Architectures of Japan: General resources

Blaser, Werner, Temple and teahouse in Japan, Birkhäuser, NA8306.J22B5713 1988

Carver, Norman F., Japanese folkhouses, Documan Press, NA1553.C37 1984

Coaldrake, William H., “Building design and status symbolism in Japanese architecture of the late Edo period,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1988, p. 397-410 (PDF via Jstor)

Fahr-Becker, Gabriele, Ryokan: a Japanese tradition, John Wilson (distributor), DS821 .F34 2001     

Frampton, Kenneth, Japanese Building Practice from ancient times to the Meiji period, Van Nostrand Reinhold, TH105.F73 1997

Gropius, Walter, “Architecture in Japan,” Perspecta, #3, 1955, p.8-21, 79-80

Hirai, Kiyoshi, Feudal architecture of Japan, Heibonsha, NA7451 .H4813 1973

“Japan,” Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, edited by Paul Oliver, Cambridge University Press, NA208.E53 1997 v.2, p. 990

Okawa, Naomi, Edo architecture, Katsura and Nikko, Weatherhill, NA1553.5 .O412 1975

Parent, Mary Neighbour, “A reconsideration of the role of Horinji in the history of Japanese architecture,” Japan Architect, January 1977, p.77-84

Statler, Oliver, Japanese inn, Random House, DS897.O4 S7 1961 (also available via Ebook Central)

Treib, Marc, “The Japanese storehouse,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, May 1976, p.124-137 (PDF via Jstor)

Abe, “Early western architecture in Japan,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, May 1954, p.13-18 (PDF via Jstor)

Finn, Dallas, Meiji revisited: the sites of Victorian Japan, Weatherhill, NA1554.5 .F56 1995

“Japan 1868-1945: Art, Architecture, and National Identity,” Art Bulletin, Autumn 1996 (Theme issue via Jstor)

“Architecture in Japan,” Arca, January 1993 (Theme issue)

Barr, John, 20th century Japan in 20 buildings, Lund Humphries, NA1555 .B33 2022

Bognár, Botond, The new Japanese architecture, NA1555 .B54 1990

Borràs, Maria Lluïsa, Arquitectura contemporánea japonesa, Ediciones Polígrafa, NA1555 .B57 1971

Boyd, Robin, New Directions in Japanese Architecture, G. Braziller, NA1555.B6

“Into Japan,” Architectural Review, November 1991 (Theme issue)

“Japanese architecture II,” Architectural Design, September/October 1992 (Theme issue)

“Japanese architecture III,” Architectural Design, January/February 1994 (Theme issue)

“Japanese architecture today,” G.A. Document, #47, 1996 (Theme issue)

Kira, Moriko, Japan: towards totalscape: contemporary Japanese architecture, urban planning and landscape, NAI Publishers, NA1555.45 .J37 2000

Mead, Christopher Curtis, The hypospace of Japanese architecture, Oro Editions, NA1550 .M43 2023 Vol.1&2

Montagnana, Francesco, Birkhäuser architectural guide Japan: 20th century, Birkhäuser, NA1555.M6613 1997

Nordenson, Guy (editor), Structured lineages: learning from Japanese structural design, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NA1555.6 .S77 2019

Plummer, Henry, Light in Japanese architecture, a+u Publishing Company, NA2794 .P57 1995

“Post-metabolism,” Japan Architect, October/November 1977 (Special issue)

Ray-Jones, Anna, Sustainable architecture in Japan: the green buildings of Nikken Sekkei, Wiley-Academy, NA1559.N55S87

Reynolds, Jonathan M., Maekawa Kunio and the emergence of Japanese modernist architecture, University of California Press, NA1555 .R49 2001

Ross, Michael Franklin, Beyond metabolism: the new Japanese architecture, Architectural Record Books, NA1555 .R67

Schittich, Christian (editor), Japan, Birkhäuser; Momenta, NA1555.J37 2002

Suzuki, Hiroyuki, Contemporary architecture of Japan 1958-1984, Rizzoli, NA1555 .S8913 1985

