Cultural Studies
- Living Japan essays on everyday life in contemporary societyElectronic resource
- Making tea, making Japan : cultural nationalism in practiceCall Number: GT2910 .S854 2013
- An introduction to Japanese societyCONSORT resource
- Seeing stars : sports celebrity, identity, and body culture in modern JapanCall Number: GV655 .F76 2010
- Beauty up : exploring contemporary Japanese body aestheticsElectronic resource
- The book of teaElectronic resource
- Coffee life in JapanElectronic resource
- GeishaElectronic resource
- Japanese tourismCall Number: G332 .J38 2013
- Manners and mischief gender, power, and etiquette in JapanElectronic resource
- Millennial monsters Japanese toys and the global imaginationElectronic resource
- Pop culture and the everyday in Japan : sociological perspectivesCall Number: DS822.5 .B86413 2012
- The modern Japanese tea roomCONSORT resource
Geisha
- Autobiography of a GeishaCall Number: GT3412.7.M37 A3 2003
- The gei of geisha: music, identity and meaningCall Number: ML340 .F68 2008
- Geisha: a lifeCall Number: GT3412.7.I93 A3 2002
- Geisha: a unique world of tradition, elegance, and artCONSORT Resource
- Geisha & maiko of Kyoto: beauty, art, & danceCall Number: GT3415.J3 F67 2009
- Geisha: beyond the painted smileCONSORT Resource
- Geisha: women of Japan's flower & willow worldCONSORT Resource
- The search for the beautiful woman: a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beautyCall Number: HQ1220.J3 C5313 2012
- The story of the Geisha girlGerritsen Collection
- Women of the pleasure quarters: the secret history of the geishaCONSORT Resource
- Yoshiwara: the glittering world of the Japanese courtesanCall Number: HN730.T65 S45 1993
- Geisha: a photographic history, 1872-1912CONSORT Resource
Interesting Websites
- The Floating World of Ukiyo-E (Library of Congress)Featured are selected Ukiyo-e prints, books, and drawings from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries and other related works from the Library of Congress's collections created by Japanese and Western artists into the twentieth century.
Recommended Cultural & Music Periodical Indexes
- Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
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- Social Sciences Abstracts This link opens in a new window Indexes 700 journals, 1994-present.
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- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window Indexes 1,300 sociology journals with full text from 860, 1908-present.
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- Sociological Collection This link opens in a new window 500 full text journals.
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Music Databases
- Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new window Smithsonian Folkways Recordings archive collection.
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Still Image Databases
- Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951 Photographs taken by anthropologist John W. Bennett in occupied Japan, 1948-1951.
- International Research Center for Japan Studies -- Images Multiple image databases developed by the Nichibunken.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window One million images over a wide range of subjects.
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Samurai
- Art of the samurai: Japanese arms and armor, 1156-1868CONSORT Resource
- Hagakure: the book of the samuraiCall Number: BJ971.B8 Y33213
- Hired swords: the rise of private warrior power in early JapanCall Number: DS838.5 .F75 1992
- Katana : the Samurai swordCONSORT Resource
- The Samurai: a military historyCONSORT Resource
- Samurai : an illustrated historyCONSORT Resource
- Samurai: the Japanese warrior's (unofficial) manualCall Number: DS827.S3 T875 2012
- The Samurai swordsman: master of warCONSORT Resource
- Training the samurai mind: a bushido sourcebookCONSORT Resource