, 'Les relations du Japon et de l'Indochine aux XVIe et XVIIe siecles', Bulletin de l'ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient 23: 1-136.

Vu Minh Giang 1991, 'The Japanese presence in Hoi An', in Ancient town of Hoi An: an international symposium held in Danang on 22-23 March 1990 (Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House), pp. 135-141.


Ryūkyū[edit]

D. Chen 1968, 'Investiture of the Liu-ch'iu kings in the Ch'ing period,' in J. K. Fairbank, ed., The Chinese world order (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), pp. 135-164.

S. M. Hong-Schunka 2005, ‘An aspect of East Asian maritime trade: the exchange of commodities between Korea and Ryukyu (1389-1638)’, in A. Schottenhammer, ed., Trade and transfer across the East Asian “Mediterranean” (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), pp. 125-161.

Y. Ishii 1990, ‘The Ryukyus in Southeast Asian trade in the 15th and 16th centuries’, in K. M. de Silva et al eds, Asian panorama: essays in Asian history, past and present (Sri Lanka: Karunaratne & Sons), pp. 353-65.

K. Ito 2008, ‘Japan and Ryukyu during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries’, Acta Asiatica 95: 79-99.

M. Kamei 2008, ‘Changes in the ceramic trade and its modus operandi in Old Ryukyu’, Acta Asiatica 95: 19-33.

G. H. Kerr 1958, Okinawa: The history of an island people (Tokyo: Tuttle).

J. Kreiner (ed.) 2001, Ryukyu in world history (Bonn: Biersche Verlagsastalt).

M. Matsuda 1966, ‘Ryukyuan government scholarship students to China, 1392-1868’, Monumenta Nipponica 21: 273-304.

T. Nelson 2006, ‘Japan in the life of early Ryukyu’, Journal of Japanese Studies 32: 367-392.

H. Okamoto 2008, ‘Foreign policy and maritime trade in the early Ming period: Focusing on the Ryukyu kingdom’, Acta Asiatica 95: 35-55.

R. Ptak 2003, 'The Ryukyu network in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries,' Review of Culture/Revista de Cultura 6: 7-23

A. Schottenhammer 2013, ‘Empire and periphery? The Qing Empire’s Relations with Japan and the Ryukyus (1644-c.1800), a Comparison’, The Medieval History Journal 16: 139-196.

G. Smits 1999, Visions of Ryukyu : identity and ideology in early-modern thought and politics (Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press)

G. Smits 2010, ‘Guiding horses with rotten reins: economic thought in the eighteenth-century kingdom of Ryukyu’, in B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits, eds., Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

B. D. Steben 2007, 'The transmission of Neo-Confucianism to the Ryukyu islands and its geopolitical significance: ritual and rectification of names in a bipolar authority field', in J. Fogel, ed, Crossing the Yellow Sea: Sino-Japanese cultural contacts 1600-1950 (Norwalk CT: EastBridge), pp. 73-98.

T. Takatsu 2008, ‘Ming Jianyang prints and the spread of the teachings of Zhu Xi to Japan and the Ryūkyū kingdom in the seventeenth century’, in Angela Schottenhammer, ed., The East Asian ‘Mediterranean’: maritime crossroads of culture, commerce and human migration (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), pp. 253-270.

T. Uezato 2008, ‘The formation of the port city of Naha in Ryukyu and the world of maritime Asia: From the perspective of a Japanese network’, Acta Asiatica 95: 57-77.

G. Wade 2007, 'Ryukyu in the Ming reign annals 1380s-1580s', Asia Research Institute Working Paper Series No. 3 http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/showfile.asp?pubid=676&type=2

M. Yamamoto 2008, ‘The Gusuku period in the Okinawa Islands’, Acta Asiatica 95: 1-17.

Contacts with Europe[edit]

General[edit]

Anon 2007, ‘Japan and the Japanese in printed works in Europe in the sixteenth century’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 14: 43-107.

Y. Arano 1994, 'The entrenchment of the concept of "National Seclusion"', Acta Asiatica 67: 83-103

H. Bernard 1940, 'Traductions chinoises d'ouvrages européens au Japon durant la periode de fermeture', Monumenta Nipponica 3: 40-60.

C. R. Boxer 1984, 'When the twain first met: European conceptions and misconceptions of Japan, sixteenth - eighteenth centuries', Modern Asian Studies 18: 531-540.

A. Cattaneo 2013, ‘The Mutual emplacement of Japan and Europe during the Nanban Century’, in V. Weston, ed, Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan: spiritual Beliefs and earthly goods (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College), 25-33.

H. Cieslik 1943, 'Nanbanji-Romane der Tokugawa-Zeit', Monumenta Nipponica 6: 13-51.

A. Cobbing 2009, Kyushu: Gateway to Japan (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

M. Cooper 1965, They came to Japan: an anthology of European reports on Japan, 1543-1640 (London: Thames & Hudson).

M. Cooper, 1989, 'The early Europeans and tea', in P. Varley & I. Kumakura, eds., Tea in Japan: essays on the history of chanoyu (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

M. Cooper 2002, Joao Rodrgues’s account of sixteenth-century Japan (London: The Hackluyt Society).

H. Cortazzi 1982, 'Old maps of Japan', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 17: 53-119.

H. Cortazzi 1983, Isles of gold: antique maps of Japan (New York: Weatherhill).

L. M. Cullen 2004, ‘Sakoku, Tokugawa policy, and the interpretation of Japanese history’, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 18: 17-31.

L. M. Cullen 2003, A History of Japan, 1582-1941: internal and external worlds (New York: Cambridge University Press).

A. Curvelo 2001, ‘Nagasaki: an European artistic city in early modern Japan’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 2: 23-35.

A. Curvelo 2003, ‘Nagasaki/Deshima after the Portuguese in Dutch accounts of the 17th century’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 6: 147-157.

A. Curvelo 2008, ‘The artistic circulation between Japan, China and the New-Spain in the 16th-17th centuries’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 16: 59-69.

R. K. Danford, R. Gill, D. T. Reff 2014, The first European description of Japan, 1585: a critical English-language edition of striking contrasts in the customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J. (Abingdon: Routledge).

W. Enomoto 2012, 'The current state of research on the history of Japan's contacts with other countries in the first half of the medieval period', Acta Asiatica 103: 95-120.

A. S. H. FitzMaurice 2010, ‘European influence on the Southern Barbarian Screens: what the Japanese learned from European art in the Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1573-1603). Study of Westerners playing music’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 21: 9-24.

D. Frison 2010, ‘El officio de procurador al qual aunque tengo particular repugnância. The office of procurator through the letters of Carlo Spinola S.J.’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 20: 9-70.

H. Fuess 2005, ‘Deutsche Jesuiten in Japan,‘ Japanstudien 17: 83-108.

N. Golvers 2009, ‘Distance as an inconvenient factor in the scientific communication between Europe and the Jesuits in China (17th / 18th Century)’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 18/19: 105-134.

R. I. Hellyer 2009, Defining engagement: Japan and global contexts, 1640-1868 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

R. H. Hesselink 2002, ‘Memorable embassies: the secret history of Arnoldus Montanus’ Gedenkwaerdige Gesantschappen’, Quaerendo 32: 99-123.

R. H. Hesselink 2016, The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Culture and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640 (Jefferson, NC: Mcfarland and Company).

A. Horiuchi 2007, ‘Le Kaikoku heidan (De la défense des pays maritimes) de Hayashi Shihei – Présentation et traduction de la preface,’ Ebisu 38: 83-101.

U. Iaccarino 2008, ‘Manila as an international entrepôt: Chinese and Japanese trade with the Spanish Philippines at the close of the 16th century’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 16: 71-81.

K. Igawa 2012, 'The encounter between Europe and Japan', Acta Asiatica 103: 77-94.

R. Innes 1980, 'The door ajar: Japan's foreign trade in the seventeenth-century', PhD dissertation, University of Michigan.

S. Iwao 1985, 'The life of Pieter Hartsinck, the japanner (1637-1680); 'grand pupil' of Descartes', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 20: 145-167.

P. Kapitza 1990, Japan in Europa: Texte und Bilddokumente zur europaeschen Japankenntnis von Marco Polo bis Wilhelm von Humboldt (München: iudicium verlag).

E. Kato 1994, 'Research trends in the study of the history of Japanese foreign relations at the start of the early modern period: on the reexamination of 'National Seclusion' - from the 1970s to 1990s', Acta Asiatica 67: 1-29.

H. Kato 1981, 'The Significance of the period of National Seclusion reconsidered', Journal of Japanese Studies 7: 85-109.

H. Kleinschmidt 1980, 'Japan im Welt- und Geschichtsbild der Europäer: Bemerkungen zu europäischen Weltgeschichtsdarstellungen vornehmlich des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts', Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 3: 132-207.

A. Koch 2020, ‘Diplomatic devices: the social lives of foreign timepieces in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Japan’, KronoScope 20: 64-101.

R. Kowner 2014, From white to yellow: the Japanese in European racial thought, 1300-1735 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press).

C. C. Krieger 1940, The infiltration of European civilization into Japan during the eighteenth century (Leiden: E. J. Brill).

D. F. Lach 1965, Japan in the eyes of Europe: the sixteenth century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

M. S. Laver 2011, The Sakoku edicts and the politics of Tokugawa hegemony (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press).

M. S. Laver 2012, 'A whole new world (order): early modern Japanese foreign relations, 1550–1850', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

O. G. Lidin 2002, Tanegashima - The Arrival of Europe in Japan (Richmond: Curzon).

W. Lutz 1994, Japan: a cartographic vision European Printed Maps of Japan from the early 16th to the 19th Century (New York: Prestel).

D. Massarella 1990, A world elsewhere: Europe's encounter with Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (New Haven: Yale University Press).

D. Massarella 1999, The Jesuits, Japan, and European expansion in the sixteenth century (Munich: Iudicium).

D. Massarella 2007, ‘What was happening in East Asia around 1600?’, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 21: 13-33.

Y. Matsui 2009, ‘The legal position of foreigners in Nagasaki during the Edo period’, in M. Haneda, ed., Asian port cities 1600-1800: local and foreign cultural interactions (Singapore: NUS Press).

W. Michel 1987, ‘Zacharias Wagner und Japan - Die Autobiographie eines 'Donnermanns', Dokufutsu Bungaku Kenkyū 37: 53-102.

Y. Mikhailova and W. Steele 2008, Japan and Russia. Three centuries of mutual images (Folkestone: Goloba Oriental).

S. Murai 2002, ‘A reconsideration of the introduction of firearms to Japan’, Memoirs of the research Department of the Toyo Bunko 60: 19-38.

S. Nakayama 1969, A history of Japanese astronomy: Chinese background and Western impact (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press)

Y. Ôhashi 2010, ‘The revolt of Shimabara-Amakusa’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 20 :71-80.

M. Oka 2001, ‘A great merchant in Nagasaki in 17th century: Suetsugu Heizo II and the system of Respondencia’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 2: 37-56.

M. Oka 2021, The Namban Trade: Merchants and Missionaries in 16th and 17th Century Japan (Leiden: Brill).

Y. Okamoto 1972, The Namban art of Japan (New York: Weatherhill).

M. Paske-Smith 1930, Western Barbarians in Japan and Formosa in Tokugawa Days (Kobe: J. L. Thompson & Co).

A. F. Pinto 2004, Uma Imagem do Japão. A Aristocracia Guerreira Nipónica nas Cartas Jesuítas de Évora (1598) (Macau: Instituto Português do Oriente-Fundação Oriente).

J. M. Pinto dos Santos 2005, ‘The "kuroda plot" and the legacy of jesuitic scientific influence in seventeenth century Japan’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 10/11: 97-191.

J. Proust 2002, Europe through the prism of Japan: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, trans E. Bell (University of Notre Dame Press).

J. & M. Proust 2003, Le puissant royaume du Japon; la descriiption de Francois Caron (1636) (Paris: Editions Chandeigne).

R. M. Puga 2002, ‘The presence of the “Portugals” in Macao and Japan in Richard Hackluyt’s Navigations’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 5: 81-115.

M. Ribeiro 2001, ‘The Japanese diaspora in the seventeenth century according to Jesuit sources’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 3: 53-83.

F. Roque de Oliveira 2009, ‘A Treatise inside a treatise: Chinese matters in the Historia da Igreja do Japão by João Rodrigues Tçuzu S.J.’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 18/19: 135-173.

H. O. Rotermund 1970, 'Ein Japan-Bericht aus dem Jahre 1586', Oriens Extremus 17: 145-177.

T. Screech (ed) 2002, Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776 (Richmond: Curzon).

T. Screech 2012, ‘The Shogun’s former lover’s would-be Swedish boyfriend: Inoue Masashige, Tokugawa Iemitsu and Olof Eriksson Willman, 1658-59’, in G. R.Clarence-Smith & R. A. G. Reyes, eds, Sexual diversity in Asia, c.600-1950 (Farnham UK: Routledge).

R. Shimada 2006, The Intra-Asian trade in Japanese copper by the Dutch East India company during the eighteenth century (Leiden: Brill).

C. S. Simões 2010, ‘Japanese Interest in the European culture in the Historia de Japam by Luis Fróis’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 21: 45-71.

K-K. Sindemann 2001, ‘Japanese Buddhism in the 16th century: letters of the Jesuit missionaries’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 2: 111-133.

C. Steenstrup 1979, ‘A Gustavian Swede in Tanuma Okitsugu’s Japan: marginal notes to Carl Peter Thunberg’s Travelogue’, Journal of intercultural studies 6 (1979) 20-42.

D. Streltsov & N. Shimotomai (eds) 2019, A History of Russo-Japanese relations over two centuries of cooperation and competition (Leiden: Brill).

T. Tanaka 1977, 'Japan's Relations with overseas countries', in J. W. Hall & T. Toyoda, Japan in the Muromachi age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977).

R. P. Toby 1994, 'The "Indianness" of Iberia and changing Japanese iconographies of other', in S. B. Schwartz, ed., Implicit understandings: observing, reporting, and reflectin on the encounters between Europeans and other peoples in the early modern era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

R. P. Toby 2001, ‘Three realms/myriad countries: an “ethnography” of Other and the re-bounding of Japan, 1550-1750’, in K-w. Chow, K. M. Doak & P. Fu, eds, Constructing nationhood in modern East Asia (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).

W. F. Vande Walle & K. Kasaya (eds) 2001, Dodonaeus in Japan: translation and the scientific mind in the Tokugawa period (Leuven University Press).

G. A. H. Vlam 1977, 'Kings and Heroes: Western-style painting in Momoyama Japan', Artibus Asiae 39: 220-250.

D. N. Wells 2019, The Russian discovery of Japan, 1670-1800 (London: Routledge).


Portugal[edit]

J. Besineau 1998, Au Japon avec Joao Rodrigues 1580-1620 (Lisbon: Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbelkian).

C. R. Boxer 1939, 'The Embassy of Captain Goncalo de Siqueira de Souza to Japan in 1644-1647', Monumenta Nipponica 2: 40-74, 512-517.

C. R. Boxer 1948, Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550-1770; fact and fancy in the history of Macao (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff).

C. R. Boxer 1959, The great ship from Amacon; annals of Macao and the old Japan trade, 1555-1640 (Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Historicos Ultramarinos).

C. R. Boxer 1969, The Portuguese seaborne empire, 1415-1825 (London: Hutchinson).

C. Castel-Branco & M. Paes 2009, ‘Fusion urban planning in the 16th century. Japanese and Portuguese founding Nagasaki’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 18/19: 67-103.

E. Colla 2008, ‘16th century Japan and Macau described by Francesco Carletti (1573?-1636)’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 17: 113-144.

M. Cooper 1965, They came to Japan: an anthology of European reports on Japan, 1543-1640 (London: Thames & Hudson).

M. Cooper 1971, The Southern Barbarians: the first Europeans in Japan (Tokyo: Kodansha International).

M. Cooper 1972, 'The mechanics of the Macao-Nagasaki silk trade', Monumenta Nipponica 27: 423-433.

M. Cooper 1973, This island of Japon: Joao Rodrigues' account of 16th-century Japan (Tokyo: Kodansha International).

M. Cooper 1974, Rodrigues the interpreter: an early Jesuit in Japan and China (Tokyo: Weatherhill).

M. Cooper 1985, 'Rodrigues's second grammar, the Arte breve da lingoa iapao, 1620', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 20: 125-143.

M. Cooper 2002, Joao Rodrgues’s account of sixteenth-century Japan (London: The Hackluyt Society).

R. K. Danford, R. Gill, D. T. Reff 2014, The first European description of Japan, 1585: a critical English-language edition of striking contrasts in the customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J. (Abingdon: Routledge).

L. de Sousa 2018, The Portuguese slave trade in early modern Japan: merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves (Leiden: Brill).

R. H. Hesselink 2012, ‘The capitães mores of the Japan voyage: a group portrait’, International Journal of Asian Studies 9:1-41.

A. Kono 2001, ‘Portuguese-Japanese language contact in 16th century Japan’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 3: 43-51.

J. P. Lamers 2002, Treatise on Epistolary Style: Joao Rodriguez on the Noble Art of Writing Japanese Letters (Center for Japanese Studies, Michigan).

J. P. A. Oliveira e Costa 1993, Portugal and the Japan: the Namban century ([Lisbon]: Portuguese State Mint).

J. P. Oliveira e Costa 2009, ‘The Japanese students at the College of Macau (1594-1606)’, in M. A. J. Ucerler, ed., Christianity and cultures: Japan and China in comparison, 1543-1644 (Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu).

I. Sumida 2010, ‘Namban culture and the Portuguese-language teaching in Kyoto’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 21: 103-.

D. Waterhouse 1997, ‘Southern Barbarian Music in Japan', in Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, ed, Portugal and the World: The Encounter of Cultures in Music (Lisbon: Publicações Dom Quixote, 1997), pp. 351-377.

C. Willis 2012, ‘Captain Jorge Álvares and Father Luís Fróis S.J.: Two Early Portuguese Descriptions of Japan and the Japanese’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 22: 391-438.



Spain[edit]

M. Alvar 1995, ‘La ambajada Japonese de 1614 al Rey de Espana’, Thesaurus: boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo 50: 518-525.

H. Bernard 1938, 'Les debuts des relations diplomatiques entre le Japon et les Espagnols des Iles Philippines (1571-94)', Monumenta Nipponica 1: 99-137.

W. M. Mathes 1990, 'A quarter-century of Trans-Pacific diplomacy: New Spain and Japan, 1592-1617', Journal of Asian History 24: 1-29.

V. Mínguez & I. Rodríguez 2009, ‘Japan in the Spanish Empire circulation of works of art and imaginings of Cipango in Metropolitan Spain and the American Viceroyalties’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 18/19: 195-221.

J. A. Robertson 1915, 'Bibliography of early Spanish Japanese relations', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 43: 1-170

S. Sanabrais 2009, ‘“The Spaniards of Asia”: The Japanese presence in Colonial Mexico’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 18/19: 223-251.

B. Tremml-Werner 2015, Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644: Local comparisons and global connections (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press).

B. Tremml-Werner 2016, ‘Friend or Foe? Intercultural diplomacy between Momoyama Japan and the Spanish Philippines in the 1590s’, in T. Andrade and Xing Hang, eds, Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press), 65-85.


Italy[edit]

A. Boscaro 1967, 'Manoscritto inedito nella Biblioteca Marciana di Venezia relativo all’Ambasciata Giapponese del 1585', Il Giappone 7: 9-39.

A. Boscaro 1987, 'Giapponesi a Venezia nel 1585', in L.Lanciotti, ed., Venezia e l’Oriente (Firenze: Olschki), pp. 409-429.

A. Boscaro 1994, 'I primi giapponesi in Italia', in Istituto Giapponese di Cultura di Roma, ed., Il Giappone scopre l’Occidente (Roma: Carte Segrete), pp. 59-62.

M. Cooper 2005, The Japanese mission to Europe, 1582-1590: the journey of four samurai boys through Portugal, Spain and Italy (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

T. Iannello 2013, ‘Il Giappone nelle conoscenze storico-letterarie dell’Italia fra cinquecento e settecento’, in A. Tamburello, ed., Italia - Giappone, 450 anni (Roma/Napoli: Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente/ Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’), pp. 53-64.

R. M. Loureiro 2006, ‘Kirishitan Bunko: Alessandro Valignano and the Christian press in Japan’, Revista de cultura 19: 135-153.

D. Massarella (ed) 2012, Japanese travellers in sixteenth century Europe: a dialogue concerning the mission to the Roman Curia (1590), trans. J. F Moran (Ashgate: Hackluyt Society).

D. de Sande 1997, Dialogo sobre a missao dos embaixadores Japoneses a Curia romana (Macau: Fundacao Oreinte).


Netherlands[edit]

L. Blussé 2003, ‘Bull in a china shop: Pieter Nuyts in China and Japan (1627–1636)’, in L. Blussé, ed., Around and about Formosa. Essays in honor of Professor Ts’ao Yung-ho (Taipei: SMC Publishing).

L. Blussé and W. G. J. Remmelink (eds) 1992, The Deshima diaries: marginalia 1700-1740 (Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Institute).

L. Blussé and W. G. J. Remmelink (eds) 2004, The Deshima diaries: marginalia 1740-1800 (Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Institute).

L. Blussé, W. G. J. Remmelink & I. Smits (eds) 2000, Bridging the divide. 400 years: The Netherlands-Japan (Leiden: Hotei Publishing).

C. R. Boxer 1950, Jan Compagnie in Japan, 1600-1850: an essay on the cultural, artistic and scientific influence exercised by the Hollanders in Japan from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff).

C. R. Boxer 1965, The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800 (London: Hutchinson).

C. R. Boxer 1988, Dutch merchants and mariners in Asia, 1602-1795 (London : Variorum Reprints).

M. Chaiklin 2003, Cultural Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture: The Influence of European Material Culture on Japan, 1700-1850 (Leiden: CNWS).

A. Clulow 2006, ‘Pirating in the shogun's waters: the Dutch East India Company and the Santo António incident’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 13: 65-80.

A. Clulow 2010, ‘From global entrepôt to early modern domain: Hirado, 1609-1641’, Monumenta Nipponica 65: 1-35.

A. Clulow 2014, The Company and the Shogun: the Dutch encounter with Tokugawa Japan (New York: Columbia University Press).

A. Clulow 2018, ‘“Great help from Japan”: the Dutch East India Company’s experiment with Japanese soldiers’, in A. Clulow & T. Mostert, eds, The Dutch and English East India Companies” diplomacy, trade and violence in early modern Asia (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press), pp. 179-210.

A. Clulow & T. Mostert (eds) 2018, The Dutch and English East India Companies: diplomacy, trade and violence in early modern Asia (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press).

G. K. Goodman 1986, Japan: the Dutch experience (Athlone Press, London; a revised edition of The Dutch impact on Japan published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, in 1967).

R. H. van Gulik 1938, 'Miura Baien on Indian and Dutch poetry', Monumenta Nipponica 1: 173-177.

C. Job 2021, The Dutch language in Japan (1600-1900): a cultural and sociolinguistic study of Dutch as a contact language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

E. Kato 1976, 'The Japan-Dutch trade in the formative period of the seclusion period - particularly on the raw silk trade by the Dutch factory at Hirado, 1620-1640', Acta Asiatica 30: 34-84.

F. Lequin 2002, Isaac Titsing (1745-1812) (Alphen aan den Rijn: Canaletto/Repro-Holland).

D. Massarella & I. K. Tytler 1990,' The Japonian charters: the English and Dutch Shuinjo', Monumenta Nipponica 45: 189-205.

W. Z. Mulder 1988, Hollanders in Hirado, 1597-1641 (Haarlem: Fibula/Van Dishoek).

N. Murakami 1939, 'The Japanese at Batavia in the XVIIth century', Monumenta Nipponica 2: 355-373

Y. Nagazumi 1998, 'From company to individual company servants: Dutch trade in eighteeenth-century Japan', in L. Blussé & F. Gaastra, eds, On the eighteenth century as a category of Asian history: Van Leur in retrospect (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 147-172.

Y. Nagazumi 2003, 'The Japanese Go-shuinjo (vermilion seal) maritime trade in Taiwan', in L. Blussé, ed., Around and about Formosa. Essays in honor of Professor Ts’ao Yung-ho (Taipei: SMC Publishing), pp. 27-41.

P. W. van der Pas 1974, 'Japanese students of mathematics at the University of Leiden during the Sakoku period', Janus 61: 271-279.

P. W. van der Pas 1975, 'Japanese students of mathematics at Leiden during the Sakoku period', Japanese Studies in the History of Science 14: 109-116.

P. J. A. N. Rietbergen 2003, Japan verwoord; Nihon door Nederlandse ogen, 1600-1799 (Amsterdam: KIT).

T. Screech (ed) 2002, Private Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh's Travels in Japan 1780-1794 (Richmond: Curzon).

A. Shimizu 2020, 'Effluvia of the Foreign: Olfactory Experiences in Nagasaki during the Tokugawa Period', Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University 5, pp. 113-123.

C. Vialle 2006, 'In aid of trade: Dutch gift-giving in Tokugawa Japan', Tōkyō Daigaku Shiryō Hensanjo Kenkyū kiyō 16: 57-78.

T. Volker 1954, Porcelain and the Dutch East India Company, 1602-1682 (Leiden: E. J. Brill).

T. Volker 1959, The Japanese porcelain trade of the Dutch East India Company after 1683 (Leiden: E. J. Brill).

England[edit]

A. Clulow 2010, ‘From global entrepôt to early modern domain: Hirado, 1609-1641’, Monumenta Nipponica 65: 1-35.

A. Clulow 2014, 'Commemorating failure: the four hundredth anniversary of England's trading outpost in Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 68: 207-232

A. Clulow & T. Mostert (eds) 2018, The Dutch and English East India Companies: diplomacy, trade and violence in early modern Asia (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press).

R. Cocks 1978-80, Diary kept by the head of the English factory in Japan: diary of Richard Cocks (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press).

M. Cooper 1982, 'The second Englishman in Japan: the trials and travails of Richard Cocks, 1613-1624', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 17: 121-159.

N. Das 2016, ‘Encounter as process: England and Japan in the late sixteenth century’, Renaissance Quarterly 69: 1343–68.

A. Farrington 1984, 'Some other Englishmen in Japan', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 19: 1-15.

A. Farrington 1991, The English factory in Japan 1613-1623 (London: The British Library).

R. Machin 1978, Experiment and return: documents concerning the Japan voyage of the English East India Company, 1671-3 (Kyoto: Richard Cocks Society).

D. Massarella 1983, 'James I and Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 38: 377-386.

D. Massarella 1985, 'The early career of Richard Cocks (1566-1624), head of the English East India Company's factory in Japan (1613-1623)', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 20: 1-46.

D. Massarella 1987, 'The loudest lies: knowledge of Japan in sevententh-century England', Itinerario 11: 52-71

D. Massarella & I. K. Tytler 1990,' The Japonian charters: the English and Dutch Shuinjo', Monumenta Nipponica 45: 189-205.

F. Matsukata 2018, ‘Contacting Japan: East India Company letters to the Shogun’, in A. Clulow & T. Mostert, eds, The Dutch and English East India Companies” diplomacy, trade and violence in early modern Asia (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press), pp. 79-98.

M. Paske-Smith 1927, A glimpse of the 'English House' and English life at Hirado, 1613-1623 (Kobe: J. L. Thompson & Co).

P. Pratt 1931, History of Japan, compiled from the records of the English East Asia Company, 1882, ed M. Paske-Smith (Kobe).

P. G. Rogers 1956, The First Englishman in Japan (London: Harvill Press).

T. Screech 2005, ‘”Pictures (the most part bawdy)”: the Anglo-Japanese painting trade in the early 1600s’, Art Bulletin 87.1: 50-72.

T. Screech 2010, ‘The cargo of the New Year’s Gift: paintings from London for Asian buyers’, in L. Saurma, M. Juneja and A. Eisenbeiss, eds., The Power of things and the flow of cultural transformations (Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag), pp.114–36.

T. Screech 2012, ‘The English and the control of Christianity in the early Edo period’, Japan Review 24: 3-40.

T. Screech 2020, The Shogun’s silver telescope: god, art, and money in the English quest for Japan, 1600-1625 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

R. Tames 1981, Servant of the shogun: being the true story of William Adams, pilot and samurai, the first Englishman in Japan (Tenterden: Paul Norbury).


Engelbert Kaempfer[edit]

B. M. Bodart-Bailey 1988, 'Kaempfer restor'd', Monumenta Nipponica 43: 1-33.

B. M. Bodart-Bailey 1992, ‘The most magnificent monastery and other famous sights : the Japanese paintings of Engelbert Kaempfer’, Japan Review 3: 25-44.

B. M. Bodart-Bailey (ed) 1999, Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa culture observed (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

B. Bodart-Bailey and D. Massarella (eds) 1995, The furthest goal. Engelbert Kaempfer¹s encounter with Tokugawa Japan (Tenterden, Kent: Japan Library).

N. Hiraishi 1999, 'E, Kaempfer's treatise on Japan's policy of seclusion and its influence on Japan's decision to open the country. Some reflections concerning Mori Ogai's historical novel', Japonica Humboldtiana 3: 167-81.

H. Kleinschmidt 2013/14, ‘Vom Manuskript zum Druck. Rezeptionsgeschichtliche Anmerkungen zu Engelbert Kaempfers Japanbericht’, Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 37: 69-95.

S. Klocke-Daffa, J. Scheffler & G. Wilbertz (eds) 2003, Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) und die kulturelle Begegnung zwischen Europa und Asien (Lemgo: Institut fur Lippische Landeskunde).



Embassies to Europe[edit]

H. Bernard 1938, 'Valignani ou Valignano, l'auteur veritable du récit de la première ambassade japonaise en Europe (1582-1590)', Monumenta Nipponica 1: 378-385.

A. Boscaro 1973, Sixteenth century European printed works on the first Japanese mission to Europe: a descriptive bibliography (Leiden: E. J. Brill).

C. R. Boxer 1928, A Portuguese embassy to Japan (1644-1647) (London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co).

J. C. Brown 1994, ‘Courtiers and Christians: the first Japanese emissaries to Europe’, Renaissance Quarterly 47: 872–906.

F. Comisi 2019, Il viaggio della prima ambasciata giapponese presso la Santa Sede (1582-1590). Percorsi nuovi documenti dall’Archivio di Stato di Massa, Studia Linguistica 10, Bibliotheca Franzoniana, Genova.

M. Cooper 2005, The Japanese mission to Europe, 1582-1590: the journey of four samurai boys through Portugal, Spain and Italy (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

P. Corradini 1990, 'Some problems concerning Hasekura Tsunenaga's mission', in A. Boscaro, F. Gatti & M. Raveri, eds, Rethinking Japan (Folkestone: Japan Library), II, 21-25.

D. Massarella 2005, ’Envoys and illusions: the Japanese embassy to Europe, 1582–90, De Missione Legatorum Iaponensium, and the Portuguese viceregal embassy to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1591’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 15: 329-350.

D. Massarella (ed) 2012, Japanese travellers in sixteenth century Europe: a dialogue concerning the mission to the Roman Curia (1590), trans. J. F Moran (London: Ashgate for the Hackluyt Society).

D. Massarella 2013, ‘The Japanese Embassy to Europe (1582–1590)’, Journal of the Hakluyt Society (Feb. 2013), 1-12.

C. Meriwether 1893, 'A sketch of Date Masamune and an account of his embassy to Rome', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 21: 1-105.

H. Nakamura 1940, 'Passage en France de Hasekura, ambassadeur japonais à la cour de Rome au commencement du XVIIe siecle', Monumenta Nipponica 3: 445-457.

J. A. A. Pinto, Y. Okamoto and H. Bernard (eds) 1942, Luis Frois, La première ambassade du Japon en Europe, 1582-1592 (Tokyo: Sophia University).

D. de Sande 1997, Dialogo sobre a missao dos embaixadores Japoneses a Curia romana (Macau: Fundacao Oreinte).

Sendai City Museum 1995, The World and Japan: the embassies of Tensho and Keicho (Sendai: Sendai City Museum).

V. H. Viglielmo & R. H. Russel 1956, 'Scipione Amati's account of the Date Masamune embassy: a bibliographical note, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 19: 155-159.


Christianity[edit]

T. Abé 2005, ‘The 17th Century Jesuit Missionary Reports on Hokkaido’, Journal of Asian History 39: 111-129.

J. L. Alvarez 1939, 'Don Rodrigo de Vivero et la destruction de la Nao 'Madre de Deos' (1609 à 1610)', Monumenta Nipponica 2: 479-511.

J. L. Alvarez-Taladriz (ed) 1954, Alejandro Valignano SJ: Sumario de las cosas de Japon (1583), Adiciones del sumario de Japon (1592), Monumenta Nipponica monographs 9 (Sophia University).

J. L. Alvarez-Taladriz (ed) 1954, Juan Rodriguez Tsuzu SJ: Arte del Cha, Monumenta Nipponica monographs 14 (Sophia University)

M. Anesaki 1930, A concordance to the history of Kirishitan missions (Tokyo).

M. Anesaki 1931, 'Writings on martyrdom in Kirishitan literature', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 2nd series, 8: 20-66.

M. Anesaki 1936,' Psychological observations on the persecution of the Catholics in Japan in the seventeenth century', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 1: 13-27.

M. Anesaki 1938, 'Prosecution of Kirishitans after the Shimabara insurrection', Monumenta Nipponica 1: 293-300.

H. Barros Rodrigues 2008, ‘Father Bento Fernandes S.J. and the Clandestine Japanese Mission,’ Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 15: 95-113.

J. Baskind and R. Bowring, eds, 2015, The Myōtei Dialogues: a Japanese Christian critique of native traditions (Leiden: Brill).

J. Bésineau 1998, Au Japon avec Joao Rodrigues 1580-1620 (Lisbon/Paris: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian).

L. Blussé 2003, ‘The Grand Inquisitor Inoue Chikugo no Kami Masashige, spin doctor of the Tokugawa Bakufu’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 7: 23-43.

A. Boscaro 1973, 'Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the 1587 edicts against Christianity', Oriens Extremus 20: 219-241.

A. Boscaro 2008, Ventura e sventura dei Gesuiti in Giappone (1549-1639) (Venezia: Cafoscarina).

C. R. Boxer 1938, 'Japanese Christians buried in the Jesuit College Church of Sao Paulo at Macau', Monumenta Nipponica 1: 265-269.

C. R. Boxer 1951, The Christian century in Japan: 1549-1650 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

C. R. Boxer & J. S. Cummins 1963, 'The Dominican mission in Japan (1602-1622) and Lope de Vega', Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 33: 5-88.

H. Cieslik 1943, 'Nanbanji-Romane der Tokugawa-Zeit', Monumenta Nipponica 6: 13-51.

H. Cieslik 1953, 'Die Jesuitenmission in Hiroshima im 17. Jahrhundert', Archivum Historicum Societatis Jesu 22: 239-275.

H. Cieslik 1954, 'The great martyrdom in Edo 1623: its causes, course, consequences', Monumenta Nipponica 10: 1-44.

H. Cieslik 1963, 'The training of a Japanese clergy in the seventeenth century', in J. Roggendorf, ed, Studies in Japanese culture (Sophia University Press).

H. Cieslik 1974, 'The case of Christovao Ferreira', Monumenta Nipponica 29: 1-54.

M. Cooper 1965, They came to Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

M. Cooper 2002, Joao Rodrgues’s account of sixteenth-century Japan (London: The Hackluyt Society).

M. Cooper 2005, The Japanese mission to Europe, 1582-1590: the journey of four samurai boys through Portugal, Spain and Italy (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

P. Corradini 1990, 'Some problems concerning Hasekura Tsunenaga¹s mission', in A. Bosacro et al (eds), Rethinking Japan, vol.2 (Folkestone, The Japan Library).

J. P. O. Costa 2007, ‘The brotherhoods and lay support for the early Christian Church in Japan', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34: 67-84.

J. P. A. de Oliveira e Costa 2000, ‘A route under pressure: communication between Nagasaki and Macao (1597-1617)’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 1: 75-95.

J. P. A. de Oliveira e Costa 2002, ‘The Misericordias among Japanese Christian communities in the 16th and 176th centuries’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 5: 67-79.

J. P. A. de Oliveira e Costa 2003, ‘Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Christian daimyo during the crisis of 1600’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 7: 45-71.

J. P. A. de Oliveira e Costa 2007, ‘The Brotherhoods (Confrarias) and lay support for the early Christian church in Japan’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34: 67-84.

J. P. A. de Oliveira e Costa 2010, 'Japanese Christians (16th-17th centuries): an original community’, in D. Couto & F. Lachaud, eds, Empires eloignés (XVIe-XIXe siècle) (Paris, École Française d’Extreme Orient), pp. 109-118.

M. Debergh 1980/84, 'Deux nouvelles etudes sur l'histoire du christianisme au Japon', Journal Asiatique 268(1980): 395-416 & 272(1984): 167-210.

S. Diniz 2001, ‘Jesuit buildings in China and Japan: a comparative study’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 3: 107-128.

T. Doi 1939, 'Das Sprachstudium der Gesellschaft Jesu in Japan im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert', Monumenta Nipponica 2: 437-465.

G. Elison 1973, Deus destroyed: the image of Christianity in early modern Japan (Cambnridge MA: Harvard University Press).

G. Elison 1981, 'The cross and the sword: patterns of Momoyama history', in G. Elison & B. L. Smith, eds, Warlords, artists, and commoners; Japan in the sixteenth century (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii).

G. Elison & B. L. Smith (eds) 1981, Warlords, artists, and commoners; Japan in the sixteenth century (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii).

J. Elisonas 1991, 'Christianity and the daimyo', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 4.

J. S. A. Elisonas 2000, 'The Jesuits, the devil, and pollution in Japan', Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 1: 3-27.

J. S. A Elisonas 2002, ‘Fables and imitations: Kirishitan literature in the forest of simple letters’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 4: 9-36.

J. S. A. Elisonas 2007, ‘Journey to the West’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34: 27–66.

W. J. Farge 2002, The Japanese translations of the Jesuit Mission Press, 1590-1614: De imitatione Christi and Guia de Pecadores (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mallen Press).

W. J. Farge 2009, ‘The Japanese translations of the Jesuit Mission Press’, in M. A. J. Ucerler, ed., Christianity and cultures: Japan and China in comparison, 1543-1644 (Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu).

F. Figueira de Faria 2008, ‘The Fuctions of Procurator in the Society of Jesus. Luís de Almeida, Procurator?’ Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 15: 29-46.

D. Filus 2003, ‘Secrecy and kakure kirishitan’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 7: 93-113.

M. Hayashi 2012, ‘The female Christian Yin-Yang master’, Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 21: 223-239.

R. H. Hesselink 2009, ‘An Anti-Christian Register from Nagasaki’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 18/19: 9-66.

R. H. Hesselink 2015, ‘104 Voices from Christian Nagasaki: Document of the Rosario Brotherhood of Nagasaki with the Signatures of Its Members (February 1622); an analysis and translation’, Monumenta Nipponica 70: 237-283.

R. H. Hesselink 2016, The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: world trade and the clash of cultures, 1560–1640 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company).

I. Higashibaba 2001, Christianity in early modern Japan. Kirishitan belief and practice (Leiden: Brill).

P. Humbertclaude 1938-9, 'Myotei Mondo. Une apologétique chrétienne japonaise de 1605', Monumenta Nipponica 1: 515-548 & 2: 237-267.

I. Kataoka 2009, ‘The adaptation of the Christian liturgy and sacraments to Japanese culture during the Christian era in Japan’, in M. A. J. Ucerler, ed., Christianity and cultures: Japan and China in comparison, 1543-1644 (Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu).

Y. Kataoka 1938, 'Takayama Ukon', Monumenta Nipponica 1: 451-64.

S. Kawamura 2009, ‘Communities, Christendom, and the unified regime in early modern Japan’, in M. A. J. Ucerler, ed., Christianity and cultures: Japan and China in comparison, 1543-1644 (Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu)

T. Kitagawa 2007, 'The conversion of Hideyoshi’s Daughter Go¯', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34: 9–25.

A. Kleiser 1938, 'P. Alexander Valignani's Gesandtschaftsreise nach Japan zum Quambacudono Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1588-1591', Monumenta Nipponica 1: 70-98.

H. Kishino 2009, ‘From Dainichi to Deus: the early missionaries’ discovery and understanding of Buddhism’, in M. A. J. Ucerler, ed., Christianity and cultures: Japan and China in comparison, 1543-1644 (Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu).

A. Kono 2002, ‘Portuguese-Japanese language contact in the seventeenth century’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 3: 43-51.

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R. W. Sakai 1964, 'The Satsuma-Ryukyu trade and the Tokugawa exclusion policy', Journal of Asian Studies 23: 391-403.

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R. W. Sakai 1968, 'The consolidation of power in Satsuma-han', in J. W. Hall & M. B. Jansen, eds, Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

R. W. Sakai 1970, 'Shimazu Nariakira and the emergence of national leadership in Satsuma', in A. M. Craig & D. H. Shively, eds, Personality in Japanese history (Berkeley: University of California Press).

