Resources for my Fanfiction Works
Overall Japanese History
- (JOURNAL)“The Evolution of Wage Structure in Japan” by Rokuro Hotani and Takashi Hayashi
- “Everyday Life in Traditional Japan” By Charles J. Dunn
- “Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914” By Dan Free
- “Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions In Urban Japan, 1600-1868” By Nishiyama Natsunosuke, Translated by Gerald Groemer
- “The History and Culture of Japanese Food” by Naomichi Ishige
- “The Art of Japanese Architecture” By David Young
- “Kimono: A Modern History” By Terry Satsuki Milhaupt
- “A Bowl For A Coin: A commodity History of Japanese Tea” By William Wayne Farris
- “A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era” by F. (Frank) Brinkley
- “A History of Tokyo 1867-1989 From Edo To Showa: The Emergence of the World’s Greatest City” By Edward Seidensticker
- “Hojojutsu, The Warrior’s Art of The Rope” By Christian Russo
- “Tattoos as Punishment: An Illustrated History of Tattooing in Japan” By Eric Shahan
- “The Tokugawa World” Edited by Gary P. Leupp and De-min Tao et. Al.
- “Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500-1650” Edited John Whitney Hall, Nagahara Keiji, and Kozo Yamamura
- “Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680: Resilience and Renewal” By Lee Butler
- “Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture” By Susan B. Hanley
- “Antiquity and anachronism in Japanese History” by Jeffrey P. Mass
Regarding Japanese Sexuality, Gender Roles, and Societial Perspectives/Culture
- (JOURNAL)“Native and Foreign in Tokugawa Medicine” by Daniel Trambaiolo
- (JOURNAL)“Not Even Human: The Birth of the Outcaste in Tokugawa Japan” By James Miura
- “Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan” By Gary P. Leupp
- “The Modern Murasaki Writing by Women of Meiji Japan” By Rebecca Copeland and Melek Ortabasi
- “The Book of Tea” By Kazuo Okakura
- “Traditional Japanese Literature” Edited by Haruo Shirane
- “Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability” By Morgan Pitelka
- “Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan” By Andrew Bernstein
- “Poltical Bribery in Japan” By Richard H. Mitchell
- “Obsessions With The Sino-Japanese Polarity In Japanese Literature” By Atsuko Sakaki
- “Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment” By Takie Sugiyama Lebra
- “Unwrapping Japan” Edited by Eyal Ben-Ari, Brian Moeran, and James Valentine
- “Making a Moral Society: Ethic and the State in Meiji Japan” By Richard M. Reitan
- “Asian Department Stories” Edited by Kerrie L. MacPherson
- “Japanese Social Organization” Edited by Takie Sugiyama Lebra
Japanese Documentary, Autobiographies, Anthology, and Poetry
- (JOURNAL)“A full moon in another land: The Moon Bridge in the Japanese garden of the Huntington Library” By Yan Liu
- “Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume 1” Compiled by Ryusaku Tsunoda, WM. Theodore De Bary, and Donald Keene
- “Japan: A Documentary History. The Drawn of History to Late Tokugawa Period” By David J. Lu
- “A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600–1750” By Sumie Jones, Adam L. Kern, Kenji Watanabe et. Al.
- “An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750-1850” By Sumie Jones, Adam L. Kern, Kenji Watanabe et. Al.
- “The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai” By Matthew Meyer
- “A Japanese Robinson Crusoe: Jenichiro Oyabe” Edited by Greg Robinson and Yujin Yaguchi
Samurai, Samurai Ethics and other Jutsu information
- (THESIS)“Bushido: The Creation Of a Martial Ethic in Late Meiji Japan” By Oleg Benesch
- (JOURNAL)“A case report of human skeletal remains performed “Tameshi-giri (test cutting with a Japanese sword)” By Kazuhiro Sakaue
- “A Collection of Curious Jujutsu Manuals, Volume 2” Translated by Eric Shahan
- “The Complete Martial Arts of Japan Volume One: Gekken” By Sadamoto Sugawara, Illustrated by Fujiyama Shibu-un and Translated by Eric Shahan
- “Japanese Swords: Cultural Icons of A Nation. The History, Metallurgy, and Iconography of the Samurai Sword” By Colin M. Roach
- “Classical Weaponry of Japan: Special Weapons and Tactics of the Martial Arts” By Serge Mol
Religion Study on different types of Buddhism
- “Mind in Tibetan Buddhism” By Lati Rinbochay, Translated and Edited by Elizabeth Napper
- “Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue” By Maosao Abe, Edited by Steven Heine
- “The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs” By Robert Beer
- “Buddhism” by Louis-Frédéric, Translated by Nissim Marshall
Traditional and Modern Art Collections
- Samurai Heroes Of The Sengoku Period: Woodblock Print Artbook of Samurai Depicted By Yoshitoshi Ysuioka” Published By William Lucht
- “Kimono Style: Edo Traditions to Modern Design” By Monika Bincsik, Karen van Godtsenhoven, and Masanao Arai
- “Japan: Arts and Life: The Montgomery Collection” Edited by Francesco Paolo Campione and Moira Luraschi
- “Japanese Flower Wrapping: The Beautiful Art of Hana Tsutsumi” By Mitsuko Kawata
- “The Beautiful Traditional Colors of Japan: A beautiful dictionary of colors with captivating visuals” By Nobuyoshi Hamada
- “Kimono Design” by Keiko Nitanai
- “500 years of Ikebana” by Machiko Nakayama