Pringle, Greg. 2013. Birds of East Asia and Mainland Southeast Asia: Glossary of Species Names in Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese. http://www.sibagu.com/

Wiersema, John H. 2013. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomysimple.aspx

6.1.2    Flower-Bird Symbolism

Flowers and birds associated with a specific season of the year or with human emotion in Japan are presented in the following publications and websites:

Allen, Maude Rex. 1917. Japanese Art Motives. A.C. McClurg & Co. Ltd., Chicago.
●   legend, symbolism and seasonal associations for 38 flowers and 12 birds

Baird, Merrily. 2001. Symbols of Japan. Rizzoli International Publications Inc., New York.
●   short descriptions of seasonal associations and symbolism for 71 flowers and 20 birds

Ball, Katherine M. 1969. Decorative Motives of Oriental Art. Hacker Art Books, New York.
●   explanation of symbolism and legends for 14 birds

Baten, Lea. 1989. Japanese Animal Art. Shufunotomo Co. Ltd., Tokyo.
●   legends and symbolism for 11 birds

Edmunds, Will H. 1934. Pointers and Clues to the Subjects of Chinese and Japanese Art. Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., London.
●   explanation of legends and symbolism for 3 flowers and 8 birds

Greve, Gabi. 2013. World Kigo Database. http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com
●   list of seasonal associations for 97 flowers and 91 birds

Koehn, Alfred. 1954. Japanese Flower Symbolism. Lotus Court, Tokyo.
●   short description of symbolism for 21 flowers

Otto, Alexander F. and Holbrook, Theodore S. 1902. Mythological Japan or the Symbolisms of Mythology in Relation to Japanese Art. Drexel Biddle, Philadelphia.
●   short description of symbolism for 8 flowers and 7 birds

University of Virginia Library. 2013. Japanese Haiku, a Topical Dictionary. http://etext.virginia.edu/japanese/haiku/saijiki
●   list of seasonal associations for 142 flowers and 18 birds

Volker, T. 1975. The Animal in Far Eastern Art. E.J. Brill, Leiden.
●   mythology and symbolism for 18 birds

6.1.3    Flower-Bird Prints

Japanese woodblock prints of flowers and birds are discussed in each of the following publications and websites:

Andacht, Sandra. 2000. Collector’s Value Guide to Japanese Woodblock Prints. Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin.
●   print catalog with 9 flower-bird pictures and 5 pages of text about the artists

Baekeland, Frederick. 1980. Imperial Japan: the Art of the Meiji Era (1868-1912). Eastern Press Inc., New Haven, Connecticut.
●   exhibition catalogue with 1 flower-bird picture and 1 page of text about Koson Ohara

Bartlett, Harley Harris and Shohara, Hide. 1961. Japanese Botany During the Period of Wood-block Printing. Dawson’s Book Shop, Los Angeles.
●   exhibition catalogue with 8 flower-bird pictures and 30 pages of text on the development of natural history in Japan

Bogel, Cynthia J., Goldman, Israel and Marks, Alfred H. 1988. Hiroshige Birds and Flowers. George Braziller, Inc., New York.
●   book with 48 flower-bird pictures and 17 pages of text on the life and work of Hiroshige Utagawa who was the most prolific maker of bird-flower prints

Brindle, John V. and White, James J. 1982. Talking in Flowers, Japanese Botanical Art. The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh.
●   exhibition catalogue with 9 flower-bird pictures and 7 pages of text on the history of botanical art in the far-east

Brown, Kendall H. and Goodall-Cristante, Hollis. 1996. Shin-Hanga, New Prints in Modern Japan. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
●   exhibition catalogue with 3 flower-bird pictures and 4 pages of text about animal prints of the early twentieth century

Calza, Gian Carlo. 2009. Hiroshige, the Master of Nature. Skira Editore, Milano.
●   catalog with 19 flower-bird pictures by Hiroshige Utagawa and 14 pages of text about his nature prints

