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BIBLIOGRAPHY [Yokohama Boomtown]

Ann Yonemura, Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan (Washington,
D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990).
This catalog is the basis for the present “Yokohama Boomtown” unit.


Foster Rhea Dulles, Yankees and Samurai: America’s Role in the Emergence of Modern
Japan, 1791-1900
(New York: Harper & Row, 1965).
This exceptionally readable study includes three chapters (6-8) on the period covered in this unit. See also pp. 260-63 for an excellent bibliographic guide to basic primary and secondary sources in English.


Harold S. Williams, Foreigners in Mikadoland (Rutland, VT: Charles Tuttle, 1963).
A breezy and entertaining account by an Australian businessman, long resident in Japan. See especially the chapters on “Yokohama: The Wild West of the Far East” and “Yokohama Musume.”


Tyler Dennett, Americans in Eastern Asia: A Critical Study of United States’ Policy in
the Far East in the Nineteenth Century
(New York: Barnes & Noble, 1922, 1963).
A solid diplomatic history, useful for context and basic facts. See especially chs. 19 (“The Policies of Townsend Harris in Japan”) and 21 (“The United States and Japan: 1858-1869”).


Paul H. Clyde & Burton F. Beers, The Far East: A History of Western Impacts and
Eastern Responses, 1830-1975, 6th edition
(Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975).
A standard textbook, useful for context and basic facts. See especially pp. 121-31


Marius B. Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2000). This detailed survey history, by a leading American scholar of modern Japan, includes a useful short section on “The Open Ports” (pp. 312-17).


Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 2 vol. (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993).
This concise reference work is a abbreviated version of the indispensable 9-volume Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, published in 1983.


Madoka KANAI, ed., Egareta Bakumatsu Meiji (Tokyo: Yushodo, 1973).
This lavishly illustrated Japanese volume reproduces illustrations (and translated articles) pertaining to Japan that appeared in The Illustrated London News between 1853 and 1902.


Yōichi YOKOTA, ed., Yokohama Ukiyoe (Tokyo: Yurindo, 1993).
An excellent collection of 149 Yokohama prints reproduced in full color. This Japanese volume carries the English subtitle “Yokohama Graphica.”


Yokohama Kaikō Shiryōkan, ed., F. Beato Bakumatsu Nihon Shashinshū (Yokohama:
Yokohama Kaikō Shiryōkan, 1987).
This Japanese volume reproduces 236 photographs of Japan by the pioneer photographer Felice Beato, plus over 50 complementary graphics.


Masao Miyoshi, As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Second edition, New York: Kodansha International, 1994.)


Fred Notehelfer, Japan Through American Eyes: The Journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama 1859-1866 (Princeton University Press, 1992)


Julia Meech-Pekarik, World of the Meiji Print (New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd, 1987)



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