M. Sakihara 1972, 'Ryukyu's tribute-tax to Satsuma during the Tokugawa period', Modern Asian Studies 6: 329-335.

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A. Schwade 1978, 'Honda Masazumis Einfluss auf die Ausländerpolitik des Tokugawa Ieyasu', Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 1: 417-427.

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D. H. Shively 1955, 'Chikamatsu's satire on the Dog Shôgun', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 18: 159-180.

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P. Sippel 1998, 'Abandoned fields: negotiating taxes in the Bakufu Domain', Monumenta Nipponica 53: 197-224.

T. C. Smith 1968, 'The land tax in the Tokugawa Period', in J. W. Hall & M. B. Jansen, eds, Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

T. C. Smith 1988, Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 (Berkeley: Univerity of California Press).

I. Soranaka 1978, 'The Kansei reforms - success or failure?', Monumenta Nipponica 33: 151-164.

J. R. Strayer 1968, 'The Tokugawa period and Japanese feudalism', in J. W. Hall & M. B. Jansen, eds, Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

R. P. Toby 1984, State and diplomacy in early modern Japan: Asia in the development of the Tokugawa Bakufu (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

S. A. Tolstoguzov 2003, ‘Tokugava Yosinobu i bor’ba za syogunskiy post v gody Ansei’, Vostok 2003.6: 5-11.

C. Totman 1966, 'Political succession in the Tokugawa Bakufu: Abe Masahiro's rise to power', 1843-1845, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 26: 102-124.

C. Totman 1967, Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

C. Totman 1970, 'Political reconciliation in the Tokugawa Bakufu: Abe Masahiro and Tokugawa Nariaki, 1844-1852', in A. M. Craig & D. H. Shively, eds, Personality in Japanese history (Berkeley: University of California Press).

C. Totman 1975a, 'Fudai daimyo and the collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu', Journal of Asian Studies 34: 581-591.

C. Totman 1975b, 'Tokugawa Yoshinobu and Kōbugattai: a study of political inadequacy', Monumenta Nipponica 30: 393-403.

C. Totman 1976, 'The State of the art; the art of statecraft; and where do we go from here: reflections on Hall's Tanuma and Ooms's Sadanobu', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 36: 240-255.

C. Totman 1980, The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu 1862-1868 (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii).

C. Totman 1982, 'From reformism to transformism: bakufu policy, 1853-1868', in T. Najita & J. V. Koschmann (eds), Conflict in modern Japanese history: the neglected tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

C. Totman 1993, Early modern Japan (University of California Press).

T. Tsuji 1991, 'Politics in the eighteenth century', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 4.

T. G. Tsukahira 1966, Feudal control in Tokugawa Japan: the Sankin Kotai system (East Asia Research Center, Harvard University).

C. N. Vaporis 2005, ‘Lordly pageantry: the daimyo procession and political authority’, Japan Review 17: 3-54.

C. N. Vaporis 2008, Tour of duty: samurai. Military service in Edo, and the culture of early modern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

A. Walthall 2006, ‘Hiding the shoguns: secrecy and the nature of political authority in Tokugawa Japan’, in B. Scheid & M. Teeuwen, eds, The culture of secrecy in Japanese religion (London: Routledge).

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N. L. Waters 1983, Japan's local pragmatists: the transition from Bakumatsu to Meiji in the Kawasaki region (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

J. W. White 1988, 'State growth and popular protest in Tokugawa Japan', Journal of Japanese Studies 14: 1-25.

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Tokugawa Ieyasu[edit]

W. J. Boot 2000, 'Death of a Shogun', in J. Breen and M. Teeuwen, eds, Shinto in history: ways of the kami (Honolulu: Univesrity of Hawai'i Press).

L. A. Butler 1994, 'Tokugawa Ieyasu's regulations for the court: a reappraisal', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 54: 509-551.

P. F. Kornicki 2008, ‘Books in the service of politics: Tokugawa Ieyasu as custodian of the books of Japan’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 18: 71-82.

J. P. Oliveira e Costa 2003, ‘Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Christian daimyo during the crisis of 1600’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 7: 45-71.

A. L. Sadler 1937, The Maker of Modern Japan: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (London: George, Allen & Unwin).

S. Sonehara 2021, ‘Ieyasu's Posthumous Title and the Tokugawa Discourse on “Divine Country”’, in S. Köck, B. Pickl-Kolaczia & B. Scheid Religion, eds, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan (New York: Bloomsbury).

S. Takagi 2004, ‘Hideyoshi’s and Ieyasu’s views of Japan as a land of the Gods and its antecedents: with reference to the “Writ for the Expulsion of Missionaries” of 1614’, Acta Asiatica 87, 59-84.

C. Totman 1983, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun (San Francisco: Heian International).


Imperial institution[edit]

L. Bruschke-Johnson 2012, ‘Insincere blessings? Court-Bakufu relations and the creation of engi scrolls in honour of Tokugawa Ieyasu’, in A. Beerens and M. Teeuwen, eds, Uncharted waters: intellectual life in the Edo period. Essays in honour of W. J. Boot (Leiden: Brill), pp. 159-177.

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L. A. Butler 2002, Emperor and aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680: resilience and renewal (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

V. Ferretti 2002, ‘A turning point in Court-Bakufu relations during the Edo period’, in B. Edstrom, ed., Turning points in Japanese history (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

M. V. Lamberti 1972, 'Tokugawa Nariaki and the Japanese imperial institution: 1853-1858', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 32: 97-123.

B. T. Wakabayashi 1991, 'In name only: imperial sovereignty in early modern Japan', Journal of Japanese Studies 17: 25-57.

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Sakoku[edit]

W. J. Boot 2008, ‘Shizuki Tadao’s Sakoku-ron’, in Boot, ed, The patriarch of Dutch learning Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806) (Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Institute).

L. M. Cullen 2004, ‘Sakoku, Tokugawa policy, and the interpretation of Japanese history’, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 18: 17-31.

M. S. Laver 2011, The Sakoku edicts and the politics of Tokugawa hegemony (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press).

H. Mitani 2006, Escape from impasse: the Decision to open Japan, trans. by D. Noble (Tokyo: LTCB International Library).

K. Tashiro 1982, 'Foreign relations during the Edo period: Sakoku reexamined', Journal of Japanese Studies 8: 283-306.

M-L. M. Tjoa 1990, 'Sakoku: the full range of Tokugawa foreign relations?', in E. De Poorter (ed), As the twig is bent: essays in honour of Frits Vos (Amsterdam: J.C.Gieben).

R. P. Toby 1977, 'Reopening the question of Sakoku: diplomacy in the legitimation of the Tokugawa Bakufu', Journal of Japanese Studies 3: 323-363.

R. P. Toby 1984, State and diplomacy in early modern Japan: Asia in the development of the Tokugawa Bakufu (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

B. L. Walker 1996, 'Repraising the Sakoku paradigm: the Ezo trade and the extension of Tokugawa political space into Hokkaidō', Journal of Asian History 30: 169-192.

Expansion into Ainu lands[edit]

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N. Kamiya 1994, 'Japanese control of Ezochi and the role of northern Koryo', Acta Asiatica 67: 49-68.

R. Siddle 1996, Race, resistance and the Ainu of Japan (London: Routledge).

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W. G. Beasley 1984, 'The Edo experience and Japanese nationalism', Modern Asian Studies 18: 555-66.

A. Beerens 2012, ‘The prince who collected scholars: the network of Myōhō-in no miya Shinnin Hōshinnō (1768-1805)’, in A. Beerens and M. Teeuwen, eds, Uncharted waters: intellectual life in the Edo period. Essays in honour of W. J. Boot (Leiden: Brill), pp. 35-51.

A. Bernstein 2008, ‘Whose Fuji? Religion, region, and state in the fight for a national symbol’, Monumenta Nipponica 63: 51-99.

M. E. Berry 1997, 'Was early modern Japan culturally integrated?', Modern Asian Studies 31: 547-582.

M. E. Berry 2005, ‘Conventional knowledge in early modern Japan’, in G. L. Bernstein, A. Gordon, and K. Wildman Nakai, eds, Public spheres, private lives in modern Japan, 1600-1950 : essays in honor of Albert M. Craig (Cambridge MA : Harvard University Asia Center).

G. Bierwirth 2013, Shōnindō – der Weg des Kaufmanns (Munich: Iudicium).

W. Bodiford 2012, “Myth and counter-myth in early modern Japan’, in J. F. Nagy, ed., Writing down the myths (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers), 277-309.

H. Bolitho 1989, 'The Tempō crisis', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 5.

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W. P. Brecher 2005, ‘To romp in heaven: a translation of the Hōsa kyōshaden (Biographies of Nagoya madmen)’, Early Modern Japan 13: 11-27.

W. P. Brecher 2010, ‘In appreciation of buffoonery, egotism, and the Shōmon School: Koikawa Harumachi’s Kachō kakurenbō (1776)’, Early Modern Japan 18: 88-102.

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W. P. Brecher 2021, Japan’s private spheres: autonomy in Japanese history, 1600-1930 (Leiden: Brill).

W. P. Brecher 2013, The aesthetics of strangeness: eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

L. Bruschke-Johnson 2004, Dismissed as elegant fossils: Konoe Nobutada and the role of aristocrats in early modern Japan (Leiden: Hotei).

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P. C. Brown 1987, 'The mismeasure of land: land surveying in the Tokugawa period', Monumenta Nipponica 42: 115-55.

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R. L. Edmonds 1985, Northern frontiers of Qing China and Tokugawa Japan, Research Paper 213 (University of Chicago Dept of Geography).

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W. J. Farge 2016, A Christian samurai: the trials of Baba Bunkō (Washington: Catholic University of America Press).

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A. Fraser 1983, 'Town-ward administration in eighteenth-century Edo', Papers in Far Eastern History 27: 131-41.

M. Fukuoka 2012, The premise of fidelity: science, visuality and representing the real in nineteenth-century Japan (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press)

T. Furushima 1991, 'The village and agriculture during the Edo period', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 4.

K. M. Gerhart 1997, 'Tokugawa authority and Chinese exemplars: the Teikan Zusetsu murals of Nagoya Castle', Monumenta Nipponica 52: 1-34.

R. Goree 2017, ‘Meisho zue and the mapping of prosperity in late Tokugawa Japan’, Cross-currents: East Asian history and culture review 6: 404-439.

R. van Gulik 1982, Irezumi: the pattern of dermatography in Japan (Leiden: E.J.Brill).

C. M. E. Guth 2021, Craft culture in early modern Japan: materials, makers, and mastery (Berkeley: University of California Press).

S. B. Hanley 1997, Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture (Berkeley & Los angeles: University of California Press).

T. Haraguchi, R. W. Sakai, et al, 1975, The status system and social organization of Satsuma. A translation of the Shumon Tefuda Aratame Jomoku (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii).

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H. D. Harootunian 1991, 'Cultural politics in Tokugawa Japan', in Sarah Thompson & H. D. Harootunian, eds, Undercurrents in the floating world: censorship and Japanese prints (New York: Asia Society).

A. Hirai 2014, Government by mourning: death and political integration in Japan, 1603–1912 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

A. Horiuchi 2006, ‘L’apprentissage du hollandaise au Japon au debut du XIXe siecle’, in A. Horiuchi, ed., Education au Japon et en Chine (Paris: Les Indes Savantes), pp. 77-98.

D. L. Howell 1998, 'Territoriality and collective identity in Tokugawa Japan', Daedalus 127.3: 105-32.

D. L. Howell 2005, Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

D. L. Howell 2009, ‘The social life of firearms in Tokugawa Japan,’ Japanese Studies 29: 65-80.

D. R. Howland 2001, ‘Samurai status, class and bureaucracy: a historiographical essay’, Journal of Asian Studies 60: 353-380.

E. Ikegami 2015, ‘Waiting for the flying fish to leap: revisiting the values and individuality of Tokugawa people as practiced’, in P. Nosco, J. E. Ketelaar & Y. Kojima, eds, Values, identity, and equality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan (Leiden: Brill), pp. 27-50.

H. Irie 1988, 'Apprenticeship training in Tokugawa Japan', Acta Asiatica 54: 1-23.

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T. Iwashita 1996, ‘Political information and satirical prints in late Tokugawa Japan’, Asian cultural studies 22: 17-26.

M. B. Jansen 1989, 'Japan in the early nineteenth century', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 5.

M. B. Jansen & G. Rozman (eds) 1986, Japan in transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

D. C. Jaundrill 2012, ‘Military reform and the illusion of social mobility in Bakumatsu-era Chōshū’, Early Modern Japan 20: 33-45.

A. Kalland 1986, 'Pre-modern whaling in northern Kyushu', in E. Pauer (ed), Silkworms, oil and chips, Bonner Zeitschrift für Japanologie 8.

A. Kalland 1995, Fishing villages in Tokugawa Japan (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press).

P. Kameya 2009, ‘When eccentricity is virtue: virtuous deeds in Kinsei kijinden (Eccentrics of our times, 1790)’, Early Modern Japan 17: 7-21.

I. Kawada 2003, Drifting toward the southeast : the story of five Japanese castaways; a complete translation of Hyoson kiryaku, as told to the court of Lord Yamanouchi of Tosa in 1852 by John Manjiro; trans. J. Nagakuni and J. Kitadai (New Bedford, Mass.: Spinner).

D. Keil 1985, Kijiya: Geschichte und materielle Kultur, Bonner Zeitschrift für Japanologie 7.

M. Kinski 1999, 'Bratfisch und Vogelbeine. Frühmoderne Etikettevorschriften zum Verhältnis von Mensch, Tier und Nahrung in Japan', Japonica Humboldtiana 3: 49-103.

M. Kinski 2000, 'Talks about Teachings of the Past. Translation of the Second Part of Kaiho Seiryō's Keiko dan', Japonica Humboldtiana 4: 59-130.

M. Kinski 2005, ‘Materia medica in Edo period Japan. The case of Mummy. Takai Ranzan’s Shokuji Kai, Part two’, Japonica Humboldtiana 9: 55-170.

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T. Kobayashi 1983-4, 'Crimson leaves in spring - a record of a disaster: a review of late Edo intellectual climates', Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 15/16: 86-101.

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P. F. Kornicki 1994, 'Public display and changing values: early Meiji exhibitions and their precursors', Monumenta Nipponica 49: 167-196

P. F. Kornicki 2010, ‘Narrative of a catastrophe: Musashi abumi and the Meireki fire,’ Japan Forum 21: 347-61.

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W. Kuitert 1988, Themes, scenes, and taste in the history of Japanese garden art, Japonica Neerlandica 3 (Amsterdam: J.C.Gieben).

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Religion and pilgrimage[edit]

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Popular culture, entertainment and leisure[edit]

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Food, drink and tea[edit]

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R. Corbett 2014, ‘Crafting identity as tea practitioner in early modern Japan: Otagaki Rengetsu and Tagami Kikusha’, U.S.–Japan Women’s journal 47: 3-27.

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P. Francks 2013, ‘Simple pleasures: food consumption in Japan and the global comparison of living standards’, Journal of Global History, 8: 95-116.

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L. Nenzi 2002, ‘Journeys, pilgrimages, excursions: religious travels in the early modern period’, Monumenta Nipponica 57: 447-471.

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M. Pitelka 2003, ‘Sen Koshin Sosa (1613-1672): writing tea history Japan’, in M. Pitelka, ed, Japanese tea culture: art, history, and practice (London: RoutledgeCurzon)

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Outcasts, welfare and the margins of society[edit]

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T. D. Amos 2013, ‘Genealogy and marginal status in early modern Japan: the case of Danzaemon', Japanese Studies 33: 147-159.

T. D. Amos 2014, ‘Household registration and the dismantling of Edo outcaste cultures’, in D. Chapman and K. J. Krogness, eds, Japan’s household registration system and citizenship: koseki, identification and documentation (Abingdon UK: Routledge), pp. 43-58.

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Death[edit]

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H. Bolitho 2003, Bereavement and consolation: testimonies from Tokugawa Japan (New Haven: Yale University Press).

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K. Hirano 2013, The politics of dialogic imagination: power and popular culture in early modern Japan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

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Samurai culture, bushidō and the 47 rōnin[edit]

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G. Bierwirth 2005, Bushido. Der Weg des Kriegers ist ambivalent (Munchen: Iudicium Verlag).

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Information[edit]

G. Fujiwara 2017, ‘Channeling the undercurrents: fūsetsudome, information access, and national political awareness in nineteenth-century Japan’, Journal of Japanese Studies 43: 319-354.

G. Groemer 1994, 'Singing the news: yomiuri in Japan during the Edo and Meiji periods', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 54: 233-261.

K. Hayashi 2000, 'Informationen und Medien rund am das Kabuki', in S. Kohsaka & J. Laube, eds, Informationssytem und kulturelles Leben in den Staedten der Edo-Zeit (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz).

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Education and literacy[edit]

B. H. Chamberlain 1878, 'Educational literature for women', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 10: 325-43.

R. P. Dore 1965, Education in Tokugawa Japan (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).

R. P. Dore 1968, 'Talent and the social order in Tokugawa Japan' , in J. W. Hall & M. B. Jansen, eds, Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

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M. Kinski 1999, 'Bratfisch und Vogelbeine. Frühmoderne Etikettevorschriften zum Verhältnis von Mensch, Tier und Nahrung in Japan', Japonica Humboldtiana 3: 49-103.

M. Kinski 2001, 'Basic Japanese etiquette rules and their popularization. Four Edo-period texts, transcribed, translated and annotated', Japonica Humboldtiana 5: 63-124.

M. Kinski 2010, ‘Prodiguer des conseils. Quelques remarques sur les livres de conseils représentatifs de l’époque Edo', in A. Horiuchi, ed., Pratiques lettrées au Japon et en Chine: XVIIe-XIXe siècle (Paris : Les Indes savantes), pp. 81-101.

S. Köhn 2008, Traditionen idealisierter Weiblichkeit: Die “Kostbare Sammlungen von Vorbildern weiblicher Weisheit” (Joyō chie kagami takaraori) als Paradebeispiel edozeitlicher Frauenbildung (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz).

M. Mehl 2020, ‘Transmutations of the Confucian Academy in Japan: private academies of Chinese learning (Kangaku Juku) in late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan as a reflection and a motor of epistemic change’, in V. Glomb, E-J. Lee & M. Gehlmann, eds, Confucian academies in East Asia (Leiden: Brill).

K. Paramore 2012, ‘Confucianism versus feudalism: the Shōheizaka academy and late Tokugawa reform’, in A. Beerens and M. Teeuwen, eds, Uncharted waters: intellectual life in the Edo period. Essays in honour of W. J. Boot (Leiden: Brill), pp. 75-91.

H. Passin 1965, Society and education in Japan (New York, Teachers College Press).

B. Platt 2004, Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

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R. Rubinger 2007, Popular literacy in early modern Japan (University of Hawai’i Press).

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E. Rühl 1997, 'Frauenbildungsbücher aus der späten Edo-Zeit (1750-1868). Versuch einer Charakterisierung anhand beispielhafter Werke', Japanstudien 9: 287-312.

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Architecture[edit]

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W. H. Coaldrake 1981, 'Edo architecture and Edo law', Monumenta Nipponica 36: 235-84.

W. H. Coaldrake 1994, 'Building a new establishment: Tokugawa Iemitsu's consolidation of power and the Taitokuin mausoleum', in J. L. McClain, J. M. Merriman & K. Ugawa, eds, Edo and Paris: urban life and the state in the early modern era (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press).

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Divination[edit]

M. Hayashi 2013, ‘The development of early modern Onmyōdō’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 40: 151-167.

M. Hayek 2012, ‘Divinatory practices and knowledge in early modern Japan: redefining Onmyōdō from the inside’, Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 21: 255-274.

M. Hayek 2013, 'Correcting the old, adapting the new: Baba Nobutake and the (relative) rejuvenation of divination in the seventeenth century', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 40: 169-188.

M. Hayek 2015, 'The eight trigrams and their changes: divination in early modern Japan', in J. L. Richey, ed, Daoism in Japan: Chinese traditions and their influence on Japanese religious culture (London: Routledge), pp. 248-263.

G. Leinss 2009-10, 'Sechs Fragen an den Kalendarmeister. Ein Wiegespraech ueber die Wahl guenstiger Tage und Richtungen aus einer Enzyklopaedie fuer divinatorische Zwecke (ōzassho) der spaeten Tokugawa-Zeit', Japonica Humboldtiana 13: 27-46.


Time[edit]

Y. Frumer 2018, Making time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

A. Koch 2017, ‘Nightless cities: timing the pleasure quarters in early modern Japan’, KronoScope 17.1: 61-93.

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T. C. Smith 1986, 'Peasant time and factory time in Japan', Past and Present 111: 165-97.

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Art[edit]

T. Arai 1990, 'The common people and painting', in C. Nakane & S. Oishi, eds, Tokugawa Japan: the social and economic antecedents of modern Japan (University of Tokyo Press).

K. M. Gerhart 2000, 'Kano Tan'yū and Hōrin Jōshō: patronage and artistic practice', Monumenta Nipponica 55: 483-508.

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E. Lillehoj 2004, Critical perspectives on classicism in Japanese painting 1600-1700 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

M. Morris 1989, 'Group portrait with artist: Yosa Buson and his patrons', in C. A. Gerstle (ed), 18th century Japan: culture and society (Sydney: Allen and Unwin).

I. Nagasaki 1992, 'Designs for a thousand eggs: printed pattern books and kosode', in D. Gluckman & S. Takeda, eds, When art became fashion: kosode in Edo-period Japan (New York: Weatherhill).

D. Pollack 1995, 'A note on advertising and the arts in the Edo period', Oboegaki 5.i: 6-8.

N. C. Rousmaniere & M. Hirayama (eds) 2004, Reflecting truth: Japanese photography in the nineteenth century (Leiden: Hotei).

T. Screech 2000, The Shogun's Painted Culture: Fear and Creativity in the Japanese States, 1760-1829 (London: Reaktion Books).

T. Screech 2002, The Lens within the Heart: the Western scientific gaze and popular imagery in later Edo Japan (Richmond: Curzon).

T. Screech 2009, Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Imagery in Japan, 1720-1810, 2nd ed. (London: Reaktion Books).

T. Screech 2011, Obtaining Images: Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan (London: Reaktion Books).

F. Sugimoto & M. Burtscher 2017, ’Shifting perspectives on the Shogunate’s last years: Gountei Sadahide’s bird’s-eye view landscape prints’, Monumenta Nipponica 72: 1-30.

M. Takeuchi (ed) 2004, The artist as professional in Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

E. Tinios 2010, 'Art, Anatomy and Eroticism: The Human Body in Japanese Illustrated Books of the Edo Period, 1615-1868', ‘’East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine’’ 31: 44–63.

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Etiquette[edit]

K. Kracht 1999, 'Anstand unde Etikette in Japan. Ein Forschungsgebiet', Japonica Humboldtiana 3: 5-48.

M. Rüttermann 1999, 'Die Schreibregularien (Shorei kuketsu) des Kaibara Ekiken', Japonica Humboldtiana 3: 105-63.

M. Rüttermann 2001, 'Anstand durch Abstand. Notizen sum "Angleichen und Aussparen" (heishutsu ketsuji) in der sino-japanischen Briefetikette', Japonica Humboldtiana 5: 5-62.

M. Rütterman 2006, ‘“So that we can study letter-writing”: the concept of epistolary etiquette in premodern Japan’, NBR 18: 57-128

M. Rütterman 2012, Schreib-Riten (shorei). Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der japanischen Briefetikette, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz)

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Demography and the family[edit]

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M. E. Berry 2019, ‘Family trouble: views from the stage and a merchant archive’, in M. E. Berry and M. Yonemoto, eds., What is a family?: answers from Early Modern Japan (Oakland: University of California Press).

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W. P. Brecher 2015, ‘Being a brat: the ethics of child disobedience in the Edo period’, in P. Nosco, J. E. Ketelaar and Y. Kojima, eds, Values, identity and equality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-Century Japan (Leiden: Brill).

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H. Tonomura 2007, ‘Women and Sexuality in premodern Japan,’ in W. M. Tsutsui, ed., A Companion to Japanese History (Oxford: Blackwell)

K. S. Uno 1991, 'Women and changes in the household division of labour', in G. L. Bernstein, ed, Recreating Japanese women, 1600-1945 (University of California Press)

H. Wakita 1984, 'Marriage and property in premodern Japan from the perspective of women's history', Journal of Japanese Studies 10: 73-99.

H. Wakita (translated and adapted by G. G. Rowley) 2010, ‘The Japanese woman in the premodern merchant household’, Women’s history review 19: 259-282.

A. Walthall 1990, 'The family ideology of the rural entrepreneurs in nineteenth century Japan', Journal of social history 23: 463-483.

A. Walthall 1991, 'The life cycle of farm women in Tokugawa Japan', in G. L. Bernstein, ed, Recreating Japanese women, 1600-1945 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

A. Walthall 1994, 'Devoted wives/unruly women: invisible presence in the history of Japanese social protest', Signs 20: 106-36.

A. Walthall 1998, The weak body of a useless woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration (Chicago: Univesity of Chicago Press).

A. Walthall 1999, 'Fille de paysan, epouse de samourai: les lettres de Yoshino Michi', Annales 54: 55-86.

A. Walthall (ed.) 2008, Servants of the dynasty: palace women in world history (Berkeley: University of California Press).

A. Walthall 2009, ‘Masturbation and discourse on female sexual practices in Early Modern Japan’, Gender & History 21: 1-18.

A. Walthall 2009, ‘Fragments of friendship: Matsuo Taseko and the Hirata family’, Monumenta Nipponica 64: 315-335.

A. Walthall 2010, 'Women and Literacy from Edo to Meiji', in P. F. Kornicki, M. Patessio and G. G. Rowley, eds, 2010, The female as subject: reading and writing in early modern Japan (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan).

A. Walthall 2011, ‘Do guns have gender? Technology and status in early modern Japan’, in S. Frühstück and A. Walthall (eds) 2011, Recreating Japanese men (Berkeley: University of California Press), pp. 25-47.

H. N. Ward 2009, Women religious leaders in Japan’s Christian century, 1549-1650 (Farnham, England: Ashgate).

D. E. Wright 1997, 'Severing the Karmic ties that bind: the "Divorce Temple" Mantokuji', Monumenta Nipponica 52: 357-380.

D. E. Wright 2004, 'Female crime and state punishment in early modern Japan', Journal of women's history 16: 10-29.

Y. Yabuta 2010, 'Nishitani Saku and Her Mother: “Writing” in the Lives of Edo Period Women', in P. F. Kornicki, M. Patessio and G. G. Rowley, eds, 2010, The female as subject: reading and writing in early modern Japan (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan).

K. Yamakawa 1992, Women of the Mito domain: recollections of samurai family life, trans K. Wildman Nakai (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press).

J. Yamamoto 2002, ‘A case of female primogeniture in pre-modern Japan: Ariga village, 1739-1868’, in Ochiai Emiko, ed., The logic of female succession: rethinking patriarchy and patrilineality in global and historical perspective (Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies), pp. 299-319

F. Yokota 1999, 'Imagining working women in early modern Japan', in H. Tonomura, A. Walthall & H. Wakita (eds), Women and class in Japanese history (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan).

M. Yonemoto 2010, ‘Outside the inner quarters: sociability, mobility and narration in early Edo-period women’s diaries,’ Japan Forum 21: 389-401.

M. Yonemoto 2016, The Problem of women in early modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

Law[edit]

W. H. Coaldrake 1981, 'Edo architecture and Edo law', Monumenta Nipponica 36: 235-84.

D. E. Flaherty 2013, Public law, private practice: politics, profit, and the legal profession in nineteenth-century Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

D. F. Henderson 1957, 'Japanese legal history of the Tokugawa period: scholars and sources', Occasional Papers 7, Center for Japanese Studies (University of Michigan Press).

D. F. Henderson 1965, Conciliation and Japanese law: Tokugawa and modern, 2 vols (Seattle: University of Washington Press).

D. F. Henderson 1968, 'The evolution of Tokugawa law', in J. W. Hall & M. B. Jansen, eds, Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

D. F. Henderson 1974, '"Contracts" in Tokugawa villages', Journal of Japanese Studies 1: 51-90.

D. F. Henderson 1975, Village "contracts" in Tokugawa Japan (Seattle: University of Washington Press).

D. F. Henderson 2001, ‘Nuinosuke v Chũbẽ: conciliation in Tokugawa civil trials’, in C. J. Milhaupt et al, eds, Japanese law in context: readings in society, the economy, and politics (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

A. G. Hess & S. Murayama 1980, Everyday law in Japanese folk art: daily life in Meiji Japan as seen through petty law violations (Aalen: Scientia Verlag).

F. Miyazaki, K. Wildman Nakai, and M. Teeuwen 2020, Christian sorcerers on trial: records of the 1827 Osaka Incident (New York: Columbia University Press).

O. Oba 1987, 'Edo period studies on Tang, Ming, and Ching law', in B. E. McKnight, ed, Law and the state in traditional East Asia: six studies on the sources of East Asian law, Asian Studies at Hawaii 33 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

H. Ooms 1996, Tokugawa village practice: class, status, power, law (Berkeley: California University Press).

A. Stanley 2007, ‘Adultery, Punishment, and Reconciliation in Tokugawa Japan’, Journal of Japanese Studies 33: 309-335.

F. B. Verwayen 1998, 'Tokugawa translations of Dutch legal texts', Monumenta Nipponica 53: 335-358.

J. H. Wigmore 1970-86, Law and justice in Tokugawa Japan: materials for the history of Japanese law and justice under the Tokugawa Shogunate 1603-1867 (Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai/The Japan Foundation).

D. Wright 2004, 'Female crime and state punishment in early modern Japan', Journal of women's history 16: 10-29.

Economic history[edit]

General[edit]

H. Befu 1966, 'Duty, reward, sanction, and power: four-cornered office of the Tokugawa village headman', in B. S. Silberman and H. D. Harootunian, eds, Modern Japanese leadership: transition and change (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).

T. Bengtsson & O. Saito (eds.) 2000, Population and economy: from hunger to modern economic growth (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

S. Broadbridge 1974, 'Economic and social trends in Tokugawa Japan', Modern Asian Studies 8: 347-372.

E. S. Crawcour 1965, 'The Tokugawa heritage', in W. W. Lockwood, ed, The State and economic enterprise in Japan: essays in the political economy of growth (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

E. S. Crawcour 1981, 'Aspects of economic transition in Japan, 1840-1885', Papers in Far Eastern History 24: 39-61.

L. M. Cullen 2006, ‘Tokugawa population: the archival issues’, Japan Review 18: 129-180.

S. Esenbel 2003, ‘The people of Tokugawa Japan: the state of the field in early modern social/economic history’, Early Modern Japan 11.1: 31-64.

S. Esenbel 2003, ‘Bibliography of social/economic history of early modern Japan’, Early Modern Japan 11.1: 83-86.

R. G. & Y. N. Flershem 1991, 'Migratory fishermen on the Japan Sea coast in the Tokugawa period', Japan Forum 3: 71-90.

B. Gramlich-Oka 2010, ‘A domain doctor and shogunal policies’, in B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits, eds., Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

B. Gramlich-Oka & G. Smits (eds) 2010, Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

J. W. Hall & M. B. Jansen 1968, eds, Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

S. B. Hanley 1983, 'A high standard of living in nineteenth-century Japan: fact or fantasy?', Journal of economic history 43: 183-192.

S. B. Hanley 1986, 'Standards of living in nineteenth-century Japan: reply to Yasuba', Journal of economic history 46: 225-6.

S. B. Hanley & K. Yamamura 1971, 'A quiet transformation in Tokugawa economic history', Journal of Asian Studies 30: 373-384.

S. B. Hanley & K. Yamamura 1977, Economic and demographic change in pre-industrial Japan: 1600-1868 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

M. Hashimoto 1982, 'The social background of peasant uprisings in Tokugawa Japan', in T. Najita & J. V. Koschmann, eds, Conflict in modern Japanese history: the neglected tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

A. Hayami, O. Saito & R. P. Toby (eds) 2004, Emergence of economic society in Japan, 1600-1859 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

R. I. Hellyer 2005, ‘Intra-asian trade and the bakumatsu crisis: reconsidering Tokugawa commercial policies in late Edo period Japan’, International Journal of Asian Studies 2: 83-110.

R. I. Hellyer 2005, ‘The missing pirate and the pervasive smuggler: regional agency in coastal defense. Trade and foreign relations in nineteenth-century Japan,’ International history review 27: 1-24.

E. Honjo 1935, The Social and economic history of Japan (Kyoto: Nihon Keizai Kenkyusho; reprinted by Russell & Russell, New York, 1965).

E. Honjo 1943, Economic theory and history of Japan in the Tokugawa Period (Tokyo: Maruzen; reprinted by Russell & Russell, New York, 1965).

C. Howe 1996, The origins of Japanese trade supremacy (London: C. Hurst & Co.).

A. Kalland 1995, Fishing villages in Tokugawa Japan (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press).

H. Kawaguchi 2010, ‘Economic thought concerning freedom and control’, in B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits, eds., Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

W. W. Kelly 1982, Water control in Tokugawa Japan: irrigation organisation in a Japanese river basin, 1600-1870, Cornell University East Asian Papers 31.

J-P. Lehmann 1981, 'The silk trade in the Bakumatsu era and patterns of Japanese economic development', International Studies (London School of Economics) 1981.2: 39-55.

Y. Makimura 2017, Yokohama and the silk trade: how eastern Japan became the primary economic region of Japan (Lexington Books).

S. Metzger-Court 1979, 'Roots of the Meiji "Economic Miracle": the development of industry and commerce in Wakayama prefecture', in I. Nish & C. Dunn, eds, European Studies on Japan (Tenterden, Kent: Paul Norbury).

S. Metzger-Court 1981, 'Two roads to modernity: some reflections on economic preparedness in nineteenth century Wakayama and preindustrial Britain', Asiatische Studien Etudes Asiatiques 35: 15-33.

S. Metzger-Court 1984, 'Toward national integration: a comparative study of economic progress in the prefectures of Wakayama, Okayama and Hiroshima during the nineteenth century', in G. Daniels, ed, Europe Interprets Japan (Tenterden, Kent: Paul Norbury).

S. Metzger-Court 1986, 'A seamless coat: social and political implications of economic change in Hyogo, Gunma and Fukushima on the eve of Japan's modernization', in E. Pauer, ed, Silkworms, oil and chips, Bonner Zeitschrift für Japanologie 8.

M. Metzler 1994, 'Capitalist boom, feudal bust: long waves in economic and politics in pre-industrial Japan', Review, a journal of the Fernand Braudel Center 17: 57-119.

M. Metzler 2010, ‘Policy space, polarities, and regimes’, in B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits, eds., Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

M. Metzler and G. Smits 2010, ‘Introduction: The autonomy of market activity and the emergence of keizai thought’, in B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits, eds., Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

T. Mitsui 1942, 'Das Familiengesetz des Hauses Mitsui', Monumenta Nipponica 5: 1-37.

T. Morris-Suzuki 1989, A history of Japanese economic thought (London: Routledge).

K. Nagahara & K. Yamamura 1988, 'Shaping the process of unification: technological progress in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japan', Journal of Japanese Studies 14: 77-109.

M. L. Nagata 2004, Labor Contracts and Labor Relations in Early Modern Central Japan (London: Routledge).

T. Najita 2009, Ordinary economies in Japan: a historical perspective, 1750-1950 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

N. Nakai 1991, 'Commercial change and urban growth in early modern Japan', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 4.

J. I. Nakamura 1981, 'Human capital accumulation in premodern rural Japan', Journal of economic history 41: 263-281.

S. Nishikawa 1981, 'Productivity, subsistence, and by-employment in the mid-nineteenth century Choshu', Journal of economic history 41: 69-83.

F. Opitz 1977, 'Ka-i tsusho, ein Aussenhandelshandbuch des Edo-Zeit', Nachrichten der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, 121/122: 63-81.

M. M. Osaka 1983, 'Forest preservation in Tokugawa Japan', in R. P. Tucker & J. F. Richards, eds, Global deforestation and the nineteenth-century world economy (Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press).

M. J. Ravina 2010, ‘Confucian banking: the community granary (shasō) in rhetoric and practice’, in B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits, eds., Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

O. Saito 1981, 'The labor market in Tokugawa Japan: wage differentials and the real wage level, 1727-1830', Journal of economic history 41: 84-100.

R. Shimada 2006, The Intra-Asian trade in Japanese copper by the Dutch East India company during the eighteenth century (Leiden: Brill).

M. Shimazaki 2019, ‘Lamp oil and the transformation of rural society in nineteenth-century Japan’, Urbanscope 10.

N. S. Smith 1932, 'Materials on Japanese social and economic history', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 2nd series, 14: 1-176.

T. C. Smith 1973, 'Pre-modern economic growth: Japan and the West,' Past & Present 60: 128-160.

M. J. Smitka (ed.) 1998, The Japanese economy in the Tokugawa era, 1600-1868, Japanese economic history, 1600-1960, Vol. 6 (New York: Garland Publishing).

G. Smits 2010, ‘Guiding horses with rotten reins: economic thought in the eighteenth-century kingdom of Ryukyu’, in B. Gramlich-Oka & G. Smits, eds, Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

M. Sumiya & K. Taira 1979, An outline of Japanese economic history 1603-1940: major works and research findings (University of Tokyo Press).

J. Sykora 2010, ‘The economic thought of Shōji Kōki and the Tenpō reforms in Saga domain’, in B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits, eds., Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

Y. Takatsuki 2006, ‘The formation of the efficient market in Tokugawa Japan’, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, and Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Discussion Papers in Economics and Business No. 06-28.

Y. Takekoshi 1930, The economic aspects of the history of the civilization of Japan, 3 vols (London: George Allen & Unwin).

R. B. Toby 1991, ‘Both a borrower and a lender be: from village moneylender to rural banker in the Tempo Era’, Monumenta Nipponica 46: 483-512.

C. Totman 1983, 'The forests of Tokugawa Japan: a catastrophe that was avoided', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 18: 1-15.

C. Totman 1983, 'Logging the unloggable: timber transport in early modern Japan', Journal of forest history 1983: 180-91.

C. Totman 1984, 'Land use patterns and afforestation in the Edo period', Monumenta Nipponica 39: 1-10.

C. Totman 1992. 'Preindustrial river conservancy: causes and consequences', Monumenta Nipponica 47: 59-76.

C. Totman 1995, The lumber industry in early modern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

C. Totman 1995, Early modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

D. Vanoverbeke 2007, ‘Rural economic development in Japan: from the nineteenth century to the Pacific War’, Journal of Asian Studies 66: 251-252.

K. Wigen 1995, The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750-1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

K. Yamamura 1973, 'Toward a reexamination of the economic history of Tokugawa Japan', Journal of economic history 33: 509-546.

K. Yamamura 1974, A Study of samurai income and entrepreneurship: quantitative analyses of economic and social aspects of the samurai in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan (Harvard University Press).

K. Yamamura 1981, 'Returns on unification: economic growth in Japan, 1550-1650', in J. W. Hall, K. Nagahara & K. Yamamura, eds, Japan before Tokugawa: political consolidation and economic growth, 1500-1650 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

K. Yamamura 1988, 'From coins to rice: hypotheses on the kandaka and kokudaka systems', Journal of Japanese Studies 14: 341-367.

Y. Yasuba 1986, 'Standard of living in Japan before industrialization: from what level did Japan begin?', Journal of economic history 46: 217-224.

C. Zanier 1986, 'Japan and the "Pebrine" crisis of European sericulture during the 1860s', in E. Pauer, ed, Silkworms, oil and chips, Bonner Zeitschrift für Japanologie 8.

Merchants and commerce[edit]

E. S. Crawcour 1961, 'Some observations on merchants: a translation of Mitsui Takafusa's Chōnin kōken roku', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 8: 9-139.

E. S. Crawcour 1966, 'Kawamura Zuiken: a seventeenth-century entrepreneur', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 3rd series, 9: 28-50.

E. S. Crawcour 1968, 'Changes in Japanese commerce in the Tokugawa period', J. W. Hall & M. B. Jansen, eds, Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

L. M. Cullen 2009, ‘Statistics of Tokugawa coastal trade and Bakumatsu and Early Meiji foreign trade, Part 1: Coastal trade in Tokugawa times,’ Japan Review 21: 183-223.

L. M. Cullen 2010, 'Statistics of Tokugawa coastal trade and Bakumatsu and early Meiji foreign trade, part 2: trade in Bakumatsu and early Meiji times', Japan Review 22: 59-102.

L. M. Cullen 2017, ‘The Nagasaki trade of the Tokugawa era: archives, statistics, and management’, Japan Review 31: 69-104.

R. G. Flershem 1966, ‘Some aspects of Japanese sea shipping and trade in the Tokugawa period, 1603-1867’, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 110.3: 182-226.

R. G. & Y. N. Flershem 1971, 'Nakano family documents: Satsuma-Choshu trade, 1856-1866', Monumenta Nipponica 26: 1-15.

S. Gay 2009, ‘The Lamp-Oil merchants of Iwashimizu Shrine: transregional commerce in medieval Japan’, Monumenta Nipponica 64: 1-51.

