Book and Journal list

Here is a list of books and journal articles I have read.  History and some other publications. Updated 8th July 2023.

Book reference list (Chicago/Harvard)

Bix, Herbert P. 2001. Hirohito and the making of modern Japan. New York, NY: Perennial.

Booth, Alan. 1995. Looking for the lost: journeys through a vanishing Japan. New York: Kodansha International.

Booth, Alan. 1997. The roads to Sata: a 2000-mile walk through Japan. New York: Kodansha International.

Bryant, Anthony J., and Angus McBride. 1989. The samurai. London: Osprey.

Bryant, Anthony J. 1994. Samurai, 1550-1600. London: Osprey.

Bryant, Anthony J. 1995. Sekigahara 1600: the final struggle for power. London: Osprey

Delgado, James P. 2008. Khubilai Khan’s lost fleet: in search of a legendary armada. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil. 1999. Ainu: spirit of a northern people. [Washington, D.C.]: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Association with University of Washington Press.

Friday Karl F. 1995. “Book Review: The Cambridge History of Japan Vol. 1. Ancient Japan.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 114–15.

Hanley, S. B. (1991). Tokugawa society: material culture, standard of living, and life-styles. In J. W. Hall (Ed.), The Cambridge history of Japan (660-705)  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hane, Mikiso. 1991. Premodern Japan: a historical survey. Boulder: Westview Press.

Haneda Masashi (Editor), Oka Mihoko (Editor). 2019. A maritime history of east asia. Kyoto University Press ; Trans Pacific Press.

Harootunian, H. D. (1995). Late Tokugawa culture and thought.  In M. B. Jansen (Ed.), The Emergence of Meiji Japan (53-137).  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Jansen, Marius B. 1994. Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji restoration. New York: Columbia University Press.

Jansen, Marius B. 1995. Warrior rule in Japan. New York, Cambridge University Press.

Jansen, Marius B. 1997. The emergence of Meiji Japan. New York, Cambridge University Press.

Lamers, Jeroen P. 2000. Japonius Tyrannus: the Japanese Warlord, Oda Nobunaga reconsidered. Leiden: Hotei.

Milton, Giles. 2004. Samurai William : The Englishman Who Opened Japan. New York: Penguin Books.

Mitchelhill, Jennifer, and David Green. 2004. Castles of the samurai: power and beauty. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd.

Miyamoto, Musashi, Munenori Yagyū, and Thomas Cleary. 1993. The book of five rings.: Including The book of family traditions on the art of war / by Yagyū Munenori. Boston u.a: Shambhala.

Mizoguchi, Kōji. 2002. An archaeological history of Japan, 30,000 B.P. to A.D. 700. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Ravina, Mark. 2004. The last samurai: the life and battles of Saigō Takamori. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons.

Rogers, Hiromi. 2016. Anjin : The Life and Times of Samurai William Adams As Seen through Japanese Eyes. Folkestone Kent: Renaissance Books.

Takamure, Itsue. 2010. The 1918 Shikoku pilgrimage of Takamure Itsue: an English translation of Musume junreiki. Bowen Island, BC: Bowen Pub.

Toby, Ronald P. State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Turnbull, Stephen R. 1989. Samurai warlords: the book of the daimyō. London: Blandford.

Turnbull, Stephen R., and Howard Gerrard. 2000. Nagashino 1575. Oxford: Osprey Pub.

Turnbull, Stephen R. 2001. Ashigaru 1467-1649: weapons, armour, tactics. Oxford: Osprey Military.

Turnbull, Stephen R., and Peter Dennis. 2003. Japanese castles, 1540-1640. Oxford: Osprey Pub.

Turnbull, Stephen R., and Wayne Reynolds. 2003. Fighting ships of the Far East. 2, Japan and Korea AD 612-1639. Oxford: Osprey.

Turnbull, Stephen R. 2009. The samurai capture a king: Okinawa, 1609. Oxford: Osprey

Turnbull, Stephen R., and Richard Hook. 2010. The Mongol invasions of Japan, 1274 and 1281. Oxford: Osprey Pub.

Tsang, Carol Richmond. 2007. War and faith: Ikkō ikki in late Muromachi Japan. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center.

Sadler, A. L. 2009. Shogun: the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu.  Tokyo: Tuttle Pub.

Shapinsky Peter D. 2014. Lords of the Sea : Pirates Violence and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan. Ann Arbor MI: Center for Japanese Studies The University of Michigan.

Shiba, Ryōtarō, and Juliet Winters Carpenter. 2004. The last shogun: the life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu. New York: Kodansha International

Souyri, Pierre-François. 2001. The world turned upside down: medieval Japanese society. New York: Columbia University Press.