Chibbett, David. 1977. The History of Japanese Printing and Book Illustration. Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo.
●   book with 2 flower-bird pictures and accompanying text about the early development of woodblock printing  in Japan

Dashkevich-Purto, Victoria. 1982. Japanese Woodcut Book Illustration from the 17^th Century to 1867. Queen’s College, Flushing, New York.
●   exhibition catalog with 3 flower-bird pictures and 3 pages of text about Japanese illustrated books

Dawes, Leonard G. 1972. Japanese Illustrated Books. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
●   catalog with 3 bird-flower pictures and 8 pages of text about Japanese illustrated books owned by the Victoria and Albert Museum

Faulkner, Rupert. 2001. Hiroshige Fan Prints. Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
●   catalog with 2 flower-bird pictures and 3 pages of text about the prints by Hiroshige Utagawa that were intended to be used to make hand-held fans

Foster, Walter T. Undated. The Art of Rakusan Tsuchiya, Famous Print Maker of Japan. Foster Art Services Inc., Tustin, California.
●   print dealer’s catalogue with 25 flower-bird pictures and 1 page of text about the work of Rakusan Tsuchiya 

Gentles, Margaret O. 1965. The Clarence Buckingham collection of Japanese prints. Volume II, Harunobu, Koryūsai, Shigemasa, their followers and contemporaries. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
●   catalogue of the Art Institute’s collection with 15 flower-bird prints by eighteenth  century Ukiyo-e school printmakers

Grund, Andreas. 2001. Shiro Kasamatsu the Complete Woodblock Prints. Andreas Grund, Tokyo.
●   catalogue of the works of Shiro Kasamatsu with 3 flower-bird pictures

Harkins, William E. 1986. Shijō Bird, Animal and Flower Prints in the Meiji Period. Impressions 12:10-12
●   journal article with 1 flower-bird picture and 3 pages of text tracing the development of nature prints through the Meiji period (1868-1911)

Hickman, Money L. and Satō, Yasuhiro. 1989. The Paintings of Jakuchū. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
●   exhibition catalog with 4 flower-bird pictures and 2 pages of text about woodblock prints by Jakuchū Itō

Hillier, Jack. 1966. Japanese Colour Prints. Phaidon Press Limited., London.
●   book with 2 flower-bird pictures and 2 pages of text about Ukiyo-e-style plant-animal pictures

Hillier, Jack and Smith, Lawrence. 1980. Japanese Prints, 300 Years of Albums and Books. British Museum Publications Ltd., London.
●   exhibition catalogue with 4 flower-bird pictures and 1 page of text about flower-bird pictures published in books

Hillier, Jack. 1987. The Art of the Japanese Book. Sotheby’s Publications Ltd., New York.
●   book with 13 flower-bird pictures and 9 pages of text about plant-animal woodblock  books printed in the early 1800s

Hillier, Jack. 1991. The Japanese Picture Book: a Selection from the Ravicz Collection. Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers, New York.
●   book with 8 flower-bird pictures and 6 pages of text about Japanese illustrated books owned by Robert Ravicz

Hockley, Allen. 2003. The Prints of Isoda Koryūsai. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
●   book with 1 flower-bird print and 6 pages of text about the plant-animal prints of Koryūsai Isoda who produced many such prints in last half of the eighteenth century

Holme, C.G. Undated. Glimpses of Old Japan from Japanese Colour Prints, Birds and Flowers. The Studio Ltd., London.
●   book with 8 flower-bird pictures and  8 pages of text about these particular pictures from the late 1800s

Illing, Richard. 1980. The Art of Japanese Prints. Galley Books, New York.
●   book with 9 flower-bird pictures and 5 pages of text about Ukiyo-e-style plant-animal prints

Kung-Shang, Ho. 1979. Keinen Album, Birds & Flowers by Imao Keinen (1845-1924). Art Book Co. Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan.
● four volume book with 105 flower-bird pictures and 1 page of text about Keinen’s picture album entitled Keinen Kachō Gafu.

