From Edo to Meiji: Transformation of Japanese Ceramics(Book List Updated Jun 2024)<Event Information>
JFT Gallery Exhibition
January 5, 2024 – June 28, 2024
Online Talk: Living with Ceramics in Japan: From Edo (1603-1868) to Meiji (1868-1912)
June 13, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT
JFT Book Club (Hybrid) –With Silent Reading Time– Japanese Ceramics & Life in the Edo to Meiji Periods
June 18, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm EDT

Japan Foundation, Toronto Library Curated Items on:
1. Japanese Ceramics & Related Art History (p.1-3)
2. Nonfiction to Learn about Culture and Life of the Edo/Meiji Period (p.4)
3. Fiction to Learn about Culture and Life of the Edo/Meiji Period (p.5)*Please note this is a selection of titles on Japanese ceramics and the culture/life of the Edo/Meiji period.
The library collection contains many more.
*Ebooks/Audiobooks on Japanese ceramics and culture/life of the Edo/Meiji period are available on
JF Canada Digital Library: https://tinyurl.com/JFCeramicsEdoMeiji

1. Japanese Ceramics & Related Art History

Books in English
Title

AuthorCall no.

Item no.

Art of Edo Japan : the artist and the city, 1615-1868

Guth, Christine709.52 G87 1996

00011198

Sakaida, Kakiemon, XIV

738.0952 S24 201900026300

Wilson, Richard L.

738.092 W5400000534

Guth, Christine709.52 G8700000533

Munsterberg, Hugo

738.09 M85 1964

00023292

The ceramic art of Ogata Kenzan

Kawahara, Masahiko

738.0924 K38 1985

00000402

Challenging past and present : the metamorphosisof nineteenth-century Japanese art

Conant, Ellen P. (ed.)

709.52 C32 2006

00015115Classic stoneware of Japan : Shino and Oribe

Kuroda, Ryōji

738.3 K87 2002

00015890

Collecting occupied Japan

Parmer, Lynette

738 P37 1996

00005836

Gardiner Museum ofCeramic Art (ed.)

738.2 D72 2009

00019297

Impey, Oliver R.

738.20952 I46 1995

00003375

The art of emptiness = Yohaku no bi
The art of Ogata Kenzan : persona and productionin Japanese ceramics
Art, tea, and industry :Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui circle
The ceramic art of Japan : A handbook for collectors*ebook also available

Dragons, tigers and bamboo :Japanese porcelain and its impact in Europe
The early porcelain kilns of Japan :Arita in the first half of the seventeenth centuryp.1

Books in English (continued)
Title

AuthorCall no.

Item no.

Saint-Gilles, Amaury738.09 S24 1978

00013821

Singer, Robert T.

FOL 709.52 S56 1998

00013529

Jörg, Christiaan J. A

FOL 738.2 J67 2003

00012915

Moeran, Brian738.0952 M63 1997

00006904

Hamada, potter

Leach, Bernard738.3092 L42 1990

00006184

Handmade culture :Raku potters, patrons, and tea practitioners in Japan*ebook also available

Pitelka, Morgan

738.0952 P57 2005

00014491

Hirado : prince of porcelains

Lawrence, Louis

738.2 L38 1997

00008359

Earth 'n' fire :a survey guide to contemporary Japanese ceramics
Edo : art in Japan 1615-1868
Fine & curious :Japanese export porcelain in Dutch collections
Folk art potters of Japan :beyond an anthropology of aesthetics

Inside Japanese ceramics :a primer of materials, techniques, and traditions
Isamu Noguchi and modern Japanese ceramics :a close embrace of the earth
Japanese decorative arts of the Meiji period
Japanese painted porcelain :modern masterpieces in overglaze enamel
Japan : the shaping of Daimyo culture, 1185-1868
Made in Japan ceramics, 1921-1941:
with price guide
Meiji ceramics : the art of Japanese export porcelain
and Satsuma ware, 1868-1912
Potters and patrons in Edo period Japan:
Takatori ware and the Kuroda domain

Richard L. Wilson*Coming Soon. Will be available forbook club in-person participantsCort, Louise Allison

FOL 730.92 C67 2003

00012438

Impey, O. R.
Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai
Bijutsukan (ed.)
Shimizu, Yoshiaki (ed.)