A. Hasegawa 1986, 'Marketing structure of Tatsuno city soy sauce 1807-69: an analysis based on the Maruo house records', Papers in Far Eastern History 34: 97-119.

W. B. Hauser 1974, Economic institutional change in Tokugawa Japan: Osaka and the Kinai cotton trade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

J. Hirschmeier & T. Yui 1981, The Development of Japanese business: 1600-1980 (London: George Allen & Unwin; first edition 1965).

D. L. Howell 2012, 'Urbanization, trade, and merchants', in K. F. Friday, ed., Japan emerging: premodern history to 1850 (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

J. M. Ramseyer 1979, 'Thrift and diligence: house codes of Tokugawa merchant families', Monumenta Nipponica 34: 209-230.

C. D. Sheldon 1958, The rise of the merchant class in Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1868: an introductory survey ( Locust Valley, NY: J. J. Augustin).

C. D. Sheldon 1971, '"Pre-modern" merchants and modernization in Japan', Modern Asian Studies 5: 193-206.

C. D. Sheldon 1983, 'Merchants and society in Tokugawa Japan', Modern Asian Studies 17: 477-488.

K. Suenaga 2019, The story of Japan’s Ohmi merchants (Tokyo: Japan Library).



Money and credit[edit]

P. Akamatsu 1972, 'La monnaie métallique sous les Tokugawa: les essays de réforme monétaire au Japon au xviiie siècle', Journal Asiatique 260: 317-380.

G. Carré 2002, 'La conquete de la monnaie', Ebisu 28: 25-48.

E. S. Crawcour 1961, 'The development of a credit system in seventeenth-century Japan', Journal of economic history 21: 342-360.

E. S. Crawcour & K. Yamamura 1970, 'The Tokugawa monetary system: 1787-1868', Economic development and cultural change 18: 489-519.

P. Frost 1970, The Bakumatsu currency crisis (East Asian Research Center, Harvard University).

J. W. Hall 1949, 'Notes on the early Ching copper trade with Japan', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 12: 444-461.

B. Gramlich-Oka 2008, ‘Shogunal administration of copper in the Mid-Tokugawa Period (1670–1720),’ in T. Hirzel and N. Kim, eds., Metals, monies, and markets in early modern societies: East Asian and global perspectives (Berlin), pp. 65-106.

A. Kalland 1984, 'A Credit institution in Tokugawa Japan: the Ura-tamegin fund of Chikuzen Province', in G. Daniels, ed, Europe Interprets Japan (Tenterden, Kent: Paul Norbury).

J. McMaster 1960, ‘The Japanese gold rush of 1859’, Journal of Asian Studies 19: 273-287.

K. Nakajima 2008, ‘The Establishment of silver currency in Kyoto,’ International Journal of Asian Studies 5: 219-234.

T. Ohkura & H. Shimbo, 1978, 'The Tokugawa monetary policy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries', Explorations in Economic History 15: 101-124.

O. Saito & T. Settsu 2006, ‘Money, credit and Smithian growth in Tokugawa Japan’, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Discussion Paper Series No. 139.

E. Segal 2010, ‘Money and the state: medieval precursors of the early modern economy’, in B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits, eds., Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

G. Smits 2008, ‘Money in the kingdom of Ryukyu’, in T. Hirzel & N. Kim, eds, Metals, moneys, and markets in early modern societies: East Asian and global perspectives (Berlin: LIT Verlag), pp. 107-118.

M. Takizawa 1927, The Penetration of money economy in Japan and its effects upon social and political institutions, Columbia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law 285 (New York).

K. Tashiro 1989, ‘Exports of Japan's Silver to China via Korea and Changes in the Tokugawa Monetary System during the 17th and 18th Centuries’, in Eddy H.G. Van Cauwenberghe, ed. Precious Metals, Coinage and the Changes of Monetary Structures in Latin America, Europe and Asia (Late Middle Ages-Early Modern Times) (Leuven University Press).

K. Tashiro 1991, ‘Exports of Gold and Silver During the Early Tokugawa Era, 1600-1750', in Eddy H.G. Van Cauwenberghe, ed. Money, Coins and Commerce: Essays in the Monetary History of Asia and Europe (From Antiquity to Modern Times): Proceedings of th 4th and 5th International Monetary History Conferences (Leuven University Press).

K. Yamamura 1988, 'From coins to rice: hypotheses on the kandaka and kokudaka systems', Journal of Japanese Studies 14: 341-367.

R. Yasukuni and G. Sekimori 2010, ‘Regional versus standardized coinage in early modern Japan: the Tokugawa Kan'ei tsûhô’, International Journal of Asian Studies 7: 131-157.


Land and agriculture[edit]

P. C. Brown 1986, ‘Structural constraints of the land tax system on the development of special commercial crops: a speculative exploration’, Occasional Papers of the Virginia Consortium for Asian Studies 3: 61-78.

P. C. Brown 1987, ‘Feudal remnants and tenant power: the case of Niigata, Japan, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries’, Peasant Studies 15: 1-26.

P. C. Brown 1987, ‘The mismeasure of land: land surveying in the Tokugawa period’, Monumenta Nipponica 42: 115-55.

P. C. Brown 1987, ‘Land redistribution schemes in Tokugawa Japan: an introduction’, Occasional Papers of the Virginia Consortium for Asian Studies 4: 35-48.

P. C. Brown 1988, 'Practical constraints on early Tokugawa land taxation: annual versus fixed assessments in Kaga domain', Journal of Japanese Studies 14: 369-401.

P. C. Brown 1988, ‘Tokugawa land surveys: the error of the means’, Annals, Southeast Conference, Association for Asian Studies, January 1988: 115-127.

P. C. Brown 1989, ‘Never the twain shall meet: European and Japanese land survey techniques in Tokugawa Japan’, ‘’East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine’’ 9: 53-79.

P. C. Brown 1997, ‘State, cultivator, land: determination of land tenures in early modern Japan reconsidered’, Journal of Asian Studies 56: 421-444.

P. C. Brown 1998, ‘A case of failed technology transfer - land survey technology in early modern Japan’, Senri Ethnological Studies 46: 83-97.

P. C. Brown 2002, ‘Harvests of chance: corporate control of arable land in early modern Japan’, in John Richards, ed., Land, Property and the Environment (Oakland, CA: ICS Press).

P. C. Brown 2005, ‘The foundations of Japan’s economic transformation in the 19th century: different strokes for different folks?’, in Different Lands/Shared Experiences: The Emergence of Industrial Society in Japan and the United States (Tokyo: Shibusawa Eichi Foundation).

P. C. Brown 2005, ‘Corporate land tenure in nineteenth-century Japan: a GIS assessment', Historical Geography 33: 99-117.

P. C. Brown 2006, ‘Arable land as commons: land reallocation in early modern Japan’, Social Science History 30: 431-461.

P. C. Brown 2011, Cultivating commons: joint ownership of arable land in early modern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

W. J. Chambliss 1965, Chiaraijima village: land tenure, taxation, and local trade, 1818-84 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).

P. Francks 2005, Rural economic development in Japan: from the nineteenth century to the Pacific War (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

P. Francks 2007, ‘Consuming rice: food, “traditional” products and the history of consumption in Japan’, Japan Forum 19: 147-168.

T. Furushima 1991, 'The village and agriculture during the Edo period', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 4.

D. L. Howell 1989, 'Hard times in the Kanto: economic change and village life in late Tokugawa Japan', Modern Asian Studies 23: 349-371.

J. R. McEwan 1956, 'Shifting cultivation in Tsushima in the eighteenth century', Asia Major 5: 208-229.

O. Saito 2006, ‘Land, labour and market forces in Tokugawa Japan’, Hitotsubashi University Research Unit for Statistical Analysis in Social Sciences Discussion Paper Series No. 135.

T. Sato 1990, 'Tokugawa villages and agriculture', in C. Nakane & S. Oishi, eds, Tokugawa Japan: the social and economic antecedents of modern Japan (University of Tokyo Press).

T.C. Smith 1952, 'The Japanese village in the seventeenth century', Journal of Economic History 12: 1-20.

T. C. Smith 1956, 'Landlords and rural capitalists in the modernization of Japan', Journal of economic history 16: 165-181.

T. C. Smith 1958, 'The land tax in the Tokugawa period', Journal of Asian Studies 18: 3-19.

T. C. Smith 1959, The agrarian origins of modern Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

T. C. Smith 1977, Nakahara: family farming and population in a Japanese village, 1717-1830 (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

T. C. Smith 1986, 'Peasant time and factory time in Japan', Past & Present 111: 165-197.

C. von Verschuer 2016, Rice, agriculture, and the food supply in premodern Japan (trans. and ed. W. Cobcroft) (Abingdon UK: Routledge).

K. Yamamura 1979, 'Pre-industrial landholding patterns in Japan and England', in A. M. Craig, ed, Japan: a comparative view (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Industry[edit]

R. H. Brown 1972, 'Industrial capitalism in early Tokugawa Japan', Journal of Asian History 6: 1-13.

P. Francks 2002, ‘Rural industry, growth linkages, and economic development in nineteenth-century Japan’, Journal of Asian Studies 61: 33-56.

B. Gaens 2000, ‘Family, enterprise, and corporation: the organization of Izumiya-Sumitomo in the Tokugawa period’, Japan Review 12: 205-230.

J. Hirschmeier & T. Yui 1981, The Development of Japanese business: 1600-1980 (London: George Allen & Unwin; first edition 1965).

J. Hunter 1981, 'The Bakumatsu textile industry: continuity and change', International Studies (London School of Economics) 1981.2: 18-38.

S. Ishii 2010, ‘From Tokugawa to Meiji: the economic thought of a local entrepreneur in the early Meiji era’, in B. Gramlich-Oka & G. Smits, eds, Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

T. Kamiki 1988, 'Progress in Western technology at the Yokosuka shipbuilding works, 1865-1887', Papers in Far Eastern History 37: 105-132.

S. Nishikawa 1981, 'Protoindustrialization in the domain of Choshu in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries', Keio Economic Studies 18: 13-26.

K. Ochiai 2010, ‘The Shift to Domestic Sugar and the Ideology of “The National Interest”’, in B. Gramlich-Oka and G. Smits, eds., Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

A. Ota 2017, ‘Porcelain and power: comparative regional analysis of industrial manufacturing in Tokugawa Japan’, International Journal of Asian Studies 14: 27-46.

E. Pauer 1983, Japans industrielle Lehzeit: die Bedeutung des Flammofens in der wirtschaftlichen und technischen Entwicklung Japan für den Beginn der industriellen Revolution, 2 vols, Bonner Zeitschrift für Japanologie 4.

J. G. Roberts 1973, Mitsui: three centuries of Japanese business (Tokyo: Weatherhill).

Y. Sakudo 1990, 'The management practices of family business', in C. Nakane & S. Oishi, eds, Tokugawa Japan: the social and economic antecedents of modern Japan (University of Tokyo Press).

T. C. Smith 1948, 'The introduction of Western industry to Japan during the last years of the Tokugawa period', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 11: 130-152.

T. C. Smith 1969, 'Family by-employment in preindustrial Japan', Journal of economic history 29: 687-715.

T. C. Smith 1988, Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

A. Walthall 1990, 'The family ideology of the rural entrepreneurs in nineteenth century Japan', Journal of social history 23: 463-483.

K .Yamamura 1968, 'A re-examination of entrepreneurship in Meiji Japan (1868-1911)', Economic History Review 21: 144-158.

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Confucianism[edit]

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Y. Abe 1970, 'The development of Neo-Confucianism in Japan, Korea and China: a comparative study', Acta Asiatica 19: 16-39.

Y. Abe 1973, 'The characteristics of Japanese Confucianism', Acta Asiatica 25: 1-21.

O. Ansart 1994, 'Les rites et la question du droit: la construction d'une Nature dans le confucianisme en Chine et au Japon', Ebisu 7: 97-148.

O. Ansart 2002, ‘Les chemins de la justification’, in F. Girard, A. Horiuchi & M. Macé, eds, Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage. Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) (Geneva: Droz).

O. Ansart 2007, ‘Le premier des modernes? La conception du lien social chez Kaiho Seiryô (1755-1817)’, Ebisu 37: 71-95.

O. Ansart 2007, ‘Loyalty in seventeenth and eighteenth century samurai discourse', Japanese Studies 27: 139–154.

R. L. Backus 1963, 'Matsudaira Sadanobu as a Moralist and Litterateur', PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.

R. L. Backus 1974, 'The relationship of Confucianism to the Tokugawa Bakufu as revealed in the Kansei educational reform', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 34: 97-162.

R. L. Backus 1979, 'The Kansei prohibition of heterodoxy and its effects on education', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 39: 55-106.

R. L. Backus 1979, 'The motivation of Confucian orthodoxy in Tokugawa Japan', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 39: 275-338.

R. L. Backus 1989, 'Matsudaira Sadanobu and samurai education', in C. A. Gerstle, ed., 18th century Japan: culture and society (Sydney: Allen & Unwin).

R. L. Backus 1990, 'Tsukada Taihō on the Way and Virtue, part one: career and scholarship', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 50: 5-69.

W. T. de Bary 1979, 'Sagehood as a secular and spiritual ideal in Tokugawa Neo-Confucianism', in W. T. de Bary & I. Bloom, eds, Principle and Practicality: essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning (New York: Columbia University Press).

W. T. de Bary & I. Bloom (eds) 1979, Principle and practicality: essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning (New York: Columbia University Press).

J. Baskind & R. Bowring 2015, The Myōtei dialogues (Leiden: Brill).

A. Beerens and M. Teeuwen (eds) 2012, Uncharted waters: intellectual life in the Edo period:essays in honour of W. J. Boot (Leiden: Brill).

M. Bito 1978, 'Ogyū Sorai and the distinguishing features of Japanese Confucianism', in T. Najita & I. Scheiner, eds, Japanese thought in the Tokugawa period 1600-1868: methods and metaphors (CHicago: University of Chicago Press).

M. Bito 1986, 'Confucian thought during the Tokugawa Period', in G. A. De Vos & T. Sofue, eds, Religion and family in East Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press).

M. Bito 1991, 'Thought and religion', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 4.

B. Bodart-Bailey 1993, 'The persecution of Confucianism in early Tokugawa Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 48: 293-314.

W. J. Boot 1982, review of de Bary & Bloom 1979, Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 5: 416-445.

W. J. Boot 1990, 'The religious background to the deification of Tokugawa Ieyasu', in A. Boscaro, F. Gatti & M. Raveri, eds, Rethinking Japan (Folkestone: Japan Library), II, 331-338.

W. J. Boot 2002, ‘Tentô ou la Voie du Ciel’, in F. Girard, A. Horiuchi & M. Macé, eds, Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage. Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) (Geneva: Droz).

W. J. Boot 2005, ‘Confucianism in the Tokugawa period’, in W. T. de Bary, C. Gluck, and A. Tiedemann, eds, Sources of Japanese tradition, vol. 2 (2nd edition; New York: Columbia University Press), pp. 29-82.

W. J. Boot 2012, Critical readings in the intellectual history of early modern Japan, 2 vols (Leiden: Brill).

W. J. Boot 2014, 'Chinese scholarship and teaching in eighteenth-century Kyoto', in M. Hayek and A. Horiuchi, eds, Listen, copy, read: popular learning in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill), pp. 226-250.

W. J. Boot 2015, ‘The Great learning in medieval Japan’, in Anne Cheng and Damien Morier-Genoud, eds, Lectures et usages de la Grande étude (Paris: Collège de France, Institut des hautes études chinoises), pp. 269-297.

W.J. Boot 2021, ‘Buddhist-Confucian Polemics and the Position of Shinto', in S. Köck, B. Pickl-Kolaczia & B. Scheid, eds, Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan (New York: Bloomsbury).

R. J. Bowring 2017, In search of the way: thought and religion in early-modern Japan, 1582-1860 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

S. Burns 2002, ‘The body as text: Confucianism, reproduction and gender in Tokugawa Japan’, in B. A. Elman, J. B. Duncan & H. Ooms, eds, Rethinking Confucianism: past and present in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam (UCLA Asia Pacific Monograph Series).

C. Chang 1962, 'Chu Chih-Yü, the refugee-philosopher in Japan; and his Japanese disciples', in C. Chang, The development of Neo-Confucian Thought, vol.2 (Bookman Associates, New York).

A. M. Craig 1965, 'Science and Confucianism in Tokugawa Japan', in M. B. Jansen, ed, Changing Japanese attitudes towards Modernization (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

D. A. Dilworth 1979, 'Jitsugaku as an ontological conception: continuities and discontinuities in early and mid-Tokugawa thought', in W. T. de Bary & I. Bloom, eds, Principle and practicality: essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning (New York: Columbia University Press).

B. A. Elman 2008, ‘Sinophiles and Sinophobes in Tokugawa Japan: politics, classicism, and medicine during the eighteenth century’, East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal 2.1: 93-121.

B. A. Elman 2009, ‘One classic and two classical traditions: the recovery and transmission of a lost edition of the Analects’, Monumenta Nipponica 64: 53-82.

P. Flueckiger 2007, ‘The Shijing in Tokugawa Ancient Learning’, Monumenta Serica 55: 196-225.

P. Flueckiger 2010, Imagining harmony: poetry, empathy, and community in mid-Tokugawa Confucianism (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

F. Girard 2004, ‘Les dialogues sur le Confucianism et le Bouddhisme (jubutsu mondō): ou la critique du Bouddhisme par Hayashi Razan face à Teikoku’, Japon pluriel 5 (2004): 83-93.

F. Girard, A. Horiuchi & M. Macé (eds) 2002, Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage. Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) (Geneva: Droz).

B. Gramlich-Oka 2010, 'Neo-Confucianism reconsidered: family rituals in the Rai household', U.S.-Japan women's journal 39: 7-37.

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M. Hayashi 2021, ‘Calendars and Graves: Shibukawa Harumi’s Critique of Hoshina Masayuki and Yamazaki Ansai’, in S. Köck, B. Pickl-Kolaczia & B. Scheid eds, Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan (New York: Bloomsbury).

I. Ishida 1964, 'Tokugawa feudal society and Neo-Confucian thought', Philosophical Studies of Japan 5: 1-37.

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Kim Ha-tai 1967, 'The Transmission of Neo-Confucianism to Japan by Kang Hang, A Prisoner of War', Transactions of the Korean Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 37: 83-103.

M. Kinski 1996, Knochen des Weges. Katayama Kenzan als Vertreter des eklektischen Konfuzianismus im Japan des 18. Jahrhunderts (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz).

M. Kinski 1997, 'Talks about the teachings of the past. Translation of the first part of Kaiho Seiryō's Keiko dan with a short introduction', Japonica Humboldtiana 1: 115-98.

M. Kinski 2000, 'Talks about teachings of the past. Translation of the second part of Kaiho Seiryō's Keiko dan', Japonica Humboldtiana 4: 59-130.

M. Kinski 2002, 'Talks about teachings of the past. Translation of the third part of Kaiho Seiryō's Keiko dan', Japonica Humboldtiana 6: 57-140.

M. Kinski 2006, ‘Talks about teachings of the past: translation of the fourth part of Kaiho Seiryō's Keiko danJaponica Humboldtiana 10: 91-176.

R. J. Kirby 1907, 'Translation of Dazai Jun's essay on Gakusei', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 34: 133-44.

P. F. Kornicki 2018, Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

N. Koyasu 2002, ‘Nakai Riken (1732-1817): mode d’existence et contours du savoir de l’intellectuel confucianiste’, in F. Girard, A. Horiuchi & M. Macé, eds, Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage. Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) (Geneva: Droz).

K. Kracht 1980, Review of Najita & Scheiner 1978, Journal of Japanese Studies 6: 331-353.

K. Kracht 1986, Studien zur Geschichte des Denkens in Japan des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts: Chu-Hsi-konfuzianische Geist-Diskurse, (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz).

K. Kracht 1999, Japanese thought in the Tokugawa era: a bibliography of Western-language materials (Wiesbaden: Harrassowtiz Verlag).

M. Kurozumi 2002, ‘Tokugawa Confucianism and its Meiji Japan reconstruction’, in B. A. Elman, J. B. Duncan & H. Ooms, eds, Rethinking Confucianism: past and present in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam (UCLA Asia Pacific Monograph Series).

J. Joly 1996, 'Nature et spontaneite: l'example d'Ando Shoeki', Ebisu 13: 75-119.

M. Kurozumi 1994. 'The nature of early Tokugawa confucianism' (translated with an introduction by H. Ooms), Journal of Japanese Studies 20: 331-375.

G. Leinss 1995, Japanische Anthropologie: die Natur des Menschen in der konfuzianischen Neoklassik am Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts: Jinsai und Sorai (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz).

O. G. Lidin 1998, ‘Le li et le qi dans la pensée japonaise’, Daruma 4, 39-62.

O. G. Lidin 2006, From Taoism to Einstein: Ki and Ri in Chinese and Japanese thought; a survey (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

I. J. McMullen 1975, 'Non-Agnatic adoption: a Confucian controversy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Japan', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 35: 133-89.

I. J. McMullen 1987, 'Rulers or fathers? A casuistical problem in early modern Japanese thought', Past & Present 116: 56-97.

I. J. McMullen 1997, 'Ashikaga Takauji and the fourteenth-century dynastic schism in early Tokugawa thought', in J. P. Mass (ed), The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors and peasants in the fourteenth century (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

I. J. McMullen 2002, ‘Tokugawa intellectual history: the state of the field’, Early Modern Japan 10.1: 22-38.

I. J. McMullen 2009, ‘Courtier and Confucian in seventeenth-century Japan: a dialogue on the Tale of Genji between Nakanoin Michishige and Kumazawa Banzan,’ Japan Review 21: 3-32.

I. J. McMullen 2011, 'Ogyū Sorai, Matsudaira Sadanobu and the Kansei worship of Confucius', Ajia-Nippon Kenkyu Senta kiyō 6: 1-22.

I. J. McMullen 2013, 'The worship of Confucius in Hiroshima', Japonica Humboldtiana 16: 83-107.

I. J. McMullen 2020, The Worship of Confucius in Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

I. J. McMullen 2021, ‘Ikeda Mitsumasa and Confucian Ritual’, in S. Köck, B. Pickl-Kolaczia & B. Scheid, eds, Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan (New York: Bloomsbury).

K. Makoto 2002, ‘Tokugawa Confucianism and its Meiji Japan reconstruction’, in B.A. Elman, J.B. Duncan & H. Ooms, eds, Rethinking Confucianism: Past and present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam (UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series).

L. Marceau 1996, 'Ninjō and the affective value of literature at the Kogidō Academy', Sino-Japanese Studies 9.1: 47-55.

M. Maruyama 1974, Studies in the intellectual history of Tokugawa Japan, trans M. Hane (University of Tokyo Press).

M. Mehl 2020, ‘Transmutations of the Confucian Academy in Japan: private academies of Chinese learning (Kangaku Juku) in late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan as a reflection and a motor of epistemic change’, in V. Glomb, E-J. Lee & M. Gehlmann, eds, Confucian academies in East Asia (Leiden: Brill).

R. Minamoto 1975, 'The development of the Jitsugaku concept in the Tokugawa period', Philosophical Studies of Japan 11: 61-92.

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T. Najita 1971, 'Restorationism in the political thought of Yamagata Daini (1725-1767)', Journal of Asian Studies 31: 17-30.

T. Najita 1972, 'Political economism in the thought of Dazai Shundai (1680-1747)', Journal of Asian Studies 31: 821-849.

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K. W. Nakai 1980, 'The nationalization of Confucianism in Tokugawa Japan: the problem of Sinocentrism', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 40:157-99.

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Arai Hakuseki[edit]

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K. W. Nakai 1981, 'Apologia pro vita sua', Monumenta Nipponica 36: 173-86.

K. W. Nakai 1984, 'Tokugawa Confucian historiography: the Hayashi, early Mito School, and Arai Hakuseki', in P. Nosco, ed, Confucianism and Tokugawa culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

K. W. Nakai 1988, Shogunal politics: Arai Hakuseki and the premises of Tokugawa rule (Harvard University Press).

A. Valota 1970, 'Arai Hakuseki and the West. An analysis of Seiyō kibun', Transactions of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan 15: 93-95.


Fujiwara Seika[edit]

P. Beonio-Brocchieri 1984, 'On the historical importance of Fujiwara Seika', Modern Asian Studies 18: 609-18.

W. J. Boot 1983, 'The adoption and adaption of Neo-Confucianism in Japan: the role of Fujiwara Seika and Hayashi Razan', PhD dissertation, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.

R. J. Bowring 2006, ‘Fujiwara Seika and the Great Learning’, Monumenta Nipponica 61: 437-457.

H. Ooms 1985, Tokugawa ideology: early constructs, 1570-1680 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).


Hayashi Razan[edit]

W. J. Boot 1979, 'Hayashi Razan as a Confucian philosopher', in I. Nish & C. Dunn, eds, European studies on Japan (Tenterden, Kent: Paul Norbury).

W. J. Boot 1983, 'The adoption and adaption of Neo-Confucianism in Japan: the role of Fujiwara Seika and Hayashi Razan', PhD dissertation, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.

L. Brüll 1970, 'Prinzip (ri) und Materie (ki). Ein Beitrag zur Metaphysik des Hayashi Razan', Japanisches Kulturinstitut Jahrbuch 1: 5-31.

L. Brüll 1989, 'Die Begiffe Weisheit, Menschlichkeit und Beherzheit bei Hayashi Razan', Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 13: 1-14.

F. Girard 2004, ‘Les dialogues sur le Confucianism et le Bouddhisme (jubutsu mondō): ou la critique du Bouddhisme par Hayashi Razan face à Teikoku’, Japon pluriel 5 (2004): 83-93.

O. Kanamori 1995, 'La normalization du savoir normatif: autour de Hayashi Razan', Ebisu 9: 107-130.

P. F. Kornicki 2014, ‘Hayashi Razan’s vernacular translations and commentaries’, in Lawrence Wong, ed., Towards a History of Translating: In Celebration of the Fortieth Anniversary of the Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: CUHK), pp. 189-212.

E. Langston 1957, 'The seventeenth century Hayashi, a translation from the Sentetsu Sōdan', in J. E. Lane, ed, Researches in the Social Sciences on Japan, Columbia University East Asian Institute Studies 4 (New York).

I. J. McMullen 2010, ‘Confucianism, Christianity, and heterodoxy in Tokugawa Japan’, Monumenta Nipponica 65: 149-195.

K. W. Nakai 1984, 'Tokugawa Confucian historiography: the Hayashi, early Mito School, and Arai Hakuseki', in P. Nosco, ed, Confucianism and Tokugawa culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

H. Ooms 1985, Tokugawa ideology: early constructs, 1570-1680 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

K. Paramore 2006, ‘Hayashi Razan’s redeployment of anti-Christian discourse: the fabrication of Haiyasō’, Japan Forum 18: 185-206.

K. Paramore 2009, Ideology and Christianity in Japan (Abingdon: Routledge).

I. Smits 2012, ‘Minding the gaps: an early Edo history of Sino-Japanese poetry’, in A. Beerens and M. Teeuwen, eds, Uncharted waters: intellectual life in the Edo period. Essays in honour of W. J. Boot (Leiden: Brill), pp. 93-107.

J. A. Tucker 1993, ‘Chen Beixi, Lu Xiangshan, and Early Tokugawa (1600-1867) Philosophical Lexicography’, Philosophy East and West 43: 683-713.


Itō Jinsai[edit]

K. Hansen 2013 'Proto-Genbun Itchi Discourse and the Philology of Itō Jinsai', Early modern Japan 21 3-17.

G. Leinss 1995, Japanische Anthropologie: die Natur des Menschen in der konfuzianischen Neoklassik am Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts: Jinsai und Sorai (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz).

K. G. Marandjan 2016, ‘Detskie voprosy (Dōjimon) yaponskogo konfutsianskogo myslitelya Ito Dzinsaya’, Pis’mennye pamyatniki Vostoka 25: 89-99.

I. J. McMullen 1999, 'Itō Jinsai and the meaning of words', Monumenta Nipponica 54: 509-20.

T. Najita 1998, Tokugawa political writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

E. Pastreich 2004, ‘Itō Jinsai’s search for the meaning of the Chinese Classics; a revolution in Japanese Confucianism’, Sungkyun journal of East Asian studies 4: 82-111.

Ia. B. Radul-Zatulovskii 1941, 'Materialisticheskaya filosofia Ito Dzinsay', Sovetskoye Vostokovedenie 2: 53-80.

O. Sela 2013, 'Through the Prism of a Plagiarism Debate: Eighteenth through Twentieth-Century Sino-Japanese Intellectual Relations’, Journal of the History of Ideas 74: 577-597.

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J. A. Tucker 1993, ‘Chen Beixi, Lu Xiangshan, and Early Tokugawa (1600-1867) Philosophical Lexicography’, Philosophy East and West 43: 683-713.

J. A. Tucker 1994, ‘Beixi's “Ziyi” and Ancient Learning philosophical lexicography', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 4: 67-82.

J. Tucker 1998, Itō Jinsai’s Gomō jigi and the philosophical definition of early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

S. H. Yamashita 1983, 'The early life and thought of Itō Jinsai', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 43: 453-480.

K. Yoshikawa 1973, 'Ito Jinsai', Acta Asiatica 25: 22-53.

K. Yoshikawa 1983, Jinsai, Sorai, Norinaga: three classical philologists of mid-Tokugawa Japan, trans Kikuchi Yuzo (Tokyo: Toho Gakkai).


Kaibara Ekiken[edit]

C. Dunkel 2005, ‘Kaibara Ekikens “Tee-Riten” (Charei, 1699) Übersetzung und Kommentar’, Japonica Humboldtiana 9: 17-54.

O. Graf 1942, Kaibara Ekiken: Ein Beitrag zur japanischen Geistes-geschichte des 17. Jahrhunderts und zur Chinesischen Sung-Philosophie (Leiden: E. J. Brill).

T. Okada 1979, 'Practical learning in the Chu Hsi School: Yamazaki Ansai and Kaibara Ekken', in W. T. de Bary & I. Bloom, eds, Principle and practicality: essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning (New York: Columbia University Press).

M. E. Tucker 1990, Moral and spiritual cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: the life and thought of Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714) (Albany: State University of New York Press).


Kumazawa Banzan[edit]

G. M. Fisher 1938, 'Kumazawa Banzan, his life and ideas', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (2nd series) 16: 221-258.

G. M. Fisher 1938, ' Dai Gaku Wakumon: a discussion of public questions in the light of the Great Learning ', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (2nd series) 16: 259-356.

I. J. McMullen 1979, 'Kumazawa Banzan and Jitsugaku: towards pragmatic action', in W. T. de Bary & I. Bloom, eds, Principle and practicality: essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning (New York: Columbia University Press).

I. J. McMullen 1991, Genji gaiden: the origins of Kumazawa Banzan's commentary on the Tale of Genji (Oxford: Ithaca Press).

I. J. McMullen 1999, Idealism, protest, and the Tale of Genji: the Confucianism of Kumazawa Banzan (1619-91) (Oxford: Clarendon Press).

I. J. McMullen 2009, ‘Courtier and Confucian in seventeenth-century Japan: a dialogue on the Tale of Genji between Nakanoin Michishige and Kumazawa Banzan,’ Japan Review 21: 3-32.

J-F. Soum 1993, 'Morale et pratique sociale dans la pensee de Kumazawa Banzan (1619-1691)', Ebisu 3: 49-73.

J-F. Soum (trans) 1995, Kumazawa Banzan, Questions sur la Grande Etude (Tokyo: Maison Franco-Japonais).

J-F. Soum 2000, Nakae Tōju (1608-1648) et Kumazawa Banzan (1619-1691): deux penseurs de l'époque d'Edo (Paris: Bibliotheque de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Japonaises du College de France).

J-F. Soum 2002, 'Kumazawa Banzan (1619-1691): réformiste et homme de terrain’, in F. Girard, A. Horiuchi & M. Macé, eds, Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage. Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) (Geneva: Droz).

J. A. Tucker 1994, ‘Beixi's “Ziyi” and Ancient Learning philosophical lexicography', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 4: 67-82.

J. A. Tucker 2020, Kumazawa Banzan: Governing the realm and Bringing peace to all below heaven (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).


Nakae Tōju[edit]

J. Ching 1984, 'Nakae Tōju (1608-48) as sage: a religion of filial piety', Nachrichten der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens 136: 53-64.

W. Ng 2003, 'Filial piety and loyalty in Tokugawa Confucianism: Nakae Toju (1608-48) and his reading of the Ziaojing', Sino-Japanese Studies 99-107.

W. Ng 2007, 'Filial piety and loyalty in Tokugawa Confucianism: Nakae Tōju (1608-1648) and his reading of the Xiaojing (Classic of filial piety)', in J. Fogel, ed. Crossing the Yellow Sea: Sino-Japanese cultural contacts 1600-1950 (Norwalk CT: EastBridge), pp. 43-52.

G. J. Smits 1991, ‘The Sages’ scale in Japan: Nakae Tōju (1608-48) and situational weighing.” Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 4th Series, 6: 1-25.

J-F. Soum 2000, Nakae Tōju (1608-1648) et Kumazawa Banzan (1619-1691): deux penseurs de l'epoque d'Edo (Paris: Bibliotheque de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Japonaises du College de France).

B. Steben 1998, ‘Nakae Tōju and the birth of Wang Yang-ming learning in Japan’, Monumenta Serica 46: 233-263.

R. Yamashita 1979, 'Nakae Tōju's religious thought and its relation to Jitsugaku', in W. T. de Bary & I. Bloom, eds, Principle and practicality: essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning (New York: Columbia University Press).


Ogyū Sorai[edit]

O. Ansart 1994, 'Etudes Anciennes et Etudes Nationales dans le Japon du XVIIIeme siècle: la Nature, l'Artifice et le Mal chez Ogyu Sorai et Motoori Norinaga', Ebisu 4: 7-32.

O. Ansart 1998, L'empire du rite: la pensée politique d'Ogyu Sorai (Geneva: Librairie Droz).

O. Ansart 2009, ‘Rituals as utopia: Ogyû Sorai's theory of authority,' Japanese Studies 29: 33-45.

O. Ansart 2009, ‘Les dieux en perspective. Comment interpréter la théorie politique d'Ogyû Sorai (1666-1728)’, Journal Asiatique 297: 103-130.

R. N. Bellah 1978, 'Baigan and Sorai: continuities and discontinuities in eighteenth-century Japanese thought', in T. Najita & I. Scheiner, eds, Japanese thought in the Tokugawa period 1600-1868: methods and metaphors (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

M. Bito 1978, 'Ogyu Sorai and the distinguishing features of Japanese Confucianism', in T. Najita & I. Scheiner, eds, Japanese thought in the Tokugawa period 1600-1868: methods and metaphors (University of Chicago Press).

W. J. Boot 1999, 'Approaches to Ogyū Sorai: translation and transculturation', Monumenta Nipponica 54: 247-58.

W. J. Boot 2006, ‘New Additions to the Sorai Library’, Monumenta Nipponica 61: 559-566.

W. J. Boot and D. Takayama (eds) 2019, Tetsugaku Companion to Ogyū Sorai (Berlin: Springer).

C. W-H. Chan 1998, ‘On Ogyū Sorai’s critique of Chu Hsi’s programme of learning to be a sage’, Monumenta Serica 46: 195-232.

P. Flueckiger 2010, Imagining harmony: poetry, epathy, and community in mid-Tokugawa Confucianism (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

P. Kaufmann 2018, 'Ogyū Sorai and the end of philosophy’, in R. C. Steineck, R. Weber, R. Gassmann and E. Lange, eds, Concepts of Philosophy in Asia and the Islamic world, Vol. 1: China and Japan (Leiden: Brill), pp. 607-628.

G. Leinss 1995, Japanische Anthropologie: die Natur des Menschen in der konfuzianischen Neoklassik am Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts: Jinsai und Sorai (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz).

O. G. Lidin 1970, Ogyū Sorai: Distinguishing the Way, Monumenta Nipponica monographs (Tokyo: Sophia University).

O. G. Lidin 1973, The life of Ogyū Sorai: a Tokugawa Confucian philosopher, Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies monograph series 19 (Lund: Studentlitteratur).

O. G. Lidin 1983, Ogyū Sorai's journey to Kai in 1706; with a translation of the Kyōchūkiko, Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies monograph series 48 (London: Curzon Press).

O. G. Lidin 1984, 'Ogyū Sorai's place in Edo intellectual thought,' Modern Asian Studies 18: 567-80.

O. G. Lidin 1999, Ogyū Sorai's Discourse on government (Seidan): an annotated translation (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag).

O. G. Lidin 2011, ‘Vernacular Chinese in Tokugawa Japan: the inquiries of Ogyū Sorai’, Japonica Humboldtiana 14: 5-36.

A. Linnepe 2009-10, ‘Sorais “Mitmenschlichkeit” (jin). Ein Auszug des Benmei (1717)’, Japonica Humboldtiana 13: 5-26.

J. R. McEwan 1960-61, 'Some aspects of the Confucianism of Ogyū Sorai', Asia Major 8:199-214.

J. R. McEwan 1962, The political writings of Ogyū Sorai (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

I. J. McMullen 2001, ‘Ogyū Sorai and the definition of terms’, Japan Forum 13: 249-265.

I. J. McMullen 2007, ‘Reinterpreting the Analects: history and utility in the thought of Ogyū Sorai’, in J. C. Baxter & J. A. Fogel, eds, Writing histories in Japan: texts and their transformations from ancient times through the Meiji era (Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies), pp. 127-174.

I. J. McMullen 2011, 'Ogyū Sorai, Matsudaira Sadanobu and the Kansei worship of Confucius', Ajia-Nippon Kenkyu Senta kiyō 6: 1-22.

M. Maruyama 1974, Studies in the intellectual history of Tokugawa Japan, trans M. Hane (University of Tokyo Press).

R. H. Minear 1976, 'Ogyū Sorai's Instructions for Students: a translation and commentary', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 36: 5-81.

T. Najita 1998, Tokugawa political writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

E. Pastreigh 2001, 'Grappling with Chinese writing as a material language: Ogyū Sorai's Yakubunsentei', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 61: 119-170.

J. A. Tucker 1993, ‘Chen Beixi, Lu Xiangshan, and Early Tokugawa (1600-1867) Philosophical Lexicography’, Philosophy East and West 43: 683-713.

J. A. Tucker 1994, ‘Beixi's “Ziyi” and Ancient Learning philosophical lexicography', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 4: 67-82.

J. A. Tucker 2006, Ogyū Sorai’s philosophical masterworks: the Bendo and Benmei (Honolulu: University of Hawaiii Press).

S. H. Yamashita 1984, 'Nature and artifice in the writings of Ogyū Sorai (1666-1728)', in P. Nosco, ed, Confucianism and Tokugawa culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

S. H. Yamashita 1994, Master Sorai's responsals: an annotated translation of "Sorai Sensei tomonsho" (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

K. Yoshikawa 1983, Jinsai, Sorai, Norinaga: three classical philologists of mid-Tokugawa Japan, trans Kikuchi Yuzo (Tokyo: Toho Gakkai).


Yamaga Sokō[edit]

G. Leinss 1989, Yamaga Sokos "Kompendium der Weisenlehre" = Seikyo Yoroku: ein Wörterbuch des neoklassischen Konfuzianismus im Japan des 17. Jahrhunderts (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz).

J. A. Tucker 1993-6, 'Yamaga Sokō’s Seikyō yōroku: an English translation', Sino-Japanese Studies 6.1: 22-39, 8.2: 62-000.

J. A. Tucker 1994, ‘Beixi's Ziyi and Ancient Learning philosophical lexicography', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 4: 67-82.

J. A. Tucker 2002, 'Yamaga Sokō's Essential Lexicography of Sagely Confucian Teachings (Seikyō yōroku): Chapter Three' Sino-Japanese Studies 14: 71-80.

J. A. Tucker 2005, ‘Yamaga Sokō and the civilising of the samurai’, W. T. de Bary, C. Gluck, and A. Tiedemann, eds, Sources of Japanese tradition, vol. 2 (2nd edition; New York: Columbia University Press), pp. 186-205.

J. A. Tucker 2007, 'Tokugawa intellectual history and prewar ideology: the case of Inoue Tetsujirō, Yamaga Sokō, and the forty-seven rōnin', in J. Fogel, ed, Crossing the Yellow Sea: Sino-Japanese cultural contacts 1600-1950 (Norwalk CT: EastBridge), pp. 241-279.

S. Uenaka 1977, 'Last testament in exile: Yamaga Sokō's Haisho Zampitsu', Monumenta Nipponica 32: 125-52.


Yamazaki Ansai[edit]

M. Hayashi 2021, ‘Calendars and Graves: Shibukawa Harumi’s Critique of Hoshina Masayuki and Yamazaki Ansai’, in S. Köck, B. Pickl-Kolaczia & B. Scheid eds, Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan (New York: Bloomsbury).

N. Koyasu 2000, 'Zhu Xi and "Zhu Xi-ism": toward a critical perspective on the Ansai School', Sino-Japanese Studies 12.2: 41-50.

