Tōkyō Bibliography (English-Language Sources)

Supplementary Material for Foreign Cultures Core Course (FC 84)

 

Ted Bestor

Department of Anthropology

Harvard University

 

bestor@wjh.harvard.edu

 

 

version 2.5, updated 2/22/04

 

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Allinson, Gary.  1979,  Suburban Tokyo.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Allison, Anne.  1994.  Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Anderer, Paul.  1987.  “Tokyo and the Borders of Modern Japanese Fiction,” in Sharpe and Wallcock (eds.)  Visions of the Modern City.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Aoki, Tamotsu, 1996,  “Murakami Haruki and Japan Today,” in Treat (ed.)  Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture.  Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press. (pp. 265-264)

Ashihara, Yoshinobu, 1989.  The Hidden Order: Tokyo through the Twentieth Century.  Tokyo: Kodansha International.

Atkins, E. Taylor.  2001.   Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan.  Duke University Press.

Barthes, Roland. 1982,  Empire of Signs.  New York: Hill and Wang.

Bestor, Theodore C.  1989.  Neighborhood Tokyo.  Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Bestor, Theodore C.  1990.  "Tokyo Mom-and-Pop,"  Wilson Quarterly.  14 (4): 27-33.

Bestor, Theodore C.  1992.  ""Conflict, Tradition, and Legitimacy in a Tokyo Neighborhood," in Takie S. Lebra (ed.), Japanese Social Organization, University of Hawai’i Press.  pp. 23-47.

Bestor, Theodore C.  1992.  “Rediscovering Shitamachi: Subculture, Class, and Tokyo's 'Traditional' Urbanism,” In The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space. edited by Gary McDonogh and Robert Rotenberg, North Hadley, MA: Bergen and Garvey.

Bestor, Theodore C.  1996.  "Forging Tradition: Social Life and Identity in a Tokyo Neighborhood," in George Gmelch and Walter P. Zenner (eds.), Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology. (third edition)  Waveland Press.  pp. 524-47.

Bestor, Theodore C.,  1999,  “Constructing Sushi: Food Culture, Trade, and Commodification in a Japanese Market,” in Susan O. Long (ed.), Lives in Motion.  Cornell East Asia Series, Monograph No. 106. 

Bestor, Theodore C.,  1999,  “Wholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market,” in Setha M. Low (ed.), Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader.  Rutgers University Press,    pp. 201-42.

Bestor, Theodore C.,  2000,  “How Sushi Went Global,”  Foreign Policy.  Nov./Dec.  pp. 54-62.

Bestor, Theodore C.,  2001,  “Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and The Global City,” American Anthropologist (part of a special issue on “Remapping the City: Place, Order, and Ideology), 102 (1): 76-95.

Bestor, Theodore C.,  2002, “Networks, Neighborhoods, and Markets: Field Research in Tokyo,” in Gmelch and Zenner (eds.), Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City.  (4th edition). Waveland Press.   pp. 146-61. 

 

Bestor, Theodore C.  2003.  “Inquisitive Observation: Following Networks in Urban Fieldwork,” in Bestor, Steinhoff, and Bestor (eds.), Doing Fieldwork in Japan, University of Hawai’i Press.  

 

Bestor, Theodore C.  2003.  “Markets and Places: Tokyo and the Global Sushi Trade,” in Setha Low and Denise Lawrence-Zuniga (eds.)  The Anthropology of Space and Place, Blackwell.

 

Bestor, Theodore C.  2004.  Tsukiji:  The Fish Market at the Center of the World.  University of California Press.

Bestor, Theodore C., Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Victoria Lyon Bestor (eds.)  2003.  Doing Fieldwork in Japan, University of Hawai’i Press.  2003.

Bognar, Botund.  1997.  Tokyo.  John Wiley & Sons.

Clammer, John.  1997.  Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption.  Oxford: Blackwell.

Coaldrake, William.  1981.  “Edo Architecture and Tokugawa Law,” Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 36, No. 3. (Autumn, 1981), pp. 235-284.  (JSTOR link, on-line)

Coaldrake, William.  1988.   “The Gatehouse of the Shogun’s Senior Councillor,”  The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 47, No. 4. (Dec., 1988), pp. 397-410.  (JSTOR link, on-line)

Coaldrake, William H.,  1996, Architecture and Authority in Japan.  London & New York: Routledge.