Tempel, Egon, New Japanese architecture, Thames & Hudson, NA1555.T413 1969

Bognár, Botond, Beyond the bubble: the new Japanese architecture, Phaidon Press, NA1555.6 .B64 2008

Buntrock, Dana, Materials and meaning in contemporary Japanese architecture: tradition and today, Routledge, NA1555.6 .B86 2010

G.A. (Global Architecture) (Publisher of several architecture series)

Lee, Joon-hee, Grow up: the new architecture in Japan, Equal Books, NA1554.N532 2014

Mead, Christopher Curtis, The hypospace of Japanese architecture, Oro Editions, NA1550 .M43 2023 Vol.1&2

Nepilly, Ellen, et al, Tokyo: architecture & design, TeNeues, NA1557.T6 T618 2004

Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd, publisher of A+U (Architecture + Urbanism) and JA (Japan Architect)

Shinohara, Yuma & Andreas Ruby (editors), Make do with now : new directions in Japanese architecture, Christoph Merian Verlag, NA1555.6 .M35 2022

Slessor, Catherine, “Japan on the edge,” Architectural Review, October 2001, p.42-[45] (Introduction to a theme issue)

Brownell, Blaine Erickson, Matter in the floating world, Princeton Architectural Press, NA1555.6 .B76 2011

Cox, Rupert, The Zen arts: an anthropological study of the culture of aesthetic form in Japan, Routledge, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Graham, Patricia, Japanese design: art, aesthetics & culture, Tuttle Publishing, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Isozaki, Arata, Japan-ness in architecture, MIT Press, NA1550 .I78 2006

Kohte, Susanne, et al (editors), Encounters and positions: architecture in Japan, Birkhäuser, NA1550 .D5313 2017

Koren, Leonard, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Stone Bridge Press, BH221.J3 K667 1994

Sadler, A. L., Cha-no-yu: the Japanese tea ceremony, C.E. Tuttle Company, GT2910.S3 1963

Tanizaki, Jun’ichirao, In praise of shadows, Leete’s Insland Books, PL839.A7 A25 1977

Wainwright, Samuel H., Beauty in Japan, Routledge, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Bharne, Vinayak, Zen spaces and neon places: reflections on Japanese architecture and urbanism, Applied Research + Design Publishing, NA1550 .B53 2014

Hein, Carola, et al (editors), Rebuilding urban Japan after 1945, Palgrave Macmillan, HT169.J3 R43 2003

“Hidden urbanism,” Lotus International, July 2017, #163, p.98-129 (Contains several examples of microarchitecture and urban planning)

Kira, Moriko, Japan: towards totalscape: contemporary Japanese architecture, urban planning and landscape, NAI Publishers, NA1555.45.J37 2000

Sorensen, André, The making of urban Japan: cities and planning from Edo to the twenty-first century, RoutledgeCurzon, HT169.J3 S67 2004

CITIES, KYOTO

Dougill, John, Kyoto: a cultural history, Oxford University Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Yamasaki, Masafumi, Process Architecture 116, Kyoto: its cityscape traditions and heritage, NA6.P94 #116

CITIES, TOKYO

Cybriwsky, Roman Adrian, Roppongi Crossing: the demise of a Tokyo nightclub district and the reshaping of a global city, University of Georgia Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Mansfield, Stephen, Tokyo: a cultural history, Oxford University Press, DS896.5 .M37 2009

Meyer, Ulf, Architectural guide Tokyo, DOM publishers, NA1557.T6 M49 2011

Nepilly, Ellen, et al, Tokyo: architecture & design, TeNeues, NA1557.T6 T618 2004

Sand, Jordan, Tokyo vernacular: common spaces, local histories, found objects, University of California Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Tokyo Metropolitan Government (In English)

Watanabe, Hiroshi, The architecture of Tokyo: an architectural history in 571 individual presentations, Edition Axel

Fischer, Felice, “The art of Japanese craft 1875 to the present,” Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, 2008, p.1-60 (PDF via Jstor)

Gluckman, Dale Carolyn, When art became fashion: kosode in Edo-period Japan, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Weatherhill, NK4784.A1 G68 1992