Meech-Pekarik, Julia and Kenney, James T. 1981. Utamaro: a chorus of birds. The Viking Press, New York.
●   book with 7 flower-bird pictures and 13 pages of text about a poetry book illustrated by  the Ukiyo-e artist Utamaro Kitagawa

Narazaki, Muneshige. 1970. Studies in Nature, Hokusai-Hiroshige. Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo.
●   book with 18 flower-bird pictures and 25 pages of text about the history of plant-animal prints plus the life and works of Hokusai Katsushika and Hiroshige Utagawa who were the best known Ukiyo-e-style makers of plant-animal prints

Neumann, Dietrich and Schaap, Robert. 2004. Kachō-e by Seiko compared with Watanabe Seitei’s illustrated books on birds and flowers. Andon 76:40-50.
●   journal article with 5 flower-bird pictures and 4 pages of text comparing the flower-bird pictures of Watanabe Seitei to those of an unknown artist called Seiko

Newland, Amy and Uhlenbeck, Chris. 1990. Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga, the Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Mallard Press, Hong Kong.
●   book with 6 flower-bird pictures and 2 pages of text about plant-animal prints from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Newland, Amy Reigle, Perrée, Jan and Schaap, Robert. 2001. Crows, Cranes and Camellias, the Natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945. Hotei Publishing, Leiden.
●   exhibition catalogue with 142 flower-bird pictures and 15 pages of text about the life and work of  Koson Ohara who produced a large number of plant-animal prints in the early 1900s

Newland, Amy Reigle. 2004. Printed to Perfection, Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam.
●   exhibition catalogue with 1 flower-bird picture and 1 page of text about Koson Ohara

Newland, Amy Reigle. 2005. The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam.
●   encyclopedia with 1 flower-bird print and 2 pages of text about plant-animal prints produced between 1804 and 1868

Nichols, Michael J.P. 2005. Rakusan Tsuchiya Japanese Painter, Woodblock Print Artist, and Printer 1896-1976. http://rakusan.net/
●   website with 152 flower-bird prints and 5 pages of text about the prints of Rakusan Tsuchiya

Numata, Kashū. 2011 Japanese Woodblock Bird Prints. Dover Publications, Mineola, New York.
●   reprint of Kashū’s 1885 picture book with 51 flower-bird prints and 4 pages of text about Japanese flower-bird prints

Paine, Robert T. 1963. Japanese Prints of Birds and Flowers by Masanobu and Shigenaga. Oriental Art 9(1):22-34.
●   journal article with 9 flower-bird pictures and 8 pages of text about plant-animal prints made by early Ukiyo-e-style artists

Pins, Jacob. 1982. The Japanese pillar print Hashira-e. Robert G. Sawyer Publishing, UK.
●   book with 10 flower-bird prints in the pillar format by late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century Ukiyo-e school printmakers

Poster, Amy G. 1981. Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Shijō School. The Brooklyn Museum Press, New York.
●   exhibition catalog with 2 flower-bird pictures and 3 pages of text about plant-animal prints by artists of the Maruyama-Shijō school

Rappard-Boon, Charlotte van, Gulik, Willem van, and Bremen-Ito, Keiko van. 1991. Catalogue of the Van Gogh Museum’s Collection of Japanese Prints. Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, The Netherlands.
●   catalog with 18 flower-bird pictures and 2 pages of text about Ukiyo-e-style pictures owned by the artist Van Gogh

Schaap, Robert, Herwig-Kempers, Arendie, Fitski, Menno and Gulik, Willem van. 2007. A Brush with Animals. Hotei Publishing, Leiden.
●   exhibition catalogue with 8 flower-bird pictures and 10 pages of text about plant-animal prints made between1789 and 1903