M. Maruyama 1996, 'Orthodoxy and legitimacy in the Kimon School', Sino-Japanese Studies 8.2: 6-49, 9.1: 4-33.

T. Okada 1979, 'Practical learning in the Chu Hsi School: Yamazaki Ansai and Kaibara Ekken', in W. T. de Bary & I. Bloom, eds, Principle and practicality: essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning (New York: Columbia University Press).

S. Y. Yamashita 2001, ‘Yamazaki Ansai and Confucian school relations, 1650-1675’, Early Modern Japan 9.2: 3-18.

Kokugaku and Mitogaku[edit]

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J. R. Bentley 2017, An anthology of Kokugaku scholars (Cornell University East Asia Program).

R. J. Bowring 2017, In search of the way: thought and religion in early-modern Japan, 1582-1860 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

J. Breen 1996, 'Accommodating the alien: Okuni Takamasa and the religion of the Lord of Heaven' in P. F. Kornicki & I. J. McMullen, eds., Religion in Japan: arrows to heaven and earth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

J. Breen 1997, 'Shinto and Buddhism in late Edo Japan: the case of Okuni Takamasa and his school', Occasional Papers 14: Current issues in the social sciences and humanities, (Hosei University).

J. Breen 2000, 'Nativism Restored', Monumenta Nipponica 55: 429-439.

L. Brüll 1966, Okuni Takamasa und seine Weltanschauung. Ein Beitrag zum Gedankengut der Kokugaku (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz).

S. L. Burns 2003, Before the nation: Kokugaku and the imagining of community in early modern Japan (Durham, NC: Duke University Press).

R. T. Chang 1968, 'Fujita Tōko's image of the West', Journal of Asian History 2:130-140.

R. T. Chang 1970, From prejudice to tolerance: a study of the Japanese image of the West 1826-1864, Monumenta Nipponica monograph (Tokyo: Sophia University).

H. Dumoulin 1939, 'Die Entwicklung der Kokugaku', Monumenta Nipponica 2: 140-64.

D. M. Earl 1964, Emperor and Nation in Japan: political thinkers of the Tokugawa Period (Seattle: University of Washington Press).

S. Fessler 1996, 'The nature of the Kami: Ueda Akinari and Tandai Shoshin Roku', Monumenta Nipponica 51: 1-16,

F. Girard, Annick Horiuchi-Baba et Mieko Macé (eds) 2002, Repenser l'ordre, repenser l'héritage: Le paysage intellectuel du Japon des Tokugawa (1600-1868) (Geneva: Droz).

H. Hammitzsch 1938-9, ‘Die Mito-Schule und ihre grammatischen Schriften Bairi Sensei Hiin, u.a.,’ Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, 31:1-95.

H. Hammitzsch 1939, 'Kangaku und Kokugaku', Monumenta Nipponica 2: 1-23.

W. Hansen 2008, ‘The Dao of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Nativist Healing: A Chinese Herbal Supplement to Faith Healing,’ Early Modern Japan 16: 92-10.3

H. Harootunian 1970, Toward Restoration: the growth of political consciousness in Tokugawa Japan (University of California Press).

H. Harootunian 1978, 'The consciousness of archaic form in the new realism of kokugaku', in T. Najita & I. Scheiner, eds, Japanese thought in the Tokugawa period 1600-1868: methods and metaphors (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

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V. Koschmann 1987, The Mito ideology: discourse, reform, and insurrection in late Tokugawa Japan, 1790-1864 (University of California Press).

K. Kracht 1975, Das Kodokanki-Jitsugi des Fujita Toko (1806-1855), Studien zur Japanologie 12 (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz).

K. Kracht 1976, '"Name" (Mei) und "Anteil" (Bun) im politischen Denken der späten Mito-Schule: Das Seimeiron von Fujita Yukoku', Oriens Extremus 23:87-110.

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M. T. McNally 2001, ‘Intellectual polarities and the development of the Norinaga school “field”: Hirata Atsutane and the Nudenoya, 1823-1834’, Early Modern Japan 9.2: 19-29.

M. T. McNally 2002, 'The Sandaiko debate: the issue of orthodoxy in late Tokugawa Nativism', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 29: 359-378.

M. T. McNally 2005, Proving the way: conflict and practice in the history of Japanese Nativism (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

M. T. McNally 2016, Like no other: exceptionalism and Nativism in early modern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press).

R. Maeda 2018, ‘Kokugaku und die deutsche Romantik: Zur Formation des kulturwissenschaftlichen Japan-Diskurses aus der Analogie’, in M. Wachutka, M. Schrimpf, & B. Staemmler, eds, Religion, Politik und Ideologie: Beiträge zu einer kritischen Kulturwissenschaft. Festschrift für Klaus Antoni zum 65. Geburtstag (Munich: Iudicium).

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P. Nosco 1997, ‘Confucianism and Nativism in Tokugawa Japan’, in I. Bloom and J. A. Fogel, eds, Meeting of Minds: Intellectual and Religious Interaction in East Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Honor of Wing-tsit Chan and William Theodore de Bary (New York: Columbia University Press), pp. 278-96.

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A. Walthall 2021, ‘Conflicts over Shrine Priests' Faith and Affiliation: the Shirakawa, Yoshida, and Hirata Atsutane’, in S. Köck, B. Pickl-Kolaczia & B. Scheid Religion, eds, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan (New York: Bloomsbury).

H. Webb 1960, ‘What is the Dai Nihon shi?’, Journal of Asian Studies 19: 135-149.

K. Wildman Nakai 2006, ‘“Esoteric” and “public” in late Mito thought’, in B. Scheid & M. Teeuwen, eds, The culture of secrecy in Japanese religion (London: Routledge).

H. Webb 1958, The Japanese imperial institution in the Tokugawa period (New YOrk: Columbia University Press).


Aizawa Seishisai[edit]

H. Hammitzsch 1940, 'Aizawa Seishisai und sein Werk Shinron', Monumenta Nipponica 3: 61-74.

D. Keene 2007, ‘A plan for tasks at hand: Aizawa Seishisai’s Jimusaku’, Monumenta Nipponica 62: 75-8.6

K. Kracht 1979, 'Philosophische Reflexionen am Abend der Feudalgesellschaft. Das Taishoku kanwa von Aizawa Seishisai in Übersetzung', Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 2: 353-98.

V. Stanzel 1982, Die "Neuen Eröterungen" des japanischen Philosophen und Theoretikers der Politik Seishisai Aizawa aus dem Jahre 1825 (Würtzburg).

B. T. Wakabayashi 1986, Anti-foreignism and Western learning in early-modern Japan: the New Theses of 1825 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).


Hirata Atsutane[edit]

R. Devine 1981, 'Hirata Atsutane and Christian sources', Monumenta Nipponica 36: 37-54.

G. Fujiwara 2015, ‘Rebirth of a Hirata School Nativist: Tsuruya Ariyo and his Kaganabe journal’, in P. Nosco, J. E. Ketelaar & Y. Kojima, eds, Values, identity, and equality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan (Leiden: Brill), pp. 134-158.

W. Hansen 2008, When Tengu talk: Hirata Atsutane's ethnography of the Other World (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

F. Macé 2011, ‘”L’écriture des dieux”: Hirata Atsutane et l’écriture coréenne’, Cipango 17: 107-145.

W-m Ng 2012, ‘The Shintoization of the Yijing in Hirata Atsutane’s Kokugaku’, Sino-Japanese studies 19.

A. Walthall 1995, 'Off with their heads! The Hirata disciples and the Ashikaga shoguns', Monumenta Nipponica'Monumenta Nipponica 50: 137-170.

A. Walthall 2009, ‘Fragments of friendship: Matsuo Taseko and the Hirata family’, Monumenta Nipponica'Monumenta Nipponica 64: 315-335.



Kamo Mabuchi[edit]

H. Dumoulin 1941, 'Zwei Texte zum Kado des Kamo Mabuchi', Monumenta Nipponica 4: 192-206 & 566-84.

H. Dumoulin 1943, 'Die Erneuerung des Liederweges durch Kamo Mabuchi', Monumenta Nipponica 6: 110-45.

H. Dumoulin 1943, Kamo Mabuchi (1697-1769): Ein Beitrag zur japanischen Religions und Geistesgeschichte, Monumenta Nipponica monographs Tokyo: (Sophia University Press).

H. Dumoulin 1953, 'Kamo Mabuchi und das Manyoshu', Monumenta Nipponica 9: 34-61.

H. Dumoulin 1955, 'Zwei Texte Kamo Mabuchis zur Wortkunde', Monumenta Nipponica 11: 268-83.

H. Dumoulin 1956, 'Kamo Mabuchis Erklärung zur Norito des Toshigoi-no-matsuri', Monumenta Nipponica 12: 121-56 & 269-98.

P. Flueckiger 2008, ‘Reflections on the meaning of Our Country: Kamo no Mabuchi's Kokuikô’, Monumenta Nipponica 63: 211-263.

T. J. Harper 1989, 'The Tale of Genji in the eighteenth century: Keichu, Mabuchi and Norinaga', in C. A. Gerstle, ed., 18th century Japan: culture and society (Sydney: Allen & Unwin).

T. Okubo 1973, 'The thoughts of Mabuchi and Norinaga', Acta Asiatica 25: 68-90.


Keichū[edit]

T. J. Harper 1989, 'The Tale of Genji in the eighteenth century: Keichu, Mabuchi and Norinaga', in C. A. Gerstle, ed., 18th century Japan: culture and society (Sydney: Allen & Unwin).

P. Nosco 1980, 'Keichu (1640-1701): forerunner of National Learning', Asian thought and Society 5: 237-52.

M. Rüttermann 2000, Unbefangenheit Keichus Beitrag zur Wissenschaftstheorie im frühneuzeitlichen Japan (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz).


Motoori Norinaga[edit]

O. Ansart 1994, 'Etudes Anciennes et Etudes Nationales dans le Japon du XVIIIeme siecle: la Nature, l'Artifice et le Mal chez Ogyu Sorai et Motoori Norinaga', Ebisu 4: 7-32.

J. R. Bentley 2013, Tamakatsuma: a window into the scholarship of Motoori Norinaga (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i).

M. Bito 1984, 'Religion and society in the Edo Period, as revealed in the thought of Motoori Norinaga' Modern Asian Studies 18: 581-92.

J. S. Brownlee 1988, 'The jewelled comb box: Motoori Norinaga's Tamakushige', Monumenta Nipponica 43: 35-61.

T. J. Harper 1971, 'Motoori Norinaga's criticism of the Genji Monogatari: a study of the background and critical content of his Genji Monogatari Tama no Ogushi', PhD dissertation, University of Michigan.

T. J. Harper 1989, 'The Tale of Genji in the eighteenth century: Keichu, Mabuchi and Norinaga', in C. A. Gerstle, ed., 18th century Japan: culture and society (Sydney: Allen & Unwin).

J. Isomae 2000, 'Reappropriating the Japanese myths: Motoori Norinaga and the creation myths of the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 27: 15-39.

J. R. McEwan 1949, 'Motoori's view of phonetics and linguistics in his Mojigoe no kanazukai and Kanji San On Ko', Asia Major 1:109-118.

M. T. McNally 2011, ‘Who speaks for Norinaga? Kokugaku leadership in nineteenth-century Japan’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 38: 129-159.

M. Marra 1998, ‘Nativist hermeneutics : the interpretative strategies of Motoori Norinaga and Fujitani Mitsue’, Japan Review 10: 17-52.

M. Marra 2007, The poetics of Motoori Norinaga: a hermeneutical journey (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

S. Matsumoto 1970, Motoori Norinaga (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

K. Mori 1997, 'Motoori Norinaga', Ebisu 15: 107-147.

S. Nishimura 1987, 'First steps into the mountains: Motoori Norinaga's Uiyamabumi', Monumenta Nipponica 42: 449-493.

S. Nishimura 1991, 'The way of the gods: Motoori Norinaga's Naobi no mitama', Monumenta Nipponica 46: 21-41.

T. Okubo 1973, 'The thoughts of Mabuchi and Norinaga', Acta Asiatica 25: 68-90.

J. Pigeot 2002, Le système de lecture de Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801)’, in F. Girard, A. Horiuchi & M. Macé, eds, Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage. Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) (Geneva: Droz).

M. Ueda 1967, 'Shintoism and the theory of literature: Norinaga on the art of writing', in M. Ueda, Literary and art theories in Japan (Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve University Press).

S. Yanada 1950, ‘Motoori Norinaga’s contribution to a scheme of Japanese grammar’, BSOAS 13: 474-503.

K. Yoshikawa 1983, Jinsai, Sorai, Norinaga: three classical philologists of mid-Tokugawa Japan, trans Kikuchi Yuzo (Tokyo: Toho Gakkai).

A. Wehmeyer (trans) 1997, Kojiki-den: book 1 (Ithaca: East Asian Program Cornell University).

Shingaku[edit]

R. N. Bellah 1957, Tokugawa religion. The values of pre-industrial Japan (The Free Press, Glencoe, Ill.)

R. N. Bellah 1978, 'Baigan and Sorai: continuities and discontinuities in eighteenth-century Japanese thought', in T. Najita & I. Scheiner, eds, Japanese thought in the Tokugawa period 1600-1868: methods and metaphors (University of Chicago Press)

P. Beonio-Brocchieri 1957, 'Il concetto di "Natura" nel "Tohimondo": alcuni aspetti dell'influenza di Shushi sul pensiero di Ishida Baigan', Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia 12: 446-459.

H. Hammitzsch 1941, 'Shingaku: Eine Bewegung der Volksaufklärung und Volkserziehung in der Tokugawa-Zeit', Monumenta Nipponica 4.1: 1-32.

Ishida Baigan 1985, Dialogues of city and country, trans by Matsuo Akira (Osaka: Kyoiku Tosho).

K. Kracht 1974, 'Kyuo Dowa - Predigten des Shibata Kyuo (1783-1839). Ein Beitrag zur Lehrpraxis der Späten Shingaku,' in Ostasienwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Sprache, Literatur, Geschichte, Geistesgeschicte, Wirtschaft, Politik un Geographie, Veröffentilichungen des Ostasien-Instituts der Ruhr-Universität Bochum 11 (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz).

K. Kracht 1988, Japanische Geistesgeschichte (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz).

T. Najita 1987, Visions of virtue in Tokugawa Japan: the Kaitokudō merchant academy of Osaka (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

J. M. Ramseyer 1979, 'Thrift and diligence: house codes of Tokugawa merchant families', Monumenta Nipponica 34: 209-230.

J. Robertson 1979, 'Rooting the pine: Shingaku methods of organization', Monumenta Nipponica 34: 311-32.

J. Robertson 1991, 'The Shingaku woman: straight from the heart', in G. L. Bernstein, ed, Recreating Japanese women, 1600-1945 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

J. A. Sawada 1993, Confucian values and popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in eighteenth-century Japan (University of Hawaii Press).

I. Schuster 1967, Kamada Ryuko und seine Stellung in der Shingaku, Studien zur Japanologie 10 (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz).

M. Tsujimoto 2014, 'From dialogue to mass-logue: oral performance within Sekimon Shingaku', in M. Hayek and A. Horiuchi, eds, Listen, copy, read: popular learning in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill), pp. 23-45.

Rangaku and science[edit]

General[edit]

J. R. Bartholemew 1976, 'Why was there no scientific revolution in Tokugawa Japan?', Japanese Studies in the History of Science 15: 111-125.

J. R. Bartholemew 1989, The formation of science in Japan: bulding a research tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press).

W. J. Boot 2008, ‘Shizuki Tadao’s Sakoku-ron’, in W. J. Boot & W. G. J. Remmelink, eds, The patriarch of Dutch learning Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806) (Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Institute).

W. J. Boot & W. G. J. Remmelink (eds) 2008, The patriarch of Dutch learning Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806) (Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Institute)

C. R. Boxer 1950, Jan Compagnie in Japan, 1600-1750, second edition (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff).

L. Blusse, W. Remmelink & I. Smits (eds) 2000, Bridging the divide. 400 years: The Netherlands-Japan (Leiden: Hotei Publishing)

M. Chaiklin 2003, Cultural commerce and Dutch commercial culture: the influence of European material culture on Japan, 1700-1850 (Leiden: research School CNWS).

T. Doke 1973, 'Yoan Udagawa: a pioneer scientist of early 19th century feudalistic Japan', Japanese Studies in the History of Science 12: 99-120.

R. Effert 2012, ‘The Dûfu Haruma: an explosive dictionary’, in A. Beerens and M. Teeuwen, eds, Uncharted waters: intellectual life in the Edo period. Essays in honour of W. J. Boot (Leiden: Brill), pp. 197-220.

C. L. French 1974, Shiba Kokan: artist, innovator, and pioneer in the Westernization of Japan (New York: Weatherhill).

C. L. French 1977, Through closed doors: Western influence on Japanese art 1639-1853 (Rochester, Michigan: Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University).

Y. Frumer 2018, Making time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

K. Fung 2008, ‘The translation of Western scientific terminology in the Japanese and Chinese astronomical treatises in the 17th and 19th century’, in F. Casalin, ed., Linguistic exchanges between Europe, China and Japan (Rome: Tiellemedia Editore).

G. K. Goodman 1952, 'A translation of Otsuki Gentaku's Ransetsu Benwaku', Occasional Papers (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan) 3: 71-99.

G. K. Goodman 1986, Japan: the Dutch experience (Athlone Press, London; a revised edition of The Dutch impact on Japan published by E.J.Brill, Leiden, in 1967).

B. Gramlich-Oka 2013, ‘Nagasaki: a thorn in the eye of the Shogunate?’, in N. Kim and K. Nagase-Reimer, eds, Mining, monies, and culture in early modern societies: East Asian and global perspectives (Leiden: Brill), pp. 43-86.

T. Hashimoto 1999, 'Introducing a French Technological System: the Origin and Early History of the Yokosuka Dockyard', ‘’East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine’’ 16: 53–72.

M. Heijdra 2020, ‘Polyglot translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the introduction of Western learning in Tokugawa Japan’, in At the shores of the sky: Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt (Leiden: Brill), pp. 62-75.

R. H. Hesselink 1995, 'A Dutch new year at the Shirando academy: 1 January 1795', Monumenta Nipponica 50: 189-234.

A. Horiuchi 1987, 'La science calendérique de Takebe Katahiro (1664-1739)', Historia scientiarum 33: 3-24.

A. Horiuchi 2003, ‘When science develops outside state patronage: Dutch studies in Japan at the turn of the nineteenth century,’ Early science and medicine 8: 148-72

A. Horiuchi 2006, ‘L’apprentissage du hollandaise au Japon au debut du XIXe siecle’, in A. Horiuchi, ed., Education au Japon et en Chine (Paris: Les Indes Savantes), pp. 77-98.

E. Izawa 2013, ‘Developments in Japanese copper metallurgy for coinage and foreign trade in the early Edo period’, in N. Kim and K. Nagase-Reimer, eds, Mining, monies, and culture in early modern societies: East Asian and global perspectives (Leiden: Brill), pp. 13-24.

T. Jackson 2016, Network of knowledge: Western science and the Tokugawa information revolution (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press).

M. B. Jansen 1957, 'New materials for the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Japan', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 20: 567-597.

M. B. Jansen 1984, 'Rangaku and Westernization', Modern Asian Studies 18: 541-553.

H. Johnson 2004, Western influence on Japanese art: the Akita ranga school (Leiden: Hotei).

C. Kamatani 1995, 'Sake brewing and its records in Edo Japan', Historia scientiarum 56: 117-125.

K. Katagiri 1974, 'The schools of Rangaku scholars', Japanese Studies in the History of Science 13: 9-68.

N. Kawajiri 1981, 'The acceptance of the Christian view of science by a Japanese in the Tokugawa era: the establishment of Sho-sho-gaku by Gokan Uchida', Historia scientiarum 21: 67-86.

D. Keene 1969, The Japanese discovery of Europe, second edition (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

S. Kohsaka 2000, 'Die Verwandlung des japanischen Wissenssystems durch die Rezeption der hiolio-zentrischen Theorie', in S. Kohsaka & J. Laube, eds, Informationssystem und kulturelles Leben in den Städten der Edo-Zeit (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz).

M. Low 2011, ‘The impact of Western science and technology on ukiyo-e prints and book illustrations in late eighteenth and nineteenth century Japan’, Historia scientiarum 21: 66-87.

J. MacLean 1973, 'Natural science in Japan. I. Before 1830', Annals of Science 30:257-298.

J. MacLean 1974, 'The introduction of books and scientific instruments into Japan, 1712-1854', Japanese Studies in the History of Science 13: 9-68.

J. MacLean 1975, 'Natural science in Japan from 1828 to 1849', Janus 62: 51-78.

R. Mathias 2013, ‘Picture scrolls as a historical source on Japanese mining’, in N. Kim and K. Nagase-Reimer, eds, Mining, monies, and culture in early modern societies: East Asian and global perspectives (Leiden: Brill), pp. 291-310.

R. Matsumoto & E. Kiyooka (trans) 1969, Dawn of Western Science in Japan (Sugita Genpaku's Rangaku kotohajime), (Tokyo: Hokuseido Press).

S. Miyashita 1975, 'A bibliography of the Dutch medical books translated into Japanese', Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 25: 8-72.

R. Murakami 2013, ‘The Sumitomo copper refinery site: copper production in the Kodō zuroku and in an archaeological excavation’, in N. Kim and K. Nagase-Reimer, eds, Mining, monies, and culture in early modern societies: East Asian and global perspectives (Leiden: Brill), pp. 311-328.

K. Nagase-Reimer 2013, ‘Water drainage in the mines in Tokugawa Japan’, in N. Kim and K. Nagase-Reimer, eds, Mining, monies, and culture in early modern societies: East Asian and global perspectives (Leiden: Brill), pp. 25-42.

S. Nakamura 1984, 'New concepts of life of the post-Kansei intellectuals: scholars of Chinese classics', Modern Asian Studies 18: 619-630.

E. Nakamura 2008, ‘Working the Siebold network: Kusumoto Ine and Western learning in nineteenth-century Japan,’ Japanese Studies 28: 197–211.

S. Nakayama 1969, A history of Japanese astronomy: Chinese background and Western impact (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

S. Nakayama 1978, 'Japanese scientific thought', in C. C. Gillespie, ed, Dictionary of scientific biography vol 15, supplement 1 (New York), pp. 728-58.

L. Nenzi 2011, ‘Caught in the spotlight: the 1858 comet and late Tokugawa Japan’, Japan Forum 23: 1-23.

Netherlands Association for Japanese Studies (ed) 1978, Philipp Franz von Siebold; a contribution to the study of the historical relations between Japan and the Netherlands (Centre for Japanese Studies, Leiden University).

J. Numata 1982, ‘Studies of the history of Yōgaku: a bibliographical essay’, Acta Asiatica 42: 75-101.

J. Numata 1992, Western learning: a short history of the study of Western science in early modern Japan, trans. R. C. J. Bachofner (Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Institute)

Park Seong-Rae 1992, ‘Korea-Japan Relations and the History of Science and Technology’, Korea Journal 32.4: 80-88.

H. Paul 1977, 'De Coningh on Deshima: Mijn Verbliff in Japan, 1856', Monumenta Nipponica 32: 347-64.

J. Proust 1997, L'Europe au prise du Japon - XVe-XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Albin Michel).

J. Proust 2002, Europe through the prism of Japan: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, trans E. Bell (University of Notre Dame Press).

A. Querido 1983, 'Dutch transfer of knowledge through Deshima: the role of the Dutch in Japan's scientific and technological development during the Edo period', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (4th series) 18: 17-37.

R. Rubinger 1982, Private academies of Tokugawa Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

R. Sakamoto 2008, ‘Confucianising science: Sakuma Shōzan and wakon yōsai ideology,’ Japanese Studies 28: 213–226.

K. Sato 2013, ‘Surveying in seventeenth-century Japan: technology transfer from the Netherlands to Japan', Historia Scientiarum 23.2: 92-112.

D. Schilling 1942, 'Die erste Tabak in Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 5.1: 113-143.

T. Screech 1996, The Western scientific gaze and popular imagery in later Edo Japan: the lens within the heart (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

T. Shiba 2000, 'Dutch chemist Gratama and chemistry in Japan', Historia scientiarum 9: 181-190.

P. Sippel 1972, 'Aoki Konyō (1698-1769) and the beginnings of Rangaku', Japanese Studies in the History of Science 11: 127-162.

T. C. Smith 1948, 'The introduction of Western industry to Japan during the last years of the Tokugawa period', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 11: 130-152.

J. M. Steele 1998, 'On the use of the Chinese Hsuan-ming calendar to predict the time of the eclipses in Japan', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 61: 527-533.

M. Sugimoto & D. L. Swain 1978, Science and culture in traditional Japan, AD 600-1854 (Cambridge MA: MIT Press).

G. Sugita 1969, Dawn of Western science in Japan (Tokyo: Hokuseido Press).

B. Szczesniak 1944, 'The penetration of the Copernican theory into feudal Japan', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1944: 52-61.

T. Tōgō 2001, 'Yabuuti Kiyosi’s Research on Traditional Technology in Japan', ‘’East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine’’ 18: 32–40.

T. Tsukahara 2000, 'The Westernization of chemistry from different angles: an examination of three manuscripts by contemporaries of Yoan Udagawa and his Seimi Kaiso', Historia scientiarum 9: 191-214.

W. F. Vande Walle & K. Kasaya (eds) 2001, Dodonaeus in Japan: translation and the scientific mind in the Tokugawa period (Leuven University Press).

F. Vos 1963, 'Dutch influences on the Japanese Language', Lingua 12: 341-388.

F. Vos 1971, 'Forgotten foibles - love and the Dutch at Dejima (1641-1854)', in L. Brüll & U. Kemper, eds, Asien: Tradition und Fortschrift, Festschrift for Horst Hammitzsch (Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden).

G. Woldering 2005, ‘Seiyo zasshi (1867-69) – Die erste japanische Zeitschrift’, in S. Kôhn and M. Schönbein, eds., Facetten der japanischen Populär- und Medienkultur 1 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowtz Verlag), pp. 93-126.

S. Yajima 1953, 'Dutch Books on Science and Technology brought to Japan in XVIII and XIX Centuries', Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 6: 76-79.

T. Yoshida 2002, ‘La science newtonienne selon Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806)’ in F. Girard, A. Horiuchi & M. Macé, eds, Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage. Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) (Geneva: Droz).

Medicine[edit]

See History of medicine section


Mathematics[edit]

H. Fukugawa and T. Rothman 2008, Sacred mathematics: Japanese temple geometry (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

T. Hayashi 1905-7, 'A brief history of Japanese mathematics', Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde 6:296-361 & 7: 105-163.

A. Horiuchi 1994, Les mathématiques japonaises à l'époque d'Edo (1600-1868): une étude des travaux de Seki Takakuzu (?-1708) et de Takebe Katahiro (1664-1739) (Paris: Vrin).

A. Horiuchi 2004, Japanese mathematics in the Edo period, trans S. Wimmer-Zagier (Heidelberg: Springer Verlag).

A. Horiuchi 2014, 'The Jinkōki phenomenon: the story of a longstanding calculation manual in Tokugawa Japan', in M. Hayek and A. Horiuchi, eds, Listen, copy, read: popular learning in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill), pp. 253-287.

E. Knobloch, H. Komatsu and D. Liu 2013, Seki, founder of modern mathematics in Japan: a commemoration on his tercentenary (New York: Springer).

T. Kobayashi 2002, ‘What kind of mathematics and terminology was transmitted into 18th-century Japan from China?’, Historia scientiarum 12: 1-17

Y. Mikami 1911, 'Hatano Soha and the mathematics of Seki', Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde 9: 158-171.

K. Nakamura & T. Matsumoto 2002, ‘Characteristics of farmers in the upland farming regions (sericulture regions) in eastern Japan as seen in the regions where wasan mathematicians were active in the late Edo period,’ Historia scientiarum 12: 100-114.

M. Ravina 1993, 'Wasan and the physics that wasn't: mathematics in the Tokugawa period', Monumenta Nipponica 48: 205-224.

K. Sato 2000, 'On the theory of regular polygons in traditional Japanese mathematics', Historia scientiarum 8: 71-85.

K. Sato 2009, ‘Seki Takakazu, his mathematics works, and his social and economic contexts’, Historia Scientiarum 18: 185-212.

D. C. Smith & Y. Mikami 1914, A history of Japanese mathematics (Chicago: Open Court).

J. M. Unger 2015, Sangaku proofs: a Japanese mathematician at work (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press).


Cartography[edit]

A. Akin 2021, East Asian cartographic print culture: the late Ming publishing boom and its trans-regional connections (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press).

G. H. Beans 1951-63, A list of Japanese maps of the Tokugawa era, four vols (Jenkintown, Pa.: Tall Tree Library).

P. C. Brown 1987, 'The mismeasure of land: land surveying in the Tokugawa period', Monumenta Nipponica 42: 115-55.

A. Cattaneo 2013, ‘The Mutual emplacement of Japan and Europe during the Nanban Century’, in V. Weston, ed, Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan: spiritual Beliefs and earthly goods (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College), 25-33.

C. Cerreti, Carte di riso: Far Eastern cartography: with a complete catalogue of the collection of Chinese and Japanese maps owned by the Societa geografica italiana (Roma: Societa geografica italiana, 2003).

H. Cortazzi 1982, ‘Old maps of Japan’, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 4th series, 17: 53-119.

H. Cortazzi 1983, Isles of gold: antique maps of Japan (Tokyo: Weatherhill).

R. Goree 2017, ‘Meisho zue and the mapping of prosperity in late Tokugawa Japan’, Cross-currents: East Asian history and culture review 6: 404-439.

G. Kiss , 'The cartography of Japan during the middle Tokugawa era: a study in cross-cultural influences', Annals of the Association of American Geographers 37: 101-119.

R. Leca 2020, 'Maps of the World in Early Modern Japan’, in David Ludden, ed, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

W. Lutz 1994, Japan: a cartographic vision European Printed Maps of Japan from the early 16th to the 19th Century (New York: Prestel).

K. Miyajima 1994, 'Japanese celestial cartography before the Meiji period', in J. B. Harley & D. Woodward, eds, The history of cartography, Vol 2, book 2, Cartography in the traditional East and Southeast Asian societies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

M. M. Mochizuki 2017, ‘A global eye: The perception of place in a pair of Tokugawa World map screens’, Japan Review 29: 69-119.

F. Ogawa 1997, 'Ino Tadataka, les premiers pas de la geographie moderne au Japon', Ebisu 16: 95-119.

R. Otani 1932, Tadakata Ino, the Japanese land surveyor, trans K. Sugimura (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten).

E. Papelitzky 2014, ‘A description and analysis of the Japanese world map Bankoku sōzu in its version of 1671 and some thoughts on the sources of the original Bankoku sōzu’, Journal of Asian History 48: 15-60.

R. A. Pegg (ed.) 2014, Cartographic traditions in East Asian maps (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i).

S. R. Potter 1999-2000, 'Titles and descriptions of pre-Meiji Japanese maps, reproduced in selected publications, translated into English', Saitama Daigaku Kiyō: Kyoyogakubu 35.2: 209-250 ; 36.2: 153-195.

S. R. Potter 2000, 'On Japanese vocabulary for "map"', Saitama Daigaku Kiyō: Kyoyogakubu 36.1: 123-162.

S. R. Potter 2001, 'Japan as a cartographic heritage without a word for "map"', Tsuda Juku Daigaku Kiyō 33: 169-200.

M. Ramming 1937, 'The evolution of cartography in Japan', Imago mundi 2: 17-22.

J. Rüegg 2017, ‘Mapping the forgotten colony: the Ogasawara Islands and the Tokugawa pivot to the Pacific’, Cross-currents: East Asian history and culture review 6: 440-490.

P. D. Shapinsky 2006, ‘Polyvocal portolans: nautical charts and hybrid maritime cultures in Early Modern East Asia’, Early Modern Japan 14: 4-26.

F. Starr 1916, 'The old geographer - Matsuura Takeshiro', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1st series, 44: 1-19.

F. Starr 1956, The old geographer, Matsuura Takeshiro (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

K. Unno 1991, 'Government cartography in sixteenth-century Japan', Imago mundi 43: 86-91.

K. Unno 1993, 'Maps of Japan used in prayer rites or as charms', Imago mundi 46: 65-83.

K. Unno 1994, 'Cartography in Japan', in J. B. Harley & D. Woodward, eds, The history of cartography, Vol 2, book 2, Cartography in the traditional East and Southeast Asian societies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

B. L. Walker 2007, ‘Mamiya Rinzō and the Japanese exploration of Sakhalin Island: cartography and empire’, Journal of Historical Geography 33: 283-313.

L. Walter (ed) 1994, Japan, a cartographic vision: European maps from the early 16th to the 19th century (New York: Prestel).

K. Wigen, F. Sugimoto and C. Karacas (eds) 2016, Cartographic Japan: a history in maps (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press).

K. Yamashita 1998, Japanese maps of the Edo Period (Tokyo: Kashiwa Shobō).

M. Yonemoto 1999, 'Maps and metaphors of the "Small Eastern Sea" in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)', Geographical review 89(2): 169-87.

M. Yonemoto 2000, 'The "spatial vernacular" in early modern Japan: knowledge, power and pleasure in the form of a map', Journal of Asian Studies 59: 647-666.

M. Yonemoto 2003, Mapping early modern Japan: space, place and culture in the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) (Berkeley: University of California Press).

M. Yonemoto 2006, ‘Silence without secrecy? What is left unsaid in early modern Japanese maps’, Early Modern Japan 14: 27-39

C. Zanier 2003-2004, 'Carte di riso, carte di seta. La collezione cartografica giapponese alla societa geografica italiana. Una riflessione ed un contributo', Asiatica Venetiana 8/9: 163-174.

Other intellectual currents[edit]

General[edit]

U. App 1987, 'Chan/Zen's greatest encyclopaedist Mujaku Dōchū (1653-1744)', Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 3: 155-174.

R. C Armstrong 1912, Just before the dawn: the life and work of Ninomiya Sontoku (New York: Macmillan).

D. C. Bailey 1960, 'The Rakuyoshu and its place in the history of dictionaries in Japan', PhD dissertation, University of Michigan.

W. G. Beasley & C. Blacker 1961, 'Japanese historical writing in the Tokugawa Period', in W. G. Beasley & E. G. Pulleyblank, eds, Historians of China and Japan (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

P. Beonio-Brocchieri 1967, Religiosità e ideologia alle origini del Giappone moderno (Milan).

M. Bito 1991, 'Thought and religion', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 4.

W. M. Bodiford 1991, ‘Dharma transmission in Sōtō Zen: Manzan Dōhaku’s reform movement’, Monumenta Nipponica 46: 423–451.

W. M. Bodiford 2006, ‘When secrecy ends: the Tokugawa reformation of Tendai Buddhism and its implications’, in B. Scheid and M. Teeuwen, eds., The Culture of secrecy in Japanese Religion (London: Routledge).

W. M. Bodiford 2006-7, ‘Matara: a dream king between insight and imagination’, Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 16: 233–262.

W. P. Brecher 2010, ‘Kōetsumura: of rhythms and reminiscence in Hon’ami Kōetsu’s commune’, Japan Japan Review 22: 31-57.

J. Breen 1991, 'Shinto and Christianity: the dynamics of the encounter in Bakumatsu Japan', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (4th series) 6: 49-60.

J. Breen 1996, 'Accommodating the alien: Okuni Takamasa and the religion of the Lord of Heaven', in P. F. Kornicki & I. J. McMullen, eds, Religion in Japan: arrows to heaven and earth (Cambridge University Press)

J. Breen 2006, 'Inside Tokugawa religion: stars, planets and the calendar as method,' Culture and cosmos 10-11: 63-78.

J. S. Brownlee 1991, Political thought in Japanese historical writing. From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi yoron (1712) (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).

J. S. Brownlee 1997, Japanese historians and the national myths, 1600-1945: the age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu (University of British Columbia Press/University of Tokyo Press).

L. H. Chance 1997, ‘Constructing the classic: Tsurezuregusa in Tokugawa readings,’ Journal of the American Oriental Society 117: 39-56.

R. T. Chang 1966, 'Yokoi Shonan's view of Christianity', Monumenta Nipponica 21: 266-72.

R. T. Chang 1970, From prejudice to tolerance: a study of the Japanese image of the West 1826-1864, Monumenta Nipponica monograph (Sophia University Press).

R. Clements 2015, A cultural history of translation in early modern Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

R. Clements 2017, ‘Speaking in tongues? Daimyo, Zen monks, and spoken Chinese in Japan, 1661–1711’, Journal of Asian Studies 76: 603-626.

A. M. Craig 1965, 'Science and Confucianism in Tokugawa Japan', in M. B. Jansen, ed, Changing Japanese attitudes towards Modernization (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

H. Delahaye 1993, 'Une réaction japonaise à la peinture occidentale: Shiba Kôkan (1747-1818)', Cipango 2: 67-82.

K. M. Doak 2007, A history of nationalism in modern Japan: placing the people (Leiden: Brill).

R. P. Dore 1965, Education in Tokugawa Japan (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).

H. Dumoulin 1938, 'Yoshida Shoin - ein Beitrag zum Verständnis der geistigen Quellen der Meiji-Erneuerung', Monumenta Nipponica 1:350-77.

B. A. Elman 2008, ‘Sinophiles and Sinophobes in Tokugawa Japan: politics, classicism, and medicine during the eighteenth century’, East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal 2.1: 93-121.

C. L. French 1974, Shiba Kokan: artist, innovator, and pioneer in the Westernization of Japan (New York: Weatherhill).

T. Fujii 2002, 'Nationalism and Japanese Buddhism in the late Tokugawa period and early Meiji', in K. Antoni et al (eds), Religion and national identity in the Japanese context (Hamburg: LIT Publishers).

M. Fukuoka 2012, The premise of fidelity: science, visuality and representing the real in nineteenth-century Japan (Stanford University Press).

F. Girard 2014, ‘Les théories des philosophes occidentaux (1836). La première histoire épistémique de la philosophie occidentale en japonais, par Takano Chôei’, Ebisu 51:

F. Girard, A. Horiuchi-Baba et M. Macé (eds) 2002, Repenser l'ordre, repenser l'héritage: Le paysage intellectuel sous le Japon des Tokugawa (1600-1868) (Geneva: Droz).

G. J. N. Gooday & M. F. Low 1998, ‘Technology transfer and cultural exchange. Western scientists and engineers encounter late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan’, Osiris 13: 99-128.

R. H. van Gulik 1956, Siddham: an essay on the history of Sanskrit studies in China and Japan (Nagpur: International Academy of Indian Culture).

H. Harootunian 1966, 'Jinsei, Jinzai, and Jitsugaku: social values and leadership in late Tokugawa thought', in B. S. Silberman and H. Harootunian, eds, Modern Japanese leadership: transition and change (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).

H. Harootunian 1980, 'The functions of China in Tokugawa thought', in A. Iriye, ed, The Chinese and the Japanese: essays in political and cultural interactions (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

A. M. Harrington 1993, Japan's hidden Christians (Chicago: Loyola University Press).

M. Hayek 2012, ‘Divinatory practices and knowledge in early modern Japan: redefining Onmyōdō from the inside’, Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 21.

W. C. Hedberg 2015, ‘Separating the word and the way: Suyama Nantō’s Chūgi Suikodenkai and Edo-period vernacular philology’, Journal of Japanese Studies 41: 347-371.

A. Hirai 2014, Government by mourning: death and political integration in Japan, 1603–1912 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

A. Horiuchi 2002, ‘Honda Toshiaki (1743-1820) ou l’Occident comme utopie’, in F. Girard, A. Horiuchi & M. Macé, eds, Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage. Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) (Geneva: Droz).

R. Imahashi 2016, The Akita Ranga school and the cultural context in Edo Japan, trans R. S. McCreery (Tokyo: International House of Japan).

S. Jacobowitz 2015, Writing technology in Meiji Japan: a media history of modern Japanese literature and visual culture (Harvard University Asia Center).

M. Jansen 1992, China in the Tokugawa world (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

H. Johnson 2004, Western influence on Japanese Art: the Akita Ranga art school (Leiden: Hotei).

J. Jorgensen 2006-7, ‘Mujaku Dochu (1653-1744) and 17th-century Chinese Buddhist scholarship’, East Asian History 32/33: 25-56.

D. Keene 1969, The Japanese discovery of Europe, second edition (Stanford University Press).

T. Keirstead 2007, ‘San’yō, Bakin, and the reanimation of Japan’s past’, in J. C Baxter and J. A. Fogel, eds, Writing histories in Japan: texts and their transformations from ancient times through the Meiji era (Kyoto: International Research Centre for Japanese Studies), pp. 201-222.

J. Kitagawa 1966, Religion in Japanese history (New York: Columbia University Press).

P. Kleinen 1994, 'Buddhismus und Nationalismus. Anmerkungen zur historiographischen Relevanz der Auseinandersetzung mit dem nationalistischen Diskurs des Bakumatsu-Buddhismus', Japanstudien 6: 387-427

P. Kleinen 2002, 'Nishi-Hongan-ji and National identity in Bakumatsu and early Meiji Japan', in K. Antoni et al (eds), Religion and national identity in the Japanese context (Hamburg: LIT Publishers).