Graham, Patricia, Japanese design: art, aesthetics & culture, Tuttle Publishing, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Guth, Christine, Craft culture in early modern Japan : materials, makers, and mastery, University of California Press, N7353.5 .G884 2021

Hanley, Susan B., Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: the Hidden Legacy of Material Culture, University of California Press, GN635.J2 H35 1997

Mizuo, Hiroshi, Edo painting: Sotatsu and Korin, Weatherhill, ND1053.5 .M5913

Pate, Alan Scott, Kanban: traditional shop signs of Japan, Princeton University Press, GT3911.77 .P38 2017

Seiichiro, Yamamoto (editor), An illustrated guide to Japanese traditional architecture and everyday things, Tankosha Publishings, NA1550 .E49 2018

Brown, Azby, The genius of Japanese carpentry: the secrets of a craft, Kodansha International, TH5608.7 .B76 1995 (2013 version published by Tuttle, available via Ebook Central)

Lee, Joon-hee & In-ae Kang, Details in Japan architecture: Frame, Equal Books, NA1555.6 .D484 2015

Parent, Mary Neighbour, The roof in Japanese Buddhist architecture, Weatherhill; Kajima, NA6053.12.P3 1983

Seike, Kiyoshi, The art of Japanese joinery, Weatherhill, TH5662.S3813 1997

Zwerger, Klaus, Wood and wood joints: building traditions of Europe, Japan and China, Birkhäuser, TH2301.Z94 2011

Barthes, Roland, Empire of signs, Hill and Wang, DS821 .B31713 1982

Benedict, Ruth, The chrysanthemum and the sword; patterns of Japanese culture, Houghton Mifflin, DS821 .B46

De Bary, William Theodore, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Columbia University Press, DS821.T76, volumes 1-2

Japan Foundation (International cultural organization)

Keene, Donald, Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: the creation of the soul of Japan, Columbia University Press, DS865.A82 K44 2003

Kerr, Alex, Dogs and demons: tales from the dark side of Japan, Hill and Wang, DS891 .K47 2001

Okakura, Kakuzo, The book of tea, Dover Publications, GT2910 .O6 1989     

Richie, Donald, The image factory: fads and fashions in Japan, Reaktion, DS827.F34 R53 2003

Screech, Timon, The Shogun's painted culture: fear and creativity in the Japanese states, 1760-1829, Reaktion, N7353.5 .S374 2000

This Is Japan, Asahi Shimbum Newspaper Publishing Company, DS822 (Issues for 1956, 1959, 1961-3 are available)

Varley, H. Paul, Japanese culture: a short history, Praeger, DS821.V36 2000

Yonemoto, Marcia, Mapping early modern Japan: space, place, and culture in the Tokugawa period, 1603-1868, University of California Press, DS822.2 .Y665 2003

Benfey, Christopher E. G., The great wave: gilded age misfits, Japanese eccentrics, and the opening of old Japan, Random House, DS822.3 .B46 2003

Borowitz, Helen Osterman, Japonisme: Japanese influence on French art 1854-1910, The Cleveland Museum of Art / Charles E. Tuttle Co. Publishers, N6847 .J34

French, Cal, Through Closed Doors: Western Influence on Japanese Art 1639-1853, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, N7353.5 .F73 1977

“Japonisme” Oxford Art Online

Kuitert, Wybe, “Japonaiserie in London and the Hague,” Garden History, Winter 2002, p.221-238 (PDF via Jstor)

Lancaster, Clay, The Japanese Influence in America, Walton H. Rawls, NA705.L3

Nute, Kevin, The role of traditional Japanese art and architecture in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Routledge, NA737.W7 N88 2000

Wichmann, Japonisme: the Japanese influence on western art in the 19th and 20th centuries, N6447 .W5313

Yamamori, Yumiko, “Japanese arts in America, 1895-1920, and the A.A. Vantine and Yamanaka Companies,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, Spring/Summer 2008, p.96-126 (PDF via Jstor)

