Check out the Course Reserves.

34 Thematic Essays on Japanese Art (with images and bibliographies).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

by Artists, Anime Masters, etc.:

Katsushika, Hokusai

Isozaki Arata

"Shigeru Ban"

Hayao Miyazaki

Andō, Hiroshige

 

by Topics:

(anime or manga) and cultur**

Hiroshige and ("floating world" or ukiyoe)

Japan* and art and influen*

Japan* and art and (West* or europ*) and influenc*

Tips: 1. Or and ( ) to search any or all of the words; 2. cultur** searches for culture, cultural, etc.

 

by Medium and Style:

Ukiyoe

japan* and scroll*

 

in the Broader Contexts:

Art, Japanese -- History

Art -- Japan -- History.

 

Types of Documents:

Art, Japanese -- Exhibitions.

-- Heian Period, 794-1185 -- Exhibitions.  

-- Kamakura-Momoyama Periods, 1185-1600 -- Exhibitions.

-- Edo Period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions.

-- 1868- -- Exhibitions.

-- 20th Century -- Exhibitions.

-- 21st Century -- Exhibitions.

These exhibition and museum catalogues are uniquely valuable sources, which may include:

*Fundamental data on each work of art;

*Official images of the artworks;

*Curatorial statements/essays;

*essays by art critics/historians;

*list of scholarly publications on the art,

*sometimes, artists’ interviews,

*and more.

 

Here is an example:

Taishō Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco / essays by Kendall H. Brown, Sharon A. Minichiello; catalogue entries by Kendall H. Brown, Patricia Salmon, Reiko Mochinaga Brandon, Eriko Iijima and Annie M. Van Assche; [edited by Lorna Price and Letitia O'Connor].
NX456.5.A7 T35 2001

Advance Keyword Search, limiting to books

On the topic of Japanese anime:

 

subject: And Any Field: And
Material Type:	All Books/Journals

Sample findings at Tisch:

Japan Style.
Gian Carlo Calza
N7350 .C25 2007.

History of Japanese Art.
Penelope Mason; revised by Donald Dinwiddie.
N7350 .M26 2005

The Arts of Japan
by Noma Seiroku; photographs by Takahashi Bin.
N7350 .N63913 2003

Warriors of Art: a Guide to Contemporary Japanese Artists.
Yumi Yamaguchi ; translated by Arthur Tanaka.
N7355 .Y355 2007  

Japanese Art in Detail.
John Reeve.
N7350 .R44 2005

How to Look at Japanese Art.
Stephen Addiss with a chapter on gardens by Audrey Yoshiko Seo.
N7350 .A375 1996

Traditional Japanese Prints:

Traditional Woodblock Prints of Japan (ukiyoe) NE1310 .T2913

A Guide to Japanese Prints and Their Subject Matter (Color prints, Edo period). NE1321.8 .S74 1979b

Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print, Including an Illustrated Dictionary of Ukiyo-e. NE1321.8 .L36 1978

Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Bibliography of Writings from 1822-1992. NE1321.8 .W42

Japanese prints : ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700-1900 / Ellis Tinios NE1321.8 .T56 2010

Japanese Woodblock Prints: the Reciprocal Influence between East and West. / Lucille R. Webber. NE1321.8 .W42

Living Japan: Essays on Everyday Life in Contemporary Japan.
ed. by Harumi Kimura; translated by Haruko Miyazaki, Yuriko Takahashi.
DS821 .L58 2009

Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture.
edited by Yoshio Sugimoto.
DS822.5 .C365 2009

Path of Discovery in the Catalogs

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

 

Expand your search into more databases and from various perspectives

3. Academic OneFile
All subjects; a convenient Quick Start. Here are some sample findings:

 

 

ARTbiliographies Modern
International Bibliography of Art
Architecture (the Avery Index)

 

 

 

4. Film & Television and Mass Media

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

 

7. Bibliography of Asian Studies

8. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Finding Full Texts

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

C. Request Articles/Books

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

IV. Popular Press

A. Current:

Book, Movie, Music, Play, And Video Reviews (in LexisNexis)

Factiva (more international coverage)

B. Historical

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)

Art Index Retrospective   (1929- 1982)

 

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

British Humanities Index (1962- )
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)

IV. Images

ARTstor

Artifact (Tufts University)
(images for this course by your professor)

Image Quest (more than two million rights-cleared images)

Art Project (museums from around the world by Google)

V. More Specific Themes/Topics

Japan’s Floating World

Japanese Art and Anime

Japanese Art and the West

Japanese Landscape Tradition

Japanese Narrative Pictures: Heroes, Heroines, Ghosts and Demons

 

Buddhist Art

Buddhism, Women, Art

Skilful Means, Buddhist Lies

Zen & Tea Aesthetics

Writing the Art History paper (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Chicago Style Manual