These are the books on order at the bookstore. There may be additional readings on reserve, but these are the core of the course. Feel free to purchase them in advance from any source.
- Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition (2008), ISBN 0195339223.
- Ihara Saikaku, Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings (UNESCO Collection of Contemporary Works) Ivan Morris (editor/translator) ; New Directions Publishing Corporation (June 1969), ISBN 978-0811201872
- Yukichi Fukuzawa, The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, Columbia University Press, Revised edition, 2006. ISBN: 023113987X
- Cook, Haruko Taya and Theodore F. Cook, Japan at War: An Oral History, The New Press, 1992.
- Gail Lee Bernstein, Haruko’s World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community, Stanford University Press, 1983.
- Elisabeth Bumiller, The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and her Family, Vintage Books, 1995.