Walker, Brett L. 2001. The conquest of Ainu lands: ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Yoshikawa, Eiji. 1981. Musashi. New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row/Kodansha International.

Yoshikawa, Eiji, and William Scott Wilson. 2000. Taiko an epic novel of war and glory in feudal Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

Journal List

There are thousands of journal articles relating to Japanese history.  The ones I have listed here are only the articles I have read for my own interest or research.  If you need any help finding a journal article, I am more than happy to help you.

Adam C., “Pirating in the Shogun is Waters: the Dutch East India Company and the Santo António Incident.” Bulletin of Portuguese – Japanese Studies 13, no. (2006):65-80. Redalyc, https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36101303

Allen, Chizuko (2003) Empress Jingū: a shamaness ruler in early Japan, Japan Forum, 15:1, 81-98.

Ambaras, David R. 1998. “Social Knowledge, Cultural Capital, and the New Middle Class in Japan, 1895-1912”. The Journal of Japanese Studies. 24 (1): 1.

Andrade, Tonio. “The Company’s Chinese Pirates: How the Dutch East India Company Tried to Lead a Coalition of Pirates to War against China, 1621-1662.” Journal of World History 15, no. 4 (2004): 415–44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079290.

Boxer, C. R. (1951). The Christian century in Japan: 1549-1650. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Breen, John. 1996. “The Imperial Oath of April 1868: Ritual, Politics, and Power in the Restoration”. Monumenta Nipponica. 51 (4): 407-429

Cavendish, R. (2001) St Francis Xavier departs from Japan: November 21st, 1551, History Today; Nov, No. 51, Academic Research Library

Chor, So Wai. 2002. “The Making of the Guomindang’s Japan Policy, 1932-1937: The Roles of Chiang Kai-Shek and Wang Jingwei”. Modern China. 28 (2): 213-252.

CLULOW, ADAM. “Like Lambs in Japan and Devils Outside Their Land: Diplomacy, Violence, and Japanese Merchants in Southeast Asia.” Journal of World History 24, no. 2 (2013): 335–58. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43286280.

Corr, William. 1997. “Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Englishman”. Japan Quarterly. 44 (1): 74.

Craig, Albert. 1959. “The Restoration Movement in Chōshū”. The Journal of Asian Studies. 18 (2): 187-197.

Curvelo, Alexandra., (2003), “Nagasaki/Deshima after the portuguese in dutch accounts of the 17th century.” Bulletin of Portuguese – Japanese Studies, Vol.., núm.6, pp.147-157 [Consultado: 8 de Julio de 2023]. ISSN: 0874-8438. Disponible en : https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100607

Delgado, James P. 2003. “Relics of the Kamikaze – Excavations off Japan’s coast are uncovering Kublai Khan’s ill-fated invasion fleet”. Archaeology. 56 (1): 36.

Garon, Sheldon M. 1986. “State and Religion in Imperial Japan, 1912-1945”. Journal of Japanese Studies. 12 (2): 273-302.

“The Licheng Rebellion of 1941: Class, Gender, and Leadership in the Sino-Japanese War”. 1997. Modern China. 23 (2): 216-245.

Goodman, David S. G. 1994. “JinJiLuYu in the Sino-Japanese War: The Border Region and the Border Region Government”. The China Quarterly. 140.

HANG, XING. “The Shogun’s Chinese Partners: The Alliance between Tokugawa Japan and the Zheng Family in Seventeenth-Century Maritime East Asia.” The Journal of Asian Studies 75, no. 1 (2016): 111–36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24738514.

Harrison, Simon. 2006. “Skull trophies of the Pacific War: transgressive objects of remembrance”. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 12 (4): 817-836.

Innes, Robert, and Ronald P. Toby. 1985. “State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu”. The Journal of Asian Studies. 44 (2): 408.

Jorissen, Engelbert., (2002), “Reseña de “Japonius Tyrannus. The Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga reconsidered Japonica Neerlandica” de Jeroen Lamers.” Bulletin of Portuguese – Japanese Studies, Vol.., núm.5, pp.130-134 [Consultado: 8 de Julio de 2023]. ISSN: 0874-8438. Disponible en : https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100509

Kawato, Takashi. 2019 Wako (Japanese Pirates) as Maritime Zomiatic People in Late Medieval and Early Modern East Asia. Chiba Keizai University, Japan

Kazui, Tashiro, and Susan Downing Videen. 1982. “Foreign Relations during the Edo Period: Sakoku Reexamined”. Journal of Japanese Studies. 8 (2): 283-306.

