Art and History books

[greeknakos]

Greetings,

So I'm stationed at Ft Leavenworth where they have a research library for the military students. In their Japanese section they had several books that I thought might be useful but wanted to get some idea from the greater community before scanning them.
Japan It's history arts and literature. A twelve volume set published in 1901
The Cambridge history of Japan volume 3
The story of a warrior tradition by Harry cook
Heavenly warriors by William Farris
The Japanese people origins of the people and language by Isao Komatsu
The story of nations, Japan by David Murray published in 1885/1889
A history of Japan by Sansom published by Stanford 3 volume set
The samurai A military history by Stephen Turnbull
Way in Japan by Turnbull
Samurai warfare by Turnbull
Japan in the Muromachi period by John hall and Toyada Takeshi
War and faith Ikko Ikki in the Muromachi period by Carol Tsang
Hideyoshi by Mary berry
Toyotomi Hideyoshi by Turnbull

Arigato
Nakos

[greeknakos]

Ok, I need to trust the search function more. Found my answer on the following books:
The Cambridge history of Japan volume 3
The story of a warrior tradition by Harry cook
Heavenly warriors by William Farris
A history of Japan by Sansom 
and everything from Turnbull.

Still looking for assistance with the other books. Especially the turn of the century ones.

[tanuki]

Modern Asian Studies
Japanese History and Culture from Ancient to Modern Times
The Story of Japan
Japan: The Story of the Nations
The Japanese People
Japan, it's history, art, and Literature

all found via Google-fu.

plus, on Kobo, there's some good freebies:
The Religion of the Samurai by Kaiten Sukariya
Feudal Kamakura: Outline Sketch of the History of Kamakura by J.E. De Becker
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan by Annie Shepley
Japanese Literature including selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan by Murasaki Shikibu

sorry, don't have links for those but they should be easy enough to find.  I don't want to reset my password on the laptop, because I have it memorized on my smartphone! 

[greeknakos]

Tanuki,

I was looking more for people's opinions about the other books. I have access to all of the books listed in the op at my local research library.

[tanuki]

fair enough. I thought you were looking for versions of them.

from my perspective, they're older, and in that, can be taken with a grain of salt, in a way. Some of them, are more frank, and actually show less bias. Others show more. It all depends. Unfortunately, I haven't read the list you've written minus Turnbull's. I love his as a starter, along with Tony-Sensei's of course.

The one I'm reading currently, Feudal Kamakura: Outline Sketch of the History of Kamakura by J.E. De Becker, is a great example of "give and take" with some of these older books. Basically, there are things discussed that aren't even covered anymore, which is great, and I'm looking forward to going through his notes and resources after reading it. There's also things that archaeology and documents are changing in the way we see things today. I can imagine most of them being like that.

Turnbull's book on Hideyoshi I thought was excellent. I have a hard-copy and a copy on my Kobo.

sorry, thought you were looking for additional sources of them, not opinions on them. Frankly, I just read it and make my own opinion afterwards on most of them.

[Ki no Kotori]

A History of Japan by George Sansom came out in the late 1950's but is still a good general resource and worth reading. Warning: the prose is very dry.

The Cambridge History is a good resource.

For the turn of the century books, I'd be a bit leery of them. The field of Japanese studies progressed a great deal during the last half of the 20th century.

Hope this helps.