Research Resource: Japan
So I've decided to start a series on different topics where I compile a list of resources. This week I'll be featuring Japan (from the Heian Period to the Tokugawa period mostly).
Note: I started off a lot of my research using Wikipedia, but as a rule, one should *never* rely solely on Wikipedia. Its a good starting point and sometimes it has information on things you may have trouble finding else where. But its also a good resource for looking up stuff and finding out different topics you can look up elsewhere.
Electronic Resources: Websites
Costume History of the Tale of Genji
Interactive Brush Painting
Japanese Art
PBS- Enter Edo
PBS-Enter Edo- Resources/Bibliography
PBS-Enter Edo- Electronic Resources
Education: Asian Art: Resources (On Japan; Selected College level and beyond)
Samurai Archives
Ancient Scripts- Japanese
Omniglot- Japanese (With links to specific forms of Japanese writing and scripts)
Behind The Name- Japanese Names
Google Cultural Institute- Made in Japan-
Electronic Resources: Online PDFs/Books/Textbooks
Women in Early Fuedul Japan (Book is not free although its fairly cheap for the downloadable book)
Online Textbook: Topics in Japanese Cultural History
Encycloedia Mythica: Japanese Mythology
Project Gutenberg- Japan (Queried Japan; Free old online books and papers related to Japan)
Britannica- Japan
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
The Sarashina Diary, The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu, The
Diary of Izumi Shikibu
Translator: Kochi Doi; Annie Shepley Omori
Release Date:October 19, 2014 [EBook #47151]
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47151/47151-h/47151-h.htm
Title: Japanese Fairy Tales
Author: Yei Theodora Ozaki
Posting Date: June 4, 2009 [EBook #4018]
Release Date: May, 2003
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4018/4018-h/4018-h.htm
Title: Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Posting Date: February 18, 2010 [EBook #1210]
Release Date: February, 1998
[Last updated: December 19, 2011]
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1210/1210-h/1210-h.htm
Title: Tales of Old Japan
Author: Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
Release Date: July 24, 2004 [eBook #13015]
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13015/13015-h/13015-h.htm
Title: Myths & Legends of Japan
Author: F. Hadland (Frederick Hadland) Davis
Published: 1912
Illustrations by: Evelyn Paul
Release Date: May 23, 2014 [eBook #45723]
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45723/45723-h/45723-h.htm
Title: Japanese Girls and Women
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Author: Alice Mabel Bacon
Published Date: 1902
Release Date: May 20, 2010 [EBook #32449]
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32449/32449-h/32449-h.htm
Title: Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs
Author: J. M. W. Silver
Published: London, 1867
Release Date: July 29, 2004 [eBook #13051]
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13051/13051-h/13051-h.htm
Electronic Resources: Video/Pictures
Khan Academy- Japanese Art
A-Z Picture Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist and Shinto Deities and Mythology
Youtube-Japan: History of Japan's Ancient and Modern Empire
Youtube- BBC Geisha Girl
Youtube- Traditional Dance by Geisha
Youtube- Traditional Japanese Dance by Maiko
How to wear Japanese Hakama (looked this up cause I was confused how the hakama "pants" worked with a kimono).
Spotify Link- Memoirs of a Geisha Album
Spotify Link- Japanese Koto Music
Spotify Link- Japanese Relaxation Music
Devinart- Hanami Mai's Tutorials (These are drawing reference tutorials, but when you zoom in on them, they're also very helpful references for writers)
Learn Japanese 101 Podcasts
Printed resources: Books
Japanese Popular Prints: From Votive Slips to Playing Cards by Rebecca Salter
As the Japanese See It: Past and Present Compiled and Edited by Michiko Y. Aoki and Margaret B. Dardess
The Japanese Mind by Robert C. Christopher
Volume One: Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 Compiled by WM. Theodore de Bary, Donald Keene, George Tanabe, and Paul Varley
Volume Two: Sources of Japanese Tradition: 1600 to 2000 Compiled by WM Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur E. Tiedemann
The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures by John and Caitlin Matthews
Twelve Doors to Japan by John Whitney Hall and Richard K. Beardsley
The Floating World by James A. Michener
Japan: An Interpretation by Lafacadio Hearn
Japanese Culture: 3rd Edition by H. Paul Varley
All-Japan: The Catalogue of Everything Japanese Introduction by Oliver Statler
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse Translated with an Introduction by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite
Understanding Shinto by C. Scott Littleton
Anthology of Japanese Literature Compiled and Edited by Donald Keene
The Essence of Shinto: Japan's Spirtual Heart by Motohisa Yamakage
Religion in Japanese History by Joseph, Kitagawa
Folk Religion in Japan by Ichiro Hori
Exploring Japaneseness: On Japanese Enactments of Culture and Consciousness Edited by Ray T. Donahue
Landscape Gardening in Japan by Joseph Conder
Japanese Minorities: Burakumin, Koreans, Ainu, and Okinawans by Prof. George A. De Vos and William O Wetherall; Updated by Kaye Stearman
Cooking of Japan by Rafael Steinberg
Japanese Houses; Patterns for Living by Kiyoyuki Nishihara
Legends in Japanese Art by Henri L Joly
Tokugawa Japan : the social and economic antecedents of modern Japan edited by Chie Nakane and Shinzabur Oishi ; translation edited by Conrad Totman.
A daughter of the samurai Sugimoto, Etsu (Inagaki)
The kimono mind. Rudofsky, Bernard
Resources on Kitsune (Including this for the sake of all the research done on these fascinating mythical creatures)
Kitsune (Book)
Kitsune, Kumiho, Huli Jing, Fox: Fox Spirits From Asia
Inari and the Kitsune
Kitsune Japanese Myths
Foxtrot's research on Kitsune
Wikifur- Kitsune Mythology
Watt Martin: Kitsune- Coyotes of the East