Kidder,  J. Edward. 1990. “Saddle Bows and Rump Plumes. More on the Fujinoki Tomb”. Monumenta Nipponica. 45 (1): 75-85.

Kidder,  J. Edward. 1987. “The Fujinoki Tomb and Its Grave-Goods”. Monumenta Nipponica. 42 (1): 57-87.

Kidder,  J. Edward. 1972. “The Newly Discovered Takamatsuzuka Tomb”. Monumenta Nipponica. 27 (3): 245-251.

Madalena R., “The Christian Nobility of Kyushu. A Perusal of Jesuit Sources.” Bulletin of Portuguese – Japanese Studies 13, no. (2006):45-64. Redalyc, https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36101302

MacKay, Joseph. “Pirate Nations: Maritime Pirates as Escape Societies in Late Imperial China.” Social Science History 37, no. 4 (2013): 551–73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24573942.

Nosco, Peter. 2007. “The Experiences of Christians during the Underground Years and Thereafter”. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 34 (1): 85-97.

Nosco, P. (1993) Secrecy and the Transmission of Tradition, Issues in the Study of the “Underground” Christians.  Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 20/1

Ôhashi Y., “THE REVOLT OF SHIMABARA-AMAKUSA.” Bulletin of Portuguese – Japanese Studies 20, no. (2010):71-80. Redalyc, https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36129852003

Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. 1976. “Regional variations in Ainu culture”. American Ethnologist : Journal of the American Anthropological Association. 3 (2): 297-329.

Mihoko O., “A Memorandum by Tçuzu Rodrigues: The Office of Procurador and Trade by the Jesuits in Japan.” Bulletin of Portuguese – Japanese Studies 13, no. (2006):81-102. Redalyc, https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36101304

Pitelka, Morgan. 2009. “The Empire of Things: Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Material Legacy and Cultural Profile”. Japanese Studies. 29 (1): 19-32.

Sevela, M. 1998. “Sakhalin: The Japanese Under Soviet Rule”. HISTORY TODAY. 48: 41-46.

Shapinsky, Peter.  2009. Predators, Protectors, and Purveyors: Pirates and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan. Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Autumn, 2009), pp. 273-313. Sophia University

Sheldon, C. D. (1983). Merchants and society in Tokugawa Japan. Modern Asian Studies. Vol. 4(3), 477-488.

Smith, Thomas C. “The Japanese Village in the Seventeenth Century.” In John W. Hall and Marius B. Jansen, eds. Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1968.

Stavros, Matthew. 2009. “Locational Pedigree and Warrior Status in Medieval Kyoto: The Residences of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu”. Japanese Studies. 29 (1): 3-18.

Steele, M. William. 1981. “Against the Restoration. Katsu Kaishu’s Attempt to Reinstate the Tokugawa Family”. Monumenta Nipponica. 36 (3): 299-316.

Tashiro, K., and Videen, S. D. (1982). Foreign relations during the Edo period: Sasoku re-examined. Journal of Japanese studies. Vol. 8(2) 283-306.

Toby, R. P. (1977). Reopening the question of sakoku: Diplomacy in the legitimation of the Tokugawa Bakufu. Journal of Japanese studies. Vol. 3(2) 323-363.

White, J. W. (1988). State growth and popular protest in Tokugawa Japan. Journal of Japanese studies. Vol. 14(1) 1-25

Williams, M. (2009) [Review of the book Ideology and Christianity in Japan, by Kiri Paramore].  Chicago Journals, Vol. 114, No. 5, pp. 1427-1428

Yates, Charles L. 1994. “Saigō Takamori in the Emergence of Meiji Japan”. Modern Asian Studies. 28 (3): 449-474.

Yonetani, Julia. 2000. “Ambiguous Traces and the Politics of Sameness: Placing Okinawa in Meiji Japan”. Japanese Studies. 20 (1/1): 15.

Japanese sources.

倭寇と海洋史観－倭寇は日本人だったのか by 秦　野　裕　介 (Japanese Maritime History, Were the Wako Really Japanese? Hatano Yusuke.)

松浦党研究連合会. 編集. 松浦党研究 芸文堂No.1 1980. (Editor, Matsuratou Kenkyu Rengoukai. Matsuura Clan Research No.1. Geibundo. 1980).

呼子重義. 海賊松浦党, 人物往来社 1965. (Shigeyoshi Yobuko. Matsuura Pirates, Jinbutsu Ouraisha. 1965)

田中 健夫, 倭寇―海の歴史, 講談社学術文庫. (Takeo Tanaka, Japanese Pirates – A history of the sea, Kodansha. 2012.

八幡愚童記 “Hachiman Gudoki
勘仲記（かんちゅうき） – Kanchuki