Schaap, Robert and J. Thomas Rimer. 2010. The beauty of silence. Japanese Nō & nature prints by Tsukioka Kōgyo 1869-1927. Hotei Publishing, Leiden.
●   book with 10 flower-bird pictures and 1 page of text about the nature prints of the Nihonga-style artist Kōgyo Tsukioka

Smith, Lawrence and Myers, Emma. 1984. Flowers and Birds from Imao Keinen’s Album. The Trustees of the British Museum, London.
●   exhibition catalogue with 12 flower-bird pictures and accompanying text 

Stevens, Amy Reigle. 1993. The New Wave, Twentieth-Century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. Bamboo Publishing Ltd., London.
●   book with 7 flower-bird prints and 8 pages of text about early twentieth century Japanese flower-bird prints

Tinois, Ellis. 1994. Kawamura Bumpō, the Artist and His Books. Print Quarterly 11:265-91.
●   journal article with 1 flower-bird picture and 19 pages of text about the illustrated books of Bumpō

Turley, Robert W. 2013. The Art of Ogata Gekkō (1859-1920). http://ogatagekko.net/
●   website with 4 flower-bird pictures and 1 page of text about Gekkō Ogata

Walker, Ross F. and Doi, Toshikazu. 2008. The Catalogue Raisonné of Tsuchiya Koitsu. Ohmi Gallery Publishing, Otsu City.
●   book with 10 flower-bird pictures by Koitsu Tsuchiya

Yoshida, Hiroshi. 1987. The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi. ABE Publishing, Tokyo.
●   book with 3 flower-bird pictures and 1 page of text about the author’s plant-animal prints

6.1.4    Kanō School

Gerhart, Karen M. 1999. The Eyes of Power, Art and Early Tokugawa Authority. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.

Jordan, Brenda G. and Weston, Victoria. 2003. Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets, Talent and Training in Japanese Painting. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.

Toda, Kenji. 1931. Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.

6.1.5    Ukiyo-e School

Bell, David. 2004. Ukiyo-e Explained. Global Oriental, Folkestone, UK.

Jenkins, Donald. 1993. The Floating World Revisited. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.

Mirviss, Joan B. and Carpenter, John T. 1995. The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix.

Newland, Amy Reigle. 2005. The Hotei Enyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam.

Rappard-Boon, Charlotte van. 2000. Surimono, Poetry and Image in Japanese Prints. Hotei Publishing, Leiden.

6.1.6    Rinpa School

Link, Howard A. 1980. Exquisite Visions: Rimpa Paintings from Japan. Gakken Publishing Co., Tokyo.

Stern, Harold P. 1971. Rimpa, Masterworks of the Japanese Decorative School. Japan Society, Inc., New York.

Yamane, Yūzō, Naitō, Masato and Clark, Timothy. 1998. Rimpa Art from the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo. British Museum Press, London.

6.1.7    Nagasaki and Nanga Schools

Addiss, Stephen. 1986. Japanese Quest for a New Vision, the Impact of Visiting Chinese Painters, 1600-1900. Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas.

Cahill, James. 1972. Scholar Painters of Japan: the Nanga School. The Asia Society Inc., New York.

French, Calvin L. 1974. The Poet-Painters: Buson and His Followers. The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor.

Stanley-Baker, Joan. 1992. The Transmission of Chinese Idealist Painting to Japan, Notes on the Early Phase (1661-1799). Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies Number 21, Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Yonezawa, Yoshio and Yoshizawa, Chu. 1974. Japanese Painting in the Literati Style. Heibonsha, Tokyo.

6.1.8    Maruyama-Shijō School

French, Cal. 1978. Through Closed Doors: Western Influence on Japanese Art 1639-1853. Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

Hillier, Jack. 1974. The Uninhibited Brush, Japanese Art in the Shijō Style. Hugh M. Moss (Publishing) Ltd., London.