M. Macé 2002, ‘Takano Chôei (1804-1850): un savant pris au piège de son temps’, in F. Girard, A. Horiuchi & M. Macé, eds, Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage. Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) (Geneva: Droz).

K. Marandjian 1993, 'Some aspects of the Tokugawa outer world view', in I. Neary, ed., War, revolution and Japan (Folkestone: Japan Library).

L. E. Marceau 2001, Takebe Ayatari: a bunjin Bohemian in early modern Japan (Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies).

F. Marcon 2014, ‘Satō Nobuhiro and the political economy of natural history in nineteenth-century Japan’, Japanese Studies 34: 265-287.

F. Marcon 2015, The knowledge of nature and the nature of knowledge in early modern Japan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

J-C. Martzloff 1998, ‘Les sources chinoises des manuscrits astronomiques de Seki Takakazu (? - 1708)’, Daruma 4, 63-78.

S. Matsumoto 1978, 'The idea of heaven: a Tokugawa foundation for natural rights theory', in T. Najita & I. Scheiner, eds, Japanese thought in the Tokugawa period 1600-1868: methods and metaphors (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

D. Medvart 2015, ‘The Republic of Letters comes to Nagasaki: record of a translator’s struggle’, Transcultural studies 2015.2: 8-37.

R. A. Miller 1952, 'Some Japanese influences on classical scholarship of the Ch'ing Period', Journal of the American Oriental Society 72: 56-67.

T. Moriyama 2016, ‘Study in Edo: Shibata Shōzō (1820–59) and student life in late-Tokugawa Japan’, East Asian History 40: 27-50.

T. Najita 1991, 'History and nature in eighteenth-century Tokugawa thought', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 4.

H. Nakamura 1967, 'Suzuki Shosan, 1579-1655, and the spirit of capitalism in Japanese Buddhism', Monumenta Nipponica 22: 1-14.

M. Nakagawa 1999, 'Sankai ibutsu: an early seventeenth-century Japanese illustrated manuscript', Sino-Japanese Studies 11.2: 24-38.

Wai-ming Ng 2000, The I Ching in Tokugawa thought and culture: Asian interactions and comparisons (Association for Asian Studies & Hawai'i University Press).

Wai-ming Ng 2011, ‘Redefining legitimacy in Tokugawa historiography’, Sino-Japanese Studies 18.

W-M. Ng 2016, ‘The images of Yang Guifei in Tokugawa texts’, Journal of Asian History 50: 117-139.

S. Niiyama 1978, 'Saussure's linguistic theories and the study of Japanese intellectual history', in T. Najita & I. Scheiner, eds, Japanese thought in the Tokugawa period 1600-1868: methods and metaphors (University of Chicago Press)

S. Nishimura 1983, 'The making of a national hero: Rai San'yo's Kusunoki Masashige', in J. S. Brownlee (ed), History in the service of the Japanese nation (University of Toronto-York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia).

P. Nosco 2018, Individuality in early modern Japan: thinking for oneself (London: Routledge).

H. Ooms 1996, 'Tokugawa texts as a playground for a postmodern romp', Journal of Japanese Studies 22: 385-400.

K. Paramore 20917, ‘Premodern secularism’, Japan Review 30: 21-37.

D. Pollack 1986, The fracture of meaning: Japan's synthesis of China from the eighth through the eighteenth centuries (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

N. Qian 2001, ‘An alien analogue: the Japanese imitation Daitō seigo’, chapter 9 of Nanxiu Qian, Spirit and self in medieval China: the Shih-shuo Hsin-yu and its legacy (University of Hawai’i Press).

A-M Rieu 1997, ‘Le “système” de la recherche au Japon (1) Savoir et pouvoir à l’époque Tokugawa’, Daruma 2: 107-144.

L. Roberts 2007, 'The diverse political languages of Edo-period histories', in J. C Baxter and J. A. Fogel, eds, Writing histories in Japan: texts and their transformations from ancient times through the Meiji era (Kyoto: International Research Centre for Japanese Studies), pp. 223-252.

R. Rubinger 1982, Private Academies of Tokugawa Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

N. Sakai 1992, Voices of the past: the status of language in eighteenth-century discourse (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press).

Y. Sakai 1978, 'The Constitutionalism of Inoue Kowashi', in T. Najita & I. Scheiner, eds, Japanese thought in the Tokugawa period 1600-1868: methods and metaphors (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

R. Sakamoto 2008, ‘Confucianising science: Sakuma Shōzan and wakon yōsai ideology,’ Japanese Studies 28: 213–226.

J. T. Sawada 2004, Practical pursuits: religion, politics, and personal cultivation in nineteenth-century Japan (University of Hawai’i Press).

I. Scheiner 1978, 'Benevolent lords and honorable peasants: rebellion and peasant consciousness in Tokugawa Japan', in T. Najita & I. Scheiner, eds, Japanese thought in the Tokugawa period 1600-1868: methods and metaphors (University of Chicago Press)

I. Schuster 1971, 'Eine belehrende Erzählung Wakizaka Gidos. Möglichkeiten der Interpretation', in L. Brüll & U. Kemper, eds, Asien: Tradition und Fortschrift, Festschrift for Horst Hammitzsch (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz)

T. C. Smith 1970, 'Okura Nagatsune and the technologists', in A. M. Craig & D. H. Shively, eds, Personality in Japanese history (University of California Press)

G. Smits 2006, ‘Sai On's Autobiography as Didactic Rhetoric’, Early Modern Japan 14: 40-50.

M. Söderblom Saarela 2017, ‘Mandarin over Manchu: court-sponsored Qing lexicography and its subversion in Korea and Japan’, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 77: 363-306.

H. van Straelen 1952, Yoshida Shoin: forerunner of the Meiji Restoration (Leiden: E. J. Brill).

M. Takeuchi 1983, 'Ike Taiga: a biographical study', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 43: 141-86.

R. P. Toby 1998, 'Imaging and imagining "anthropos" in early-modern Japan', Visual anthropology review 14.3: 19-44.

R. P. Toby 2007, ‘Foreign texts/native readings: Matsushita Kenrin (1637-1703) and the challenge of Chinese/Korean histories,’ in M. Collcutt, Kato Mikio & R. P. Toby, eds, Japan and its worlds: Marius Jansen and the internationalization of Japanese studies (Tokyo: I-House Press)

S. Tolstoguzov 2018, ‘The international situation in East Asia and the establishment of a modern army and modern warfare in Japan: the memorandum of Takashima Shūhan’, Asiatische Studien Etudes Asiatiques 72: 249-268.

R. Trott 1981, 'Hirose Tanso and his shijuku, Kangien', Papaers in Far Eastern History 23:1-37.

T. Tsukahara 2014, 'An Unpublished Manuscript Geologica Japonica by Von Siebold: Geology, Mineralogy, and Copper in the Context of Dutch Colonial Science and the Introduction of Western Geo-sciences to Japan', ‘’East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine’’ 40: 45–80.

K. Tsutsumi 2011, ‘Hell is in this world: the transformation of views of hell in early modern Japan’, Acta Asiatica 101: 91-115.

S. Turnbull 1998, The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: a study of their development, beliefs and rituals to the present day (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press).

R. Tyler 1977, Selected writings of Suzuki Shosan (Cornell East Asian Papers 13).

R. Tyler 1984, 'The Tokugawa peace and popular religion: Suzuki Shosan, Kakugyo Tobutsu, and Jikigyo Miroku', in P. Nosco, ed, Confucianism and Tokugawa culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

J. M. Unger 1990, 'The very idea: the notion of ideogram in China and Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 45: 391-411.

B. Vogel 2019, ‘Die geheimen Lehrschriften zur Duft-Kunst (Kōdō hidensho) - Aestetik und Praxis der Duft-Kunst in der Edo-Zeit’, Asiatische Studien Etudes Asiatiques 73: 327-346.

A. Walthall 2007, ‘Histories official, unoffical, and popular: shogunal favorites in the Genroku era’, in J. C Baxter and J. A. Fogel, eds, Writing histories in Japan: texts and their transformations from ancient times through the Meiji era (Kyoto: International Research Centre for Japanese Studies), pp. 175-200.

H. Watanabe 2012, A history of Japanese political thought, 1600-1901, trans. D. Noble (Tokyo: International House of Japan).

P. B. Watt 1984, 'Jiun Sonja (1718-1804): a response to Confucianism within the context of Buddhist reform', in P. Nosco, ed, Confucianism and Tokugawa culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

M. Wattles 2013, The life and afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, artist-rebel of Edo (Leiden: Brill).

C. Whelan (trans) 1996, The beginnings of Heaven and Earth: the sacred book of Japan's hidden Christians (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

G. M. Wilson 1970, 'The Bakumatsu intellectual in action: Hashimoto Sanai in the political crisis of 1858', in A. Craig & D. H. Shively, eds, Personality in Japanese history (University of California Press).

M. Winkel 1999, 'Academic traditions, urban dynamics and colonial threat: the rise of ethnography in early modern Japan', in Jan van Bremen & A. Shimizu (eds), Anthropology and colonialism in Asia and Oceania (Richmond: Curzon).

S. H. Yamashita 1996, 'Reading the new Tokugawa intellectual histories', Journal of Japanese Studies 22: 1-48.

S. Yoshida 2012, ‘Die Bibel und das Japanische: zu einem Manuskript von Solomon Caesar Malan aus dem Jahr 1853’, Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 36: 249-264.

T. Yoshimoto 1912, A peasant sage of Japan: the life and work of Sontoku Ninomiya (London: Longmans, Green & Co.).


Andō Shōeki[edit]

J. Joly 1997, 'La remontrance au soverain par l'examen des calamités naturelles: l'example d'Ando Shoeki', in J. Pigeot & H.O. Rotermund, eds, 1997, La vase de Béryl: Études sur le Japon et la Chine en hommage à Bernard Frank (Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier).

J. Joly 1999, 'Ando Shoeki and Nature (but which Nature?)', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 14: 33-47.

E. H. Norman 1949, 'Ando Shoeki and the anatomy of Japanese feudalism', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 2: 1-340.

R. Pasca 2017, ‘Andō Shōeki on Shintō – Fragments from Shihō shinsho no maki’, Asiatische Studien Etudes Asiatiques 71: 527-543.

A. Tollini 1996 , 'Concezione della società e innovazione linguistica nel pensiero di Ando Shoeki', Asiatica Venetiana 1: 193-223

C. Weidner 1999, Einheit und Zweiteilung. Die sozialen Ideen des Arztes Ando Shoeki (1703-1762) (München: Iudicium Verlag).

T. Yasunaga 1992, Ando Shoeki: social and ecological philosopher of eighteenth-century Japan (New York: Weatherhill).


Kaiho Seiryō[edit]

O. Ansart 2007, ‘Le premier des modernes? La conception du lien social chez Kaiho Seiryô (1755-1817)’, Ebisu 37: 71-95.

A. Horiuchi 2004, ‘Kaiho Seiryo ou les enjeux du discernement’, in J. Kyburz et all, eds, Eloge des sources (Arles: Editions Philippe Picquier), 393-444.

A. Horiuchi 2010, ‘Les lettrés japonais au tournant du XIXe siècle. A travers l’example de Kaiho Seiryo (1755-1817)’, in A. Horiuchi, ed., Pratiques lettrées au Japon et en Chine: XVIIe-XIXe siècle (Paris: Les Indes savantes), pp. 45-65.

M. Kinski 2016, ‘Plaudereien über das Pflanzen von Schilf. Kaiho Seiryōs Shokuho dan’, Japonica Humboldtiana 18: 5-52.

D. Struve 2010, ‘La métaphore dans l’Introduction à l’art d’écrire de Kaiho Seiryo’, in A. Horiuchi, ed., Pratiques lettrées au Japon et en Chine : XVIIe-XIXe siècle (Paris : Les Indes savantes), pp. 67-80.


Miura Baien[edit]

R. H. van Gulik 1938, 'Miura Baien on Indian and Dutch poetry', Monumenta Nipponica 1: 173-7.

L. Hurwitz 1952-3, 'Samidaresho by Miura Baien', Monumenta Nipponica 8:289-326 and 9:330-356.

R. Mercer 1991, Deep words: Miura Baien's system of natural philosophy (Leiden: E.J.Brill).

G. K. Povesana 1965, 'Miura Baien, 1723-1789, and his dialectic and political ideas', Monumenta Nipponica 20: 389-443.


Tominaga Nakatomo[edit]

H. Durt 1994, Problems of chronology and eschatology: four lectures on the Essay on Buddhism by Tominaga Nakatomo (1715-1746) (Kyoto: Istituto Italiano di Cultura).

S. Kato 1967, 'Tominaga Nakatomo, 1715-1746 a Tokugawa iconoclast,' Monumenta Nipponica 22: 177-210.

M. Pye 1984, 'Tominaga Nakatomo (1715-46) and religious pluralism', in G. Daniels, ed, Europe interprets Japan (Tenterden, Kent: Paul Norbury).

M. Pye 1990, Emerging from meditation: Tominaga Nakatomo (London: Duckworth).


Watanabe Kazan[edit]

B. Abiko 1982, 'Watanabe Kazan: the man and his times', PhD dissertation, Princeton University.

B. Abiko 1989, 'Persecuted patriot: Watanabe Kazan and the Tokugawa bakufu', Monumenta Nipponica44: 199-219.

D. Keene 2006, Frog in the well: portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan 1793-1841 (New York: Columbia University Press).

G. S. Dombrady 1968, Watanabe Kazan: ein japanischer Gelehrter des 19. Jahrhunderts, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens 47 (Hamburg).

G. S. Dombrady 1971, 'Das Gekizetsu-wakumon, ein Befragungsprotokol des Gelehrten Watanabe Kazans', Nachrichten der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, 110: 49-72.

Foreign relations 1800-1900[edit]

General[edit]

J. Alvares & N. Kinshichi 2010, Portugal e o Japao. Tratado de paz, Amizada e Comércio de 1860 e as relaçoes diplomaticas (Tokyo: Sairusha).

R. Aoyama 2020, ‘Writing-mediated interaction face-to-face: Sinitic brushtalk in the Japanese missions’ transnational encounters with foreigners during the mid-nineteenth century’, China and Asia 2: 2434-269.

P. Barnes 2001, ‘Japan’s botanical sunrise: plant exploration around the Meiji Restoration’, Curtis's Botanical Magazine 18: 117-131.

M-T. Barrett 1999, 'Japonaiserie to Japonisme: a revolution in seeing', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 14: 77-86.

V. V. Barthold 1947, La découverte de l'Asie - histoire de l'orientalisme en Europe et en Russie, trans B. Nikitine (Paris: Payot).

B. L. Batten 2003, To the ends of Japan: premodern frontiers, boundaries and interactions (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

W. G. Beasley 1955, Select documents on Japanese foreign policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

W. G. Beasley 1989, 'The foreign threat and the opening of the ports', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 5.

T. Bennett (ed) 2006, The Illustrated London News complete record of the opening and modernization of Japan, 1853-1899 (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

L. Blussé 2008, Visible cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the coming of the Americans (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

W. J. Boot 2008, ‘Shizuki Tadao’s Sakoku-ron’, in Boot, ed, The patriarch of Dutch learning Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806) (Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Institute)

J. Z. Bowers 1970, Western pioneers in feudal Japan (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press).

J. Breen 1998, ‘“Earnest desires”: the Iwakura Embassy and Meiji religious policy’, Japan Forum 10: 151-165.

S. J. Bytheway & M. Chaiklin 2016, 'Reconsidering the Yokohama "Gold Rush" of 1859', Journal of world history 27: 281-301.

M. Chaiklin 2003, Cultural commerce and Dutch commercial culture: The influence of European material culture on Japan, 1700-1850 (Leiden: CNWS).

R. T. Chang 1970, From prejudice to tolerance. A study of the Japanese image of the West, 1826-64, Monumenta Nipponica monographs (Sophia University Press)

J. C. Clarke 2011, Alliance of the colored peoples: Ethiopia and Japan before World War II (Woodbridge: James Currey).

H. Conroy 1953, The Japanese frontier in Hawaii, 1868-1898 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

J. R. da Silva 2010, ‘Wenceslau de Moraes and the West’s image of Japan in the early 20th century’, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese studies 21: 73-102.

U. Eppstein 2007, 'From torture to fascination: changing Western attitudes to Japanese music', Japan Forum 19: 191-216.

S. Esenbal 1996, 'A fin de siecle Japanese romantic in Istanbul: the life of Yamada Torajiro and his Toruko garden', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 59: 237-252.

Y. Endo 2007, 'The cultural geography of the opening of Japan ; the arrival of Perry's squadron and the transformation of Japanese understanding of the Pacific Ocean during the Edo period', Acta Asiatica 93: 21-40.

R. Eskildsen 1996, ‘Renegotiating foreignness in Bakumatsu Japan’, Asian cultural studies 22: 1-15

C. H. Gardiner 1975, The Japanese and Peru: 1873-1973 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press).

G. K. Goodman 1986, Japan: the Dutch experience (London: Athlone Press: a revised edition of The Dutch Impact on Japan, published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1967)

R. I. Hellyer 2005, ‘The missing pirate and the pervasive smuggler: regional agency in coastal defense. Trade and foreign relations in nineteenth-century Japan,’ International history review 27: 1-24.

R. I. Hellyer 2009, Defining engagement: Japan and global contexts, 1640-1868 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

I. Hijiya-Korschnereit (ed) 1999, Kulturbeziehungen zwischen Japan und dem Westen seit 1853. Eine annotierte Bibliographie (München: Iudicium Verlag).

S. Hirakawa 1989, 'Japan's turn to the West', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 5.

J. E. Hoare 1994, Japan's treaty ports and foreign settlements: the uninvited guests 1858-1899 (Tenterden, Kent: Japan Library).

Y. A. Honjo 2003, Japan’s early experience of contract management in the Treaty Ports (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

M. B. Jansen 1968, 'Modernization and foreign policy in Meiji Japan', in R. E. Ward, ed, Political development in modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

M. B. Jansen 1997, 'Japan and the world', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

J. Joos 2002, ‘Maruyama on Kaikoku: ruptures in a frame of vertical development’, in B. Edstrom, ed., Turning points in Japanese history (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

P. Kapitza 1990, Japan in Europa: Texte und Bilddokumente zur europaeschen Japankenntnis von Marco Polo bis Wilhelm von Humboldt (Muenchen: iudicium verlag).

D. Keene 1969, The Japanese discovery of Europe, 1720-1820 (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

I.-L. Kluge 1990, 'Die Neuausrichtung der japanischen Aussenpolitik in der späten Meiji-Zeit, 1906-1912', Oriens Extremus 33: 89-98.

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D. E. Westney 1987, Imitation and innovation: the transfer of Western organizational patterns to Meiji Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

H. E. Wildes 1937, Aliens in the East: a new history of Japan's foreign intercourse (University of Pennsylvania Press; reprinted 1973 by Scholarly Resources, Wilmington, Delaware).

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Treaties, extraterritoriality and consular courts[edit]

M. R. Auslin 1999, 'Contestation and accommodation: Japanese treaty relations, 1858-62', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 14: 49-76.

M. R. Auslin 2004, Negotiating with imperialism: the unequal treaties and the culture of Japanese diplomacy (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

P. K. Cassel 2012, Grounds of judgment: extraterritoriality and imperial power in nineteenth-century China and Japan (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

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H. Fuess 2014, ‘Informal imperialism and the 1879 Hesperia incident: containing cholera and challenging extraterritoriality in Japan’, Japan Review 27: 103-140.

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L. G. Perez 1999, Japan comes of age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the revision of the unequal treaties (Cranbury, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press).

C. Roberts 2014, The British courts and extra-territoriality in Japan, 1859-1899 (Leiden: Global Oriental).

C. Roberts 2021, Extraterritoriality in Korea 1884-1910: a comparison with Japan (Folkestone: Renaissance Books).

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Japan and Asia[edit]

General[edit]

R. Aoyama 2020, ‘Writing-mediated interaction face-to-face: Sinitic brushtalk in the Japanese missions’ transnational encounters with foreigners during the mid-nineteenth century’, China and Asia 2: 2434-269.

Y. Arano 2005, ‘The formation of a japanocentric world order’, International Journal of Asian Studies 2: 185-216.

L. Babicz 1994, 'Le Japon de Meiji et la Coree', Ebisu 4: 7-32.

L. Babicz 1995, 'Images de la Coree dans les premieres annees de Meiji', Ebisu 9: 81-106.

B. L. Batten 2003, To the ends of Japan: premodern frontiers, boundaries and interactions (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

W. Bauer 2000, 'Die Tôdo meisho-zue - eine unvollendete illustrierte Landeskunde Chinas aus der spaeten Edo-Zeit', in S. Kohsaka & J. Laube, eds, Informationssytem und kulturellees Leben in den Staedten der Edo-Zeit (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz).

D. de Bellecourt 1867, 'La Chine et le Japon a l'Exposition Universelle', Revue des Deux Mondes 70: 710-742.

D. Bonner-Smith & E. W. R. Lumby 1954, The Second China War: 1856-1860, Publications of the Navy Records Society 95 (London).

J. Boyd 2011, Japanese-Mongolian relations, 1873–1945: faith, race and strategy (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

C-S. Chung 1997, 'Changing Korean perceptions of Japan on the eve of modern transformation: the case of Neo-Confucian Yangban intellectuals', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

R. Eskildsen 2002, 'Of civilization and savages: the mimetic imperialism of Japan's 1874 expedition to Taiwan', American historical review 107: 388-418.

J. K. Fairbank 1953, Trade and diplomacy on the China coast: the opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-54 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

J. A. Fogel 1996, The literature of travel in the Japanese rediscovery of China, 1862-1945 (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

I. Galambos & K. Kitsudo 2012, ‘Japanese exploration of Central Asia: the Otani expeditions and their British connections’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 75: 113-134.

R. H. van Gulik 1939-40, 'Kakkaron, a Japanese echo of the Opium War', Monumenta Serica 4: 478-545.

B. Hashikawa 1980, 'Japanese perspectives on Asia: from dissociation to coprosperity', in A. Iriye, ed, The Chinese and the Japanese: essays on political and cultural interaction (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

R. I. Hellyer 2005, ‘Intra-Asian trade and the bakumatsu crisis: reconsidering Tokugawa commercial policies in late Edo period Japan’, International Journal of Asian Studies 2: 83-110.

R. I. Hellyer 2010, ‘Poor but not pirates: the Tsushima domain and foreign relations in early modern Japan’, in R. Antony, ed., Elusive pirates, pervasive smugglers: violence and clandestine trade in the greater China seas (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press), 115-126.

D. R. Howland 1996, Borders of Chinese civilization: geography and history at empire's end (Durham, N.C: Duke University Press)

I. C. Y. Hsu 1960, China's entrance into the family of nations: the diplomatic phase, 1858-1880 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press)

F. E. Hyde 1973, Far Eastern trade, 1860-1914 (London: A. & C.Black).

A. Iriye 1980, The Chinese and the Japanese (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Y. Ishii 1998, The junk trade from Southeast Asia: translations from the Tōsen fūsetsugaki, 1674-1723 (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies).

Key-Hiuk Kim 1980, The last phase of the East Asian world order: Korea, Japan, and the Chinese Empire, 1860-1882 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

H. Kublin 1951, 'The Ogasawara venture (1861-1863)', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 14: 261-84.

Y. S. Kuno, 1937, 1940, Japanese expansion on the Asiatic continent: a study in the history of Japan with special reference to her international relations with China, Korea and Russia, 3 vols (Berkeley: University of California Press).

M. F. Laffan 2001, 'Making Meiji muslims: the travelogue of Ali Ahmad Al-Jarjawi', East Asian History 22: 145-170

M. F. Laffan 1999, 'Mustafa and the Mikado: a Francophile Egyptian's turn to Meiji Japan', Japanese Studies 19.3: 269-286.

D. C. S. Li 2020, ‘Writing-mediated interaction face-to-face: Sinitic brushtalk (漢文筆談) as an age-old lingua-cultural practice in premodern East Asian cross-border communication’, China and Asia 2: 193-233.

T. Morris-Suzuki 1994, 'Creating the frontier: border, identity and history in Japan's far north', East Asian History 7: 1-24.

T. Morris-Suzuki 1996, 'The frontiers of Japanese identity', in S. Tonnesson and H. Antlöw, eds, Asian forms of the nation (Richmond: Japan Library).

M. Nakajima 2010, ‘Shinto deities that crossed the sea: Japan’s “Overseas Shrines,” 1868 to 1945’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 37: 21-46.

T. A. Nguyen & Y. Ishizawa (eds) 1999, Commerce et navigation en Asie du Sud-Est (XIVe-XIXe siècles) (Paris: l'Harmattan).

J. M. Saniel 1973, Japan and the Philippines, 1868-1898 (New York: Russell & Russell).

I. R. Saveliev 2002, ‘Rescuing the prisoners of the Maria Luz: the Meiji government and the “Coolie Trade”, 1868-75’, in B. Edstrom, ed., Turning points in Japanese history (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

V. Schmidt 1996, 'Eine japanische Kolonie in Nord-Borneo: Alexander von Siebolds Memorandum', Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 20: 15-28.

A. Schottenhammer 2013, ‘Empire and periphery? The Qing Empire’s Relations with Japan and the Ryukyus (1644-c.1800), a Comparison’, The Medieval History Journal 16: 139-196.

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J. J. Stephan 1974, The Kuril islands: Russo-Japanese frontier in the Pacific (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

B. Tankha 2021, ‘Japan in Asia: questioning state-sponsored Asianism’, in A. Cheng & S. Kumar, eds, Historians of Asia on political violence (Paris: Collège de France).

P. Thilly 2018, ‘The Fujitsuru mystery: translocal Xiamen, Japanese expansionism, and the Asian cocaine trade, 1900–1937’, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 7: 93-117.

Tran My Van 2005, A Vietnamese royal exile in Japan: Prince Cuong De, 1882-1951 (London: Routledge).



China[edit]

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D. Bonner-Smith & E. W. R. Lumby 1954, The Second China War: 1856-1860, Publications of the Navy Records Society 95 (London).

W. Bauer 2000, 'Die Todo meisho-zue - eine unvollendete illustrierte Landeskunde Chinas aus der spaeten Edo-Zeit', in S. Kohsaka & J. Laube, eds, Informationssytem und kulturellees Leben in den Staedten der Edo-Zeit (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz).

B. J. Brooks 2000, Japan's imperial diplomacy: consuls, treaty ports, and war in China 1895-1938 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

J. Ching 1975, ‘Chu Shun-Shui, 1600-82. A Chinese Confucian scholar in Tokugawa Japan’, Monumenta Nipponica 30: 177-191.

J-h. Chow 1972, ‘The history of Chinese diplomatic missions in Japan 1877-1911’, PhD dissertation, Australian National University.

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J. K. Fairbank 1953, Trade and diplomacy on the China coast: the opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-54 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

J. A. Fogel 1989, 'On Japanese expressions for “China”', Sino-Japanese Studies 2.1: 5-16.

J. A. Fogel 1996, The literature of travel in the Japanese rediscovery of China, 1862-1945 (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

J. A. Fogel (ed.) 2002, Sagacious monks and bloodthirsty warriors: Chinese views of Japan in the Ming-Qing period (Norwalk CT: Eastbridge).

J. A. Fogel 2004, Late Qing China and Meiji Japan: political and cultural aspects (EastBridge).

J. A. Fogel (ed.) 2007, Crossing the Yellow Sea: Sino-Japanese cultural contacts, 1600-1950 (Norwalk CT: EastBridge).

J. A. Fogel 2010, Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese relations in space and time (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press)

J. Fogel 2014, Maiden Voyage: the Senzaimaru and the creation of modern Sino-Japanese relations (Berkeley: University of California Press).

R. Gates 2016, ‘The Dōjinkai and the promotion of Japanese modernity in China, 1902-1937’, Studies on Asia series V, vol. 1, no. 1.

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E. C. Han 2014, Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama 1894-1972 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

P. Harrell 1992, Sowing the seeds of change: Chinese students, Japanese teachers, 1895-1905 (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

P. Harrell 2012, Asia for the Asians: China in the lives of five Meiji Japanese (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

B. Hashikawa 1980, 'Japanese perspectives on Asia: from dissociation to coprosperity', in A. Iriye, ed, The Chinese and the Japanese: essays on political and cultural interaction (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

J. Hauser 2004, Wakan. Japans interkultureller Monolog mit China (Hamburg: OAG).

L. E. Hess 1993, 'The reimportation from Japan to China of the Commentary to the Classic of Filial Piety', Sino-Japanese Studies 6.1: 4-12.

D. R. Howland 1996, Borders of Chinese civilization: geography and history at empire's end (Durham, N.C: Duke University Press).

D. Howland 2004, ‘”On the benefits of foreign relations with China”: a new development in Fukuzawa Yukichi’s theory of civilization’, in J. A. Fogel, ed., Late Qing China and Meiji Japan: political and cultural aspects (Norwalk, CT: EastBridge).

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F. E. Hyde 1973, Far Eastern trade, 1860-1914 (London: A. & C.Black).

A. Iriye 1980, The Chinese and the Japanese (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Y. Ishii 1998, The junk trade from Southeast Asia: translations from the Tōsen fūsetsugaki, 1674-1723 (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies).

M. B Jansen 1954, The Japanese and Sun Yat-sen (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

N. Kamachi 1981, Reform in China: Huang Tsun-hsien and the Japanese model (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

Key-Hiuk Kim 1980, The last phase of the East Asian world order: Korea, Japan, and the Chinese Empire, 1860-1882 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

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Li Tingjiang 2004, ‘Zhang Zhidong and his Japanese military advisors: a preliminary analysis of modern Japan’s China policy’, in J. A. Fogel, ed., Late Qing China and Meiji Japan: political and cultural aspects (Norwalk, CT: EastBridge).

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W. Masuda 2000, Japan and China; mutual representation in the modern era, trans J. A. Fogel (Richmond: Curzon).

D. Medvart 2015, ‘Meiji Japan’s China solution to Tokugawa Japan’s China problem’, Japan Forum 27: 544-558.

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N. Mizuno 2009, ‘Qing China’s reaction to the 1874 Japanese expedition to the Taiwanese aboriginal territories’, Sino-Japanese Studies 16: 000-000.

N. Mizuno 2009, ‘Early Meiji Policies Towards the Ryukyus and the Taiwanese Aboriginal Territories,’ Modern Asian Studies 43: 683-739.

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S. Narsimhan 1999, Japanese perceptions of China in the nineteenth century: influence of Fukuzawa Yukichi (New Delhi : Phoenix).

B. W. Ng 1998, 'Yao Wendong (1852-1927) and Japanology in Late Qing China', Sino-Japanese Studies 10.2: 8-22.

B. W. Ng 2007, 'Yao Wendong (1852-1927) and Japanology in late Qing China', in J. Fogel, ed., Crossing the Yellow Sea: Sino-Japanese cultural contacts 1600-1950 (Norwalk CT: EastBridge), pp. 153-168.

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W-M. Ng 2014, ‘Names for China in Tokugawa political discourse’, Journal of Asian History 48: 61-80.

S. Ogyu & B. D. Steben 2000, 'The construction of "Modern Yōmeigaku" in Meiji Japan and its impact on China', East Asian History 20: 83-120.

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O. Oba (trans J. Fogel) 1995-2001, 'Sino-Japanese Relations in the Edo Period', Sino-Japanese Studies 8.1-13.1.

E. Pastreich 1999, 'An alien vernacular: Okajima Kanzan’s popularization of the Chinese vernacular novel in eighteenth-century Japan ', Sino-Japanese Studies 11.2: 39-49.

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D. R. Reynolds with C. T. Reynolds 2014, East meets West: Chinese discover the modern world in Japan, 1854-1898. A window on the social and intellectual transformation of modern China (Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies).

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B. T. Wakabayashi 2000, ‘From peril to profit: opium in late-Edo to Meiji Eyes’, in T. Brook & B. T. Wakabayashi, eds, Opium regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

E. Widmer 2000, 'Island Paradises: Travel and Utopia in Three East Asian Offshoots of Shuihu zhuan', Sino-Japanese Studies 13.1: 20-33.

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J. Wu 2004, ‘Leaving for the Rising Sun: the historical background of Yinyuan Longqi's migration to Japan in 1654’, Asia Major 3rd series 17: 89-120.

J. Wu 2014, Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

J. Wu 2014, ‘Taikun's Zen Master from China: Yinyuan, the Tokugawa Bakufu, and the Founding of Manpukuji in 1661’, East Asian History 38: 75-96.

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Korea[edit]

A. A. Altman 1984, ‘Korea's first newspaper: the Japanese Chosen shinpo’, Journal of Asian Studies 43: 685–696.

L. Babicz 1994, 'Le Japon de Meiji et la Coree', Ebisu 4: 7-32.

L. Babicz 1995, 'Images de la Corée dans les premieres années de Meiji', Ebisu 9: 81-106.

L. Babicz 2002, ‘The starting point of modern Japanese-Korean relations: the letter incident of 1869’, in B. Edstrom, ed., Turning points in Japanese history (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

D. Baker 2016, ‘Confucianism and civilization: Tasan Chong Yagyong’s views of Japan, the Ryūkyūs, and Tsushima’, Korean studies 40: 43-57.

B. L. Batten 2003, To the ends of Japan: premodern frontiers, boundaries and interactions (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

Choi Chongko 2002, ‘Legal Exchanges between Yi Korea and Tokugawa Japan: In Search of East Asian Common Law’, in Embracing the Other: The Interaction of Korean and Foreign Cultures: Proceedings of the 1st World Congress of Korean Studies, I. (Songnam: The Academy of Korean Studies).

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Chung Chai-sik 1997, 'Changing Korean perceptions of Japan on the eve of modern transformation: the case of Neo-Confucian Yangban intellectuals', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

Chung Sungil 2004, ‘The Volume of Early Modern Korea-Japan Trade: A Comparison with the Japan-Holland Trade’, Acta Koreana 7:1 (January 2004): 69-85.

R. Clements 2019, ‘Brush talk as the ‘lingua franca’ of diplomacy in Japanese–Korean encounters, c. 1600–1868’, Historical journal 62: 289-309.

H. Conroy 1960, The Japanese seizure of Korea: 1868–1910. A study of realism and idealism in international relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

J. N. Han 2006, 'Empire of cosmic visions: Japanese cartoon journalism and its political statements on Korea, 1876-1910', Japanese Studies 26: 283-302.

B. Hashikawa 1980, 'Japanese perspectives on Asia: from dissociation to coprosperity', in A. Iriye, ed, The Chinese and the Japanese: essays on political and cultural interaction (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

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T. A. Henry 2005, ‘Sanitizing empire: Japanese articulations of Korean otherness and the construction of early colonial Seoul, 1905–1919’ Journal of Asian Studies 64: 639-676.

D. Huh & V. Tikhonov 2005, ‘The Korean Courtiers' Observation Mission's Views on Meiji Japan and Projects of Modern State Building’, Korean Studies 29: 30-54.

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J. B. Lewis 2003, Frontier contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

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Ryūkyū/Okinawa[edit]

M. Akamine 2017, The Ryukyu Kingdom: cornerstone of East Asia, trans. L. Terrell, ed. R. Huey (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press).

B. L. Batten 2003, To the ends of Japan: premodern frontiers, boundaries and interactions (University of Hawai'i Press).

E. E. Bollinger 1975, Saion, Okinawa's sage reformer: an intorduction to his life and selected works (Naha: Ryukyu Shinpo).

E. E. Bollinger 1991, On the threshold of a closed empire: mid-19th century missions in Okinawa (Pasadena CA: W. Carey Library).

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T. M. Loo 2014, Heritage politics: Shuri castle and Okinawa’s incorporation into modern Japan, 1879-2000 (Lanham MD: Lexington Books).

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R. W. Sakai 1964, 'The Satsuma-Ryūkyū trade and the Tokugawa exclusion policy', Journal of Asian Studies 23: 391-403.

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G. J. Smits 1997, 'Unspeakable things: Ryukyuan Confucian Sai On's ambivalent critique of language and Buddhism', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 24: 163-78.

G. J. Smits 1999, Visions of Ryūkyū : identity and ideology in early-modern thought and politics (Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press).

G. J. Smits 2000, 'Ambiguous boundaries: redefining royal authority in the kingdom of Ryukyu', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 60: 89-123.

G. J. Smits 2001, ‘Ryukyuan uses of Chinese Confucianism’, in J. Kreiner, ed., Ryukyu in world history (Bonn: Biersche Verlagsanstalt, 2001).

G. J. Smits 2001, ‘The Ryūkyū Shobun in East Asian and World History,’ in J. Kreiner, ed., Ryukyu in world history (Bonn: Biersche Verlagsanstalt, 2001).

G. Smits 2008, ‘Money in the kingdom of Ryūkyū’, in T. Hirzel & N. Kim, eds, Metals, moneys, and markets in early modern societies: East Asian and global perspectives (Berlin: LIT Verlag), pp. 107-118.

G. J. Smits 2010, ‘Guiding horses with rotten reins: economic thought in the eighteenth-century kingdom of Ryukyu’, in B. Gramlich-Oka & G. Smits, eds, Economic thought in early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill).

G. J. Smits 2015, ‘New cultures, new identities: becoming Okinawan and Japanese in nineteenth-century Ryūkyū’, in P. Nosco, J. E. Ketelaar & Y. Kojima, eds, Values, identity, and equality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan (Leiden: Brill), pp. 159-178.

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Y. Yokoyama 2007, 'Japan and Ryūkyū in the Bakumatsu period as seen in overseas sources', Acta Asiatica 93: 41-57.

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Ezo/Hokkaidō[edit]

B. L. Batten 2003, To the ends of Japan: premodern frontiers, boundaries and interactions (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

W. W. Fitzhugh & C. O. Dubreuil (eds) 1999, Ainu : spirit of a northern people (Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution).

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T. Morris-Suzuki 1994, 'Creating the frontier: border, identity and history in Japan's far north', East Asian History 7: 1-24.

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T. Morris-Suzuki 2001, ‘Northern lights: the making and unmaking of Karafuto identity’, Journal of Asian Studies 60: 645-672.

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V. V. Shchepkin 2019, ‘Creating a minority: the views of Japanese intellectuals and Japan’s policy towards Ainu in the 18th and 19th centuries’, Russian Japanology Review 2.1: 128-145.

W. Schamoni 2018, ‘Matsuura Takeshiro: Berichte über bemerkenswerte Ainu aus neuerer Zeit (1857/59). Das Kapitel "Kindliche Pietät zweier Brüder’, in M. Wachutka, M. Schrimpf, & B. Staemmler, eds, Religion, Politik und Ideologie: Beiträge zu einer kritischen Kulturwissenschaft. Festschrift für Klaus Antoni zum 65. Geburtstag (Munich: Iudicium).

R. M. Siddle 1996, Race, resistance and the Ainu of Japan (London: Routledge).

R. M. Siddle 1997, ‘The Ainu and the discourse of “race”’, in F. Dikötter, ed, The construction of racial identities in China and Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

R. M. Siddle 1997, ‘Ainu: Japan’s indigenous people’, in M. Weiner, ed, Japan’s minorities: the illusion of homogeneity (London: Routledge).

R. M. Siddle 1999, ‘Ainu history: an overview’, in W. W. Fitzhugh & C.O. Dubreuil, eds, Ainu: spirit of a northern people (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution).

R. M. Siddle 1999, ‘From assimilation to indigenous rights: Ainu resistance since 1869’, in W. W. Fitzhugh & C.O. Dubreuil, eds, Ainu: spirit of a northern people (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution).

J. J. Stephan 1971, Sakhalin: a history (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

J. J. Stephan 1974, The Kuril islands: Russo-Japanese frontier in the Pacific (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

B. L. Walker 1996, 'Repraising the Sakoku paradigm: the Ezo trade and the extension of Tokugawa political space into Hokkaido', Journal of Asian History 30: 169-192.

B. L. Walker 1999, 'The early modern Japanese state and Ainu vaccinations: redefining the body politic, 1799-1868', Past and present 163: 121-160

B. L. Walker 1999, ‘Foreign contagions, Ainu medical culture, and conquest’, in W. W. Fitzhugh & C.O. Dubreuil, eds, Ainu: spirit of a northern people (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution)

B. L. Walker 2001, The conquest of Ainu lands: ecology and culture in the Japanese expansion, 1590-1800 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

B. L. Walker 2007, ‘Mamiya Rinzō and the Japanese exploration of Sakhalin Island: cartography and empire’, Journal of Historical Geography 33: 292–294.


Japan and Europe[edit]

Britain[edit]

Japan and Britain

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W. G. Aston 1879, ‘H.M.S. Phaeton at Nagasaki’, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 7: 323-336.

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E. W. Clement 1905, ‘British seamen and Mito samurai in 1824’, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 33: 86-131.

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A. Cobbing 1998, The Japanese discovery of Victorian Britain (Richmond: Japan Library).