745.0952 I46 2005

00016148

FOL 738.2 T64 1980

00007683

FOL 952.02 J36 1988

00000514

Ifert, Barbara

738.09 I33 1994

00006238

Jahn, Gisela

FOL 738.20952 J33 2004

00014045Andrew L. Maske*Coming Soon. Will be available forbook club in-person participants

Raku : art and technique

Riegger, Hal

738.0952 R53 1979

00021560

Seto and Mino ceramics

Cort, Louise Allison

738.095216 C6700000564

Shiga, Shigeo

738.0924 S54 1982

00000454

Peterson, Susan

738.092 P47 1995

00007275

Rimer, J. Thomas (ed.)

709.52 S56 2011

00021412

Toshiko Takaezu, the earth in bloom

Yake, Stanley738.092 Y34 2005

00017626

Visiting the Mino kilns

Barriskill, Janet

738 B37 1995

00003536

738.092 C47 2005

00015219

738.2 M37 2011

00021910

738.0952 N53 2003

00015760

709.52 T54 1995

00016360

738.1 S55 1979

00011053

Shiga the potter
Shoji Hamada : a potter’s way & work
*ebook also available
Since Meiji :perspectives on the Japanese visual arts, 1868-2000

Bilingual Books in English & Japanese
Ceramic standard : Masahiro MoriMori, Masahiro
セラミックスタンダード : 森正洋作品集
森 正洋
Fukami : purity of form
Marks, Andreas.
深見：研ぎ澄まされたカタチ
アンドレアス・マークス
Masterpieces from 5,000 years of JapaneseJapan. Bunkachō (ed.)
ceramics : special exhibition
文化庁 (編)日本陶磁 5000 年の至宝
The arts of Meiji Japan, 1868-1912 : changing
Till, Barryaesthetics
バリー・ティル
明治日本の美術 1868-1912 : 芸術精神の変貌
The Japanese pottery handbook
Simpson, Penny
陶芸ハンドブック
ペニー・シンプソン
p.2

Books in JapaneseTitle

Ezara wa kataru : Sarada Ichirō Korekushon
絵皿は語る : 皿多一郎コレクション
Gendai tōgei no kishu
現代陶芸の旗手
Gendai tōgei no zōkei shikō
現代陶芸の造形思考
Mingei no kyōkasho 1 : Utsuwa
民藝の教科書 1 : うつわ
Nihon yakimono kikō
日本やきもの紀行
Nihon yakimonoshi nyūmon
日本やきもの史入門

Meiji dezain no tanjō
明治デザインの誕生
Yakimono Kamamoto meguri
やきもの窯元めぐり
Yakimono kanshō nyūmon
やきもの鑑賞入門

AuthorShibusawa Shiryōkan (ed.)
渋沢史料館 (編)
Katō Takuo et al.
加藤 卓男 他
Kaneko, Kenji
金子 賢治
Hagiwara, Kentarō
萩原 健太郎Geijutsu Shinchō
Henshūbu (ed.)
芸術新潮編集部 (編)Yabe, Yoshiaki
矢部 良明
Tōkyō Kokuritsu
Hakubutsukan (ed.)
東京国立博物館 (編)Zō Jimusho (ed.)
造事務所 (編)Idegawa, Naoki
出川 直樹

p.3

Call no.

Item no.

738.2 E39 2009

00020146

738.0952 G46 1982

00009480

738.0952 K36 2007

00022462

738.0952 H33 2012

00028197

738.0952 N53 1985

00009603

738.0952 Y32 1992

00009601

745.4 M44 1997

00010070

738.0952 Y34 1999

00008772

738.092 I33 1998

00009609

2. Nonfiction to Learn about Culture and Life of the Edo/Meiji Period

Books in English
Title

AuthorCall no.

Item no.

East, Alfred

760.092 E27 1991

00008420

Tokugawa, Tsunenari

952.025 T64 2009

00018089

Keene, Donald

952.025 K43 2018

00026016

Hanley, Susan B.

306 H36 1997

00005637

Hokusai : a graphic biography

Latanza, Giuseppe

769.92 L37 2021

00027302

The making of modern Japan

Jansen, Marius B.