Hillier, Jack. Shijō Surimono of Large Size from the Mitchell Collection. Minneapolis Institute of Arts Bulletin 64:25-41.

Poster, Amy G. 1981. Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Shijō School. The Brooklyn Museum Press, Brooklyn.

The Saint Louis Art Museum. 1980. Ōkyo and the Maruyama-Shijō School of Japanese Painting. The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis.

6.1.9    Nihonga School

Baekeland, Fredrick. 1980. Imperial Japan: the Art of the Meiji Era (1868-1912). Eastern Press, Inc. New Haven, Connecticut.

Brown, Kendall H. and Goodall-Cristante, Hollis. 1996. Shin-Hanga, New prints in Modern Japan. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Conant, Ellen P., Owyoung, Steven D. and Rimer, J. Thomas. 1995. Nihonga, Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting, 1868-1968. The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis.

Morioka, Michiyo and Berry, Paul. 1999. Modern Masters of Kyoto: the Transformation of Japanese Painting Traditions, Nihonga from the Griffith and Patricia Way Collection. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Smith, Lawrence. 1991. Nihonga, Traditional Japanese Painting 1900-1940. British Museum Press, London.

Stephens, Amy Reigle. 1993. The New Wave, Twentieth-Century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. Bamboo Publishing Ltd., London.

6.1.10   Sōsaku Hanga School

Ajioka, Chiaki. 2000. Hanga, Japanese Creative Prints. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

Keyes, Roger. 1988. Break with the Past: the Japanese Creative Print Movement. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Smith, Lawrence. 1983. The Japanese Print Since 1900, Old Dreams and New Visions. British Museum Press, London.

Smith, Lawrence. 1994. Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989, Woodblocks and Stencils. British Museum Press, London.

Volk, Alicia. 2005. Made in Japan, the Postwar Creative Print Movement. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

6.1.11   Multiple Schools

Fujikake, Shizuya. 1956. Japanese Wood-Block Prints. Japan Travel Bureau, Tokyo.
●   Nihonga and Sōsaku Hanga Schools

Guth, Christine. 1996. Art of Edo Japan, the Artist and the City 1615-1868. Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York.
●   Kanō, Ukiyo-e, Rinpa, Nagasaki, Nanga and Maruyama-Shijō Schools

Hickman, Money L. 2000. Painters of Edo Japan 1615/1868. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis.
●   Kanō, Rinpa, Nagasaki, Nanga and Mauyama-Shijō Schools

Hillier, Jack. 1987. The Art of the Japanese Book. Sotheby’s Publications, London.
●    Kanō, Ukiyo-e, Rinpa, Nagasaki, Nanga, Mauyama-Shijō, Nihonga and Sōsaku Hanga Schools 

Merritt, Helen. 1990. Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints, the Early Years. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
●   Nihonga and Sōsaku Hanga Schools

Munsterberg, Hugo. 1982. The Japanese Print, a Historic Guide. Weatherhill, New York.
●   Ukiyo-e, Nihonga and Sōsaku Hanga Schools

Parent, Mary Neighbour. 2001. JAANUS, Japanese Architectural and Art Net Users System. http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/
●   Kanō, Ukiyo-e, Rinpa, Nagasaki, Nanga, Mauyama-Shijō, Nihonga and Sōsaku Hanga Schools

6.1.12    Japanese Artists

Biographic information about Japanese artists is given in each of the following publications:

Ajioka, Chiaki. 2000. Hanga, Japanese Creative Prints. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
●   information about 27 Sōsaku Hanga-style printmakers

Andacht, Sandra. 2000. Collector’s Value Guide to Japanese Woodblock Prints. Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin.
●   brief information about several hundred printmakers plus their signatures and seals

Blakemore, Frances. 1975. Who’s Who in Modern Japanese Prints. Weatherhill, New York.
●   information about 105 twentieth century printmakers

