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EALC 3900 Kitchen, Studio, Factory: Making in East Asia

Secondary Sources: Japan

Title: Traditional crafts of Japan 
Author:  Charles A. Pomeroy, illustrated with the eighteenth-century artisan prints of Tachibana Minko
Publication: New York: Walker/Weatherhill, [1968]

 

Title: Traditional Arts and Crafts of Japan *A copy is only available thru ILL. 
Author: Christopher Dresser
Publication: New York: Dover Publications, ©1994

 

Title: The Traditional crafts of Japan (8 volume series) 
Authors: editorial supervisors, Inumaru Tadashi, Yoshida Mitsukuni; technical adviser, Japan Traditional Craft Center
Publication: Tokyo: Diamond, Inc., c1992

Note: 8 volumes, including textiles, ceramics, lacquerware, wood & bamboo, metal & stone, paper & dolls, writing utensils & Buddhist altars, weaving & dyeing, ceramics & lacquer, woodworking & metalworking, papermaking & brushes & Sumi ink.

 

Title: Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery
Author: Christine M.E. Guth

Publication: University of California Press, 2021


Title: The book of Urushi: Japanese lacquerware from a master / Gonroku Matsuda
Authors: Matsuda, Gonroku, Michael Brase, Makiko Komada, and Kazumi Murose

Publication: Tokyo: Japan publishing industry foundation for culture, 2019


Title: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan
Author: Eric Rath

Publication: Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010


Title: The arts of Japan: an illustrated history
Author: Hugo Munsterberg

Publication: Tokyo; Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1957

 

Title: Handmade in Japan: the pursuit of perfection in traditional crafts  *A copy is only available thru ILL. 
Author: Robert Klanten et. al
Publication: Berlin: Gestalten, 2020


Title: Japanese Cabinetry: The Art and Craft of Tansu
Author: David Jackson and Dane Owen

Publication: Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2002

 

Title: Classic stoneware of Japan: Shino and Oribe
Author: Ryŏji Kuroda and Takeshi Murayama

Publication: Tokyo; London: Kodansha International, 2002

 

Article title: Making and Using Scientific Instruments in Japan: How Scholars and Craftsmen Cooperated, 1781-1853 *Available thru Project MUSE Premium Collection on WUL 
Author: T Hashimoto

Publication: Technol Cult 62, no. 2 (2021), 401-22.


Chapter title: A Wooden Skeleton Emerges in the Knowledge Hub of Edo Japan
Author: Chang Che-Chia

Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges Across Eurasia, ed. Pamela H. Smith
Publication: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

 

Title: Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding
Author: Douglas Brooks

Publication: Warren, CT: Floating ㅉorld Editions, 2015

 

Chapter title: Vehicles of Knowledge: Japanese Technical Drawings in the Pre-modern Era, 1600–1868
Author: Eric Pauer

Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan, eds. Eric Pauer and Ruselle Meade *A copy is only available thru ILL. 
Publication:Folkestone: RENAISSANCE BOOKS 2020, 28–54

 

Title: ACCESSING TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN MODERN JAPAN *A copy might be available thru ILL. 
Author: ERICH PAUER
Publication: Folkestone:
 RENAISSANCE BOOKS, 2021

 

Title: Edo no kamizaiku 江戶の紙細工 [Paper crafts in old Japan] *A copy is only available thru ILL. 
Author: Kyūtarō Maekawa 前川久太郎
Publication: Tokyo: Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1978

 

Title: Yamato Bunkakan meihin zuroku 大和文華館名品図錄 *A copy is only available thru ILL. 
[Selected catalog of the Museum Yamato Bunkakan, Nara
Publication: Nara: Yamato Bunkakan, 1960

 

Title: Nihon tōji 日本陶磁 Yamato Bunkakan 大和文華館
[Japanese ceramics from the Museum Collection]
Publication: Nara: Yamato Bunkakan, 1974

 

Title: Archaeology and history of Toraijin: human, technological, and cultural flow from the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese Archipelago c. 800 BC-AD 600
Author: Song-nai Rhee, C. Melvin Aikens, Gina L. Barnes
Publication: Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021

 

Title: Zusetsu Edo jidai shokuseikatsu jiten 図說江戶時代食生活事典
Author: Nihon Fūzokushi Gakkai hen, henshū daihyō Shinoda Osamu, Kawakami Kōzō
Publication: Tōkyō: Yūzankaku, 1989

 

Title: Minzoku shōjiten shoku 民俗小事典 食
Author: Shintani Takanori, Sekizawa Mayumi hen
Publication: Tōkyō: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 2013

 

Title: Dōbanga no tekunikku 銅版画のテクニック
Author: Fukazawa Yukio
Publication: Tōkyō: Daviddosha, 1966

 

Title: Kobuki no shokunin 古武器の職人
Author: Ozaki Ichirō satsuei, Honʼami Kōhaku, Sasama Yoshihiko, Sone Masayasu kaisetsu
Publication: Tōkyō: Yūzankaku Shuppan, 1971

 

Title: Tokugawa jūgodai katchū to tōken 徳川十五代甲冑と刀剣
Author: Kunōzan Tōshōgū Hakubutsukan henshū
Publication: Shizuoka-shi: Kunōzan Tōshōgū Hakubutsukan, 1971

 

TitleNihon ningyō gangu jiten 日本人形玩具辞典
Author: Saitō Ryōsuke hen 
Publication: Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, 1968

 

Title: Edoki shikaku bunka no sōzō to rekishiteki tenkai : nozokimegane to nozokikarakuri 
江戶期視覚文化の創造と歴史的展開 : 覗き眼鏡とのぞきからくり

Author: Itagaki Shun'ichi cho
Publication: Tōkyō: Miyai Shoten, 2012

 

Title: Shinjo to shingu 寝所と寝具
Author: Ogawa Kōyō
Publication: Tōkyō: Yūzankaku, 2016

 

Title: Skills of the Masters 匠たちの技
Digital Exhibition by the National Museum of Nature and Science

 

Title: Engineering Asia: technology, colonial development and the cold war order
Author: edited by Hiromi Mizuno, Aaron S. Moore, and John DiMoia
Publication: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

 

Title: Living national treasures of Japan
Author: Jan Fontein

Publication: [Tokyo]: [Committee of the Exhibition of Living National Treasures of Japan], 1982 

 

Web Exhibition: Edo no shoku bunka:  江戸の食文化 スローフードのルーツをたどる (2005) provided by Tohoku University Library, showcases various excerpts from primary sources about cuisine in Edo period to learn the historical background. 

 

Title: Artifacts of diplomacy: Smithsonian collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854)
Author: Chang-su Houchins
Publication: Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995