Isozaki, Arata, Katsura Villa: space and form, Rizzoli, NA7758.K94 I8613 1987 (Oversize shelf)

Naitō, Akira, Katsura: a princely retreat, Kodansha International, NA1557.K9 N353 1977

Conder, Josiah, Japanese gardens: an illustrated guide to their design and history, Dover Publications, SB458 .C66 2001

Gong, Chadine Flood & Lisa Parramore, Living with Japanese gardens, Gibbs Smith, SB458 .G665 2006

Keane, Marc P., The art of setting stones: & other writings from the Japanese garden, SB-455 .K36 2002

Kira, Moriko, Japan: towards totalscape: contemporary Japanese architecture, urban planning and landscape, NAI Publishers, NA1555.45.J37 2000

Kuck, Loraine E., The world of the Japanese garden: from Chinese origins to modern landscape art, Walker/Weatherhill, SB466.J3K82 1984

Kuitert, Wybe, Themes in the history of Japanese garden art, University of Hawaii Press, SB458 .K85 2002

Main, Lure of the Japanese garden, SB-466.J3 M35 2002

Process Architecture #46, Landscape Design in Japan, NA6.P94 no. 046

Takei, Jiro, Sakuteiki, visions of the Japanese garden: a modern translation of Japan's gardening classic, Tuttle Publishing, SB458 .T334 2001

Treib, Marc, A guide to the gardens of Kyoto, SB466.J32 K9287 2003

Blyth, Reginald Horace, Haiku. Autumn-winter, Hokuseido Press, PL768.H3 B62 1981 vol.4

Emmerich, Michael, The tale of Genji : translation, canonization, and world literature, Columbia University Press, 2013 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Japan Times book reviews

Kasulis, Thomas P., “Japanese philosophy,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Ortolani, Benito, The Japanese theatre: from shamanistic ritual to contemporary pluralism, Princeton University Press, PN2921 .O78 1995

Shimazaki, Satoko, Edo kabuki in transition: from the worlds of the samurai to the vengeful female ghost, Columbia University Press (via Ebook Central)

Toita, Yasuji, Kabuki: the popular theater, Walker/Weatherhill, PN2924.5.K3 T57 1970

Guiheux, Kisho Kurokawa: architecte, le Métabolisme 1960-1975, NA1559.K83 G85 1997

“Hidden urbanism,” Lotus International, July 2017, #163, p.98-111

Ibañez, Daniel & Nikos Karsikis (editors), New Geographies. 06, Grounding metabolism, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, NA9000 .N49 2014 #6

Kikutake, Kiyonori, “Interview: when metabolism was born of renovation,” JA (Japan Architect), Spring 2009, p.12-17

Koolhaas, Charlie, Metabolism Trip, Heibonsha, TR659.K75 2012

Koolhaas, Rem, Project Japan: an oral history of Metabolism, Taschen, NA1555.5. M48 K66 2011

Oshimam Ken Tadashi, “Metabolist trajectories,” Log, Winter/Spring 2012, p.28-32

Sanderson, Warren, “Kazuo Shinohara's "Savage Machine" and the Place of Tradition in the Modern Japanese Residence,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, May 1984 (via Jstor)

Urban, Florian, “Japanese ‘occidentalism’ and the emergence of postmodern architecture,” Journal of Architectural Education, March 2012, p.89-102

Cali, Joseph & John Dougill, Shinto shrines: a guide to the sacred sites of Japan’s ancient religion, University of Hawaii Press, BL2225.A1 C35 2013

Fowler, Sherry Dianne, Muroji: rearranging art and history at a Japanese Buddhist temple, University of Hawaii Press, N8193 .F68 2005

Fukuyama, Toshio, Heian temples: Byodo-in and Chuson-ji, Weatherhill / Heibonsha, N8193.3.P8 F8413     

Imaizumi, Yoshiko, Sacred space in the modern city: the fractured pasts of Meiji Shrine, 1912-1958, Brill, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Kawazoe, Noboru, et al, Ise, prototype of Japanese architecture, MIT Press, NA6057.I8 A83 (Office)

