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Resources on Japanese Art and Culture

Addiss, Stephen 1996 How to Look at Japanese Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

Benfey, Christopher 2003 The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan. Random House, NY.

Coffland, Robert T. 1999 Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Arts. Hong Kong: Art Media Resources with Tai Gallery.

Dobson, Sebastian, Anne Nishimura Morse and Frederic A. Sharf 2004 Art and Artifice: Japanese Photographs of the Meiji Era. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 2005 A Much Recorded War: The Russo-Japanese War in History and Imagery. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Earle, Joe 2004 Lethal Elegance: The Art of Samurai Sword Fittings. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Herrigel, Eugen 1953 Zen in the Art of Archery. Random House. (Many reprints since.)

Itoh, Teiji, 1998 The Gardens of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

Jodidio, Philip 1999 Tadao Ando. Taschen Publications.

Kanada, Margaret Miller 1989 Color Woodblock Printmaking: The Traditional Method of Ukiyo-e. Tokyo: Shufunotomo Co., Ltd.

Keane, Marc P. 1996 Japanese Garden Design. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company.

Keene, Donald, trans. 1967 Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company.

Keene, Donald, editor 1988 Anthology of Japanese Literature: Earliest Era to Mid-Nineteenth Century. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Teacher Programs 1 Mason, Penelope 1993 History of Japanese Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

Messervy, Julie Moir 1993 Tenshin-en, The Garden of the Heart of Heaven. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Morita, Kiyoko 1992 The Book of Incense. New York: Kodansha.

Morris, Ivan, translator 1967 The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. New York: Penguin. 1975 The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan. New York: Meridian.

Morse, Anne Nishimura, editor 2006 Drama and Desire: Japanese Painting from the Floating World, 1690 – 1850. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.’

2008 MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Morse, Anne Nishimura and Samuel Crowell Morse 1996 Object as Insight: Japanese Buddhist Art and Ritual. Katonah Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Oka, Hideyuki 1965 How to Wrap Five Eggs: Japanese Design in Traditional Packaging. New York: Harper and Row.

Okakura, Kakuzo, 1906 The Book of Tea. (Many reprints since.)

Sadao, Tsuneko S. and Stephanie Wada 2003 Discovering the Arts of Japan: A Historical Overview. Tokyo: Kodansha.

Sadler, A. L., translator 1972 The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company.

Seiroku Noma. Translated by John Rosenfield 1966 The Arts of Japan: Ancient and Medieval and Late Medieval to Modern. New York: Kodansha.

Shikibu, Murasaki. Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker 1983 The Tale of Genji. New York: Knopf.

Slawson, David A. 1987 Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

Tanizaki, Junichiro. Translated by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker 1977 In Praise of Shadows. New Haven, CT: Leete’s Island Books.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Teacher Programs 2 Thompson, Sarah E. 2009 Utagawa Kuniyoshi: The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido. San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Communications, Ltd.

Varley, H. Paul 1973 Japanese Culture: A Short History. Rutland, VT: Tuttle. (Many reprints since.)

Children’s Books

Altmann, Julia (Author), Wynne, Christopher (Author) 2000 One Day in Japan With Hokusai (Adventures in Art and Architecture). Prestel Publishing.

Finley, Carol. 1997 Art of Japan: Wood-Block Color Prints (Art Around the World). Lerner Publishing Group

The History of Printmaking. Scholastic Books, 1996.

Hodges, Margaret (Author), Hearn, Lafcadio (Author), Sogabe, Aki (Illustrator) 2002 The Boy Who Drew Cats. Holiday House

Littlefield, Holly (Author), Byers, Helen. 1997 Colors of Japan (Colors of the World).Carolhoda Books

Partridge, Elizabeth (Author), Sogabe, Aki (Illustrator) 2003 Kogi's Mysterious Journey. Dutton Juvenile

Say, Allan 1993 The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice. Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books

Websites http://educators.mfa.org Teach and learn with one of the largest online art collections in the world! MFA Educators Online is a new learning tool that allows you to create and share custom art galleries. Browse our collection, choose artwork, and add your own materials, from lesson plans to multimedia presentations. Share your galleries with colleagues and students online or in the classroom. www.mfa.org In particular, check out the Interactive Online Tours in the Collections/Resources section, where many groupings of Japanese art have been organized according to recent exhibitions and/or areas of the collection.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Teacher Programs 3 http://woodblock.com/encyclopedia/ Describing the woodblock printmaking process in great depth, the website is a wonderful resource. It features text describing the process, photos showing the process, and a bibliography of books for further reading. The website is easy to navigate with a main menu always displayed to quickly select another entry. http://www.floatingworld.com/japanese_woodblock_prints.asp Accompanied by brief descriptions, the website offers links to “General Sites About Japanese Woodblock Prints.” http://www.kinderart.com/printmaking/print101.shtml Although it does not feature a section on Japanese woodblocks, the website offers a clear description of Relief Printing that is readily accessible to younger audiences. http://www.asia-art.net/japan_prints.html Offering information about Commodore Perry’s opening of Japan, the website describes the place of the woodblock print in Japan and its appreciation by Western travelers. http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html# MIT’s “Visualizing Cultures—Image-Driven Scholarship” is an outstanding web site merging images and scholarly commentary in innovative ways to illuminate social and cultural history. Topical units that draw from the MFA, Boston’s collection include: “Throwing Off Asia;” “Asia Rising;” and “Yellow Promise, Yellow Peril.” http://www.adachi-hanga.com/en_ukiyo-e/index.htm Site of a commercial woodblock printing company in Tokyo. Includes pictures and information about the history and techniques of Japanese woodblock printing.

Japanese Stores in the Boston Area

In Boston:  Narutomi Japanese Grocery 349-B Newbury St Boston, MA 02115 Tel: (617) 437-1939 Mon. – Sun. 11am-10pm

In Cambridge: There is a cluster of many Japanese businesses in the Porter Exchange building at the Porter Square (Red Line) T stop. The Porter Exchange building, located at 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, can be found directly in back of the T stop exit. The businesses include sushi and noodle bars, a Japanese cuisine restaurant, a Japanese grocery store, a bakery, boutiques, travel agencies and clothing shops. A few of the well-known stores are listed below.

 Tokai Japanese Gifts 1815 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02140

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 Kotobukiya Japanese Grocery Store 1815 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02140 Tel: (617) 354-6914 http://www.kotobukiyamarket.com/homee.htm Mon.-Fri. 10am-9pm, Sat. 9am-9pm, Sun. 12pm-7pm

 Blue Fin Restaurant 1815 Mass Ave Porter Square, Cambridge 02140 Tel: (617) 497-8022 Mon. – Sun. 12pm-10:30pm

Other Local Resources

Boston Children’s Museum, Japan Program Boston, MA http://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/

Sasuga Books Waltham, MA Online service only: http://www.sasugabooks.com/

Japan Society of Boston http://www.us-japan.org/boston/

New England Japan Exchange and Teaching Alumni Association http://www.nejetaa.org/

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