A. Cobbing 1998, 'Life in Victorian London through the eyes of Kume Kunitake, chronicler of the Iwakura Mission', International studies (LSE) IS/98/349: 1-15.

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M. Conte-Helm 1989, Japan and the north east of England: from 1862 to the present day (London: The Athlone Press).

H. Cortazzi 1984, 'The Pestilently active Minister: Dr Willis's comments on Sir Harry Parkes', Monumenta Nipponica 39: 147-162.

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H. Cortazzi 1985, Dr Willis in Japan, 1862-1877: British medical pioneer (London: Athlone Press).

H. Cortazzi 1994, 'Sir Rutherford Alcock, the first British minister to Japan 1859-1864: a reassessment', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (4th series) 8: 1-42.

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H. Cortazzi (ed) 2002, Britain and Japan: biographical portraits, vol. 4 (Folkestone: Japan Library).

H. Cortazzi 2002-3, 'The Namamugi Incident and the bombardment of Kagoshima 1862/3', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 17: 1-26.

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H. Cortazzi (ed.) 2016, Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, vol. 10 (Folkestone: Renaissance Books).

H. Cortazzi & G. Daniels (eds) 1991, Britain and Japan 1859-1991: themes and personalities (London: Routledge).

G. Daniels 1967, 'The Japanese Civil War (1868) - a British View', Modern Asian Studies 1: 241-63.

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C. A. Fisher 1968, 'The Britain of the East? A study in the geography of imitation', Modern Asian Studies 2: 343-376.

G. Fox 1969, Britain and Japan: 1858-1867 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

S. Gilfillan 2015, ‘Institutional imperialism: extraterritoriality and the British consular court system in Japan’, Journal on European history of law 6: 56-67.

J. E. Hoare (ed) 1999, Britain and Japan: biographical portraits, vol. 3 (Richmond: Japan Library).

C. Holmes & A. H. Ion 1980, 'Bushido and the samurai: images in British public opinion, 1894-1914', Modern Asian Studies 14: 309-329.

V. Hosking 1991, A trace of pride: a biography of the first shipbuilder in Yokohama (Peterborough: P. and A. Cutworth).

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D. L. Howell 2014, ‘Foreign encounters and informal diplomacy in early modern Japan’, Journal of Japanese Studies 40: 295-327.

T. Inazuka 2021, Alexander Williamson: A Victorian chemist and the making of modern Japan (London: UCL Press).

K. Kume 2002, The Iwakura embassy, 1871-73, 5 vols (Matsudo: The Japan Documents).

M. Kuwata 2003, The British Diplomats in Japan, 1859-1945 (Kobe: Mirume Syobo).

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A. McKay 1993, Scottish samurai: Thomas Blake Glover 1838-1911 (Edinburgh: Canongate Press).

J. McMaster 1963, 'The Takashima mine: British capital and Japanese industrialization', Business History Review 37: 217-239.

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J. McMaster 1967, 'Alcock and Harris: foreign diplomacy in Bakumatsu Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 22: 305-67.

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R. Morton 2017, A. B. Mitford and the birth of Japan as a modern state: letters home (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

R. Morton and I. Ruxton (eds) 2013, The Diaries of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, 1861-1869 (Kyoto: Eureka Press).

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J. Nicholls 2009, ‘The impact of the telegraph on Anglo-Japanese diplomacy during the nineteenth century’, New voices in Japanese studies 3: 1-22.

I. H. Nish 1972. Alliance in decline: a study of Anglo-Japanese relations, 1908-1923 (London: Athlone Press).

I. H. Nish 1985, The Anglo-Japanese Alliance: the diplomacy of two island empires 1894-1907, 2nd edition (London: Athlone Press; 1st edition 1966).

I. H. Nish (ed) 1994, Britain and Japan: biographical portraits, vol. 1 (Richmond: Japan Library).

I. H. Nish (ed) 1997, Britain and Japan: biographical portraits, vol. 2 (Richmond: Japan Library).

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France[edit]

P. Beillevaire 1999, Un missionaire aux îles Ryûkyû et au Japon à la veille de la Restauration de Meiji: Louis Furet (1816-1900) (Paris: Archives de la Société des Missions Etrangères).

P. Beillevaire (ed) 2001, Le voyage au Japon: anthologie de textes francais 1858-1908 (Paris: Editions Robert Laffont).

P. Beillevaire 2013, ‘Présences françaises à Okinawa: de Forcade (1844-1846) à Haguenauer’, Ebisu 49: 133-164.

D. Bromfield 1984, 'Japanese representation at the 1867 Paris International exhibition and the European response to it', in A. Rix & R. Mouer, eds, Japan's impact on the world (Japanese Studies Association of Australia)

E. P. Conant 1984, 'The French connection: Emile Guimet's mission to Japan, a cultural context for Japonisme', in H. Conroy, S. T. W. Davis & W. Patterson, eds, Japan in transition: thought and action in the Meiji era (London: Associated University Presses).

A. Cornaille 1994, Le premier traité franco-japonaise; son application au vu des dépêches diplomatiques de Duchesne de Bellecourt (Cergy-Pontoise: Publications orientalistes de France).

E. Dufourmont 2018, Rousseau au Japon. Nakae Chômin et le républicanisme français (1874-1890) (Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2018).

M. D. Ericson 1979, 'The Bakufu looks abroad: the 1865 mission to France', Monumenta Nipponica 34:383-408.

C. Garnier 1999, 'La linguistique japonaise en France de 1825 a nos jours', Cipango 8: 259-88.

T. Hashimoto 1999, 'Introducing a French Technological System: The Origin and Early History of the Yokosuka Dockyard', ‘’East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine’’ 16: 53–72.

M. Hirose 1999/2000, ‘L’image du Japon dans la publicité française à la fin du XIXe siècle’, Daruma 6/7, 115-136.

R. Horiguchi 1995, 'Léon de Rosny et les premières missions bouddhiques japonaises en occident', Cipango 4: 121-139.

K. Kume 2002, The Iwakura embassy, 1871-73, 5 vols (Matsudo: The Japan Documents).

J-P. Lehmann 1979, 'French Catholic Missionaries in Japan in the Bakumatsu and early Meiji periods', Modern Asian Studies 13: 377-401.

J-P. Lehmann 1980, 'Léon Roches - diplomat extraordinary in the Bakumatsu Era: an assessment of his personality and policy', Modern Asian Studies 14: 273-307.

A. Lockyer 2001, 'Japans in Paris', in V. Barth, ed., Identity and universality (Paris: Bureau International des Expositions).

M. Medzini 1971, French policy in Japan during the closing years of the Tokugawa regime (Cambridge MA: East Asia Research Centre, Harvard University).

A. Nakajima 1997, ‘L’ambassade Iwakura et la France: l’interdiction du christianisme’, Daruma 2: 145-166.

J. Rüegg 2015, ‘Aimé Humbert – Wertvorstellungen eines Bourgeois und das Japan der Bakumatsu-Zeit’, Asiatische Studien Etudes Asiatiques 69: 47-72.

R. Sims 1995, 'Japan's rejection of alliance with France during the Franco-Chinese dispute of 1883-1885', Journal of Asian History 29: 109-48.

R. L. Sims 1998, French policy towards the Bakufu and Meiji Japan 1854-95 (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press).

R. Sims 1998, 'France', in I. Nish, ed, The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: a new assessment (Richmond: Japan Library).

E. de Touchet 2001, 'L'arsenal de Yokosuka de 1865 a 1882', Ebisu 26: 35-62.

N. Wang 1997, ‘Les intellectuels chinois, le Japon, la France, de la guerre sino-japonaise de 1894-1895 aux années 1930’, Daruma 1: 81-108.

Russia[edit]

N. R. Adami 1981, 'Zur Geschichte der russisch-japanischen Beziehungen bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts', Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 4: 196-325.

N. R. Adami 1990, Eine schwierige Nachbarschaft: die Geschichte der russisch-japanischen Beziehungen, Bd 1 Von den Anfängen bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts (München: Iudicum Verlag).

P. E. Eckel 1943, ‘A Russian expedition to Japan in 1852’, Pacific Northwest quarterly 34: 159-67.

P. E. Eckel 1944, ‘The Crimean war and Japan’, Far Eastern quarterly 3: 109-118.

E. Franz 2005, Philipp Franz von Siebold and Russian policy and action on opening Japan to the West in the middle of the nineteenth century (Munich: Iudicum Verlag).

F. A. Golder 1914, Russian expansion on the Pacific, 1641-1850 (reprinted by Paragon Books, NY, 1971).

I. Goncharov 1965, The voyage of the Frigate Pallada, edited and translated by N. W. Wilson (London: Folio Society).

V. N. Goregliad 1996, ‘The oldest Russian collection of Japanese manuscripts and wood-block books’, Manuscripta Orientalia 2.1: 31-43.

V. N. Goregliad 1997, ‘The manuscript of Kankai ibun in the colelction of the St Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies’, Manuscripta Orientalia 3.2: 58-67.

J. A. Harrison 1953, Japan's northern frontier (Gainesville: University of Florida Press).

H. Ikeda 2005, Funaosa nikki: A captain’s dairy. Jûkichi’s four year odyssey across the Pacific, through California, Alaska, Kamchatka and back to Japan, 1813-1817 (Nagoya: Chūnichi Shuppansha).

K. M. Kartashov 2017, ‘ “Jurnal russkoi ekspeditsiya v Yaponiyu, c prilozheniem perepiski komandira ekspeditsiya c beregovnym vlastyam o razreshenii vkhodit’ v Yaponskie gavani i vysadki ekipazha na bereg”, kak istochnik po ekspeditsiya A. K. Laksmana (1792-1793 gg.)’, Yaponskie issledovaniya 2017/4: 50-61.

S. Konishi 2007, 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan": a Russian-Japanese revolutionary encounter and the vision of anarchist progress', American historical review 112: 101-130.

K. Kume 2002, The Iwakura embassy, 1871-73, 5 vols (Matsudo: The Japan Documents).

G. A. Lensen 1954, Report from Hokkaido; the remains of Russian culture in northern Japan (The Municipal Library of Hakodate).

G. A. Lensen 1955, Russia's Japan expedition of 1852-55 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press).

G. A. Lensen 1959, The Russian push toward Japan; Russo Japanese relations, 1697-1875 (Princeton University Press; reprinted by Octagon Books, New York).

G. A. Lensen 1961, 'The attempt on the life of Nicholas II in Japan', Russian Review 20: 232-53.

G. A. Lensen 1967, The d'Anethan dispatches from Japan, 1894-1910 (Sophia University).

G. A. Lensen 1968, Japanese diplomatic and consular officials in Russia. A handbook of Japanese representatives in Russia from 1874 to 1968 (Sophia University Press).

G. A. Lensen 1968, Russian diplomatic and consular officals in East Asia (Sophia University Press).

W. McOmie 2005, Foreign images of Japan, vol. 1 (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

W. McOmie 2006, The opening of Japan, 1853-1855: a comparative study of the American, British and Russian campaigns to force the Tokugawa shogunate to conclude treaties and open ports to their ships (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

K. Matsuzato (ed.) 2017, Russia and its Northeast Asian neighbours: China, Japan, and Korea, 1858-1945 (Lexington Books).

I. Nish, 1998, 'Russia', in I. Nish, ed, The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: a new assessment (Richmond: Japan Library).

S. Nobori & K. Akamatsu 1981, The Russian impact on Japan: literature and social thought (Los Angeles).

K. Price 1952, 'I. A. Goncharov's account of Russia's attempt to open Japan in 1853', Occasional Papers (Center for Japanese Studies, Univ of Michigan) 2: 1-29.

M. Ramming 1982, 'Einige Mitteilungen über die Mission Putjatins aufgrund japanischer Quellen', Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 5: 323-351.

R. Ravalli 2010, ‘The Sea Otter Islands: geopolitics and environment in the East Asian fur trade’, Asia Pacific: Perspectives 9.2.

M. van Remortel & P. Chang (eds) 2003, St Nikolai Kasatkin and the orthodox mission in Japan (Point Reyes Station, CA: Divine Ascent Press, 2003).

V. V. Shchepkin & K. M. Kartashev 2018, ‘Ritual and law: reception of Adam Laxman’s expedition in Japan’, Russian Japanology Review 1: 149-158.

D. Streltsov & N. Shimotomai (eds) 2019, A History of Russo-Japanese relations over two centuries of cooperation and competition (Leiden: Brill).

D-m. Tao 2005, ‘Negotiating language in the opening of Japan: Luo Sen’s journal of Perry’s 1854 expedition’, Japan Review 17: 91-119.

B. Teters 1971, ‘The Otsu affair: the formation of Japan’s judicial conscience’, in D. Wurfel, ed., Meiji Japan’s centennial (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas).

Y. Mikhailova and W. Steele 2008, Japan and Russia. Three centuries of mutual images (Folkestone: Goloba Oriental).

S. L. Turilova 2003, ‘Iz istorii russko-yaponskikh otnosheniy (1811-1813)’, Vostok 2003.2: 28-38.

D. N. Wells 2004, Russian views of Japan, 1792-1913: an anthology of travel writing (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

D. N. Wells 2019, The Russian discovery of Japan, 1670-1800 (London: Routledge).

Germany[edit]

E. Baelz 1974, Awakening Japan: the diary of a German doctor, edited by T. Baelz (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).

A. Bartels-Ishikawa 2007, Hermann Roesler: Dokumente zu seinem Leben und Werk (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot).

B. Becker 2001, Georg Michaelis. Ein preussischer Jurist im Japan der Meiji-Zeit. Briefe, Tagebuchnotizen, Dokumente 1885-1889 (Tokyo: OAG - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens).

A. Berg (ed.) 1864-73, Die Preussischer Expedition nach Ost-Asien, 4 vols (Berlin: Verlag der Koeniglichen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei).

S. Dobson and S. Saaler (eds) 2011, Under eagle eyes: lithographs, drawings and photographs from the Prussian expedition to Japan, 1860-61 (Munich: Iudicium).

E. Franz 2005,’Deutsche Mediziner in Japan – ein Beitrag zum Wissenstransfer in der Edo-Zeit,’ Japanstudien 17: 31-56.

G. Haasch (ed) 1996, Die Deutsch-Japanischen Gesellschaften vom 1888 bis 1996 (Berlin: Edition Colloquium im Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess).

R. Hartmann 2007, ‘Japanische Offiziere im Deutschen Kaiserreich, 1870 – 1914,’ Japonica Humboldtiana 11: 91-156.

A. Hirner 2003, Japanisches Bayern. Historische Kontakte (Munchen: Iudicium Verlag).

Japanisch-Deutsch Centrum Berlin 2005, Brückenbauer. Pionere des japanisch-Deutschen Kulturaustausches (Munchen: Iudicium Verlag).

M. Koch & S. Conrad 2006, Johannes Justus Rein. Briefe eines deutschen Geographen aus Japan 1873-1875 (Munich: Iudicium).

G. Krebs (ed.) 2002, Japan und Preussen (Munich: Iudicium).

K. Kume 2002, The Iwakura embassy, 1871-73, 5 vols (Matsudo: The Japan Documents).

M. Mehl 1987, Carl Köppen und sein Wirken als Militärinstrukteur für das Fürstentum Kii-Wakayama (1869-1872), Bonner Zeitschrift für Japanologie 9.

K. Meissner 1941, '"General' Eduard Schnell', Monumenta Nipponica 4.2: 69-101.

K. Meissner 1961, Deutsche in Japan, 1639-1960, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Supplementband 26.

W. Michel 1999, Von Leipzig nach Japan. Der Chirurg und Handelsmann Caspar Schamberger (1623-1706) (Tokyo: Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens).

T. Ozawa 2010, ‘Hermann Ritter (1827-1874), ein Pionier der westlichen Naturwissenschaften in Japan’, Historia scientiarum 19: 225-234.

P. Pantzer 2002, Die Iwakura-Mission. Das Logbuch des Kume Kunitake ueber den Besuch der japanischen Sondergesandschaft in Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz im Jahre 1873 (Munich: Iudicium Verlag).

P. Pantzer & S. Saaler 2007, Japanische Impressionen eines Kaiserlichen Gasandten. Karl von Eisendecher im Japan der Meiji-Zeit (Tokyo: OAG).

H. Plutschow 2007, Philipp Franz von Siebold and the opening of Japan: a re-evaluation (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

H. Schwalbe & H. Seeman 1974, Deutsche Botschafter in Japan, 1860-1973, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens 57.

J. Siemes 1968, Hermann Roesler and the making of the Meiji State, Monumenta Nipponica monographs 24 (Sophia University).

C. W. Spang & R-H. Wippich (eds) 2006, Japanese-German relations, 1895-1945 (London: Routledge).

H. Stahncke 1987, Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Japan, 1854-1868 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag).

H. Stahncke 2000, Preussens Weg nach Japan. Japan in Berichten von Mitgleidern der preussischen Ostasienexpedition 1860-1861 (Munich: Iudicium).

K. Takii (ed) 1998, Lorenz von Steins Arbeiten für Japan: Osterreichisch-Japanische Rechtsbeziehungen II (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag).

U. Wattenberg 1998, 'Germany', in I. Nish, ed, The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: a new assessment (Richmond: Japan Library).

G. Zobel 2002, Die Japanesen in Berlin. Der Besuch der ersten japanischen Expedition von 1862 im Spiegel der Presse (Munich: Iudicium).

Italy[edit]

L. Beretta 1996, 'Adolfo Farsari: an Italian photographer in Meiji Japan', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 4th series 10: 33-48.

L. Beretta 1997, 'Edoardo Chiossone', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 4th series 11: 69-84.

L. Beretta 1999, 'Chiossone e la Banca nazionale nel Regno', in Meiji Bijutsu Gakkai, ed, Oyatoi gaikokujin Kyossone kenkyū (Chūō Kōron bijutsu shuppan).

E. P. Conant 1999, 'Chiossone: his professional and cultural milieus', in Meiji Bijutsu Gakkai, ed, Oyatoi gaikokujin Kyossone kenkyū (Chūō Kōron bijutsu shuppan).

S. de Maio 1998, 'Italy', in I. Nish, ed, The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: a new assessment (Richmond: Japan Library).

D. Failla 1996, Edoard Chiossone: un collezionista erudito nel Giappone Meiji (second edition; Genoa: Comune di Genova).

D. Giorgi 2019, ‘150 anni fa, Italiani in Gaippone. Luogo e ruolo dell’ambasciata’ in K. Tanaka, ed., Bellezza in fiore. Colori e parole nell’estetica Asiatica (Milan: Biblioteca Ambrosiana), pp. 265-282.

R. Gueze 1987, 'Fonti archivistiche per la storia delle relazioni italo-giapponesi. Elementi di recerca', in Lo stato liberale italiano e l'età Meiji (Rome).

S. Iwakura (ed) 1994, Il Giappone scopre l'Occidente. Una missione diplomatica, 1871-73 (Rome: Japanese Cultural Institute).

S. Iwakura (ed) 1994, Prima e dopo la Missione Iwakura. Testimonianze inedite (Rome: Japanese Cultural Institute).

K. Kume 2002, The Iwakura embassy, 1871-73, 5 vols (Matsudo: The Japan Documents).

T. Miyashita 1982, 'Firenze nel Diario della visita in America e in Europa dell'ambasciatore plenipotenziario giapponese, con incarichi speciali, Iwakura Tomomi (1871-1876)', in Atti del Quinto Convegno di Studi Giapponesi (Firenze: Aistugia).

T. Miyashita 1985, 'Lombardia e la città di Venezia nel Diario della visita in America e in Europa dell'ambasciatore plenipotenziario giapponese, con incarichi speciali, Iwakura Tomomi (1871-1873)', in Atti del Settimo Convegno di Studi Giapponesi (Firenze: Aistugia).

R. Stradiotti & L' Cervati (eds) 1995, Dipinti giapponesi a Brescia; la collezione orientale dei musei Civici d'Arte e Storia (Brescia: Grafo).

Sweden[edit]

T. Burgman 1984, Japanbilden i Sverige 1667-1984 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell).

S-b Cho 1991, ‘The historical formation of the Swedish image of Japan’, in B. Edstrom, ed, Language and society in East Asia (Stockholm: Center for Pacific Asia Studies), pp. 237-252.

B. Edström 1995, ‘C. J. L. Almqvist och Japan’, Orientaliska studier 84: 27-39.

B. Edström 1998, 'Sweden', in I. Nish, ed, The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: a new assessment (Richmond: Japan Library).

B. Edstrom 2001-2002, 'Gunnar Heckscher : An ambassador to Japan in action', Asiatica Venetiana 6/7: 87-110.

K. Kume 2002, The Iwakura embassy, 1871-73, 5 vols (Matsudo: The Japan Documents).

O. Lidin 1981, ‘A. E. Nordenskjöld in Japan’, Journal of intercultural studies 8: 3-15.

T. Screech 2005, Japan extolled and decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and the Shogun’s realm, 1775-1796 (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

U. Wrakberg and G. Lindberg-Wada (eds) 2002, An arctic passage to the Far East: the visit of the Swedish Vega expedition to Meiji Japan in 1879 (Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Center for History of Science).

T. Wretö 1994, Vaegen till Edo: Japan och Vaesterlandet i upptaeckternas tidsalder (Stockholm: Fischer & Co.).


Holland/Belgium[edit]

C. T. Assendelft de Coningh 2012, A pioneer in Yokohama: a Dutchman’s adventures in the new treaty port (Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett Publishing).

R. Bersma 2002, Titia: the first Western woman in Japan (Leiden: Hotei).

L. Blusse, W. Remmelink & I. Smits (eds) 2000, Bridging the divide: 400 years The Netherlands-Japan (Leiden: Hotei).

M. Chaiklin 2003, Cultural commerce and Dutch commercial culture : the influence of European material culture on Japan, 1700-1850 (Leiden : Research School CNWS, Leiden University).

A. Clulow 2014, The Company and the Shogun: the Dutch encounter with Tokugawa Japan (New York: Columbia University Press).

F. R. Effert & M. Forrer (eds) 2000, The court journey to the Shogun of Japan: from a private account by Jan Cock Blomhoff (Leiden: Hotei).

C. R. Joby 2017, ‘Dutch in Seventeenth-Century Japan: a social history’, Dutch Crossing 2017: 1-22.

C. R. Joby 2021, The Dutch language in Japan (1600-1900): a cultural and sociolinguistic study of Dutch as a contact language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

W. McOmie 2005, Foreign images of Japan, vol. 1 (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

W. McOmie 2006, The opening of Japan, 1853-1855: a comparative study of the American, British and Russian campaigns to force the Tokugawa shogunate to conclude treaties and open ports to their ships (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

Y. Nagazumi 2008, ‘Personal trade at the Dutch Factory in Japan: the trade society organized by Chief Factor Meijlan (1826-1830),’ Memoirs of the Research Department of the Tōyō Bunko 66: 1-44.

P. J. A. N. Reitbergen 2003, Japan verwoord; Nihon door Nederlandse ogen, 1600-1799 (Amsterdam: KIT).

T. Screech 2005, Secret memoirs of the shoguns: Isaac Titsing and Japan 1779-1822 (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

A. Sinitsyn & E. Yamanashi 2004, ‘Paintings by Kawahara Keiga and other early 19th century Japanese artists in the Johan Frederick van Overmeer Fisscher collection (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography)’, Manuscripts Orientalia 10i: 19-31.

A. van der Werf 2002, ‘Deliberate non-communication: the influence of the religious issues on the diplomatic talks during the visit of the Iwakura delegations to Belgium’, in B. Edstrom, ed., Turning points in Japanese history (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

W. F. Vande Walle 1998, 'Belgium', in I. Nish, ed, The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: a new assessment (Richmond: Japan Library).

W. F. Vande Walle (ed.) 2005, Japan and Belgium: four centuries of exchange (Commissioners-General of the Belgian Government at the Universal Exposition of Aichi).

M. C. Vernon 1959, 'The Dutch and the opening of Japan', Pacific Historical Review 27: 39-48.

M. Vigouroux 2017, ‘The surgeon’s acupuncturist: Philipp Franz von Siebold’s encounter with Ishizaka Sōtetsu and nineteenth century Japanese acupuncture’, Revue d’histoire des sciences 70: 79-108.


Denmark[edit]

M. LaDerrière (ed) 1984, Danes in Japan 1868-1940: aspects of early Danish-Japanese contacts (Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag).

Y. Nagashima 2003, De dansk-japanske kulturelle forbindelser 1600-1873 (København: Museum Tusculanums Forlag).

Y. Nagashima 2012, De dansk-japanske kulturelle forbindelser 1873-1903 (København: Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet).


Japan and the USA[edit]

E. E. Beauregard 1988, 'John A. Bingham, first American minister plenipotentiary to Japan (1873-1885)', Journal of Asian History 22: 101-130.

E. E. Beauregard 1992, 'Samuel Magill Bryan: creator of Japan's international postal service', Journal of Asian History 26: 31-41.

R. T. Chang 1969, 'General Grant's 1879 visit to Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 24: 373-392.

A. B. Cole 1941, 'Plans of Edmund Roberts for negotiations in Nippon', Monumenta Nipponica 4: 171-87.

A. B. Cole 1942, With Perry in Japan, the diary of Edward Yorke McCauley (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

A. B. Cole 1947, Yankee Surveyors in the Shoguns seas: records of the US surveying expedition to the North Pacific ocean, 1853-1856 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

A. B. Cole 1947, A scientist with Perry in Japan, the journal of Dr James Morrow (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press).

M. Collcutt 2007, ‘Education for a new Japan: Kume Kunitake’s observations on education in 1872 America,’ in M. Collcutt, Kato Mikio & R. P. Toby, eds, Japan and its worlds: Marius Jansen and the internationalization of Japanese studies (Tokyo: I-House Press).

M. Cosenza 1959, The Complete Journal of Townsend Harris: first American consul and minister to Japan (Charles E. Tuttle, Tokyo; revised edition of 1930 edition published by Doubleday, NY).

P. N. Dare 1975, 'John A. Bingham and treaty revision with Japan: 1873-1885', PhD thesis, University of Kentucky.

De-min Tao 2003, 'Yoshida Shoin's petition found at Yale archives', Sino-Japanese Studies 15: 3-6.

C. M. Drury 1945, ‘Early American contacts with the Japanese’, Pacific Northwest quarterly 36: 319-330.

F. R. Dulles 1965, Yankees and samurai: America's role in the emergence of modern Japan, 1791-1900 (New York: Harper & Row).

P. Duus (ed) 1997, The Japanese discovery of America: a brief history with documents (Boston: Bedford Books).

M. D. Ericson 1997, '"Yankee impertinence, Yankee corruption": the Tokugawa shogunate and Robert Pruyn, 1862-1867', Journal of American-East Asian relations 6: 235-260.

Y. Eudo 2007, 'The cultural geography of the opening of Japan; the arrival of Perry's squadron and the transformation of Japanese understanding of the Pacific Ocean during the Edo period', Acta Asiatica 93: 21-40.

G. Feifer 2006, Breaking open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American imperialism in 1853 (New York: HarperCollins).

F. Fujita 1994, American pioneers and the Japanese frontier. American experts in nineteenth-century Japan (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press).

H. F. Graff 1952, Bluejackets with Perry in Japan: A Day-by-Day Account Kept by Master's Mate John R. C. Lewis and Cabin Boy William B. Allen (New York: New York Public Library).

W. E. Griffis 1895, Townsend Harris: first American envoy in Japan (Boston: Houghton Mifflin).

F. Hall 1992, Japan through American eyes: the journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama, 1859-1866, ed. F. G. Notehelfer (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

J. L. Hammersmith 1998, Spoilsmen in a ‘Flowery fairyland’: the development of the U.S. Legation in Japan, 1859-1906 (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press).

F. L. Hawks 1856, Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, 3 vols (Washington DC: A. O. P.Nicholson; also published in 1857 by D. Appleton & Co., New York; shorter edition abridged by S. Wallach published by Macdonald, London, 1954).

J. M. Henning 2000, Outposts of civilization: race, religion, and the formative years of American-Japanese relations (New York University Press).

R. Hesselink 1994, 'The assassination of Henry Heusken', Monumenta Nipponica 49: 331-351.

H. Heusken 1964, Japan journal: 1855-61, ed J. C. van der Corput & R. A. Wilson (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press).

H. Ikeda 2005, Funaosa nikki: A captain’s dairy. Jûkichi’s four year odyssey across the Pacific, through California, Alaska, Kamchatka and back to Japan, 1813-1817 (Nagoya: Chūnichi Shuppansha).

H. Ion 2009, American missionaries, Christian oyatoi, and Japan, 1859-73 (Vancouver: UBC Press).

A. Iriye 1975, Mutual images: essays in American-Japanese relations (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

A. Iriye 1992, Across the Pacific: an inner history of American-East Asian relations, 2nd edition (Chicago University Press; 1st edition 1967).

P. A. Kadota & T. Jones 1990, Kanaye Nagasawa: a biography of a Satsuma student (Kagoshima: Kagoshima Prefectural Junior College).

I. Kawada and M. Nakahama 2003, Drifting toward the southeast: the story of five Japanese castaways: a complete translation of Hyōson Kiryaku (a brief account of drifting toward the southeast) as told to the court of Lord Yamauchi of Tosa in 1852 by John Manjirō (Spinner Publications).

J. Kitadai 2004, Drifting toward the Southeast: the story of five Japanese castaways (New Bedford, MA: Spinner Publications).

P. F. Kornicki 2020, ‘The American Oriental Society and the first Japanese book printed in the United States’, Journal of the American Oriental Society 140: 839-57.

K. Kume 2002, The Iwakura embassy, 1871-73, 5 vols (Matsudo: The Japan Documents).

F. Maehira 1994, 'Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan and the Ryukyuan kingdom: a perspective on the history of the opening of East Asia to the West', Acta Asiatica 67: 69-82.

J. McMaster 1967, 'Alcock and Harris: foreign diplomacy in Bakumatsu Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 22: 305-67.

W. McOmie 2005, Foreign images of Japan, vol. 1 (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

W. McOmie 2006, The opening of Japan, 1853-1855: a comparative study of the American, British and Russian campaigns to force the Tokugawa shogunate to conclude treaties and open ports to their ships (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

H. A. Mattice 1942, Perry and Japan, an account of the empire and an unpublished record of the Perry Expedition (New York: New York Public Library).

H. Mitani 2006, Escape from impasse: the decision to open Japan, trans. David Noble (Tokyo: LTCB International Library).

M. Miyoshi 1979, As we saw them: the first Japanese embassy to the United States (1860) (Berkeley: University of California Press).

S. E. Morison 1968, "Old Bruin" - Commodore Matthew Galbraith Perry, 1794-1858 (Boston: Little & Brown).

I. Nitobe 1891, The intercourse between the United States and Japan: an historical sketch (The Johns Hopkins University Press).

F. G. Notehelfer 1985, American samurai: Captain L. L. Janes and Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

F. C. Parker 1981, 'Jonathan Goble, missionary extraordinary', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 16: 77-107.

R. Pineau (ed) 1968, The Japan Expedition 1852-1854: the personal journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution).

G. H. Preble 1962, The Opening of Japan: a diary of discovery in the Far East, 1853-1856, ed. B.Szczesniak (University of Oklahoma Press).

R. A. Rosenstone 1980, 'Learning from those "imitative" Japanese: another side of the American experiences in the Mikado's empire', American Historical Review 84: 572-595.

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T. C. Smith 1955, Political change and industrial development in Japan: government enterprise, 1868-1880 (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

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T. Terasaki 1990, 'How radicals in the Popular Rights movement viewed the emperor: a brief analysis', Acta Asiatica 59: 18-37.

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Biographies[edit]

G. Akita 1970, 'The other Ito: a political failure', in A. M. Craig & D. H. Shively, eds, Personality in Japanese history (Berkeley: University of California Press).

A. W. Burks 1966, 'A "Sub-Leader" in the Emergence of the Diplomatic Function: Ikeda Chohatsu (Chikugo no kami), 1837-1879', in B. S. Silberman & H. D. Harootunian, eds, Modern Japanese leadership: transition and change (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).

A. M. Craig 1970, 'Kido Koin and Okubo Toshimichi: a psychohistorical analysis', in A. M. Craig & D. H. Shively, eds, Personality in Japanese history (Berkeley: University of California Press).

S. T. W. Davis 1970, 'Ono Azusa and the political change of 1881', Monumenta Nipponica 25: 137-54.

S. T. W. Davis 1980, Intellectual change and political development in early modern Japan: Ono Azusa, a case study (Associated Universities Presses).

A. Fraser 1970, 'Hachisuka Mochiaki (1846-1918): a Meiji domain lord and statesman', Papers in Far Eastern History 2: 43-61.

A. Fraser 1971, 'Yoshikawa Akimasa (1841-1920): a Meiji executive official and cabinet minister', Papers in Far Eastern History 4: 17-40.

A. Fraser 1972, 'Matsuoka Koki (1846-1923): a Meiji justice official and cabinet minister', Papers in Far Eastern History 6: 91-127.

A. Fraser 1973, 'Nakajima Masutane (1829-1905): a Meiji scholar-patriot, official and peer', Papers in Far Eastern History 8: 1-35.

A. Fraser 1974, 'The role of Komuro Shinobu and his allies in the Kansai area popular rights movement', Papers in Far Eastern History 10: 83-115.

R. F. Hackett 1971, Yamagata Aritomo and the rise of modern Japan, 1838-1922 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

N. Hagihara 1984, 'Mutsu Munemitsu in Europe, 1884-85: the intellectual in search of an ideology', in H. Conroy, S. T. W. Davis & W. Patterson, eds, Japan in transition: thought and action in the Meiji era, 1868-1912 (London: Associated University Presses).

N. Hagihara 1987, 'Mutsu Munemitsu: a portrait', in S. Henny & J-P. Lehmann, eds, Themes and theories in modern Japanese history (London: Athlone Press).

I. P. Hall 1973, Mori Arinori (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press). J. L. Huffman 1980, The Politics of the Meiji press: the life of Fukuchi Genichiro (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii).

M. Iwata 1964, Okubo Toshimichi: the Bismarck of Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

M. B. Jansen 1970, 'Mutsu Munemitsu', in A. M. Craig & D. H. Shively, eds, Personality in Japanese history (Berkeley: University of California Press).

M. B. Jansen 1980, 'Konoe Atsumaro', in A. Iriye, ed, The Chinese and the Japanese: essays in political and cultural interactions (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

J. C. Lebra 1968, 'Okuma Shigenobu: modernization and the West', in E. Skrzypczak, ed, Japan's modern century (Sophia University).

J. C. Lebra 1973, Okuma Shigenobu: statesman of Meiji Japan (Canberra: Australian National University Press).

S. Lone 2000, Army, empire and politics in Meiji Japan: the three careers of General Katsura Taro (New York: St Martin's Press).

I. Morris 1975, 'Saigo Takamori', in The nobility of failure (London: Secker & Warburg).

Y. Oka 1986, Five political leaders of modern Japan, trans A. Fraser & P. Murray (University of Tokyo Press).

L. G. Perez 1999, Japan comes of age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the revision of the unequal treaties (Cranbury, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press).

G. Pfulb 1999, 'Staatsformenlehren in Japan im Ubergang zu westlichen politischen Begriffen und Theorien. Kato Hiroyuki, 1861-1875', Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 223: 269-284.

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Emperor[edit]

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J. Banno 1990, 'Emperor, cabinet and Diet in Meiji politics (1880-1913)', Acta Asiatica 59: 59-76.

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J. W. Hall 1968, 'A monarch for modern Japan', in R. E. Ward, ed, Political development in modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Y. Iwakabe 2018, ‘The compilation of Imperial Annals by the Imperial Household Ministry since the Meiji Era: the creation of a new tradition’, Acta Asiatica 114.

D. Keene 2001, ‘The first emperor of modern Japan’, in N. C. Rousmaniere, ed., Births and rebirths in Japanese art (Leiden: Hotei Publishing)

D. Keene 2002, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his world, 1852-1912 (New York: Columbia University Press).

A. D. Swale 2002, ‘The Meiji Constitution as a miscalculation’, in B. Edstrom, ed., Turning points in Japanese history (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

K. Takii 2007, The Meiji Constitution: the Japanese experience of the West and the shaping of the modern state (Tokyo: I-House Press).

K. Takii 2014, Itō Hirobumi - Japan's first prime minister and father of the Meiji constitution (London: Routledge).

H. Yasuda 1990, 'The modern emperor system as it took shape before and after the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-5', Acta Asiatica 59: 38-58.


Foreign Policy[edit]

M. R. Auslin 2004, Negotiating with imperialism: the unequal treaties and the culture of Japanese diplomacy (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

M. Deuchler 1977, Confucian gentlemen and barbarian envoys: the opening of Korea, 1875-1885 (Seattle: University of Washington Press).

P. Duus, R. H. Myers & M. R. Peattie (eds) 1989, The Japanese informal empire in China, 1895-1937 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

M. B. Jansen 1968, 'Modernization and foreign policy in Meiji Japan', in R. E. Ward, ed, Political development in modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

I.-L. Kluge 1990, 'Die Neuausrichtung der japanischen Aussenpolitik in der späten Meiji-Zeit, 1906-1912', Oriens Extremus 33.1: 89-98.

R. H. P. Mason 1975, 'Debates on foreign affairs in the first Meiji Diet: 1890-1891', Papers in Far Eastern History 12: 149-218.

M. J. Mayo 1972, 'The Korean Crisis of 1873 and early Meiji foreign policy', Journal of Asian Studies 31: 793-819.

J. W. Morley (ed) 1974, Japan's foreign policy 1868-1941: a research guide (New York: Columbia University Press).

P. O’Brien (ed) 2003, The Anglo-Japanese alliance (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

L. G. Perez 1991, 'Mutsu Munemitsu and the Japanese Diet crisis of 1893', Journal of Asian History 25: 29-59.

L. G. Perez 1999, Japan comes of age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the revision of the unequal treaties (Cranbury, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press).

R. Sims 1995, 'Japan's rejection of alliance with France during the Franco-Chinese dispute of 1883-1885', Journal of Asian History 29: 109-48.


Local government[edit]

J. C. Baxter 1994, The Meiji unification through the lens of Ishikawa prefecture (Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press).

A. Fraser 1975, 'Political party development in Tokushima prefecture, 1880-1889', Papers in Far Eastern History 11: 107-147.

A. Fraser 1975, 'From domain to prefecture: political development in Tokushima, 1871-1880', Papers in Far Eastern History 12: 87-147.

A. Fraser 1977, 'Political development in the Awa (Tokushima) domain: the final decade, 1860-1870', Papers in Far Eastern History 15: 105-161.

A. Fraser 1982, 'Local administration, 1860-1890: structure and costs: the example of Awa-Tokushima', Papers in Far Eastern History 25 :139-164.

A. Fraser 1986, 'Local administration: the example of Awa-Tokushima', in M. B. Jansen and G. Rozman, eds, Japan in transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

A. Fraser 1993, 'Political leaders of Tokushima, 1868-1912', East Asian History 6: 143-62.

M. Lewis 1997, 'The meandering meaning of local autonomy: bosses, bureaucrats, and Toyama's rivers', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

M. Lewis 2000, Becoming apart: national power and local politics in Toyama, 1868-1954 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

J. L. McClain 1976, 'Local politics and national integration: the Fukui Prefectural Assembly in the 1880s', Monumenta Nipponica 31: 51-75.

J. L. McClain 1997, 'Kanazawa city politics', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

H. Rokuhara 2005, ‘Local Officials and the Meiji Conscription Campaign’, Monumenta Nipponica 60: 81-110.

R. Staubitz 1978, 'Opinion revised: Hara Takashi's views on local government', Monumenta Nipponica 33: 37-50.

K. Steiner 1965, Local government in Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

K. Steiner 1968, 'Popular political participation and political development in Japan: the rural level', in R. E. Ward, ed, Political development in modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

N. L. Waters 1983, Japan's local pragmatists: the transition from bakumatsu to Meiji in the Kawasaki region (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

N. L. Waters 1990, 'The second transition: early to mid-Meiji in Kanagawa prefecture', Journal of Asian Studies 49: 305-322.

Social history[edit]

General[edit]

G. L. Bernstein 2005, Isami’s house: three centuries of a Japanese family (Berkeley: University of California Press).

D. V. Botsman 2015, ‘Flowery tales: Oe Taku, Kobe and the making of Meiji Japan’s “emancipation moment”’, in P. Nosco, J. E. Ketelaar & Y. Kojima, eds, Values, identity, and equality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan (Leiden: Brill), pp. 262-289.

W. P. Brecher 2021, Japan’s private spheres: autonomy in Japanese history, 1600-1930 (Leiden: Brill).

A. W. Burks (ed) 1985, The modernisers: overseas students, foreign employees, and Meiji Japan (Boulder CO: Westview Press).

I. Charrier 1999, 'La réaction nationaliste dans les milieux artistiques: Fenollosa et Okakura Tenshin', in J-J. Tschudin & C. Hamon, eds, La nation en marche; études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji (Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier).