Kitagawa, Momoo, The Muro-ji, an eighth century Japanese temple, its art and history, Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, NA6057.M8 K53 (Oversize shelf)

MCCallum, Donald F., The four great temples: Buddhist archaeology, architecture, and icons of seventh-century Japan, University of Hawaii Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Ooka, Minoru, Temples of Nara and their art, Weatherhill, NA6057.N3 O5513

Soper, Alexander Coburn, The evolution of Buddhist architecture in Japan, Hacker Art Books, NA1550 .S6 1942

Suzuki, Kakichi, Early Buddhist architecture in Japan, Kodansha, NA6053.2.S8913

Blaser, Werner, Japan: dwelling houses, Niggli, NA7451 .B59 2005       

Chiorino, Francesca, Homes in Japan, Electa Architecture, NA1559.A5 C4813 2017

Ciorra, Pippo & Florence Ostende (editors), The Japanese house: architecture and life after 1945, Marsilio Editori, NA7451 .J36 2017

Engel, Heino, Measure and construction of the Japanese house: 250 plans and sketches plus illustrations of joinery, Tuttle Publishing, TH4809.J3 E54 2020

Engel, Heinrich, The Japanese house; a tradition for contemporary architecture, Charles E. Tuttle, NA7451 .E5 1964 (Office)

Hilder, Claudia, Future living: collective housing in Japan, Birkhäuser, NA7863.J3 H55x 2014

Lee, Joon-hee, Japan house R2: 38 architects, 45 houses, Equal Books, NA7451 .J38 2015

Nuijsink, Cathelijne, How to make a Japanese house, NAi Publishers, NA7451 .N85 2012

Pollock, Naomi R., The Japanese house since 1945, Thames & Hudson, NA7451 .P65 2023

Roderick, John, Minka: my farmhouse in Japan, Princeton Architectural Press, NA7451 .R63 2008

Seiichiro, Yamamoto (editor), An illustrated guide to Japanese traditional architecture and everyday things, Tankosha Publishings, NA1550 .E49 2018

Ueda, Makoto, Ontology of house, A.D.A., NA7126 .G13 (Office)

Yoshida, Tetsurō, The Japanese house and garden, Praeger, NA7451 .Y615 1955

Zhao, Xiang, Contemporary Japanese houses, Images Publishing, NA7451 .C66 2018

Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Album of Japanese sculpture, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, NB1053 .A55 1953, volumes 1-6 (Oversize shelf)

Bowie, Henry P., On the laws of Japanese painting, Dover Publications, ND1050. B67

Chong, Doryun, Tokyo, 1955-1970: a new avant-garde, Museum of Modern Art, N7355.4 C46 2012

Edo Tåokyåo Hakubutsukan, From ukiyo-e to photography: cultural awakening in Japan’s visual field, Seigensha, N7354 .U559 2015

Fenollosa, Ernest F., Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art, Dover Publications, N7337.F4 Vol.2, volumes 1-2

Focus on Japanese Photography, SFMOMA digital publication

Galbraith, Stuart & Paul Duncan (editors), Japanese cinema, Taschen, PN1993.5 .J3 G33 2009

Hillier, Jack Ronald, Japanese drawings from the 17th through the 19th century, Shorewood Publishers, NC1240.H 5

Kanazawa, Hiroshi, Japanese ink painting: early Zen masterpieces, Kodansha International, ND2071 .K3513

Mason, Penelope E., History of Japanese Art, Pearson Prentice Hall, N7351 .M381 2005

Midnight Eye (“The latest and the best in Japanese cinema”)

Miller, Roy Andrew, Japanese ceramics, Toto Shuppan Company, NK4167 .O363 1960

Munroe, Alexandra, Japanese art after 1945: scream against the sky, Harry N. Abrams, N7355.M87 1994

National Film Archive of Japan

Tanaka, Ichimatsu, Japanese ink painting: Shubun to Sesshu, Weatherhill, ND2071 .T313

Tucker, Anne Wilkes, et al, The history of Japanese photography, Yale University Press & the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TR105 .H57 2003