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Post by Kagami Tomoko on May 1, 2017 20:34:34 GMT -5
I recently purchased the Known World Handbook (Fourth Edition) as I have always wanted a copy for myself. While thumbing through the pages, I came across the Top 10 Books Every SCAdian Should Own and found the list rather interesting. I will admit that I don't own any of the books on the list, nor had any of my past SCAdian friends. Then it got me thinking, "What books would we, the Tousando community, recommend to newcomers wanting to portray a Japanese persona? Would any of the books on the original list remain (outside of the handbook itself)? Certainly, the list would change depending on the person, as we all have our particular passions, but what resources would we encourage newcomers to read/purchase/borrow? It should also go without saying that many of our resources are online these days, like Sengoku Daiymo's website, and those could certainly be included in this list. However, for a thought exercise, I thought it might be interesting to focus on the printed page. What would be on your Top 10 Books Every Japanese SCAdian Should Own? Note: If we start to form any consensus or start to show any trends with books, I would be happy to edit this first post with the findings as sort of a "Getting started guide."
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Post by solveig on May 2, 2017 20:09:41 GMT -5
I do not guarantee the quality of the books herein. However, here goes a try: - The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature by Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, and Robert E. Morrell
- Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan by William E. Deal
- Japan Encyclopedia by Louis Frédéric
- Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History by William Wayne Farris
- The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Ivan Morris
- Daily life in Japan at the time of the Samurai, 1185-1603 by Louis-Frédéric
- The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society by Pierre Francois Souyri
- Japan's Golden Age: Momoyama by Money L. Hickman
- A History of Japanese Religion by Kazuo Kasahara
- A History of Japanese Literature: The First Thousand Years by Shuichi Kato
Although they are dated and therefore miss a lot of recent sources, you should check out the following: - A Student Guide to Japanese Sources in the Humanities by Yasuko Makino and Masaei Saito
- Bibliography of Reference Works for Japanese Studies by Naomi Fukuda
If you don't mind the cost, you can also buy all six volumes of: The Cambridge History of Japan. Only the first three relate to Japan prior to 1600.
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on May 5, 2017 12:42:41 GMT -5
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Post by solveig on May 5, 2017 23:30:34 GMT -5
Since people are posting unedited book lists. Here is a partial list of books about Japan which I have sitting around my apartment. There are undoubtedly books on Japan which I have here which I have not yet catalogued. There may be a few stray books not about Japan in this list. The list does not include my journal collection, my collection of article offprints, my collection of koten (premodern books), and my boxes of duplicates. There are a few duplicates which are catalogued. Regardless, here is a link to my current inventory: Partial Inventory.
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Post by Kagami Tomoko on May 6, 2017 3:14:11 GMT -5
Since people are posting unedited book lists. Here is a partial list of books about Japan which I have sitting around my apartment. There are undoubtedly books on Japan which I have here which I have not yet catalogued. There may be a few stray books not about Japan in this list. The list does not include my journal collection, my collection of article offprints, my collection of koten (premodern books), and my boxes of duplicates. There are a few duplicates which are catalogued. Regardless, here is a link to my current inventory: Partial Inventory. I am working on collecting my Top 10 (this requires reading and perhaps purchasing some of the books you have in your links) but I also have a running list of my bookshelf: www.the-autumn-pavilion.com/library/. It's a newish site so it's still under construction, but you can sort by any of the columns which is useful when you're trying to find specific information.
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Post by solveig on May 8, 2017 9:33:58 GMT -5
I am working on collecting my Top 10 (this requires reading and perhaps purchasing some of the books you have in your links) but I also have a running list of my bookshelf: www.the-autumn-pavilion.com/library/. It's a newish site so it's still under construction, but you can sort by any of the columns which is useful when you're trying to find specific information. I am both too lazy and and rather oddly at the same time too busy to pull something like that off. I just have a commercial book catalogue program that sits on my computer. I have a virtual booklist inside of it which rather crudely includes books which fit rather broad criteria into the Nipponica virtual book list. I have enough trouble just entering books when new ones arrive.
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