·       Chapter 5 – “Castles” (pp. 104-137)

·       Chapter 8 – “Shogunal and Daimyo Gateways” (pp. 193-207)

·       Chapter 9 – “Building the Meiji State” (pp. 208-250)

·       Chapter 10 – “Tange Kenzō’s Tokyo Monuments” (pp. 251-277)

Cook, Haruko Taya and Theodore F., 1992,  Japan at War: An Oral History.  New York: The New Press.

·       “The End of a Bake Shop,”  pp. 177-181

·       “Hiroko Died Because of Me,” pp. 343-349

·       “At the Telephone Exchange,” pp. 349-353

Cybriwsky, Roman.  1997.  “From Castle Town to Manhattan Town with Suburbs: A Geographical Account of Tokyo’s Changing Landmarks and Symbolic Landscapes,” in Karan and Stapleton (eds.), The Japanese City.  University Press of Kentucky.  pp. 56-78.

Cybriwsky, Roman.  1998.  Tokyo: The Shogun’s City at the Twenty-First Century.  John Wiley & Sons.

Doi, Ayako.  2003.  Japan’s Hybrid Women,” Foreign Policy, Nov/Dec 2003.  (available on-line)

Dore, R. P., 1958.   City Life in Japan.  Berkeley: University of California Press. 

Eades J. S. (compiler).   1999.  Tokyo.  Oxford and Santa Barbara: Clio.

Fields, George.  1983.  From Bonsai to Levi’s.  Macmillan.

Fields, George, 1988,  The Japanese Market Culture.  Tokyo: The Japan Times.

·       Chapter 1 – MacArthur’s Children, the Tokyo Olympians, and the Shinjinrui (pp. 3-20)

Fields, George.  1989.  Gucci on the Ginza: Japan’s New Consumer Generation.

Fowler, Edward.  1996.  San’ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo.  Cornell University Press.

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Friedman, Mildred (ed.), 1986.  Tokyo: Form and Spirit. Minneapolis and New York: Walker Art Center and Harry N. Abrams.

·       Smith, Henry D., II.  “Sky and Water: The Deep Structures of Tokyo” pp. 21-35

·       Kojiro, Yuichiro, “Edo: The City on the Plain” pp. 37-53

·       Coaldrake, William H.  “Order and Anarchy: Tokyo from 1868 to the Present,” pp. 62-75

·       Treib, Marc, “The Dichotomies of Dwelling: Edo/Tokyo” pp. 107-125

·       Frampton, Kenneth, “Twilight Gloom to Self-Enclosed Modernity: Five Japanese Architects” pp. 220-241.

Fujii, James.  1999.  "Intimate Alienation: Japanese Urban Rail and the Commodification of Urban Subjects," in special issue of Differences, vol.11, no.2, Summer.

 

Fukuzawa, Yukichi,  1966 [originally 1899], Autobiography.  (revised translation by Eiichi Kiyooka).  New York: Schocken Books.

·       Foreword by Carmen Blacker (pp. v-xv)

·       Chapter V, “I go to Yedo; I learn English” (pp. 93-103)

Gallery-Ma (ed.)  1994.  Kenchiku Map Tokyo.  Tokyo: Toto Shuppan.

Hall, John W.  1955.   The Castle Town and Japan's Modern Urbanization, The Far Eastern Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 1. (Nov., 1955), pp. 37-56. (JSTOR link to original article, on-line)  -- The article was republished in 1968 as “The Castle Town and Japan’s Modern Urbanization,” in Hall and Jansen (eds.)  Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan.  Princeton University Press.  pp. 169-88. 

 

Hamabata, Matthews.  1990.  Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family.   Ithaca:  Cornell University Press.

Hanley, Susan B., 1997,  Everyday Things in Premodern Japan.  Berkeley: University of California Press. 