Conant, Ellen P., Owyoung, Steven D. and Rimer, Thomas J. 1995. Nihonga: Transcending the Past: Japanese-style Painting, 1868-1968. The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis.
●   information about 61 Nihonga-style artists

Gobbi, Pietro. 1989. Hon: Signatures, Seals, Crests, Philology of the Ukiyo-e Prints. L’Angolo  Manzoni Editrice, Torino.
●   brief information about several hundred Ukiyo-e printmakers plus their signatures and seals

Japanese National Committee for the International Association of Plastic Arts. 1961. Who’s Who Among Japanese Artists. Printing Bureau, Japanese Government, Tokyo.
●   information about 159 painters and 38 printmakers active in the late twentieth century

Kawakita, Michiaki 1957. Modern Japanese Painting, the Force of Tradition. Tōto Bunka Company Limited, Tokyo.
●   information about 47 painters from 6 different painting schools

Kawakita, Michiaki. 1967. Contemporary Japanese Prints. Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo.
●   information about 119 Sōsaku Hanga printmakers

Menzies, Jacqueline. 1992. Contemporary Japanese Prints, the Urban Bonsai. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
●   information about 75 printmakers active in the late twentieth century

Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako. 1992. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-75. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
●   information about several hundred twentieth century print artists, art schools, organizations and exhibitions plus their signatures and seals

Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako. 2000. Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
●   information about 44 print artists active in the early twentieth century plus their signatures and seals

Mitchell, Charles H. 1972. The Illustrated Books of the Nanga, Maruyama, Shijō and Other Related Schools of Japan. Dawson’s Book Shop, Los Angeles.
●   information about several hundred printmakers who published illustrated books

Morrison, Arthur. 1911. The Painters of Japan. T.C. & E.C. Jack, London.
●   information about the major painters of all schools of Japanese pictorial art

Nakamura, Tanio. 1969. Contemporary Japanese-Style Painting. Tudor Publishing Company, New York.
●   information about 22 influential Nihonga-style artists

Newland, Amy Reigle. 2005. The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam.
●   information about several hundred printmakers, mostly Ukiyo-e-style, with their signatures and seals

Petit, Gaston. 1973. 44 Modern Japanese Print Artists. Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo.
●   information about 44 printmakers active in the twentieth century

Roberts, Laurance P. 1976. A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill Inc., Trumbull, Connecticut.
●   information for about 3000 artists born before 1900

Self, James and Hirose Nobuko. 1987. Japanese Art Signatures, a Handbook and Practical Guide. Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland Vermont.
●   brief information about several hundred Ukiyo-e-style printmakers plus their signatures and seals

Smith, Lawrence. 1991. Nihonga, Traditional Japanese Painting 1900-1940. British Museum Press, London.
●   information about 18 prominent Nihonga-style artists

Statler, Oliver. 1956. Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn. Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, Vermont.
●   information about 29 Sōsaku Hanga-style printmakers

Tazawa, Yutaka. 1981. Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo.
●   information about several hundred painters and printmakers from all periods

Yashiro, Yukio. 1958. Index of Japanese Painters. Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland Vermont.
●   information about several hundred Japanese painters from all periods

6.2   English-language Literature Cited

For books written in the Japanese language see the appropriate author in Chapter 4: Artists, Editors and Publishers

Addiss, Stephen. 2002. Epilogue. Pp. 213-222 In An Enduring Vision, 17-th to 20-th Century Japanese Painting from the Gitter-Yelen Collection. Edited by Rotondo-McCord, Lisa. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Ajioka, Chiaki. 2000. Hanga, Japanese Creative Prints. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

Armstrong, Edward A. 1975. The Life and Lore of the Bird in Nature, Art, Myth, and Literature. Crown Publishers Inc., New York.

Bell, David. 2004. Ukiyo-e Explained. Global Oriental, Folkestone, UK.

Binyon, Laurence. 1911. The Flight of the Dragon, an Essay on the Theory and Practice of Art in China and Japan, Based on Original Sources. John Murray, London.

