Images and Maps
Pre-Modern Japan
Japanese Buddhist Prints
New York, H. N. Abrams 1964
Early Modern (1600s-1840s)
Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating World, 1690-1850
Boston, MFA Publications; New York, D.A.P. 2007
Gods and Goblins: Japanese Folk Paintings from Otsu
Pasadena, Pacific Asia Museum 1999
Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era
University of British Columbia
http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm4/index_tokugawa.php?CISOROOT=/tokugawa
Hokusai: Mountains and Water, Flowers and Birds
London, Prestel 2004
Japanese Popular Prints: From Votive Slips to Playing Cards
Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press 2006
Japanese Prints, Ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700-1900
London, British Museum Press 2010
Japanese Warrior Prints, 1646-1904
Boston, Hotei 2007
Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage, 1780-1830
Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press 2005
Kitagawa Utamaro: Woodblock Prints from the British Museum
Birmingham, Ikon Gallery 2010
Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan
Cambridge, Harvard University Asia Center 2006
Playthings and Pastimes in Japanese Prints
Tokyo, Shufunotomo; New York, Weatherhill 1995
Samurai Stories: Woodblock Prints of Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi from a private collection
Iowa City, University of Iowa Museum of Art 1997
The Sketchbooks of Hiroshige
Hiroshige Andō (1797-1858)
New York, George Braziller 2001
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters
New York, Kodansha International 1994
Surimono: Poetry & Image in Japanese Prints
Leiden, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum 2000
Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters of Eighteenth-century Kyoto
San Francisco, Asian Art Museum--Chong-Moon Lee Center 2005
Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth-century Japan
Washington, D.C., Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Press 1990
Imperial Japan (1850s-1945)
Foreigners in Japan
Lafayette College Library East Asia Image Collections
The collection contains postcards from the Russo-Japanese War (see above), the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, the Michael Lewis Collection (colonial Taiwan), and many more places and times related to Imperial Japan.
"The East Asia Image Collection is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52). Images of Taiwan 台湾, Japan 日本, China 中国, Korea 朝鮮, Manchuria 満洲国, andIndonesia are included."
http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia
The Japan Expedition, 1852-1854: The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry
Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press 1968
Tsubokura Collection, Russo-Japanese War Postcards (Lafayette College Library)
"These 105 picture postcards were purchased as an album that appears to be
correspondence"from the battleground " by one Tsubokura Monnosuke to Tsubokura
Jirò both of whom resided in Yotsuya Ward, Tokyo.
http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia#pa-tsubokura
Japanese
The Age of Yoshitoshi: Japanese Prints from the Meiji and Taishō Periods
Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet/Rijksmuseum 1990
Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints
Claremont, Scripps College 2006
The Female Image: 20th Century Prints of Japanese Beauties [In English and Japanese]
Tokyo, Abe Publishing; Leiden, Hotei Publishing 2000
Hiroshima Archive [In English and Japanese]
Description: "'Hiroshima Archive' is a pluralistic digital archive using the digital virtual globe 'Google Earth' to display on it in a multilayered way all the materials gained from such sources as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the Hiroshima Jogakuin Gaines Association, and the Hachioji Hibakusha (A-bomb Survivors) Association. Beyond time and space, the user can get a panoramic view over Hiroshima to browse survivors’ accounts, photos, maps, and other materials as of 1945, together with aerial photos, 3D topographical data, and building models as of 2010. The archive aims to promote multifaceted and comprehensive understanding of the reality of atomic bombing." (Description from http://hiroshima.mapping.jp/concept.html; A video demonstration can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-q00isamvs)
Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century
Portland, Portland Art Museum 1983
Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Woodblock Prints from the Meiji era, 1868-1912
Boston, MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts 2001
Japanese Prints, Ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700-1900
London, British Museum Press 2010
Japanese Warrior Prints, 1646-1904
Boston, Hotei 2007
Light in Darkness: Women in Japanese Prints of Early Shôwa (1926-1945)
Los Angeles, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California 1996
Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989: Woodblocks and Stencils
New York, Cross River Press; London, British Museum Press 1994
Modern Japanese Prints: The Twentieth Century
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art 2009
Munakata Shikō: Japanese Master of the Modern Print
Kamakura, Munakata Museum 2002
Nihonga: Transcending the Past, Japanese-style Painting, 1868-1968
St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum 1995
One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Japanese Woodblock Prints by Yoshitoshi
Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Press 2003
Playthings and Pastimes in Japanese Prints
Tokyo, Shufunotomo; New York, Weatherhill 1995
The Roy G. Cole Collection of Fine Sosaku Hanga
New York, Sotheby's 1990
The Sketchbooks of Hiroshige
Hiroshige Andō (1797-1858)
New York, George Braziller 2001
Visualizing Cultures [1849-1945]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html
Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth-century Japan
Washington, D.C., Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Press 1990
Japanese Americans
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
Smithsonian National Museum of American Art
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2010/gaman/
Hawaii War Records Depository Photos [Japanese American military service]
University of Hawaii
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/hwrd/index.php
The Japanese American Archival Collection [Ranges from immigration to post-internment]
California State University Sacramento
http://digital.lib.csus.edu/jaac/
Japanese American National Museum [Ranges from immigration to post-internment]
"[F]eaturing selected highlights from our permanent collection of over 60,000 unique artifacts, documents, and photographs. "
http://www.janm.org/collections/
JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
University of Hawaii
"Personal and official photographs, letters and diaries, transcribed oral histories, art, and more show the faces of: People, Places, Daily Life and Personal Experiences"
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/
A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/collection/index.html
Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment
Norman, University of Oklahoma Press c2008
Society and Culture Digital Collection [on Japanese American internment]
University of Washington
http://content.lib.washington.edu/socialweb/index.html
Topaz Museum [on Japanese American internment]
University of Utah
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/az_details.php?id=39
War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945
University of California
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf596nb4h0;developer=local;style=oac4;doc.view=items
Postwar (1945-present)
Foreigners in Japan
Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir
Bennett, John W.
http://library.osu.edu/projects/bennett-in-japan/about.html
Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photograph Collection
University of Utah
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/az_details.php?id=89
Japanese
Contemporary Japanese Prints: Symbols of a Society in Transition
New York, Harper & Row 1985
Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century
Portland, Portland Art Museum 1983
Japanese Prints during the Allied Occupation, 1945-1952: Onchi Koshiro, Ernt Hacker and the First Thursday Society
Chicago, Art Media Resources 2002
Made in Japan: The Postwar creative Print Movement
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum; Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2005
Modern Impressions: Japanese Prints from the Berman and Corazza Collections, 1950-1980
Collegeville, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College 2005
Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989: Woodblocks and Stencils
New York, Cross River Press; London, British Museum Press 1994
Modern Japanese Prints: The Twentieth Century
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art 2009
Munakata Shikō: Japanese Master of the Modern Print
Kamakura, Munakata Museum 2002
Nihonga: Transcending the Past, Japanese-style Painting, 1868-1968
St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum 1995
Japanese Americans
JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
University of Hawaii
"Personal and official photographs, letters and diaries, transcribed oral histories, art, and more show the faces of: People, Places, Daily Life and Personal Experiences"
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/
Japanese American National Museum [Ranges from immigration to post-internment]
"[F]eaturing selected highlights from our permanent collection of over 60,000 unique artifacts, documents, and photographs. "