F. Champault 1997, 'Du Jujutsu au Judo, ou du particulier a l'universel, un exemple de changement durant l'ere Meiji', Ebisu 16: 69-94.

O. Checkland 1994, Humanitarianism and the emperor's Japan, 1877-1977 (New York: St Martin's Press).

G. Clancey 2002, ‘Foreign knowledge: cultures of western science-making in Meiji Japan’, Historia scientiarum 11: 245-260.

A. Cobbing & M. Itami 2006, Kawada Ryokichi – Jeanie Eadie’s Samurai. The life and times of a Meiji entrepreneur and agricultural pioneer (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

H. Conroy, S. T. W. Davis & W. Patterson (eds) 1984, Japan in transition: thought and action in the Meiji era (London: Associated University Presses).

L. Dagnell & H. Shibata 2011, The Japanese South Polar expedition 1910-12: a record of Antarctica (Norwich: Erskine Press).

R. P. Dore (ed) 1967, Aspects of social change in modern Japan (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press).

M. Dusinberre 2008, ‘Unread relics of a transnational 'hometown' in rural western Japan,’ Japan Forum 20: 305-335.

F. M. Dylan 2006, ‘Strange games and enchanted science: the mystery of Kokkuri’, Journal of Asian Studies 65: 251-276.

G. Figal 1999, Civilization and monsters: spirits of modernity in Meiji Japan (Durham: Duke University Press).

D. Finn 1996, Meiji revisited: the sites of Victorian Japan (New York: Weatherhill).

D. E. Flaherty 2013, Public law, private practice : politics, profit, and the legal profession in nineteenth-century Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

M. Fraleigh 2014, ‘Vassal of a deposed regime: archetypes of reclusion in the poetry of former shogunal official Yaguchi Kensai’, East Asian history 38: 97-124.

T. Fujitani 1996, Splendid monarchy: power and pageantry in modern Japan (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: Univeristy of California Press).

M. Fukuoka 2012, The premise of fidelity. science, visuality and representing the real in nineteenth-century Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

D. Gainty 2013, Martial arts and the body politic in Meiji Japan (London: Routledge).

S. Garon 1997, Molding Japanese minds: the state and everyday life in Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

C. Gluck 1985, Japan's modern myths: ideology in the late Meiji period (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

A. Gonon 1994, 'Le Code de la nationalité de 1899, ou l'etranger et le national vus par l'Etat japonais', Ebisu 7: 47-72.

A. Gonon 1999, 'La construction d'une sociologie nationale: le projet de Takebe Tongo (1871-1945)', in J-J. Tschudin & C. Hamon, eds, La nation en marche; études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji (Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier).

A. Gordon 1997, 'Workers movements in late Meiji Tokyo', Bulletin de l'ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient 84: 285-308.

A. Gordon 2012, ‘Like bamboo shoots after the rain: the growth of a nation of dressmakers and consumers’, in J. Hunter and P. Francks (eds) 2012, The historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000 (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

C. Gluck 1985, Japan's modern myths: ideology in the late Meiji period (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

A. Gonon 1994, 'Le Code de la nationalité de 1899, ou l'etranger et le national vus par l'Etat japonais', Ebisu 7: 47-72.

A. Gonon 1999, 'La construction d'une sociologie nationale: le projet de Takebe Tongo (1871-1945)', in J-J. Tschudin & C. Hamon, eds, La nation en marche; études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji (Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier).

A. Gordon 1997, 'Workers movements in late Meiji Tokyo', Bulletin de l'ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient 84: 285-308.

A. Gordon 2012, ‘Like bamboo shoots after the rain: the growth of a nation of dressmakers and consumers’, in J. Hunter and P. Francks (eds) 2012, The historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000 (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

C. Guth 2004, Longfellow’s tattoos: tourism, collecting, and Japan (Seattle: University of Washington Press).

S. B. Hanley 1986, 'Material culture: stability in transition', in M. B. Jansen & G. Rozman, eds, Japan in transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

H. Hardacre 1997, 'The role of the Japanese state in ritual and ritualization, 1868-1945', Bulletin de l'ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient 84: 129-145.

T. R. H. Havens 2011, Parkscapes: green spaces in modern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

M. Hayek 2018, ‘Correlating time within one's hand: the use of temporal variable in early modern Japanese “chronomancy” techniques’, in M. Lackner, ed., Coping with the future: theories and practices of diviniation in East Asia (Leiden: Brill), pp. 530-558.

C. L. Hill 1997, 'Ideologies of novelty and agedness: narrating the origins of the Meiji nation', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

S. Hirakawa 1989, 'Japan's turn to the West', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 5.

C. Holmes & A. H. Ion 1980, 'Bushido and the samurai: images in British public opinion, 1894-1914', Modern Asian Studies 14:309-30.

R. Horiguchi 1995, 'Léon de Rosny et les premières missions bouddhiques japonaises en occident', Cipango 4: 121-139.

D. L. Howell 1983, 'Early shizoku colonization of Hokkaido', Journal of Asian History 17: 40-67.

D. L. Howell 2000, ‘Visions of the future in Meiji Japan’, in M. Goldman & A. Gordon, eds, Historical perspectives on contemporary East Asia (Harvard University Press).

D. L. Howell 2005, Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

J. Hunter and P. Francks (eds) 2012, The historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000 (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

N-L. Hur 2000, Prayer and play in late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo society (Harvard University Press)

S. Inoue 1998, 'The invention of the martial arts: Kano Jigorō and Kōdōkan judo',in S. Vlastos, ed, Mirror of modernity: invented traditions of modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

D. Irokawa 1985, The culture of the Meiji period, trans M. B. Jansen (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

K. K. Ito 2000, 'The family and the nation in Tokutomi Roka's Hototogisu', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 60: 489-536.

M. B. Jansen & G. Rozman (eds) 1986, Japan in transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

B. G. Jordan 1997, 'Flowers in the dawn: Kawanabe Kyosai and the search for modernity', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

N. Kamachi 1981, Reform in China: Huang Tsun-hsien and the Japanese model (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

D. Keene 1971, 'The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and its cultural effects in Japan', in D. H. Shively, ed., Tradition and modernization in Japanese culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

H. Lamparth 1998, Japanische Etikette. Ein Handbuch aud dem Jahre 1887 – Nippon reishiki Ogasawara genryû yôryaku, 3 vols, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens 130.

T. S. Lebra 1993, Above the clouds: status culture of the modern Japanese nobility (Berkeley: University of California Press).

C. Lévy 1999, 'Les syndicats de l'ère Meiji: les enjeux d'une modernité naissante', in J-J. Tschudin & C. Hamon, eds, La nation en marche; études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji (Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier).

M. Low 2005, Building a modern Japan: science, technology, and medicine in the Meiji era and beyond (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

I. D. McArthur 2002, ‘Australian, British, or Japanese?: Henry Black in Japan’, Japanese studies 22: 305-318.

I. D. McArthur 2004, ‘Henry Black, rakugo and the coming of modernity in Meiji Japan’, Japan Forum 16: 135-163.

I. D. McArthur 2013, Henry Black: on stage in Meiji Japan (Clayton, VIC: Monash University Publishing).

H. T. McDermott 2006, ‘The Hōryūji treasures and early Meiji cultural policy’, Monumenta Nipponica 61: 339-374.

C. Marquet 1999, 'Conscience patrimoniale et écriture de l'histoire et de l'art national', in J-J. Tschudin & C. Hamon, eds, La nation en marche; études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji (Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier).

R. H. P. Mason 1979, 'Suematsu Kencho and patterns of Japanese cultural and political change in the 1880s', Papers in Far Eastern History 20: 1-55.

R. Mathias 1978, Industrialisierung und Lohnarbeit - Der Kohlenbergbau in Nord-Kyûshû und sein Einfluß auf die Herausbildung einer Lohnarbeiterschaft (Wien).

R. Meade 2015, ‘Translating technology in Japan’s Meiji enlightenment, 1870-1879’, East Asian Science, Technology and Society 9: 25-274.

M. Mehl 1993, 'Suematsu Kencho in Britain, 1878-1886', Japan Forum 5: 173-193.

J. P. Mertz 1997, 'Internalizing social difference: Kanagaki Robun's Shanks' Mare to the Western Seas', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

T. Munson 2005, ‘“The procurement of rarities is a sign of peace”: Yanagawa Shunsan’s Yokohama hanjô ki’, Early Modern Japan 13: 1-10.

S. Okamoto 1982, 'The emperor and the crowd: the historical significance of the Hibiya riot', in T. Najita & J. V. Koschmann, eds, Conflict in modern Japanese history: the neglected tradition (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press).

S. Partner 2007, ‘Peasants into Citizens? The Meiji village in the Russo-Japanese War', Monumenta Nipponica 62: 179-209.

S. Partner 2009, The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865–1925 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

F. Peddie 2016, ‘The welcome Asians: the Japanese in Mexico, 1897–1910’, Japan Forum 28: 320-336.

E. Pratt 2000, 'Community and conflict in nineteenth-century Japan: a re-consideration', Early Modern Japan 8.2: 1-13.

K. B. Pyle 1973, 'The technology of Japanese nationalism: the local improvement movement, 1900-1918', Journal of Asian Studies 33: 51-65.

R. M. Reitan 2009, Making a moral society: ethics and the state in Meiji Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

D. Roden 1980, 'Baseball and the quest for dignity in Meiji Japan', American Historical Review 84 :511-534.

G. Rozman 1989, 'Social change', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 5.

M. Sakada & G. Akita 1986, 'The samurai disestablished: Abei Iwane and his stipend', Monumenta Nipponica 41: 299-330.

N. Sakai 2015, ‘From relational identity to specific identity: on equality and nationality’, in P. Nosco, J. E. Ketelaar & Y. Kojima, eds, Values, identity, and equality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan (Leiden: Brill), pp. 290-320.

J. Sand 1998, 'At home in the Meiji period: inventing Japanese domesticity', in S. Vlastos, ed, Mirror of modernity: invented traditions of modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press)

J. Sand 2004, House and home in modern Japan: architecture, domestic space and bourgeois culture, 1880-1930 (Harvard University Press)

H. Sasamoto-Collins 2008, ‘Progress impeded: constraints on legal equality in post-Restoration Japan,’ Japan Forum 20: 337 – 360.

D. Satō 2011, Modern Japanese art and the Meiji state: the politics of beauty, trans. H. Nara (Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute).

I. R. Saveliev 2002, ‘Rescuing the prisoners of the Maria Luz: the Meiji government and the “Coolie Trade”, 1868-75’, in B. Edstrom, ed., Turning points in Japanese history (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

J. Sawada 2004, Practical pursuits: religion, politics, and personal cultivation in nineteenth-century Japan (University of Hawai'i Press).

E. Seizelet 1999, 'Les cérémonies scolaires et l'avènement du constitutionnalisme', in J-J. Tschudin & C. Hamon, eds, La nation en marche; études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji (Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier).

E. Seizelet 2001/02, ‘La réception de la science juridique occidentale: les transferts de technologie institutionnelle à l’époque de Meiji’, Daruma 10/11: 143-182.

H. Shimoda 2014, Lost and found: recovering regional identity in imperial Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

D. H. Shively 1971, 'The Japanization of the middle Meiji', in D. H. Shively, ed., Tradition and modernization in Japanese culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

P. Sippel 2005, ‘Chisui: creating a sacred domain in early modern and modern Japan’, in G. L. Bernstein, A. Gordon, and K. Wildman Nakai, eds, Public spheres, private lives in modern Japan, 1600-1950: essays in honor of Albert M. Craig (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center).

E. Skrzypczak (ed) 1968, Japan's modern century (Sophia University Press).

G. Smits 2014, When the earth roars: lessons from the history of earthquakes in Japan (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield).

E. Soviak 1971, 'On the nature of Western progress: the journal of the Iwakura embassy', in D. H. Shively, ed., Tradition and modernization in Japanese culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

R. M. Spaulding 1967, Imperial Japan's higher civil service examinations (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

M. W. Steele 1989, 'From custom to right: the politicization of the village in early Meiji Japan', Modern Asian Studies 23: 729-748.

E. Steiner 1995, 'Nikolai of Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 50: 537-550.

H. Suzuki 2013, 'Ninagawa Noritane and antiquarians in the early Meiji period', in A. Schnapp, L. von Falkenhausen, P. N. Miller, and T. Murray, eds., World antiquarianism: comparative perspectives (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute).

K. Suzuki 1997, 'Yokohama-e and kaika-e prints: Japanese interpretations of Self and Other from 1860 through the 1880s', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

S. Tanaka 1994, 'Imaging history: inscribing belief in the nation', Journal of Asian Studies 53: 24-44.

K-H. Tai 1989, 'Confucianism and Japanese modernization: a study of Shibusawa Eiichi', in Hung-chao Tai, ed., Confucianism and economic development: an oriental alternative? (Washington, DC: Washington Institute Press).

S. Tanaka 2004, New times in modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

M.Tanimoto 2012, ‘The role of housework in everyday life: another aspect of consumption in modern Japan’, in J. Hunter and P. Francks (eds) 2012, The historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000 (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

D-M. Tao 1991, 'Traditional Chinese social ethics in Japan, 1721-1943', Gest Library Journal 4.2: 68-84.

D-M. Tao 1997, 'Shigeno Yasutsugu as an advocate of "practical sinology" in Meiji Japan', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

B. Teters 1971, 'The Otsu affair: the formation of Japan's judicial conscience', in D. Wurfel (ed) , Meiji Japan's centennial: aspects of political thought and action (The University Press of Kansas).

L. A. Thompson 1998, 'The invention of the Yokozuna and the championship system, or, Futahaguro's revenge', in S. Vlastos, ed, Mirror of modernity: invented traditions of modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

G. Traganou 2003, The Tôkaidô road: travelling and representation in Edo and Meiji Japan (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

T. Y. Tsu 2017, ‘Jews of the East: Chinese Migrants in Japanese Discourse on Southward Expansion, 1880–1945', Japanese Studies 37: 331-352.

A. Walthall (ed) 2002, The human tradition in modern Japan (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources).

A. Waswo 1996, Modern Japanese society, 1868-1994 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

M. Wert 2013, Meiji Restoration losers: memory and Tokugawa supporters in modern Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

D. E. Westney 1987, Imitation and innovation: the transfer of Western organizational patterns to Meiji Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

K. Wigen 2005, ‘Discovering the Japanese alps: Meiji mountaineering and the quest for geographical enlightenment’, Journal of Japanese Studies 31: 1-26.

K. Wigen 2010, A malleable map: geographies in central Japan, 1600-1912 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

D. S. Wolff 2003, Notes from the periphery: Satsuma identities in early modern and modern Japan (Chicago: The University of Chicago).


Ainu, Hokkaidō and Okinawa[edit]

D. L. Howell 1997, 'The Meiji state and the logic of Ainu "protection"', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

D. L. Howell 2004, ‘Making “useful citizens” of Ainu subjects in early twentieth-century Japan’, Journal of Asian Studies 63: 5-29.

D. L. Howell 2005, Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

T. M. Loo 2014, Heritage politics: Shuri castle and Okinawa’s incorporation into modern Japan, 1879–2000 (Lanham MD: Lexington Books).

E. Ohnuki-Tierney 1997, 'The Ainu colonization and the development of "agrarian Japan" - a symbolic interpretation', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

S. Rabson 1997, 'Meiji assimilation policy in Okinawa: promotion, resistance, and "reconstruction"', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

R. Riddle 1996, Race, resistance and the Ainu of Japan (London: Routledge).


Cinema and photography[edit]

F. Berzieri 2009, Shashin: voyageurs et photographes au Japon, 1868-1912 (Paris: Phébus).

S. Dobson (ed.) 2004, Art & artifice: Japanese photographs of the Meiji era: selections from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston MA: MFA Publications).

J. A. Dym 2000, 'Benshi and the introduction of motion pictures to Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 55: 509-536.

K. M. Fraser 2011, Photography and Japan (London: Reaktion Books).

M. Fukuoka 2011, ‘Selling portrait photographs: early photographic business in Asakusa, Japan’, History of Photography 35: 353-374.

L. Gartlan 2009, ’Samuel Cocking and the rise of Japanese photography’, History of photography 33: 145-164.

L. Gartlan 2016, A career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and early Yokohama photography (Leiden: Brill).

A. Gerow 2010 Visions of Japanese modernity: articulations of cinema, nation, and spectatorship, 1895-1925 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

S. Jacobowitz 2015, Writing technology in Meiji Japan: a media history of modern Japanese literature and visual culture (Harvard University Asia Center).

A. Lacoste 2010, Felice Beato: a photographer on the Eastern road (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum).

N. C. Rousmaniere & M. Hirayama (eds) 2004, Reflecting truth: Japanese photography in the nineteenth century (Leiden: Hotei).

C. Worswick 1979, Japan: photographs 1854-1905 (New York: Knopf).


Education and literacy[edit]

J. R. Bartholemew 1978, 'Japan's Modernization and the imperial universities, 1876-1920', Journal of Asian Studies 37: 251-71.

J. R. Bartholemew 1982, 'Science, bureaucracy and freedom in Meiji and Tasho Japan', in T. Najita & J. V. Koschmann, eds, Conflict in modern Japanese history: the neglected tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

E. R. Beauchamp 1980, ‘William Elliot Griffis and Japanese higher education: the view from Tokyo, 1872-1874’, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 4th series, 15: 73-92.

W. H. Brock 1981, ‘The Japanese connexion: engineering in Tokyo, London and Glasgow at the end of the nineteenth century’, British journal for the history of science 14: 227-43.

J. Caiger 1968, 'The aims and content of school courses in Japanese history, 1872-1945', in E. Skrzypczak, ed, Japan's Modern Century (Sophia University Press)

S. De Mayo 1993-4, ‘Gli oyatoi gaikokujin e l’introduzione dell’ingegneria civile in Giappone. Richard Henry Brunton: ingegnere “figlio del suo tempo”’, Il Giappone 31: 209-36 & 32: 63-85.

S. De Mayo 1998, ‘Engineering education in Japan after the Iwakura Mission’, in I. Nish, ed., The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: a new assessment (Richmond: The Japan Library).

S. De Mayo 2003, ‘The development of an educational system at the beginning of the Meiji era: reference models from Western countries’, Historia scientiarum 12.3: 183-99.

F. Ehmcke 1979, 'Geistige Führer der Meiji-Zeit: Die Gründer von Privatschulen', Oriens Extremus 26: 1-12.

W. M. Fridell 1970, 'Government ethics textbooks in late Meiji Japan', Journal of Asian Studies 29: 823-833.

S. Frühstück 2017, Playing war: children and the paradoxes of modern militarism in Japan (Oakland CA: University of California Press).

C. Galan 1998, 'Le paysage scolaire à la veille de la Restauration de Meiji - écoles et manuels', Ebisu 17: 5-48, 69-95.

C. Galan 1998, 'L'enseignement de la lecture a la veille de la promulgation du gakusei (1872)', Ebisu 18: 5-47.

C. Galan 1999, 'Les manuels de langue au lendemain de la Restauration de Meiji', Cipango 8: 215-57.

C. Galan 1999, 'L'enseignement de la lecture à la veille de la promulgation de Gakusei (1872)', Ebisu 18: 5-47.

C. Galan 1999, 'L'ébauche d'un nouvel enseignement de la lecture ecrite à la veille des reformes educatives de 1872', Ebisu 22: 77-124.

C. Galan 2001, L'enseignement de la lecture au Japon: politique et education (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail).

C. Galan 2006, ‘Le nouveau paradigme educatif du debut de Meiji: analyse d’une liasse de compositions ecrites par des ecoliers japonais Durant les années 1870’, in A. Horiuchi, ed., Education au Japon et en Chine (Paris: Les Indes Savantes), pp. 21-48.

M. Gavin 1998, 'Educating for a new Japan: Shiga Shigetaka's criticism of the imperial education system', Japanese studies 18: 281-294.

M. Gavin 2001, Shiga Shigetaka, 1863-1927: the forgotten enlightener (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press).

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S. C. Ushioda 1977, 'Women and war in Meiji Japan: the case of Fukuda Hideko (1865-1927)', Peace and change: a journal of peace research 4: 9-12

S. C. Ushioda 1984, 'Fukuda Hideko and the woman's world of Meiji Japan', in H. Conroy, S. T. W. Davis & W. Patterson, eds, Japan in transition: thought and action in the Meiji era, 1868-1912 (London: Associated University Presses).

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Koseki[edit]

D. Chapman and K. J. Krogness (eds) 2014, Japan’s household registration system and citizenship: koseki, identification and documentation (Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge).

D. Chapman 2014, ‘Managing “strangers” and “undecidables”: population registration in Meiji Japan’, in D. Chapman and K. J. Krogness, eds, Japan’s household registration system and citizenship: koseki, identification and documentation (Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge), pp. 93-110.

I. Kamoto 2014, ‘Creating spatial hierarchies: the koseki, early international marriage and intermarriage’, in D. Chapman and K. J. Krogness, eds, Japan’s household registration system and citizenship: koseki, identification and documentation (Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge), pp. 79-92.

K. Mori 2014, ‘The development of the modern koseki’, in D. Chapman and K. J. Krogness, eds, Japan’s household registration system and citizenship: koseki, identification and documentation (Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge), pp. 59-75.


Language, writing and censorship[edit]

M. Anderson 1997, 'National literature as cultural monument: instituting Japanese National Community', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

F. Coulmas 1989, 'The function of loan translations for the modernization of Japanese during the Meiji period', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 4th series, 4: 49-65.

A. S. Hansen 2014, ‘Practicing Kokugo: teachers in Hokkaido and Okinawa classrooms, 1895-1904’, Journal of Japanese Studies 40: 329-351.

D. Howland 2001, Translating the West: language and political reason in nineteenth-century Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

J. Hunter 1987, 'Language reform in Meiji Japan: the views of Maejima Hisoka', in S. Henny & J-P. Lehmann, eds, Themes and theories in modern Japanese history (London: Athlone Press).

S. Jacobowitz 2015, Writing technology in Meiji Japan: a media history of modern Japanese literature and visual culture (Harvard University Asia Center).

S. Konishi 2013, ‘Translingual world order: language without culture in post-Russo-Japanese war Japan’, Journal of Asian Studies 72: 91-114.

E. Lozerand 1999, 'La constitution d'une "littérature nationale" dans le Japon de 1890', in J-J. Tschudin & C. Hamon, eds, La nation en marche; études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji (Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier).

J. S. Miller 1994, 'Japanese shorthand and sokkibon', Monumenta Nipponica 49: 471-487.

R. H. Mitchell 1983, Censorship in imperial Japan (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press).

J. Rubin 1984, Injurious to public morals: writers and the Meiji state (Seattle: University of Washington Press).

T. Sakamoto 1978, 'Il contributo di Maejima Hisoka al movimento del Genbun'itchi', Il Giappone 8: 37-46.

M. Tomasi 2004, Rhetoric in modern Japan: Western influences on the development of narrative and oratorical style (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

T. J. Van Compernolle 2010, ‘A utopia of self-help: imagining rural Japan in the Meiji-era novels of ambition’, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 70: 61-103.

J. Wakabayashi 2017, ’The Meiji government’s strategic deployment of non-fiction translation as a vehicle of modernization’, in L. Wong, ed., Translation and modernization in East Asia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong), pp. 1-30.


Medicine, disease and mortality[edit]

S. L. Burns 1997, 'Contemplating places: the hospital as modern experience in Meiji Japan', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

S. L. Burns 1998, ‘Bodies and borders: syphilis, prostitution, and the nation in nineteenth-century Japan’, US-Japan women’s journal 15: 3-30.

S. L. Burns 2000, ‘Constructing the national body: public health and the nation in nineteenth-century Japan’, Timothy Brook and Andre Schmid, eds, Nation works. Asian elites and national identities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press), pp. 17-50.

F. Drixler 2008, Infanticide and Fertility in Eastern Japan: Discourse and Demography, 1660-1880 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

H. Fuess 2014, ‘Informal imperialism and the 1879 Hesperia incident: containing cholera and challenging extraterritoriality in Japan’, Japan Review 27: 103-140.

M. H. Fukuda 1994, ‘Public health in modern Japan: from regimen to hygiene’, in Dorothy Porter, ed., The history of public health and the modern state (Amsterdam: Rodopi), pp. 385-402.

A. Hayami 1986, 'Population changes', in M. B. Jansen & G. Rozman, eds, Japan in transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

W. Hirokawa 2019, ‘The struggle to modernize community medicine in late nineteenth-century Japan’, Urbanscope 10.

S. Ito 1993, 'An analysis of mortality in Meiji cities', Japan Forum 5.1: 37-51.

A. B. Jannetta 1993, 'Diseases of the early modern period in Japan', in K. F. Kiple, ed., The Cambridge World history of human disease (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 385-9

A. B. Jannetta 1997, 'From physician to bureaucrat: the case of Nagayo Sensei', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

W. Johnston 1995, The modern epidemic. A history of tuberculosis in Japan (Cambridge MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University).

H. Kim 2014, Doctors of Empire: medical and cultural encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).

M. Low 2005, Building a modern Japan: science, technology, and medicine in the Meiji era and beyond (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

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M. J. Ravina 2010, ‘The Apocryphal suicide of Saigō Takamori: samurai, seppuku, and the politics of legend’, Journal of Asian Studies 69: 691-721.

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A. Takahashi 2003, The development of the Japanese nursing profession: adopting and adapting Western influences (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

Y. Terazawa 2001, 'Gender, knowledge and power: reproductive medicine in Japan, 1790-1930', PhD Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles.

M. Umemura 2012, ‘Reviving tradition: patients and the shaping of Japan’s traditional medicines industry’, in J. Hunter and P. Francks (eds) 2012, The historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)


Postal service[edit]

J. Hunter 2012, ‘People and Post Offices: consumption of postal services in Japan from the late nineteenth century’, in J. Hunter and P. Francks (eds) 2012, The historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000 (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

P. L. Machlachlan 2012, The people’s post office: the history and politics of the Japanese postal system, 1871-2010 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).


Poverty, discrimination and crime[edit]

A. Abele 2019, ‘The dissolution of outcast status and outcast property in Meiji Japan’, Urbanscope 10.

D. V. Botsman 2014, ‘Of pity and poison: imprisoning women in modern Japan’, in S. L. Burns and B. J. Brooks, eds., Gender and law in the Japanese imperium (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

S. L. Burns 2006, ‘When abortion became a crime: abortion, infanticide, and the law in early Meiji Japan’, in D. L. Howell and J. C. Baxter, eds, History and folklore studies in Japan (Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies), pp. 37-55.

J. B. Cornell 1966, 'From caste patron to entrepreneur and political ideologue: transformation in 19th and 20th century outcaste leadership elites', in B. S. Silberman & H. D. Harootunian, eds, Modern Japanese leadership: transition and change (University of Arizona Press).

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M. Hane 1982, Peasants, rebels and outcastes: the underside of modern Japan (New York: Pantheon Books).

M. Hirota 1997, 'Discrimination in modern Japan', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

J. L. Huffman 2018, Down and out in late Meiji Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

H. Kanazu 2003, 'The criminalization of abortion in Meiji Japan', US-Japan women's journal 24: 35-58.

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J. B. Leavell 1984, 'The policing of society', in H. Conroy, S. T. W. Davis & W. Patterson, eds, Japan in transition: thought and action in the Meiji era (London: Associated University Presses).

N. McCormack 2002, 'Buraku emigration in the Meiji era - other ways to become "Japanese"', East Asian History 23: 87-108.

P. Pons 1999, Misère et crime au Japon - du XVIIe siècle à nos jours (Arles: Philippe Picquier).

J. Porter 2019, ‘Panhandling, subsistence and poverty management in Meiji Tokyo’, Urbanscope 10.

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H. Worm 1990, 'Die Polizei als Kindermädchen der Nation', Oriens Extremus 33.1: 141-152.


Protest[edit]

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P. Calvetti 1987, The Ashio copper mine revolt (1907): a case study on the changes of the labor relations in Japan at the beginning of the XX century, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Dipartimento de Studi Asiatici (Naples).

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M. Hane 1988, Reflections on the way to the gallows: rebel women in prewar Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

D. L. Howell 2006, ‘Making sense of senseless violence in early Meiji Japan’, in D. L. Howell and J. C. Baxter, eds, History and folklore studies in Japan (Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies), pp. 57-75.

P. Hurth 1992, 'Une révolte paysanne au début de l'ère Meiji: la révolte de Kokawa en 1876 et ses suites politiques', Cipango 1: 35-57.

I. Inkster 1988, 'The other side of Meiji: conflict and conflict management', in G. McCormack & Y. Sugimoto, eds, The Japanese trajectory: modernization and beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

G. Lade 1971, 'The origins and spirit of the Kumamoto Keishinto', Papers in Far Eastern History 4: 53-72.

G. Lade 1972, 'The uprising of the Kumamoto Keishinto, 24 October 1876', Papers in Far Eastern History 5: 37-57.

A. Lyons 2019, ‘Meiji prison religion: benevolent punishments and the national creed’, Journal of religion in Japan 7: 219-249.

K. Nimura 1998 (T. Boardman & A. Gordon trans; A. Gordon ed), The Ashio riot of 1907: a social history of mining in Japan (Durham: Duke University Press).

F. G. Notehelfer 1984, 'Between tradition and modernity: labor and the Ashio copper mine', Monumenta Nipponica 39: 11-24.

F. G. Notehelfer 1985, 'Japan's first pollution incident', Journal of Japanese Studies 1: 351-383.

J. M. Rogers 1997, 'Divine destruction: the Shinpuren rebellion of 1876', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

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A. Walthall 1992, ‘Caught in the middle: gunchū sōdai in the Restoration era’, Asian cultural studies 18: 81-105.


Publishing and the press[edit]

T. Akami 2012, Japan's news propaganda and Reuters' news empire in northeast Asia, 1870-1934 (Dordrecht: Republic of Letters).

A. A. Altman 1965, 'The emergence of the press in Meiji Japan', PhD dissertation, Princeton University.

A. A. Altman 1981, 'The press and social cohesion during a period of change: the case of early Meiji Japan', Modern Asian Studies 15: 865-876.

A. A. Altman 1986, 'The press', in M. B. Jansen & G. Rozman, eds, Japan in transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

T. Bennett (ed) 2006, The Illustrated London News complete record of the opening and modernization of Japan, 1853-1899 (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

T. Bennett, H. Cortazzi and J. Hoare (eds.) 2011, Japan and The Graphic: compete record of reported events, 1870-1899 (Boston: Global Oriental).

R. Clements 2011, 'Suematsu Kenchō and the first English translation of Genji monogatari: translation, tactics, and the "women's question"', Japan Forum 23: 25-47.

R. L. Copeland 2000, Lost leaves: women writers of Meiji Japan (Honolulu: Univesrity of Hawai'i Press).

P. Duus 1999. ‘The Marumaru Chinbun and the origins of the modern Japanese political cartoon’, International journal of comic art 1: 42-55.

P. Duus 1999. ‘Japan’s first modern manga magazine’, Impressions 21: 31-41.

P. Duus 2013, ‘“Punch pictures”: localising Punch in Meiji Japan’, in H. Harder & B. Mittler, eds, Asian Punches: transcultural affair (Berlin: Springer), 307-335.

E. Eichleter 2019, ‘The outside perspective: the Treaty Port press, the Meiji Restoration and the image of a modern Japan’, Mutual images 6: 93-114.

O. K. Falt 1990, The clash of interests: the transformation of Japan in 1861-1881 in the eyes of the local Anglo-Saxon press (Rovaniemi: Historical Association of Northern Finland)

O. K. Falt 1999, 'From a bread basket of Pacific Asia into a paragon of progress - views of the Western newspapers published in Japan in the 1870s concerning the future role of Japan', Romanian Journal of Japanese Studies 1.

C. Foxwell 2018, ‘The art of reframing the news: early Meiji shinbun nishiki-e in context’, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 78: 47-90.

M. Fraleigh 2010, ‘Japan’s first war reporter: Kishida Ginkô and the Taiwan expedition’, Japanese studies 30: 43-66.

M. J. Heijdra 2004, ‘The development of modern typography in East Asia, 1850-2000’, East Asian Library Journal 11.2: 100-168.

G. Groemer 1994, 'Singing the news: yomiuri in Japan during the Edo and Meiji periods', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 54: 233-261.

J. E. Hoare 1975, 'The "Bankoku Shinbun" Affair: foreigners, the Japanese press and extraterritoriality in early Meiji Japan', Modern Asian Studies 9: 289-302.

S. Hotwagner 2013, ‘Punch’s heirs between the (battle) lines: satirical journalism in the age of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905’, in H. Harder & B. Mittler, eds, Asian Punches: transcultural affair (Berlin: Springer), 337-64.

J. L. Huffman 1980, Politics of the Meiji press: the life of Fukuchi Gen'ichiro (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii).

J. L. Huffman 1984, 'Managing the news: Fukuchi Gen'ichiro attempts to balance two worlds', in H. Conroy, S. T. W. Davis & W. Patterson, eds, Japan in transition: thought and action in the Meiji era (London: Associated University Presses)

J. L. Huffman 1984, 'Freedom and the press in Meiji-Taisho japan', Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 19: 137-171.

J. L. Huffman 1997, Creating a public: people and press in Meiji Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

J. L. Huffman 1997, 'Commercialization and the changing world of the mid-Meiji press', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

J. L. Huffman 2001, ‘Edward H. House: questions of meaning and influence’, Japan Forum 13: 15-25.

J. L. Huffman 2003, A Yankee in Meiji Japan: the crusading journalist Edward H. House (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield).

T. Kakegawa 2001, ‘The Japan Chronicle and its editors: reflecting Japan to the press and the people, 1891-1940’, Japan Forum 13: 27-40.

Y. Kerim 2018, Electrified voices: how the telephone, phonograph, and radio shaped modern Japan, 1868-1945 (New York: Columbia University Press).

P. F. Kornicki 1998, The book in Japan: a cultural history from the beginnings to the nineteenth century (Leiden: Brill).

R. Meade 2019, ‘Juvenile science and the Japanese nation: Shōnen’en and the cultivation of scientific subjects’, Japan Review 34: 113-137.

S. Noma 1914, The nine magazines of Kodansha: the autobiography of a Japanese publisher (London: Methuen).

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R. Payne 2007, 'Early Meiji Kabuki censorship', Japan Forum 19: 317-339.

K. Ragsdale 1998, 'Marriage, the newspaper business, and the Nation-State: ideology in the late Meiji serialized Katei Shōsetsu', Journal of Japanese Studies 24: 229-256.

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J. Rogala 2004, The genius of Mr Punch: life in Yokohama’s foreign settlement: Charles Wirgman and the Japan Punch (Yokohama: Yurindo).

C. Séguy 1993, Histoire de la presse japonaise (Paris: Publications orientalistes de France).

N. Shockey 2019, The typographic imagination: reading and writing in Japan’s age of modern print media (New York: Columbia University Press).

B. K. L. So & S. SO 2017, ‘Entrepreneurship in the textbook business in modern East Asia: Kink?d? of Meiji Japan and the Commercial Press of early twentieth-century China’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 80: 547-569.

Y. Takezawa 2015, 'Translating and transforming "race": early Meiji period textbooks',Japanese studies 35: 5-21.

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G. Woldering 2005, ‘Seiyo zasshi (1867-69) – Die erste japanische Zeitschrift’, in S. Kôhn and M. Schönbein, eds., Facetten der japanischen Populär- und Medienkultur 1 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowtz Verlag), pp. 93-126.


Railways[edit]

S. J. Ericson 1996, The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

S. J. Ericson 2005, ‘Taming the iron horse: Western locomotive makers and technology transfer in Japan, 1870-1914’, in G. L. Bernstein, A. Gordon, and K. Wildman Nakai, eds, Public spheres, private lives in modern Japan, 1600-1950: essays in honor of Albert M. Craig (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center).

D. Free 2008, Early Japanese railways 1853-1914: engineering triumphs that transformed Meiji-era Japan (Tokyo: Tuttle).

N. Nakamura 2002, ‘Railway systems and time consciousness in modern Japan’, Japan Review 14: 13-38.

N. Nakamura 2012, ‘Getting on a train: railway passengers and the growth of train travel in Meiji Japan’, in J. Hunter and P. Francks (eds) 2012, The historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000 (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

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Religion[edit]

E. Anderson 2007, ‘Tamura Naoomi’s The Japanese Bride: Christianity, Nationalism, and Family in Meiji Japan’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34: 203-228.

K. Antoni 1993, 'Die 'Trennung von Göttern und Buddhas' (shimbutsu-bunri) am Omiya-Schrein in den Jahren der Meiji-Restauration', in K. Antoni & M-V. Blümmel, eds, Festgabe für Nelly Naumann, itteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens 119.

J. Breen 1996, 'Beyond the prohibition: Christianity in restoration Japan' in J. Breen and M. Williams (eds), Japan and Christianity: impacts and responses (london: Macmillan).

J. Breen 1998, 'Public statements and private thoughts: the Iwakura Embassy in London and the religious question, International studies (LSE) IS/98/349: 53-67.

J. Breen 1998, ‘“Earnest desires”: the Iwakura Embassy and Meiji religious policy’, Japan Forum 10: 151-165.

J. Breen 2002, 'Ideologues, bureaucrats and priests: on "Shinto" and "Buddhism" in early Meiji Japan', in J. Breen and M. Teeuwen, eds., Shinto in history: ways of the kami (London: Curzon).

T. W. Burkman 1974, 'The Urakami incidents and the struggle for religious toleration in early Meiji Japan', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 1: 143-216.

M. Collcutt 1986, 'Buddhism: the threat of eradication', in M. B. Jansen & G. Rozman, eds, Japan in transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

M. A-M. Curley 2019, ‘Kiyozawa Manshi and the spirit of the Meiji’, Journal of religion in Japan 7: 250-275.

W. Davis 1989, 'Buddhism and the modernization of Japan', History of religions 28: 304-39.

T. Fujii 2002, 'Nationalism and Japanese Budhism in the lat Tokugawa period and early Meiji', in K. Antoni et al (eds), Religion and national identity in the Japanese context (Hamburg: LIT Publishers).

R. Gagan 1992, A sensitive independence. Canadian Methodist women missionaries in Canada and the Orient 1881-1925 (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press).

A. G. Grapard 1984, 'Japan's ignored cultural revolution: the separation of Shinto and Buddhist divinities in Meiji (Shinbutsu bunri) and a case study: Tonomine', History of Religions 23: 240-265.

H. Hardacre 1987-88, 'The Shinto priesthood in early Meiji Japan: preliminary enquiries', History of Religions 27: 294-320.

H. Hardacre 2002, Religion and society in nineteenth-century Japan: a study of the southern Kanto region, using late Edo and Early Meiji gazetters, Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No. 41 (Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies).

R. Ishikawa 1998, 'The social response of Buddhists to the modernization of Japan: the contrasting lives of two Soto Zen monks', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 25: 87-116.

R. Jaffe 1998, 'Meiji religious policy, Soto Zen, and the clerical marriage problem', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 25: 45-86.

R. Jaffe 1997, 'The Buddhist cleric as Japanese subject: Buddhism and the household registration system', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

J. A. Josephson 2012, The invention of religion in Japan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

J. E. Ketelaar 1990, Of heretics and martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and its persecution (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

O. Klautau 2008, ‘Against the ghosts of recent past: Meiji scholarship and the discourse on Edo-Period Buddhist decadence,’ Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 35: 263–304.

P. Kleinen 2002, 'Nishi-Hongan-ji and national identity in Bakumatsu and early Meiji Japan', in K. Antoni et al (eds), Religion and national identity in the Japanese context (Hamburg: LIT Publishers).

H. M. Krämer 2015, Shimaji Mokurai and the reconception of religon and the secular in modern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

J. Kyburz 1998, 'Tell une bouffée de "vent divin". Le culte d'Ise au début de l'ère Meiji', Cipango 7: 183-214.

T. E. Maxey 2014, The "Greatest Problem": religion and state formation in Meiji Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

M. Mohr 1998, 'Japanese Zen schools and the transition to Meiji: a plurality of responses in the nineteenth century', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 25: 167-214.

M. Mohr 2014, Buddhism, unitarianism, and the Meiji competition for universality (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

M. Nakajima 2010, ‘Shinto deities that crossed the sea: Japan’s “Overseas Shrines,” 1868 to 1945’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 37: 21-46.

E. Namiki 2019, 'Honda Chikaatsu’s Spiritual Learning as a means of bringing blessings and guiding the nation’, Journal of religion in Japan 7: 276-305.

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T. Odori 2004, ‘Die reformiert-presbyterianische Kirche im Japan der Meiji-Zeit: eine Keimzelle der Demokratie’, Asiatische Studien Etudes Asiatiques 58: 439-449.

E. G. Ooms 1993, Women & millenarian protest in Meiji Japan: Deguchi Nao and Ōmotokyō (Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asia Program).

G. M. Oshiro 2007, ‘Nitobe Inazō and the Sapporo Band: reflections on the dawn of Protestant Christianity in early Meiji Japan’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34: 90–126.