Boger, H. Batterson. 1964. The Traditional Arts of Japan. W.H. Allen & Company, London.

Briessen, Fritz van. 1962. The Way of the Brush, Painting Techniques of China and Japan. C.E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont.  

Brown, Kendall H. 2005. Prints and Modernity: Developments in the Early Twentieth Century. Pp. 279-293 In The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Edited by Newland, Amy Reigle. Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam.

Brown, Kendall H. 2006. Impressions of Japan: Print Interactions East and West. Pp. 13-29 In Color Woodcut International: Japan, Britain, and America in the Early Twentieth Century. Edited by Javid, Christine. Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Gerhart, Karen M. 1999. The Eyes of Power, Art and Early Tokugawa Authority. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.

Guth, Christine. 1996. Art of Edo Japan, the Artist and the City 1615-1868. Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York.

Hickman, Money L. and Satō, Yasuhiro. 1989. The Paintings of Jakuchū. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.

Hillier, Jack. 1960. The Japanese Print, a New Approach. G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, London.

Hockley, Allen. 2003. The Prints of Isoda Koryūsai, Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-century Japan. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Impey, Oliver. 1982. Ink or Colour: Conflict and Collaboration in Japanese Painting. Pp. 56-59 In Essays on Japanese Art Presented to Jack Hillier. Edited by  Forrer, Matthi. Robert G. Sawers Publishing, London.

Jenkins, Donald. 1993. The Floating World Revisited. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.

Kornicki, Peter. 2001. The Book in Japan, a Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.

Lauer, David A. 1979. Design Basics. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.

Lepage, Denis. 2013. AVIBASE – the World Bird Database. http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/avibase.jsp?lang=EN&pg=home

Maeda, Tamaki. 1999. Imao Keinen. Pp. 122-123 In Modern Masters of Kyoto: the Transformation of Japanese Painting Traditions, Nihonga from the Griffith and Patricia Way Collection. Edited by Morioka, Michiyo and Berry, Paul. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Meech-Pekarik, Julia and Kenney, James, T. 1981. Utamaro: a Chorus of Birds. The Viking Press, New York.

Mirviss, Joan B. and Carpenter, John T. 1995. The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix.

Narazaki, Muneshige. 1970. Studies in Nature, Hokusai-Hiroshige. Kodansha International, Tokyo.

Newland, Amy Reigle, Perrée, Jan and Schaap, Robert. 2001. Crows, Cranes and Camellias, the Natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945. Hotei Publishing, Leiden.

Otto, Alexander F. and Holbrook, Theodore S. 1902. Mythological Japan or the Symbolism of Mythology in Relation to Japanese Art. Drexel Biddle, Philadelphia.

Parent, Mary Neighbour. 2001. JAANUS, Japanese Architectural and Art Net Users System. http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/

Rowland, Benjamin Jr. 1954. Art in East and West, an Introduction through Comparison. Harvard University, Cambridge.

Saito, Yuniko. 1985. The Japanese Appreciation of Nature. British Journal of Aesthetics 25(3):239-251.

Stanley-Baker, Joan. 1992. The Transmission of Chinese Idealist Painting to Japan, Notes on the Early Phase (1661-1799). Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies Number 21, Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Stanley-Baker, Joan. 2000. Japanese Art. Thames & Hudson, London.

Statler, Oliver. 1956. Modern Japanese Prints, an Art Reborn. Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland Vermont.

Stern, Harold P. 1976. Birds, Beasts, Blossoms and Bugs, the Nature of Japan. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York.

Sullivan, Michael. 1973. The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day. Thames and Hudson Ltd., London.

Volk, Alicia. 2005. Made in Japan, the Postwar Creative Print Movement. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Wiersema, John H. 2013. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomysimple.aspx

Yonezawa, Yoshio and Yoshizawa, Chu. 1974. Japanese Painting in the Literati Style. Heibonsha, Tokyo.

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