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Anime Companion volume 2 - Secondary Sources
This series of pages is a supplement to two of my books The Anime
Companion and The Anime Companion 2 .
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See the regular entry pages for cross references between variant terms, differing spellings, English to Japanese terms and names:
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1. A list of entries in the books with page numbers.
2. New entries for items not found in the books.
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4. Secondary sources used to find information for each entry.
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This page is a supplement to my book The Anime Companion volume two, for information on ordering the book see the web pages for Stone Bridge Press.
For full bibliographic information on these books see my
Japan Research - Secondary Sources page.
For more on the book and these supplement pages see the Anime Companion Supplement Main Page.
The inclusion of an anime or manga title in these entries is not a recommendation of that title, see my Recommended Anime and Manga page for a list of my recommendations
Arai, Yūsei
Shingon Esoteric Buddhism: A Handbook for Followers
Ashburne, John & Abe Yoshi
World Food Japan
Averbuch, Irit
The Gods Come Dancing
Baten, Lea
Identifying Japanese Dolls
Benjamin, Gail R.
Japanese Lessons
Bestor, Theodore C.
Tsukiji
Bisignani, J. D.
Japan Handbook
Bocking, Brian
A Popular Dictionary of Shintō
Bornoff, Nicholas and Michael Freeman
Things Japanese
Buckingham, Dorothea N.
Essential Guide to Sumo
Bush, Lewis
Japanalia: A Concise Encyclopedia
Cambridge History of Japan vol. 1.
Chamberlain, Basil Hall
Japanese Things
Cherry, Kittredge
Womansword
Clements, Jonathan & Helen McCarthy
The Anime Encyclopedia
Condon, Jack and Camy Condon
The Simple Pleasures of Japan
Constantine, Peter
Japanese Street Slang
Craig, Albert M.
Chōshū in the Meiji Restoration
Cunningham, Don
Secret Weapons of Jujutsu
Cunningham , Don.
Taiho-Jutsu
Cybriwsky, Roman
Historical Dictionary of Tokyo
De Mente, Boye Lafayette
Bachelor's Japan
De Mente, Boye Lafayette.
Japan Encyclopedia
Discover Japan
Draeger, Donn F.
Classical Budo
Draeger, Donn F.
Classical Bujutsu
Draeger, Donn F.
Modern Bujutsu & Budo
Dunn, Charles J.
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan
Eating in Japan
Japan Travel Bureau
Edogawa Rampo.
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Enbutsu Sumiko
Old Tōkyō: Walks in the City of the Shōgun
Exhibiting Animation: "Spirited Away" Special Exhibition at the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka
Farris, William Wayne.
Heavenly Warriors
**A Field Guide to the Birds of Japan
Text by Wild Bird Society of Japan
Finn, Dallas
Meiji Revisited
Frederic, Louis
Daily Life in Japan
Frederic, Louis
Dictionary of the Martial Arts
Frederic, Louis
Japan Encyclopedia
Galbraith IV, Stuart
Monsters are Attacking Tōkyō
Gluck, Jay, Sumi Gluck and Garet Gluck
Japan Inside Out
Guttmann and Thompson.
Japanese Sports a History
Hillsborough, Romulus
Ryoma: Life of a Renaissance Samurai
Hillsborough, Romulus
Samurai Sketches
Hosking, Richard
A Dictionary of Japanese Food : ingredients & culture
Houchins, Chang-su
Artifacts of Diplomacy
Inaba Kazuya and Nakayama Shigenobu
Japanese Homes and Lifestyles
Inagaki, Hisao
A Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist Terms : based on references in Japanese literature
Iwata Masakazu.
Ōkubo Toshimichi
Jansen, Marius B.
Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia / Kodansha.
Japan : At a Glance.
Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary.
Japanese Family and Culture
Japanese Inn & Travel
Joya, Mock
Mock Joya's Things Japanese
Kabuki Plays on Stage vol.2 Villainy and Vengeance, 1773-1799.
Klompmakers, Inge.
Of Brigands and Bravery: Kuniyoshi's heros of the Suikoden
Krouse, Carolyn R.
A Guide to Food Buying in Japan
Kurosawa Akira.
Something Like an Autobiography
Kusano Eisaburo.
Stories Behind Noh and Kabuki Plays
Kyōto-Ōsaka: A Bilingual Atlas
Leiter , Samuel.
