VTx – Bibliography
MIT Visualizing Cultures Units — main textbooks and image sources for the course [visualizingcultures.mit.edu]:
Dower, John W. Black Ships & Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan (1853– 1854), in collaboration with and published by MIT Visualizing Cultures, 2002
Dower, John W. Yokohama Boomtown: Foreigners in Treaty-Port Japan (1859-1872), in collaboration with and published by MIT Visualizing Cultures, 2008
Dower, John W. Throwing Off Asia I-III, in collaboration with and published by MIT Visualizing Cultures, 2008
Ulak, James T. Kiyochika’s Tokyo: Master of Modern Melancholy (1876-1881), units I-III, in collaboration with and published by MIT Visualizing Cultures, 2016
Ulak, James T. Tokyo Modern—I: Koizumi Kishio’s “100 Views” of the Imperial Capital (1928-1940), in collaboration with and published by MIT Visualizing Cultures, 2009
Ulak, James T. Tokyo Modern—III: “100 Views” by i Artists (1928-1932), in collaboration with and published by MIT Visualizing Cultures, 2009
Also mentioned:
Gerteis, Christopher. Political Protest in Interwar Japan, in collaboration with and published by MIT Visualizing Cultures, 2013
Bibliography of Sources:
Art Institute of Chicago. “One Hundred Views of Tokyo: Message to the 21st Century Exhibition,” wall text from the exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, September 21 - December 8, 2019
Discussed in Module V, Day 26
Austin, James B. “Shin Tokyo Hyakkei: The Eastern Capital Revisited by the Modern Print Artists,” Ukiyo-e Art, A Journal of the Japan Ukiyo-e Society, No. 14, 1966
Discussed in Module IV, Day 22
Benjamin, Walter. The Arcade Projects, Harvard University Press, 2002 Discussed in Module II, Nagai Kafū, the Man in the Hat
Borland, Janet. “Capitalising on Catastrophe: Reinvigorating the Japanese State with Moral Values through Education Following the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake,” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 40, no. 4, 2006 (accessed through JSTOR)
Discussed in Module III, Day 17 Pathway 02 - Infrastructure
Copeland, Rebecca L. and Ortabasi, Melek (editors). The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan, Columbia University Press, NY, 2006
Available on JSTOR [https://www-jstor-org.libproxy.mit.edu/stable/10.7312/cope13774] Discussed in Module II, Day 8
Dower, John; Morse, Anne Nishimura; Atkins, Jacqueline; Sharf, Frederic. The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MFA Publications, 2012 Discussed in Module IV, Day 23, 24
Dower, John. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War Dower, John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999) Discussed in Module V Conclusion, Day 26
Harvard Map Collection, "Where Disaster Strikes: Modern Space and the Visualization of Destruction," an exhibition in Pusey Library from 14 Dec 2016 to 19 April 2017,
Read on the Harvard University website
Discussed in Module III, Day 14
Hammer, Joshua. “The Great Japan Earthquake of 1923,” Smithsonian Magazine, May 2011 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-japan-earthquake-of-1923-1764539/ Discussed in Module III, Day 14
Hamp, Mathias. “Hymns to bygone times by Nagai Kafū,” Medium.com, May 22, 2019 Discussed in Module II, Day 8
Hutchinson, Rachael. Nagai Kafu's Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self, State University of New York Press, New York, 2011
Discussed in Module II, Day 8, 9
Iizawa, Tadashi. Annotations on Koizumi Kishio’s print series, “100 Views of Great Tokyo in the Shōwa Era” (1928 and 1940), unpublished, source: Sackler Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution
Appears in Module III
Kafū, Nagai. "Fukagawa no uta" (A Song of Fukagawa), written in December 1908 and published in Shumi in February 1909.
Discussed in Module II, Day 8
Kawabata, Yasunari. The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, translated by Alisa Freedman, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 2005 (originally published in Japanese in 1930)
Discussed in Module IV, Day 23
Kinoshita, Chika. “The Edge of Montage,” The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema, Daisuke Miyao (editor), Oxford University Press, 2018
Discussed in Module IV, Day 22
Lachaud, François. "Les provinces de la nuit: quelques nocturnes de Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)," Arts Asiatiques #66, 2011
Discussed in Module II, Day 13 (final exam)
Maeda, Ai. Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity, edited by James A. Fujii, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2004
Discussed in Module II, Day 6 and Day 10
Marcus, Marvin. Reflections in a Glass Door: Memory and Melancholy in the Personal Writings of Natsume Sōseki, University of Hawai'i Press, 2009
Discussed in Module II, Day 8
Mizuta, Miya Elise, Chapter 17 - Tokyo, Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination, edited by Sandy Isenstadt, Margaret Maile Petty, Dietrich Neumann, Routledge, 2014 Discussed in Module II, Day 9
Nagahara, Hiromu. Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and its Discontents, Harvard University Press, 2017
Discussed in Module III, Day 14 and Module IV, Day 22
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution. “Scenes of the 1923 Earthquake,” blogpost, September 1, 2016
Read it on the Smithsonian Institution website
Discussed in Module III, Day 14
Ransome, Stafford. Japan in Transition: A Comparative Study of the Progress, Policy, and Methods of the Japanese Since Their War with China, Harper & Row, New York and London, 1899
Discussed in Module II, Day 7
Statler, Oliver. “Modern Japanese Creative Prints,” Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jul., 1955), pub. Sophia University, pp. 111-169. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2382817 Discussed in Module IV, Day 22, 23
Sugimoto Fumiko, translated from Japanese by Michael Burtscher. "Shifting Perspectives on the Shogunate’s Last Years: Gountei Sadahide’s Bird’s-Eye View Landscape Prints," Monumenta Nipponica 72/1: 1–30, Sophia University, 2017.
Discussed in Reference: Woodblock Prints
Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō. Naomi (Shinchōsha [Japanese], Knopf [English], 1925)
Tsuchimochi, Shinji. 100 Views of Tokyo, an original series of manga-style color pints, with maps, English / Japanese, Shikaku Publishing Company, 2016
Discussed in Module V, Day 26
Weisenfeld, Gennifer. Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923, University of California Press, 2012
Discussed in Module III, Day 14
Weisenfeld, Gennifer. “On Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan‘s Great Earthquake of 1923,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 6, No. 2, February 9, 2015 Discussed in Module III, Day 14