·       Chapter 5 – “Urban Sanitation and Physical Well-Being” (pp. 104 - 128)

 

Hanley, Susan B.  1987.   Urban Sanitation in Preindustrial Japan,  Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 1. (Summer, 1987), pp. 1-26.  (link to JSTOR, on-line)

 

Hastings, Sally Ann.  1995.  Neighborhood and Nation in Tokyo, 1905-37.  University of Pittsburgh Press.

Havens, Thomas R. H.  1978.  Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War II.  W. W. Norton

·       Chapter 9 – Fleeing (pp. 154-173)

Havens, Thomas R. H.  1994.  Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu-Saison Enterprises in Twentieth-Century Japan.  Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies.

Hur, Nam-lin.  2000.  Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensôji and Edo Society.  Harvard University Asia Center.

Inoye, Jûkichi.  1910.  Home Life in Tokyo.  Kegan Paul (reprinted 1985).

·       Chapters 1 & 2 – “Tokyo the Capital,” and “The Streets of Tokyo” (pp. 1-23)

Ivy, Marilyn.  1995.  Discourses of the Vanishing.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

JCII Photo Salon, 100 Years of Tokyo, [exhibition catalogue] 2000.

Jinnai, Hidenobu, 1995.  Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Karan, P.P.  1997.  “The City in Japan,” in Karan and Stapleton (eds.), The Japanese City.  University Press of Kentucky.  pp. 12-39.

Kelly, William W.  1992.  "Regional Japan: The Price of Prosperity and the Benefits of Dependency," in Carol Gluck and Stephen R. Graubard, eds., Showa: The Japan of Hirohito.  New York:  W. W. Norton.  pp. 209-227.  (also published in Daedalus 119(3):207-227.)

Kelly, William W.  1993.  "Finding a Place in Metropolitan Japan: Ideologies, Institutions, and Everyday Life," in Andrew Gordon (ed.), Postwar Japan as History.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.  pp. 189-216.

Kelly, William W.  1994.  "Incendiary Actions: Fire and Firefighting in the Shogun's Capital and the People's City" in McClain, James L., John M. Merriman, and Ugawa Kaoru (eds.), Edo and Paris: The State, Political Power, and Urban Life in Two Early-Modern Societies, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.  pp. 310-330 

Kondo, Dorinne K.  1990.  Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kondo, Dorinne K.  1997.  About Face.  New York: Routledge.

Kurasawa, Susumu.  1986.  Social Atlas of Tokyo.  Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.

Kuwabara Kineo, 1996.  Tokyo: 1934-1993  (2nd ed.). Tokyo: Shinchosha.

LeBlanc, Robin M.  1999.  Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife.  University of California Press.

Lebra, Takie S.  1993.  Above the Clouds.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

Markus, Andrew L.  1985.  The Carnival of Edo: Misemono Spectacles From Contemporary Accounts,

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2. (Dec., 1985), pp. 499-541. (JSTOR link, on-line)  

 

Marx, W. David,  2001, Going Ape: ‘Bathing Ape” Street-Wear and the Culture of Fashion for Japanese Youth in the 1990s.  undergraduate honors thesis, Harvard College, April 2001.

McClain, James L., John M. Merriman, and Ugawa Kaoru (eds.), 1994, Edo and Paris: The State, Political Power, and Urban Life in Two Early-Modern Societies, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

McClellan, Edwin,  1985,  Woman in the Crested Kimono.  New Haven: Yale U.P.

McGray, Douglas.  2002.  Japan’s Gross National CoolForeign Policy, May/June 2002.  available on-line

McLelland, Mark.  2000.  “Male Homosexuality and Popular Culture in Modern Japan,“ Intersections.  Issue 3.

          (on-line journal http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/)

McCreery, John, 2000,  Japanese Consumer Behavior. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.

·       Chapter 3 – That typical Japanese, the Baby Boomer Salaryman (pp. 51-90)

·       Chapter 8 – Real places, imaginary spaces (pp. 217-243)

Meertz, John.  n.d.  “Modernity Fashioned Around the Beef-Pot.” Unpublished paper.