952.025 J36 2000

00013550Haga, Tōru

952.025 H32 2021

00027068

Marcus, Marvin895.694 M37 2009

00021012

Watanabe, Kyōji

952.03 W37 2020

00026978

Books in Japanese
Takamura, Kōun
高村 光雲

BUN 300 I92 1997

00009107

Kawai, Shōko
川合 章子

952.025 K38 D34 2011

00022209

Kikuchi, Hitomi
菊池 ひと美952.025 K54 2015

00024744

Shinoda, Kōzō
篠田 鉱造

BUN 300 I92 1998

00009109

Omoto, Keiko et al.
尾本 圭子 他

952.03 O46 1996

00013078

952.025 O42 2006

00022026

BUN 300 I92 1996

00009108

A British artist in Meiji JapanThe Edo inheritance
Edo Japan encounters the world : conversations
between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro
Everyday things in premodern Japan :the hidden legacy of material culture

Pax Tokugawana :the cultural flowering of Japan, 1603-1853
Reflections in a glass door : memory and melancholyin the personal writings of Natsume Sōseki
Remnants of days past : a journey through old Japan
Bakumatsu ishin kaikodan
幕末維新懐古談
Daijesuto de wakaru gaikokujin ga mita Bakumatsu
Nipponダイジェストでわかる外国人が見た幕末ニッポン
Edo no kurashi zukan : joseitachi no nichijō
江戶の暮らし図鑑：女性たちの日常
Meiji hyakuwa 1 - 2
明治百話 1 - 2
Nihon no kaikoku:
Emīru Gime aru furansujin no mita meiji
日本の開国 :
エミール・ギメ あるフランス人の見た明治
Oedo de gozaru
お江戸でござる
Zōho Bakumatsu hyakuwa
増補 幕末百話

Sugiura, Hinako
杉浦 日向子Shinoda, Kōzō
篠田 鉱造

p.4

3. Fiction to Learn about Culture and Life of the Edo/Meiji Period

Books in English
Title

AuthorCall no.

Item no.

Jones, Sumie (ed.)

895.608003 E36 2013

00023529

Okamoto, Kidō

895.634 O42 2007

00016297

Shiba, Ryōtarō

895.635 S54 D78 2001

00010702

Danly, Robert Lyons895.6342 D3600000645

Mertz, John Pierre

895.634 M47 2003

00013449

Ōoku : the inner chambers 1 - 12

Yoshinaga, Fumi

MANGA_E YOS OOK 2009

00020298

The times of Botchan 1 - 3

Taniguchi, Jirō

MANGA_E TAN TIM 2005

00015144

Shanks' mareJippensha, Ikku

895.633 J56 1980

00009362

MANGA_J ICH CHA 2000

00026140

MANGA_J MIN FUU 2002

00026559

MANGA_J ICH HAN 2015

00026139

Ikezawa, Natsuki (ed.)
池澤 夏樹 (編)895.6 N53 2015

00027269

Ikezawa, Natsuki (ed.)
池澤 夏樹 (編)895.6 N53 2015

00027267

Aoyama, Bunpei
青山 文平

BUN 895.636 A59 T78
201800026197

An Edo anthology : literature from Japan's megacity, 1750-1850*ebook also available
The curious casebook of Inspector Hanshichi :detective stories of old Edo
Drunk as a lord : samurai stories
In the shade of spring leaves : the writings ofHiguchi Ichiyō, a women of letters in Meiji Japan
Novel Japan : spaces of nationhood in early Meiji
narrative, 1870-88

Chabako Hiroshige
茶箱広重
Fuunjitachi : bakumatsu-hen 1 – 34
風雲児たち : 幕末編 1 – 34
Hanagami Sharaku鼻紙写楽
Takekurabe / Higuchi Ichiyō ; Kawakami Mieko yaku.
Natsume SōsekiMori Ōgaiたけくらべ / 樋口一葉 ; 川上未映子訳
夏目漱石 森鷗外
Kōshoku ichidaiotoko / Shimada Masahiko yaku.
Ugetsu monogatari / Enjō Tō yaku.
Tsūgen sōmagaki / Itō Seikō yaku.
Shunshoku umegoyomi / Shimamoto Rio yaku.
好色一代男 / 島田雅彦訳
雨月物語 / 円城塔訳
通言総籬 / いとうせいこう訳
春色梅児誉美 / 島本理生訳
Tsuma o metoraba
つまをめとらば
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Books in Japanese
Ichinoseki, Kei
一ノ関 圭
Minamoto, Tarō
みなもと 太郎
Ichinoseki, Kei
一ノ関 圭

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