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[Dream Town: Tokyo Photo Collection by Kineo Kuwabara]
Kineo Kuwabara
Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1977.Photobook by Japanese photographer Kineo Kuwabara (1913-2007) documenting Tokyo from the 1930s to the 1970s.
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’80s Girls Fashion Book
Mana Takemura
Tokyo: Gurafikkusha, 2020.1980s fashion designers and Japanese street style.
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World of Tatsumi Hijikata, the Originator of Butoh: A Collection of Dance Photographs
Tadao Nakatani
Tokyo: Shinsensha, 2003.Photographic record of Japanese dancer and co-founder of Butoh, Hijikata Tatsumi. Includes performances from the late 1960s to early 1970s as well as dancers from his Asbestos Studio.
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Early Japanese Sword Guards: Sukashi Tsuba
Masayuki Sasano
Tokyo and San Francisco: Japan Publications, 1972. -
Tamasaburo
Kishin Shinoyama
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1977.Photobook of kabuki actor and onnagata (male actors who play female roles) Bando Tamasburo.
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The Exhibition of the Atomic Bombing in Nagasaki
Daniel Hart
Nagasaki: Nagasaki International House, 1973. -
Japanese Military Sake Cups, 1894-1945
Dan King
Atglen: Schiffer Military History, 2004. -
Momoyama Tea Utensils: A New View
Curatorial Division, Nezu Museum
Tokyo: Nezu Museum, 2018.Catalogue for an exhibition of ceramics from the Momoyama period, and the start of the Edo period.
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Hyakunin Joro Shinasadame [One Hundred Women Classified According to Their Rank]
Nishikawa Sukenobu
Kyoto: Unsodo, No date.One of the masterpieces of Ukiyoe art. Depicts women from various social classes of the Edo period, from court and samurai ladies to geisha and sex workers, and the many town and country women in between. Originally published in 2 volumes in 1723 and here reprinted together in 1 volume circa late 19th/early 20th century.
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Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits
Eikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 2012.125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading 20th century artists in their youth. Features butoh dancers, writers, artists, and creatives such as Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Akira Sato, Yoko Ashikawa, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies, this copy signed by Eikoh to the front free endpaper.
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South Manchuria Railway 1935
South Manchuria Railway Company
Dairen: South Manchuria Railway Company, 1935.Traces the history, development, and administration of The South Manchuria Railway Company as it expanded its enterprises to influence almost all areas of economic, political and social life in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. This copy with the company’s New York office stamp to the title page and with the 1936 Statistical Abstract laid in.
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Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field
Joshua S. Mostow; Norman Bryson: Maribeth Graybill
Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2003. -
From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West
Susan J. Napier
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. -
Anime and Memory: Aesthetic, Cultural and Thematic Perspectives
Dani Cavallaro
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2009. -
Anime Intersections: Tradition and Innovation in Theme and Technique
Dani Cavallaro
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2007. -
Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games
Dani Cavallaro
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2010. -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture
Yoshio Sugimoto
Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2009. -
Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals
Hiroki Azuma
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.Translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.
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Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan
J. S. Eades; Tom Gill; Harumi Befu
Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2000. -
Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime
Mark W. MacWilliams
New York: M. E. Sharpe, [2008].