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K.Sakamoto 2002, 'The structure of state Shinto: its creation, development and demise' in J. Breen and M. Teeuwen, eds., Shinto in history: ways of the kami (London: Curzon).

M. Schrimpf 2018, ‘Religious responses to secularization in Meiji Japan: the case of Inoue Enry?’, in M. Wachutka, M. Schrimpf, & B. Staemmler, eds, Religion, Politik und Ideologie: Beiträge zu einer kritischen Kulturwissenschaft. Festschrift für Klaus Antoni zum 65. Geburtstag (Munich: Iudicium).

J. M. Shields & T. Miura 2019, ‘Japanese religions and the Meiji Restoration: a reconsideration’, Journal of religion in Japan 7: 197-200.

S. Shimazono 2009, ‘State Shinto in the lives of the people: the establishment of emperor worship, modern nationalism, and Shrine Shinto in late Meiji,’ Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 36: 93-124.

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E. Van Goethem 2018, ‘Heian Jingū: monument or Shintō shrine?’, Journal of religion in Japan 7: 1-26.

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Urbanization[edit]

O. Benesch 2018, ‘Castles and the militarisation of urban society in imperial Japan’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 28: 107-134.

O. Benesch & R. Zwigenberg 2019, Japan’s castles: citadels of modernity in war and peace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

J. Breen, H. Maruyama and H. Takagi 2017, Kyoto’s Renaissance: ancient capital for modern Japan (Folkestone: Renaissance Books).

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K. Nakagawa 2000, 'Ambitions, "family-centredness" and expenditure patterns in a changing urban class structure: Tokyo in the early twentieth century', Continuity and change 15: 77-98.

G. Rozman 1986, 'Castle towns in transition', in M. B. Jansen & G. Rozman, eds, Japan in transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

M. Sawada 1996, Tokyo life, New York dreams: urban Japanese visions of America 1890-1924 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

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M. W. Steele 1997, 'Moving into the city: Yoshino Taizo and the incorporation of the Tama districts into Tokyo in 1893', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

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J. Hunter 2003, Women and the labour market in Japan's industrialising economy: the textile industry before the Pacific War (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

J. Hunter 2014, ‘Reviving the Kansai cotton industry: engineering expertise and knowledge sharing in the early Meiji period’, Japan Forum 26: 65-87.

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H. C. Maat 1991, 'Financial development and industrial organisation in Japan, 1873-1899: the case of Mitsui', Japan Forum 3.1: 23-35.

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B. K. Marshall 1967, Capitalism and nationalism in prewar Japan: the ideology of the business elite (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

B. Martin 1990, 'The German role in the modernization of Japan: the pitfall of blind acculturation', Oriens Extremus 33.1: 77-88.

S. Metzger-Court 1991, 'Economic progress and social cohesion: 'Self help' and the achieving of a delicate balance in Meiji Japan', Japan Forum 3.1: 11-21.

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Mitsui Gomei Kaisha (ed) 1933, The House of Mitsui (Tokyo: Mitsui Gomei Kaisha).

N. Miyoshi 2004, Henry Dyer - pioneer of engineering education in Japan (Folkestone: Global Oriental).

T. Morris-Suzuki 1989, A history of Japanese economic thought (London: Routledge).

T. Morris-Suzuki 1995, 'The great translation: traditional and modern science in Japan's industrialization', Historia scientiarum 56: 103-116.

T. Najita 2009, Ordinary economies in Japan: a historical perspective, 1750-1950 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

K. Nakagawa and H. Rosovsky 1963, 'The case of the dying kimono: the influence of changing fashions on the development of the Japanese woolen industry', Business history review 37: 59-80.

J. I. Nakamura 1965, 'Growth of Japanese agriculture, 1875-1920', in W. W. Lockwood, ed, The State and economic enterprise in Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

J. I. Nakamura 1966, Agricultural production and the economic development of Japan, 1873-1922 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

M. Nakano 1996, Makiko's diary: a merchant wife in 1910 Kyoto, edited by K. Smith (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

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K. Ohkawa & H. Rosovsky 1965, 'A century of Japanese economic growth', in W. W. Lockwood, ed, The State and economic enterprise in Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

K. Ohkawa & H. Rosovsky 1978, 'Capital formation in Japan', in P. Mathias & M. M. Postan, eds, The Cambridge economic history of Europe, vol. 7, part 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

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K. B. Pyle 1974, 'The Advantages of followership: German economics and Japanese bureaucrats, 1890-1925', Journal of Japanese Studies 1: 127-164.

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O. Saito 1986, 'The rural economy: commercial agriculture, by-employment, and wage work', in M. B. Jansen & G. Rozman, eds, Japan in transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

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T. C. Smith 1959, The agrarian origins of Modern Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

T. C. Smith 1988, Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

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K. Wigen 1995, The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750-1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

W. D. Wray 1984, Mitsubishi and the NYK, 1870-1914: business strategy in the Japanese shipping industry (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press)

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K. Yamamura 1967a, 'The role of the samurai in the development of modern banking in Japan', Journal of Economic History 27: 198-220.

K. Yamamura 1967b, 'The founding of Mitsubishi: a case study in Japanese business history', Business History Review 41: 141-160.

K. Yamamura 1968, 'A re-examination of entrepreneurship in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)', Economic History Review 21: 144-158.

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K. Antoni 1990, 'Inoue Tetsujirô (1855-1944) und die Entwicklung der Staatsideologie in der zweiten Hälfte der Meiji-Zeit', Oriens Extremus 33.1: 99-115.

H. Ballhatchett 1988, 'Confucianism and Christianity in Meiji Japan: the case of Kozaki Hiromichi', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1988: 349-369.

A. E. Barshay 1988, State and intellectual in imperial Japan: the public man in crisis (Berkeley: University of California Press).

O. Benesch 2014, Inventing the way of the samurai: nationalism, internationalism and bushidō in modern Japan (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

N. Berlinguez-Kono 1999, 'Naissance de la thèse de l'unicité nippo-coréenne (nissen-dosoron)', in J-J. Tschudin & C. Hamon, eds, La nation en marche; études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji (Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier)

R. E. Breuker 2005, ‘Contested objectivities: Ikeuchi Hiroshi, Kim Sanggi and the tradition of oriental history’, East Asian History 29: 69-106.

J. Y. Chung 2004, ‘Eugenics and the coinage of scientific terminology in Meiji Japan and China’, in J. A. Fogel, ed., Late Qing China and Meiji Japan: political and cultural aspects (Norwalk, CT: EastBridge).

J. Clark 2005, ‘Okakura Tenshin and aesthetic nationalism’, East Asian History 29: 1-38.

H. Conroy, S. T. W. Davis & W. Patterson (eds) 1984, Japan in transition: thought and action in the Meiji era (London: Associated University Presses).

J. D. Crump 1983, The origins of socialist thought in Japan (London: Croom Helm).

S. T. W. Davis 1980, Intellectual change and political development in early modern Japan: Ono Azusa, a case study (Associated Universities Presses).

R. Devine 1979, 'The Way of the King: an early Meiji essay on government', Monumenta Nipponica 34 :49-72.

K.M. Doak 1996, 'Ethnic nationalism and romanticism in early twentieth-century Japan', Journal of Japanese Studies 22: 77-104.

K. M. Doak 2007, A history of nationalism in modern Japan: placing the people (Leiden: Brill).

P. Duus 1974, 'Whig history, Japanese style: the Min'yusha historians and the Meiji Restoration', Journal of Asian Studies 33: 415-36.

G. Elison 1967, 'Kotoku Shusui: the change in thought', Monumenta Nipponica 22: 437-81.

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J. A. Fogel 1997, 'Kano Naoki's relationship to Kangaku', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

J. A. Fogel 2015, The emergence of the modern Sino-Japanese lexicon: seven studies (Leiden: Brill).

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M. Gavin 1998, 'Educating for a new Japan: Shiga Shigetaka's criticism of the Imperial education system', Japanese studies 18: 281-94.

M. Gavin 2000, ‘Nihon fūkeiron (Japanese landscape): nationalistic or imperialistic?’, Japan Forum 12: 219-231.

M. Gavin 2001, Shiga Shigetaka, 1863-1927: the forgotten enlightener (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press).

T. S. George 2005, ‘Tanaka Shōzō’s vision of an alternative constiutional modernity for Japan’, in G. L. Bernstein, A. Gordon, and K. Wildman Nakai, eds, Public spheres, private lives in modern Japan, 1600-1950: essays in honor of Albert M. Craig (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center).

C. Gluck 1985, Japan's modern myths: ideology in the late Meiji period (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

C. Gluck 1990, 'The meaning of ideology in modern Japan', in A. Boscaro et al., eds, Rethinking Japan, vol.2 (The Japan Library)

G. R. C. Godart 2008, ‘”Philosophy” or “Religion”? The confrontation with foreign categories in late nineteenth century Japan,’ Journal of the History of Ideas 69: 71-91.

G. C. Godart 2017, Darwin, dharma, and the divine: evolutionary theory and religion in modern Japan (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i).

G. J. N. Gooday & M. F. Low 1998, ‘Technology transfer and cultural exchange. Western scientists and engineers encounter late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan’, Osiris 13: 99-128

U. Granados 2008, ‘Japanese expansion into the South China Sea: colonization and conflict, 1902-1939’, Journal of Asian History 42: 117-142.

S. Guex 2005, ‘Hattori Unokichi et Uno Tetsuto: les derniers kangaku-sha’, Asiatische Studien Etudes Asiatiques 59: 1021-1038.

C. Hamon 1999, 'Confucius et la règle à calcul - Sagesse et vertu dans les affaires selon Shibusawa Eiichi', in J-J. Tschudin & C. Hamon, eds, La nation en marche; études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji (Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier).

M. Hane 1969, 'The Sources of English liberal concepts in early Meiji Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 24: 259-272.

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P. Harrell 2012, Asia for the Asians: China in the lives of five Meiji Japanese (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

T. R. H. Havens 1968. 'Scholars and politics in nineteenth-century Japan: the case of Nishi Amane', Modern Asian Studies 2: 315-24.

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T. R. H. Havens 1970, Nishi Amane and modern Japanese thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

A. Hirai 1968, 'Ancestor worship in Yatsuka Hozumi's state and constitutional theory', in E. Skrzypczak, ed, Japan's modern century (Sophia University).

A. Hirai 1979, 'Self-realization and common good: T. H. Green in Meiji ethical thought', Journal of Japanese Studies 5: 107-136.

S. Hirakawa 1989, 'Japan's turn to the West', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 5.

D. R. Howland 2001, Translating the West: language and political reason in nineteenth-century Japan (University of Hawai'i Press).

J. L. Huffman 1980, The politics of the Meiji press: the life of Fukuchi Gen'ichiro (The University Press of Hawaii).

P. Hurth 2008, ‘Taguchi Ukichi, un libéral opiniâtre de l’ère Meiji’, Cipango 15: 129-173.

T. Ito & G. Akita 1981, 'The Yamagata-Tokutomi correspondence: press and politics in Meiji-Taisho Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 36: 391-423.

J. A. Josephson 2012, The invention of religion in Japan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

H. Kim 2014, Doctors of Empire: medical and cultural encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).

S. Kim 2010, ‘How physical laws were understood in mid-19th century east asia : a comparative study of Choe Han-gi and Nishi Amane’, Historia scientiarum 20: 1-20.

E. H. Kinmonth 1980, 'Nakamura Keiu and Samuel Smiles', American Historical Review 85: 535-556.

E. H. Kinmonth 1981, The self-made man in Meiji Japanese thought: from samurai to salary man (University of California Press).

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R. J. Lynn 2003, ‘Huang Zunxian and his association with Meiji era Japanese literati (bunjin): the formation of the early Meiji canon of kanshi’, Japan Review 15: 101-125.

K. Makoto 2002, ‘Tokugawa Confucianism and its Meiji Japan reconstruction’, in B.A. Elman, J.B. Duncan & H. Ooms, eds, Rethinking Confucianism: Past and present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam (UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series).

H. Matsuzawa 1984, 'Varieties of Bunmei Ron', in H. Conroy, S. T. W. Davis & W. Patterson, eds, Japan in transition: thought and action in the Meiji era (London: Associated University Presses).

M. Mehl 1998, History and the state in nineteenth-century Japan (London: Macmillan Press).

M. Mehl 2000, 'Chinese learning (kangaku) in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)', History 85: 48-66.

M. Mehl 2014, Not by Love Alone: The Violin in Japan, 1850–2010 (The Sound Book Press).

M. Mehl 2017, History and the state in nineteenth-century Japan: the world, the nation and the search for a modern past, 2nd edition (The Sound Book Press).

A. N. Meshscheryakov 2020, ’Ten essays on national character by Haga Yaichi’, Russian Japanology Review 3: 77-96.

R. H. Minear 1970, Japanese tradition and Western law: Emperor, state and law in the thought to Hozumi Yatsuka (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

M. Mohr 2014, Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji competition for universality (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

A. Nanta 2003, 'Koropokgrus, Ainous, Japonais, aux origins du peuplement de l'archipel. Debats chez les anthropologies, 1884-1913', Ebisu 30: 123-154.

J. Nawrocki 1998, Inoue Tetsujiro (1855-1944) und die Ideologie des Goetterlandes. Eine vergleichende Studie zur politischen Theologie des modernen Japan (Hamburg: Lit-Verlag).

M. Neuss 1974, 'Shiga Shigetaka: Wirken und Denken eines japanischen Nationalisten', Nachrichten der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens 115: 5-24.

F. G. Notehelfer 1971, Kōtoku Shusui: portrait of a Japanese radical (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

F. G. Notehelfer 1985, American samurai: Captain L. L. Janes and Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

F. G. Notehelfer 1990, 'On idealism and realism in the thought of Okakura Tenshin', Journal of Japanese Studies 16: 309-355.

S. Ogyu & B. D. Steben 2000, 'The construction of "Modern Yomeigaku" in Meiji Japan and its impact on China', East Asian History 20: 83-120.

R. Okada 1997, '"Landscape" and the Nation-State: a reading of Nihon fūkei ron', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

T. Okubo 2014, The quest for civilization: encounters with Dutch jurisprudence, political economy, and statistics at the dawn of modern Japan, trans. D. Noble (Leiden: Brill).

J. Pittau 1967, Political thought in early Meiji Japan, 1868-1889 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).

K. B. Pyle 1969, The new generation in Meiji Japan: problems of cultural identity, 1885-1895 (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

K. B. Pyle 1989, 'Meiji conservatism', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 5.

F. Q. Quo 1972, 'Democratic theories and Japanese modernization', Modern Asian Studies 6: 17-31.

T. Saito 2006, 'La problématique du <ri> chez Nishi Amane', Cipango 13: 77-100.

Y. Sakai 1978, 'The constitutionalism of Inoue Kowashi', in T. Najita & I. Scheiner, eds, Japanese thought in the Tokugawa period: methods and metaphors (University of Chicago Press)

A. Sakaki 2000, 'Kajin no kigū: the Meiji political novel and the boundaries of literature', Monumenta Nipponica 55: 83-108.

J. T. Sawada 2004, Practical pursuits: Religion, politics, and personal cultivation in nineteenth-century Japan (University of Hawai’i Press).

I. Scheiner 1966, 'Christian samurai and samurai values', in B. S. Silberman & H. D. Harootunian, eds, Modern Japanese leadership: transition and change (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).

I. Scheiner 1970, Christian converts and social protest in Meiji Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press).

E. Shimao 1989, ‘Some aspects of Japanese science, 1868-1945’, Annals of science 46: 69-91.

D. S. Shively 1965, 'Nishimura Shigeki: a Confucian view of modernization', in M. B. Jansen, ed., Changing Japanese attitudes toward modernization (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

S. L. Sievers 1983, Flowers in salt: the beginnings of feminist consciousness in modern Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

K. M. Staggs 1983, 'Defend the nation and love the truth: Inoue Enryo and the revival of Meiji Buddhism', Monumenta Nipponica 38: 251-281.

M. W. Steele 2015, ‘The unconventional origins of modern Japan: Mantei Ōga vs. Fukuzawa Yukichi’, in P. Nosco, J. E. Ketelaar & Y. Kojima, eds, Values, identity, and equality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan (Leiden: Brill), pp. 241-261.

K. L. Strong 1966, 'Kinoshita Naoe: non-conformist', Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 4: 2-34.

K. L. Strong 1977, Ox Against the storm: a biography of Tanaka Shozo, Japan's conservationist pioneer (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press).

A. D. Swale 1996, 'The ethics of Watsuji Tetsurō', in B. Carr, ed, Morals and society in Asian philosophy (Richmond: Curzon Press).

A. D. Swale 2000, The political thought of Mori Arinori: a study in Meiji conservatism (Richmond: Japan Library).

Tai Kuo-hui 1989, 'Confucianism and Japanese modernization: a study of Shibusawa Eiichi', in Hung-chao Tai, ed., Confucianism and economic development: an oriental alternative? (Washington, DC: Washington Institute Press).

Tao Demin 2004, ‘The influence of the Tongcheng school on Meiji Japan’, in J. A. Fogel, ed., Late Qing China and Meiji Japan: political and cultural aspects (Norwalk, CT: EastBridge).

B. Teters 1971, 'Kinjiseironko, thoughts on recent political discourse, by Kuga Katsunan', Monumenta Nipponica 26: 319-393.

R. T. Tierney 2015, Monster of the twentieth century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s first anti-imperialist movement (University of California Press).

N. Toyosawa 2013, ‘An imperial vision: Nihon fukeiron (On the landscape of Japan, 1894) and naturalized nature’, Studies on Asia Series IV 3.1: 25-64.

M. Wachutka 2002, 'Matching kami with modernity: an early Meiji intellectual's thought on electric light', in K. Antoni et al (eds), Religion and national identity in the Japanese context (Hamburg: LIT Publishers).

M. Wachutka 2013, Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: the modern transformation of 'National Learning' and the formation of scholarly societies (Leiden: Global Oriental).

H. Watanabe 2012, A history of Japanese political thought, 1600-1901, trans. D. Noble (Tokyo: International House of Japan).

N. Willems 2020, Ishikawa Sanshirō’s geographical imagination: transnational anarchism and the reconfiguration of everyday life in early twentieth-century Japan (Leiden: Leiden University Press).

S. Wilson 2005, ‘The discourse of national greatness in Japan, 1890-1919’, Japanese studies 25: 35-51.

S. Yamashita 1984, 'Herbert Spencer and Meiji Japan', in H. Conroy, S. T. W. Davis & W. Patterson, eds, Japan in transition: thought and action in the Meiji era (London: Associated University Presses).

S. H. Yamashita 1996, 'Confucianism and the Japanese state, 1904-1945', in Tu Wei-ming (ed), Confucian traditions in East Asian modernity: moral education and economic culture in Japan and the four Mini-Dragons (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press).


Baba Tatsui[edit]

N. Hagihara 1963, 'Baba Tatsui: an early Japanese liberal', St Antony's Papers 14: 121-143.

E. Soviak 1963, 'The case of Baba Tatsui: Western enlightenment, social change and the Early Meiji Intellectual', Monumenta Nipponica 18: 191-235.

E. Soviak 1966, 'An early Meiji intellectual in politics: Baba Tatsui and the Jiyutō', in B. S. Silberman & H. D. Harootunian, eds, Modern Japanese leadership: transition and change (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).


Katō Hiroyuki[edit]

W. Davis 1996, The moral and political naturalism of Baron Kato Hiroyuki (Berkeley: Center for Japanese Studies, University of California).

G. Pfulb 1999, ‘Staatsformenlehren in Japan im Übergan zu westlichen politischen Begriffen und Theorien. Katô Hiroyuki, 1861-1875’, Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 23: 269-283.

B. T. Wakabayashi 1984, 'Katō Hiroyuki and Confucian natural rights, 1861-1870', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 44: 469-92.



Fukuzawa Yukichi[edit]

C. Blacker 1964, The Japanese enlightenment: a study of the writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

A. M. Craig 1984, 'John Hill Burton and Fukuzawa Yukichi', Kindai Nihon kenkyū 1: 238-218.

M. A. Cusumano 1982, 'An enlightenment dialogue with Fukuzawa Yukichi: Ogawa Tameji's Kaika Mondō, 1874-1875', Monumenta Nipponica 37: 375-401.

D. A. Dilworth & U. Hirano 1969, Fukuzawa Yukichi's An Encouragement of Learning, Monumenta Nipponica monograph (Sophia University)

R. A. Hamed 1990, The Japanese and Egyptian enlightenment: a comparative study of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Rifa ah al-Tahtawi (Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa).

M. Hane 1984, 'Fukuzawa Yukichi and women's rights', in H. Conroy, S. T. W. Davis & W. Patterson, eds, Japan in transition: thought and action in the Meiji era (London: Associated University Presses).

D. Howland 2004, ‘”On the benefits of foreign relations with China”: a new development in Fukuzawa Yukichi’s theory of civilization’, in J. A. Fogel, ed., Late Qing China and Meiji Japan: political and cultural aspects (Norwalk, CT: EastBridge).

E. H. Kinmonth 1978, 'Fukuzawa reconsidered: Gakumon no susume and its audience', Journal of Asian Studies 37: 677-96.

E. Kiyooka (trans) 1966, The autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, revised edition (New York: Columbia University Press).

E. Kiyooka (ed) 1985, Fukuzawa Yukichi on education: selected works (University of Tokyo Press).

E. Kiyooka (ed.) 1988, Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese women: selected works (University of Tokyo Press).

T. Koizumi 1996, 'Fukuzawa Yukichi and religion', in B. Carr, ed, Morals and society in Asian philosophy (Richmond: Curzon Press).

K. Kracht 1982, 'Fukuzawa Yukichi - Studien und übersetzungen in westlichen Sprachen', Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 5: 471-473.

K. Miwa 1968, 'Fukuzawa Yukichi's "Departure from Asia": a prelude to the Sino-Japanese War', in E. Skrzypczak, ed, Japan's modern century (Sophia University).

T. Okubo 2014, The quest for civilization: encounters with Dutch jurisprudence, political economy, and statistics at the dawn of modern Japan, trans. D. Noble (Leiden: Brill).

W. H. Oxford 1973, The speeches of Fukuzawa (Tokyo: Hokuseido Press).

R. Sakamoto 2001, ‘Dream of a modern subject: Maruyama Masao, Fukuzawa Yukichi, and “Asia” as the limit of ideology critique’, Japanese studies 21: 137-154.

M. Saucier 1999, 'L'Etat et l'économie dans la pensée de Fukuzawa Yukichi à la lecture du Jitsugyo-ron', in J-J. Tschudin & C. Hamon, eds, La nation en marche; études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji (Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier).

A. Schad-Seifert 1996, 'Scottish political economy in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) - Fukuzawa Yukichi and liberal economic thought', in S. Metzger-Court & W. Pascha (eds), Japan's socio-economic evolution: continuity and change (Richmond: Japan Library).

M. W. Steele 2015. ‘The unconventional origins of modern Japan: Mantei Ôga vs. Fukuzawa Yukichi’, in P. Nosco, J. E. Ketelaar & Y. Kojima, eds, Values, identity, and equality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan (Leiden: Brill), pp. 241-261.

N. Tamaki 2001, Yukichi Fukuzawa 1835-1901: the spirit of enterprise in modern Japan (Basingstoke: Palgrave).


Meirokusha[edit]

W. R. Braisted 1976, Meiroku Zasshi: journal of the Japanese enlightenment (University of Tokyo Press).

D. J. Huish 1970, 'The nature and role of the Meirokusha: a reassessment', PhD dissertation, Australian National University.

D. J. Huish 1972, 'The Meirokusha: some grounds for reassessment', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 32: 208-29.

D. J. Huish 1977, 'Aims and achievements of the Meirokusha: fact and fiction', Monumenta Nipponica 32: 495-514.

S. Vinh 1985, 'The Meirokusha re-visited', in G. S. Dombrady & E. Ehmcke, eds, Referate des VI. Deutschen Japanologentages in Köln, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens 100.


Nakae Chōmin[edit]

E. Dufourmont 2011, ‘Nakae Chômin a-t-il pu être à la fois un adepte de Rousseau et un matérialiste athée?’, Ebisu 45: 5-25.

E. Dufourmont 2018, Rousseau au Japon. Nakae Chômin et le républicanisme français (1874-1890) (Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux).

E. Dufourmont & J. Joly (trans) 2018, Nakae Chômin, Ecrits sur Rousseau et les droits du peuple (Collection chinoise, Les Belles Lettres).

S. Matsumoto 1984, 'Nakae Chomin and Confucianism', in P. Nosco, ed, Confucianism and Tokugawa culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Nakae Chōmin 1984, A discourse by three drunkards on government, trans N. Tsukui (Weatherhill, Tokyo).


Tokutomi Sohō[edit]

J. D. Pierson 1974, 'The early liberal thought of Tokutomi Soho: some problems of Western social theory in Meiji Japan', Monumenta Nipponica 29: 199-224.

J. D. Pierson 1980, Tokutomi Soho, 1863-1957: a journalist for Modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

K. B. Pyle 1969, The new generation in Meiji Japan: problems of cultural identity, 1885-1895 (Stanford: Stanford University Press)

S. Vinh 1983, 'The achievement of a nationalist historian: Tokutomi Soho (1863-1957)', in J. S. Brownlee, ed, History in the service of the Japanese nation (University of Toronto-York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia).

S. Vinh 1986, Tokutomi Soho (1863-1957): the later career (University of Toronto-York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia).

S. Vinh 1989, Tokutomi Soho: the future Japan (University of Alberta Press).


Uchimura Kanzō[edit]

H. Shibuya and S. Chiba (eds.) 2013, Living for Jesus and Japan: The Social and Theological Thought of Uchimura Kanzō (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company).

M. Sonntag 1998, ‘Das Himmlische Land. Uchimura Kanzøs “Gespräche über Religion” (Shukyo zadan, 1900), Kapitel 9 und 10 Eingeleitet und übersetzt’, Japonica Humboldtiana 2: 165-194.

M. Sonntag 2000, 'Uchimura Kanzō. Studies and translations in Western languages, a bibliography', Japonica Humboldtiana 4: 131-178.


Yamaji Aizan[edit]

Y. Ito 2010, 'Conflicting views of Japan's mission in the world and national moral education: Yamaji Aizan and his oppponent Inoue Tetsujirō', Japan Forum 22: 307-330.

M. Neuss 1978, 'Zur Rolle de Heldenbiographien im Geschichtsbild Miyake Setsureis und Yamaji Aizans', Oriens Extremus 25:47-72.

G. Squires 2001, 'Yamaji Aizan's traces of the development of human rights in Japanese history', Monumenta Nipponica 56: 139-171.

A. Yamaji 1999, Essays on the modern Japanese church: Christianity in Meiji Japan, trans G. Squires (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).

Military history and colonialism[edit]

General[edit]

N. Bamba & J. F. Howes (eds) 1978, Pacifism in Japan: the Christian and Socialist tradition (Kyoto: Minerva Press).

W. G. Beasley 1987, Japanese imperialism, 1894-1945 (Oxford: Clarendon Press).

S. L. Burns and B. J. Brooks (eds) 2014, Gender and law in the Japanese imperium (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

H. Conroy 1953, The Japanese frontier in Hawaii, 1868-1898 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

H. Conroy 1984, 'Western parameters of Sino-Japanese relations', in H. Conroy, S. T. W. Davis & W. Patterson, eds, Japan in transition: thought and action in the Meiji era (London: Associated University Presses).

M. Driscoll 2010, Absolute erotic, absolute grotesque: the living, dead, and undead in Japan's imperialism, 1895-1945 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press).

W. D. Hoover 1975, 'Crisis resolution in early Meiji diplomatic relations: the role of Godai Tomoatsu', Journal of Asian History 9:57-81.

J. L. Huffman 2010, Japan and imperialism, 1853-1945 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Association for Asian Studies).

S. Kobayashi 2012, ‘Japanese mapping of Asia-Pacific Areas, 1873-1945: an overview’, Cross-currents: East Asian history and culture review 1: 137-171.

K. McDonald , Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (Oakland: University of California Press).

Miyazaki Toten 1982, My thirty-three years dream: the autobiography of Miyazaki Toten, trans. and ed. by Eto Shinkichi & M. Jansen (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

C. Nakajima 2010, ‘Medicine, Philanthropy, and Imperialism: The Dōjinkai in China, 1902-1945’, Sino-Japanese Studies 17.

I. H. Nish 1966, The Anglo-Japanese alliance: the diplomacy of two island empires, 1894-1907 (London: Athlone Press).

I. H. Nish 1972, Alliance in decline: a study in Anglo-Japanese relations, 1908-23 (London: Athlone Press).

I. H. Nish 1980, 'Britain and the three-power intervention, 1895', Proceedings of the British Association of Japanese Studies 10: 12-26.

I. H. Nish 1982, 'The three-power intervention of 1895', in A. R. Davis & A. D. Stefanowska, eds, Austrina (Sydney).

S. Okamoto 1979, 'A phase of Meiji Japan's attitude toward China: the case of Komura Jutaro', Modern Asian Studies 13: 431-457.

M. Vié 2011, ‘La Mandchourie et la “Question d’Extrême-Orient”, 1880-1910’, Cipango 18: 19-78.


Colonial Japan[edit]

General[edit]

A. Iriye 1972, Pacific estrangement: Japanese and American expansion, 1897-1911 (Harvard University Press).

R. H. Myers & M. R. Peattie (eds) 1984, The Japanese colonial empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

A. Nanta 2007, ‘Expositions coloniales et hiérarchie des peuples dans le Japon moderne', Ebisu 37: 3-17.

H. Nomura 2010, ‘Making the Japanese empire: nationality and family register in Taiwan, 1871-1899’, Japanese studies 30: 67-79.

M. R. Peattie 1988, 'The Japanese colonial empire, 1895-1945', Cambridge History of Japan vol. 6.

M. R. Peattie 1988, Nan'yo: the rise and fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

D. Yang 2011, Technology of empire: telecommunications and Japanese expansion in Asia, 1883-1945 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center).

K. L. Ziomek 2020, Lost histories: recovering the lives of Japan’s colonial peoples (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).


Korea[edit]

G. Akita & B. Palmer 2015, The Japanese colonial legacy in Korea, 1910=1945: a new perspective (Portland, ME: MerwinAsia).

J. Banno 1980, 'Japanese diplomatic attitudes towards Korea, 1880-1885', Papers in Far Eastern History 21: 59-73.

D. Brudnoy 1970, 'Japan's experiment in Korea', Monumenta Nipponica 25: 155-195.

M. E. Caprio 2009, Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea 1910-1945 (Seattle: University of Washington Press).

M. E. Caprio 2011, ‘Marketing Assimilation: The Press and the Formation of the Japanese-Korean Colonial Relationship’, Journal of Korean Studies 16: 1-25.

Y. Chang 1971, 'Colonization as planned change: the Korean case', Modern Asian Studies 5: 161-186.

E. Chen 1970, 'Japanese colonialism in Korea and Formosa: a comparison of the systems of political control', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 30: 126-158.

E. Chen 1977, 'Japan's decision to annex Taiwan: a study of Ito-Mutsu diplomacy, 1894-5', Journal of Asian Studies 37: 61-72.

H. Conroy 1960, The Japanese seizure of Korea: 1868-1910 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press).

J. M. Dorwatt 1975, 'The independent minister: John M. B. Sill and the struggle against Japanese expansion in Korea, 1894-1897', Pacific Historical Review 44:485-502.

A. Dudden et al. (eds) 2004, Japan’s colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

P. Duus 1995, The abacus and the sword: the Japanese penetration of Korea 1895-1910 (Berkeley: University of California Press).

D. Fedman 2012, ‘Triangulating Chōsen: maps, mapmaking, and the land survey in colonial Korea’, Cross-currents: East Asian history and culture review 1: 205-234.

A. Hall 2020, ‘Japan's Education Policies in Korea in the 1910s: "Thankful and Obedient”’, ‘’Journal of Korean Studies’’ 25: 115-145.

S-M. Han 1997, 'Colonial subject as Other: an analysis of late Meiji travelogues on Korea', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

T. A. Henry 2005, ‘Sanitizing empire: Japanese articulations of Korean otherness an the construction of early colonial Seoul, 1905-1919’, Journal of Asian Studies 64: 639-675.

J. Hunter 1977, 'Japanese government policy, business opinion and the Seoul-Pusan railway, 1894-1906', Modern Asian Studies 11:573-599.

Y. Inoue 1979, 'Russo-Japanese relations and railway construction in Korea, 1894-1904', Proceedings of the British Association of Japanese Studies, 10: 87-97.

M. S-H. Kim, 2013. Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877-1912 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center).

G. A. Lensen (ed) 1966, Korea and Manchuria between Russia and Japan, 1895-1904: the observations of Sir Ernest Satow (Tallahassee: The Diplomatic Press).

G. A. Lensen 1982, Balance of intrigue: international rivalry in Korea and Manchuria, 1884-1899, 2 vols (Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida).

S. Lone 1989, 'Holding in the north: Japanese policy toward Korea in the Boxer War, 1900', Papers in Far Eastern History 40: 79-94.

Y-W. Ma 1997, 'Japanese military surveys of the Korean peninsula in the Meiji era', in H. Hardacre & A.L. Kern, eds, New directions in the study of Meiji Japan (Leiden: Brill).

Y. Moon, 2013, Populist collaborators: the Ilchinhoe and the Japanese colonization of Korea, 1896-1910 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

A. C. Nahm (ed) 1973, Korea under Japanese colonial rule (Center for Korean Studies, Western Michigan University).

B. B. Oh 1980, 'Sino-Japanese rivalry in Korea, 1876-1885', in A. Iriye (ed), The Chinese and the Japanese: essays in political and cultural interactions (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

W. Patterson 1984, 'Japanese imperialism in Korea: a study of immigration and foreign policy', in H. Conroy, S. T. W. Davis & W. Patterson, eds, Japan in transition: thought and action in the Meiji era (London: Associated University Presses).

A. Roy 2011, ‘Les débuts de l’emprise é©conomique japonaise en Corée coloniale, 1900-1919’, Cipango 18: 135-187.

J. Uchida 2011, Brokers of empire: Japanese settler colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945 (Boston, Mass.: Harvard University Press).



Taiwan[edit]

N. J. P. Alsford 2017, Transitions to Modernity in Taiwan: The Spirit of 1895 and the Cession of Formosa to Japan (London: Routledge).

P. D. Barclay 2005, ‘Cultural brokerage and interethnic marriage in colonial Taiwan: Japanese subalterns and their aborigine wives, 1895-1930’, Journal of Asian Studies 64: 323-360.

P. Barclay 2017, Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's "Savage Border," 1874–1945 (Oakland: University of California Press).

H. Y. Chang & R. H. Myers 1963, 'Japanese colonial development policy in Taiwan, 1895-1906: a case of bureaucratic entrepreneurship', Journal of Asian Studies 22: 433-449.

Y. Chang 1971, 'Colonization as planned change: the Korean case', Modern Asian Studies 5: 161-186.

C.-C. Chen 1988, 'Impact of Japanese colonial rule on Taiwanese elites', Journal of Asian History 22: 25-51

E. Chen 1970, 'Japanese colonialism in Korea and Formosa: a comparison of the systems of political control', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 30: 126-158.

E. Chen 1977, 'Japan's decision to annex Taiwan: a study of Ito-Mutsu diplomacy, 1894-5', Journal of Asian Studies 37: 61-72.

A. Dudden 2005, ‘Japanese colonial control in international terms’, Japanese studies 25: 1-20.

R. Eskildsen 2002, 'Of civilization and savages: the mimetic imperialism of Japan's 1874 expedition to Taiwan', American historical review 107: 388-418.

O. K. Falt 1985, 'Western views on the Japanese expedition to Formosa in 1874', Asian Profile 13: 201-220.

M. Fraleigh 2012, ‘Transplanting the flower of civilization: the “peony girl” and Japan's 1874 expedition to Taiwan’, International Journal of Asian Studies 9: 177-209.

L. Gordon 1965, 'Japan's abortive colonial venture in Taiwan, 1874', Journal of modern history 37: 171-185.

E. P-W. Leung 1983, 'The quasi-war in East Asia: Japan's expedition to Taiwan and the Ryukyu controversy', Modern Asian Studies 17: 257-281.

M. S. Liu 2009, Prescribing colonialism: the role of medical practices and policies in Japan-ruled Taiwan, 1895-1945 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Association for Asian Studies).

D. Orbach 2016, '"By not stopping": the first Taiwan Expedition (1874) and the roots of Japanese military disobedience', Journal of Japanese Studies 42: 29-55.

F. Q. Quo 1968, 'British diplomacy and the cession of Formosa, 1894-1895', Modern Asian Studies 2: 141-154.

E. Tai 2014, ‘The Discourse of Intermarriage in Colonial Taiwan’, Journal of Japanese Studies 40: 87-116.

A. C. Tavares 2005, ‘The Japanese colonial state and the dissolution of the later imperial frontier economy in Taiwan, 1886-1909’, Journal of Asian Studies 64: 361-385.

E. P. Tsurumi 1977, 'Education and assimilation in Taiwan under Japanese rule, 1905-1945', Modern Asian Studies 13: 617-641.


Military history[edit]

General[edit]

E. M. Osmanov 2020, ‘Training manuals for military personnel in the Meiji period (1868-1912)’, Russian Japanology Review 3: 65-76.

A. D. Coox 1968, 'Qualities of Japanese military leadership: the case of Suetaka Kamezō', Journal of Asian History 2: 32-43.

J. B. Crowley 1966, 'From closed door to empire: the formation of the Meiji military establishment', in B. S. Silberman & H. D. Harootunian, eds, Modern Japanese leadership: transition and change (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).

S. Frühstück 2017, Playing war: children and the paradoxes of modern militarism in Japan (Oakland CA: University of California Press).

M. Futrell 1967, 'Colonel Akashi and Japanese contacts with Russian revolutionaries in 1904-5', in St Antony's Papers No. 20.

N. Ike 1943, 'Triumph of the peace party in Japan in 1873', Far Eastern Quarterly 2: 286-294.

N. Ike 1968, 'War and modernization', in R. E. Ward, ed, Political development in modern Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

F. W. Ikle 1967, 'The Triple Intervention: Japan's lesson in the diplomacy of imperialism', Monumenta Nipponica 22: 122-130.

J-C. Lee 2008, ‘Hygienic governance and military hygiene in the making of imperial Japan, 1868-1912,’ Historia Scientiarum 18:1-23.

M. Low 2010, ‘Colonial modernity and networks in the Japanese empire: the role of Gotō Shinpei’, Historia scientiarum 19: 195-208.

A. H. Mounsey 1879, The Satsuma rebellion: an episode of modern Japanese history (London: John Murray).

T. Nishiyama, 2014. Engineering war and peace in modern Japan, 1868-1964 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press).

E. H. Norman 1943, Soldier and peasant in Japan: the origins of conscription (New York: Institute of Pacific Relations; reprinted 1965 by UBC Press).

G. Ogawa 1921, Conscription system in Japan (New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).

D. B. Ralston 1990, ‘The armed forces of Japan during the Meiji Restoration and after’, in Ralston, Importing the European army: the introduction of military techniques and institutions into the extra-European world, 1600-1914 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).

S. Saaler 2014, ‘The Kokuryūkai (Black dragon society) and the rise of nationalism, pan-asianism, and militarism in Japan, 1901-1925’, International Journal of Asian Studies 11:125-160.

P. D. Scott 1988, Japan-China: Arao Sei and the paradox of cooperation (Kansai Univerity of Foreign Studies).

P. Towle 2006, From Ally to Enemy: Anglo-Japanese Military Relations, 1900-45 (Folkestone: Global Oriental).


Imperial Japanese Army[edit]

T. F. Cooke 2005, ‘Making “soldiers”: the Imperial Army and the Japanese man in Meiji society and state’, in B. Molony & K. Uno, eds., Gendering modern Japanese history (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center), pp. 259-294.

E. J. Drea 2009, Japan’s imperial army: its rise and fall, 1853-1945 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas).

S. Fukushima 1965, 'The building of a national army', The Developing Economies 3: 516-539.

R. F. Hackett 1971, Yamagata Aritomo in the rise of modern Japan, 1838-1922 (Harvard University Press).

H. Kublin 1949, 'The "modern" army of early Meiji Japan', Far Eastern Quarterly 9:20-41.

S. Lone 1988, 'Factional discord in the Meiji army: Katsura Taro and the Getsuyukai, 1881-89', Papers in Far Eastern History 37: 81-92.

S. Lone 2000, Army, empire and politics in Meiji Japan: the three careers of General Katsura Taro (New York: St Martin's Press)

E. L. Presseisen 1965, Before aggression; Europeans prepare the Japanese army (Tucson: University of Arizona Press).

Yamagata Aritomo 1909, 'The Japanese army', in Okuma Shigenobu, ed, Fifty years of new Japan (London: Smith Elders), Vol 1.


Imperial Japanese Navy[edit]

P. G. Cornwall 1980, ‘Manning and training the Japanese Navy in the nineteenth century’, in R. W. Love, ed., Changing interpretations and new sources in naval history (New York: Garland Publishing).

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