Historical References

This is the page to come to to view the various books that we gathered information from. We thought to be proper and offer this 'Works Sited' page to give them their credit as you are suppose to. This is not the complete list yet:

Akamatsu, Paul (trans. Miriam Kochan). Meiji, 1868: Revolution and Counter Revolution in Japan. Harper and Row, Publishers, New York, 1972.

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Bayrd, Edwin and the editors of the Newsweek Book Division. Kyoto. Newsweek, New York, 1974.

Craig, Albert M. Choshu in the Meiji Restoration. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1967.

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Dunn, Charles J. Everyday Life in Traditional Japan. Tuttle Publishing, Boston, 2001

Fewster, Stewart and Tony Gorton. Japan: From Shogun to Superstate. St. Martins Press, New York, 1988.

Hackett, Roger F. Yamagata Aritomo in the Rise of Modern Japan: 1838-1922. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1971.

Hayes, Stephen K. The Ninja and Their Secret Fighting Skills.Charlese Tuttle Company, Rutland, 1981.

Hillsborough, Romulus. Ryoma: Life of a Renaissance Samurai. Ridgeback Press, San Francisco, 1999.

Hillsborough, Romulus. Samurai Sketches From the Bloody Final Days of the Shogun. Ridgeback Press, San Francisco, 2001.

James, Richard. A Traveller's History of Japan, Second Edition. Interlink books, New York, 1997.

Jansen, Marius B. The Making of Modern Japan. Belknap Press, Cambridge, 2000.

Jansen, Marius B. Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1961.

Jansen, Marius B. ed. Warrior Rule in Japan. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1996.

Morton, W. Scott. Japan: Its History and Culture. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1984.

Ratti, Oscar and Adele Westbrook. Secrets of the Samuarai: The Martial Arts in Feudal Japan. Charles E. Tuttle, Rutland, 1973.

Sato, Hiroaki. Legends of the Samurai. The Overlook Press, Woodstock, 1995.

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Seidensticker, Edward. Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake: How the Shogun's Ancient Capital Become a Great Modern City 1867-1923. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1983.

Straden, H. Van. Yoshida Shoin: Forerunner of the Meiji Restoration. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1952.

Totman, Conrad D. Japan Before Perry: a Short History. U of California Press, Los Angles, 1981.

Totman Conrad D. Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu: 1600-1843. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1967.

Tuttle, Stephen. The Samurai Sourcebook. Cassel and Company, London, 2000.

Tuttle, Stephen. Samurai Warfare. Cassel and Company, London, 2000.

Walworth, Arthur. Black Ships Off Japan: The Story of the Opening up of Japan by Commodore Perry in 1853. Archon books, Hamden Connecticut, 1966