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

Instructions for users[edit]

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

Instructions for contributors[edit]

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

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

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

Requesting Additional Resources[edit]

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

General websites[edit]

These sites have many useful resources:

International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan
- Rare books and maps (scans of old books and maps)

Titles[edit]

Titles are listed in alphabetical order.

Anime and manga[edit]

Architecture[edit]

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

Art[edit]

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

Biographies[edit]

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

Culture and sociology[edit]

Title	Author(s)	ISBN	Language	Who owns it
101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions (about chindōgu)	Kenji Kawakami	ISBN 0-393-31369-7	English	Nihonjoe
The Anatomy of Dependence	Takeo Doi	ISBN 0-87011-494-8 ISBN 4-7700-0979-8	English	Nihonjoe
Behind the Japanese Bow	Boye Lafayette De Mente	ISBN 0-8442-8491-2	English	Nihonjoe
Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961	Christina Klein	ISBN 0520232305	English	JadeFox
Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s	Jeff Kingston	ISBN 1405191937	English	Bamse
Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan	William E. Deal	ISBN 0-8160-5622-6	English	Bamse
Japan - A Short Cultural History	George Bailey Sansom	ISBN 1-4474-2350-X	English	Bamse
Japan: Its History and Culture (3rd ed.)	W. Scott Morton	ISBN 0-07-043423-9	English	Nihonjoe JadeFox
Japan Country Living	Amy Sylvester Katoh	ISBN 0-8048-1858-4	English	Nihonjoe
Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture	Edited by Timothy J. Craig	ISBN 0-7656-0561-9	English	JadeFox
The Japanese: A Major Exploration of Modern Japan	Peter Tasker	ISBN none	English	Nihonjoe
Japanese Culture (4th ed.)	Paul H. Varley	0824821521	English	JadeFox and Bamse
Japanese Society	Chie Nakane	ISBN 0-520-02154-1	English	Nihonjoe
Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History	William Wayne Farris	ISBN 0824833791	English	Bamse
Modern Japan (2nd ed.)	Peter Duus	ISBN 0-395-74604-3	English	Nihonjoe
Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism	Koichi Iwabuchi	ISBN 0822328917	English	JadeFox
Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society	Joseph J. Tobin (editor)	ISBN 0-300-06082-3	English	Nihonjoe
Western World and Japan: A Study in the Interaction of European and Asia Cultures	George B. Sansom	ISBN 0804815100	English	JadeFox
The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures	Edited by Dolores Martinez	ISBN 0521637295	English	JadeFox
Zen and Japanese Culture	Daisetz T. Suzuki	ISBN 0-691-01770-0	English	Nihonjoe

Economics[edit]

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

Games[edit]

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

General[edit]

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

Geography[edit]

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

History[edit]

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

Language[edit]

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

Literature[edit]

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

Works of Literature[edit]

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

Mythology and religion[edit]

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

Sports and martial arts[edit]

Title	Author(s)	ISBN	Language	Who owns it
Iai: The Art of Drawing the Sword	Darrell Craig	ISBN 0-8048-7023-3	English	Nihonjoe

Other related[edit]

Title	Author(s)	ISBN	Language	Who owns it
Asian Americans	Joann Faung Jean Lee	ISBN 1-56584-023-2	English	Nihonjoe
Asian Americans: An Interpretive History	Secheng Chan	ISBN 0-8057-8437-3	English	Nihonjoe