Moeran, Brian.  1996.  A Japanese Advertising Agency.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Nagano Shigeichi, 2000.  Kono Kuni no Ki’i, catalogue of photographic exhibition held at the Tokyo-to Shashin Bijutsukan

Nishiyama, Matsunosuke.  1997.  Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868.  University of Hawai’i Press.

·       Introduction: The Study of  Edo-Period Culture, pp. 7-19

·       Part I, Edo: The City and Its Culture, pp. 23-91

·       Chapter 12, Popular Performing Arts: From Edo to Meiji, pp. 228-250

Noguchi, Paul.  1990.  Delayed Departures, Overdue Arrivals.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Ogasawara, Yuko.  1998.  Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

_____.  2001. “Women’s Solidarity: Company Policies and Japanese Office Ladies,” in Mary C. Brinton (ed.), Women’s Working Lives in East Asia.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 151-179.

Okamoto, Kohei.  1997.  “Suburbanization of Tokyo and the Daily Lives of Suburban  People,” in Karan and Stapleton (eds.), The Japanese City.  University Press of Kentucky.  pp. 79-105.

Popham, Peter.  1985.  Tokyo: The City at the End of the World.  Kodansha International.

Prindle, Tamae K. (translator and editor), 1989,  Made in Japan and Other Japanese “Business Novels,”  Armonk: M. E. Sharpe.

·       Introduction, pp. xi-xii & xv-xvi (section on Sakaiya)

·       “The Baby Boom Generation,” by Taichi Sakaiya, pp. 129-164

Raz, Aviad E.  1999.  Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland.  Harvard University Asia Center.

Robertson, Jennifer.  1991.  Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Roden, Donald.  1980.  Baseball and the Quest for National Dignity in Meiji Japan

The American Historical Review, Vol. 85, No. 3. (Jun., 1980), pp. 511-534. (JSTOR link, on-line)  

 

Rogers, Lawrence (translator and editor).  2002.  Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Sand, Jordan.  1998.  “At Home in the Meiji Period: Inventing Japanese Domesticity,” in Vlastos, Stephen (ed.),  Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan.  Berkeley: University of California Press.  pp. 191-207.

Sand, Jordan.  2000.  "Was Meiji Taste in Interiors 'Orientalist'?", positions.  8:3,

Sand, Jordan.  2001.  "Monumentalizing the Everyday: The Edo-Tokyo Museum," Critical Asian Studies.  33:3.

Sand, Jordan.  ????   bunka juutaku, in John Clark and Elise Tipton (eds.),  Being Modern in Japan.  

Sand, Jordan.  ????  "The Culture of the Culture House,"  ????

Sassen, Saskia.  2001.  The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.  (revised edition) Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Schilling, Mark,  2000.  Into the Heartland with Tora-san, in Timothy J. Craig (ed.), Japan Pop!,  Armonk: M.E. Sharpe.  Pp. 245-255.

Seidensticker, Edward.  1965,  Kafû the Scribbler.  Stanford University Press.

·       The River Sumida – pp. 181-218

·       A Strange Tale from East of the River – pp. 278-328

Seidensticker, Edward, 1983.  From Low City to High City .  New York: Knopf

Seidensticker, Edward.  1990.  Tokyo Rising.  New York: Knopf.

Shively, Donald HH. H.  1955.  “Bakufu Versus Kabuki Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3/4. (Dec., 1955), pp. 326-356.  (JSTOR link, on-line)  

Shively, Donald HH. H.  1964-65.  “Sumptuary Regulation and Status in Early Tokugawa Japan,”  Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 25. (1964 - 1965), pp. 123-164.  (JSTOR link, on-line)  

Silverberg, Miriam.  1992.  Constructing the Japanese Ethnography of Modernity, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 51, No. 1. (Feb., 1992), pp. 30-54. (JSTOR link, on-line)  

 

Smith, Henry D., II., 1978.  “Tokyo As an Idea: An Exploration of Japanese Urban Thought Until 1945,” Journal of Japanese Studies.  4 (1): 45-80.    “Tokyo as an Idea: An Exploration of Urban Thought Until 1945”  (JSTOR link, on-line)  

Smith, Henry D., II.  1979.  “Tokyo and London: Comparative Conceptions of the City,” in Albert M. Craig (ed.), Japan: A Comparative View.  Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.  pp. 49-99.