New Kabuki Encyclopedia
Levy, Ran.
Wild Flowers of Japan: A Field Guide
Living Japanese Style
Lock, Margaret M.
East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan
A Look Into Japan
**A Look Into Tokyo
Malm, William P.
Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments (Revised edition)
Martial Arts & Sports in Japan
McCarthy, Helen & Jonathan Clements
The Erotic Anime Movie Guide
McLelland, Mark J.
Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan
Michael, Loewe and Carmen Blacker (editors)
Oracles and Divination
Mikesh, Robert C.
Japanese Aircraft: Code Names & Designations
Milton , Giles
Samurai William
Miner, Earl; Odagiri Hiroko and Robert Morrell
The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature
Mol, Serge
Classical Fighting Arts of Japan
Morse, Edward S.
Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings
Must-See in Kyōto
Must-See in Nikko
Nagasawa Kimiko & Camy Condon.
Nagasawa Kimiko & Camy Condon. Eating Cheap in Japan
Naito Akira.
Edo, The City That Became Tokyo
Nelson, John K.
Enduring Identities
Nishimura Eshin
Unsui: A Diary of Zen Monastic Life
Ortolani, Benito
The Japanese Theatre
Outlook on Japan
Ozawa Hiroyuki
The Great Festivals of Japan
Package Design in Japan vol. 8
Papinot, E.
Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan
Piggott, Juliet
Japanese Mythology
Plutschow, Herbert E.
Japan's Name Culture
Pompian, Susan.
Tokyo for Free
Ratti, Oscar and Adele Westbrook.
Secrets of the Samurai: The Martial Arts of Feudal Japan
Readicker-Henderson, Ed
The Traveler's Guide to Japanese Pilgrimages
Richie, Donald.
The Image Factory
Richie, Donald.
The Inland Sea
Road Atlas Japan
Robertson, Jennifer
Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan
Rombauer, Irma S. & Marion Rombauer Becker
Joy of Cooking
Rowthorn, Chris and Mason Florence
Kyōto
"Salaryman" in Japan
Sasaki Atsuharu.
Japan in a Nutshell vol. 1.
Schilling, Mark
The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture
Schodt, Frederik
Dreamland Japan
Schodt, Frederik
Manga! Manga!
Schodt, Frederik
Native American in the Land of the Shōgun
Schreiber, Mark editor,
Tokyo Confidential
Schuhmacher, Stephan, Gert Woerner editors,
The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion : Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen
Seidensticker, Edward
Low City, High City
Seidensticker, Edward
Tokyo Rising
Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong.
Outlaws of the Marsh
Shiba Ryotaro
The Last Shōgun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu
Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary
Short, Kevin.
Nature in Tokyo
Skoss, Diane, ed.
Koryu Bujutsu: Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan
Skoss, Diane, ed.
Keiko Shokon: Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan volume 3.
Stevens, John
The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei
Stevens, Keith.
Chinese Gods: The Unseen World of Spirits and Demons
Suzuki Daisetz Teitaro.
The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk
Tajima Noriyuki
Tokyo: A Guide to Recent Architecture
Today's Japan
Japan Travel Bureau
Tokyo City Atlas
Tokyo Metropolitan Atlas
Tokyo Metropolitan Area Rail & Road Atlas
Turnbull, Stephen and Howard Gerrard
Ashigaru: 1467-1649
Turnbull, Stephen
The Lone Samurai and the Martial Arts
Turnbull, S. R. and Richard Hook
Samurai Armies
Turnbull, Stephen
The Samurai Sourcebook
Turnbull, Stephen.
Samurai Warfare
Tuttle, Charles E.
Incredible Japan
Twigger, Robert
Angry White Pajamas
Vardaman, James M. and Michiko Sakaki Vardaman
Japan From A to Z
Waley, Paul
Tokyo City of Stories
Waley, Paul
Tokyo Now & Then: An Explorer's Guide
Warner, Gordon and Donn F. Draeger
Japanese Swordsmanship: Technique and Practice
Watts, A. J. and B. G. Gordon.
The Imperial Japanese Navy
Weisser, Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser
Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films
Weisser, Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser
Japanese Cinema: Essential Handbook
Who's Who of Japan
Yamakawa Kikue
Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life
Yamasaki Taikō.
Shingon
Yumoto, John M.
The Samurai Sword: A Handbook