Smith, Henry D., II.  1986.  “Sky and Water: The Deep Structures of Tokyo,” in Mildred Friedman (ed.), Tokyo: Form and Spirit. Minneapolis and New York: Walker Art Center and Harry N. Abrams. pp. 21-35.

Smith, Henry D., II.   1986.  “The Edo-Tokyo Transition: In Search of Common Ground,” in Jansen & Rozman (eds.)  Japan in Transition: From Tokugawa to Meiji.  Princeton University Press.  pp. 347-74.

Smith, Robert J.  1960.  “Pre-Industrial Urbanism in Japan,”  Economic Development and Cultural Change.  9 (1, part 2): 241-57.

Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro.  1988.  Childhood Years: A Memoir.  (translated by Paul McCarthy).  Kodansha International.

Thang, Leng Leng, 2001, Generations in Touch:  Linking the Old and Young in a Tokyo Neighborhood.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Tipton, Elise K.  2002.  Pink Collar Work: The Café Waitress in Early Twentieth Century Japan,”  Intersections.  Issue 7.

           (on-line journal http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/)

Tobin, Joseph J. (ed.).  1992.    Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Turner, Christena L.  1995.  Japanese Workers in Protest.  University of California Press.

Tsuzuki, Kyoichi.  1997.  Tokyo: A Certain Style.  Kyoto Shoin.

Ueno, Chizuko  xxxx.  Edo sexuality

Vaporis,  Constantine N. 1989.  Caveat Viator. Advice to Travelers in the Edo PeriodMonumenta Nipponica, Vol. 44, No. 4. (Winter, 1989), pp. 461-483.  (JSTOR link, on-line)

Vaporis,  Constantine N. 1996.  A Tour of Duty: Kurume Hanshi Edo Kinban Nagaya Emaki, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 51, No. 3. (Autumn, 1996), pp. 279-307.  (JSTOR link, on-line)

Vaporis, Constantine N. 1997.  To Edo and Back: Alternate Attendance and Japanese Culture in the Early Modern Period, Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1. (Winter, 1997), pp. 25-67. (JSTOR link, on-line)

Vaporis, Constantine N.  1998.  Digging for Edo. Archaeology and Japan's Premodern Urban Past, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 53, No. 1. (Spring, 1998), pp. 73-104. (JSTOR link, on-line)

Vlastos, Stephen (ed.),  1998,  Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan.  Berkeley: University of California Press. 

·       Chapter 13 – Jordan Sand, “At Home in the Meiji Period: Inventing Japanese Domesticity” (pp. 191-207)

·       Chapter 14 – Miriam Silverberg, “The Café Waitress Serving Modern Japan” (pp. 208-225)

·       Chapter 17 – Carol Gluck, “The Invention of Edo” (pp. 262-284)

Vogel, Ezra F.  1967.  “Kinship Structure, Migration to the City, and Modernization,” in R. P. Dore (ed.),

Vogel, Ezra F.   1991.  Japan’s New Middle Class.  3rd edition.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Vogel, Suzanne H.  1978.  "Professional Housewife: The Career of Urban Middle Class Japanese Women,"  Japan Interpreter.  12 (1): 16-43.

Wagatsuma, Hiroshi, and George A. DeVos.  1984.  Heritage of Endurance.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Watanabe, Shun’ichi.

Waley, Paul.  1984.  Tokyo Past and Present.  New York: Weatherhill.

Waley, Paul.  1992.  Fragments of a City: A Tokyo Anthology.  Japan Times.

White, James W.  1981.  Migration in Metropolitan Japan.  Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies.

White, Merry.  1986.  The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children.  New York: Free Press.

_____.  1993.  The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America.  New York: Free Press, (1995, paperback edition, Berkeley: University of California Press). 

_____.  2002.  Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Whitney, Clara.  1979.  Clara's Diary: An American Girl in Meiji Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

Yano, Christine R.  2002. Tears of Longing.  Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press.

Yonemoto, Marcia.  1999.  “Nihonbashi: Edo’s Contested Center,” East Asian History. 17/18: 49-70.