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Resources

Programming Recommendations

To supplement the exhibition, we recommend the following related resources available through the Statewide Program. For more information or to schedule a speaker, workshop or media resource, call 804.204.2681or email edpartner@vmfa.museum.

Speakers
Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Prints with Dr. Joseph M. Dye III

Teacher Workshop
The Floating World

Audio-Visual Resources in the Virginia Museum

The following audio-visual resources are video, unless otherwise noted as 16mm film or slide lecture kits. These resources are available to Educational Partners of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' Office of Statewide Partnerships.

OA-29
PE-39
ED-261
OA-23
OA-24
WA-243
AT-53
OA-22
WA-318
OA-25
OA-2
OA-38
ED-265
PE-25
AT-64
OA-21
ED-278
ED-301
OA-30
ED-244
YWC-10
Arts of the East: China, Japan, India
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Daimyo
Dream Window
Haiku: Short Poetry of Japan
Hellfire: A Journey 16mm
How to Fold a Paper Crane
Inland Sea
Isamu Noguchi
Japan: A Nation Family
Japanese Prints SK
Japanese Prints: The Floating World
Japan’s Grand Kabuki in America
The Mikado
Raku Ceramics
Sakako and the 1000 Paper Cranes
Sensei: Master Teacher 16mm
The Stonecutter
Tale of Genji
Urashima Taro
Yoshiko the Papermaker 16mm and VHS

Virginia Museum Educational Resource Room Japan Bibliography

These resources are available for use in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Educational Resource Room only, not for loan.


Juvenile Non-Fiction


Finley, Carol, Art of Japan: Wood-Block Color Prints, Lerner Publications Co, MN, 1998

Knorr, Rosanne, If I Lived in Japan…, Longstreet Press, Inc., GA, 1995

Lerner, Harry Jonas, pub., Visual Geography Series: Japan…in Pictures, Lerner Publications Co, MN, 1989

Littlefield, Holly, Colors of Japan, Carolrhoda Books, Inc. MN, 1997

Macdonald, Fiona, Step into Ancient Japan, Anness Publishing Ltd, NY, 1999

McKay, Susan, Festivals of the World Japan, Gareth Stevens Publishing, WI, 1997

Roop, Peter & Connie, A Visit to Japan, Heinenann Library, ILL, 1998

Streissguth, Tom, A Ticket to Japan, Carolrhoda Books, Inc. MN, 1997

Streissguth, Tom, Globe Trotter's Series: Japan, Carolrhoda Books, Inc., MN, 1997

Yokoe, Lynn, Maya Lin Architect, Modern Curriculem Press, NJ, 1995


Juvenile Fiction


Baker, Keith, The Magic Fan, Harcourt Brace & Co., NY, 1989

Bodkin, Odds, The Crane Wife, Gulliver Books, NY, 1998

Coerr, Eleanor, Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes, G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY, 1977

Conrad, Pam, Blue Willow, Philomel Books, NY, 1999

French, Fiona, Little Inchkin, Dial Books For Young Readers, NY, 1994

Friedman, Ina R, How My Parents Learned to Eat, Houghton Mifflin Co, MA, 1984

Havilan, Virginia, Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Japan, A Beech Tree Paperback Bk, NY, 1967

Hearn, Lafcadio & others, The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales, Dover Publications, NY, 1998

Melmed, Laura Krauss, Little Oh, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, NY, 1997

Mosel, Arlene, The Funny Little Woman, Puffin Books, NY, 1972

Okawa, Essei, The Adventures of the One Inch Boy, Heian International, Inc., CA, 1985

Sakade, Florence, ed, Japanese Children's Favorite Stories, Charles E. Tuttle Company, VT, 1958

Sakade, Florence, ed, Urashima Taro and Other Japanese Children's Stories, Charles E. Tuttle Company VT 1998

Sakurai, Gail, Peach Boy, Troll Asscociates, MEX, 1994

Smith, Philip, ed., Japanese Fairy Tales, Dover Publications, NY, 1992

Snyder, Dianne, The Boy of the Three Year Nap, Houghton Mifflin Co., MA, 1988

Wells, Rosemary, YOKO, Hyperion Books for Children, NY, 1998

Wells, Ruth, A to Zen, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1992

Wisniewski, David, The Warrior And The Wiseman, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, NY, 1989


Adult Non Fiction


Addis, Stephen, How to Look at Japanese Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., NY, 1996

Baker, Joan Stanley, Japanese Art, Thames and Hudson, NY, 1984

Editors of Time-Life Books, What Life Was Like Among Samurai and Shoguns, Time Life Inc., VA, 1999

Ernst, Earle, The Kabuki Theatre, University of Hawaii Press, HI, 1974

Faulkner, Rupert, Masterpieces of Japanese Prints, Kodansha International Ltd., JAP, 1991

Hiesinger, Kathryn & Fischer, Felice, Japanese Design A Survey Since 1950, PMA W/Harry N Abrams, Inc, PA, 1994

Kobayashi, Tadashi, Ukiyo-e An Intro to Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kodansha International Ltd., JAP, 1997

Leiter, Samuel L, The Art of Kabuki: Five Famous Plays, Dover Publications, NY, 1999

Mason, Penelope, History of Japanese Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., NY, 1993

Payne,Robert T & Soper,A, The Art and Architecture of Japan, Yale University, CT, 1981

Scott, A C, The Kabuki Theatre of Japan, Dover Publications, NY, 1999


Reference


Allan, Tony; Kerrigan, Michael; Phillips, Charles, Realm Of The Rising Sun: Japanese Myth, Time-Life Books, NY, 2000

Araki, Nancy K; Horii, Jane M, Matsuri: Festival Japanese American Celebrations & Activities, Heian International, Inc, CA, 1978

Bartok, Mira, Ancient and Living Cultures Stencils: Ancient Japan, GoodYearBooks, ILL, 1993

Heineken, Ty & Kiyoko, Tansu Traditional Japanese Cabinetry, Weatherhill, NY, 1998

Horn, Diane Victoria, Japanese Kimono Designs, Stemmer House, MD, 1991

Iwamiya, Takeji & Takaoka, K, Classic Japanese Design Katachi, Chronicle Books, CA, 1999

Keller, Mary Jo, Japan Activity Book-Arts, Crafts, Cooking, Historical Aids, Edupress, CA, 1994

Kuwayama, George, Contemporary Japanese Prints, LA Co Museum of Art, CA, 1972

Lee, Sherman, A History of Far Eastern Art, Harry N Abrams, Inc, NY, 1994

Mansfield, Mike (Foreword), JAPAN A Living Portrait, Kodansha International, NY, 1999

Mayhall, Yolanda, The Sumi-e Book, Watson-Guptill Publications, NY, 1989

Menten, Theodore, Japanese Cut and Use Stencils, Dover Publications, Inc NY, 1980

Munroe, Alexandra, Japanese Art After 1945 Scream Against The Sky, Harry N Abrams, Inc, NY, 1994

Moore, Abd al-Hayy, Zen Rock Gardening, Running Press, PA, 1992

Nakao, Seigo, Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary, Random House, NY, 1995

Ozawa, Hiroyuki, The Great Festivals of Japan Spectacle and Spirit, Kodansha International, NY 1999

Sakade, Florence, Origami Book One, Charles E. Tuttle Company, VT, 1957

Sakade, Florence, Origami Book Two Charles E. Tuttle Company, VT, 1958

Sandberg, Gosta, Indigo Textiles Technique and History, Lark Books, NC, 1989

Sibbett Jr, Ed, Japanese Prints Coloring Book, Dover Publications, Inc, NY, 1982

Smith, A G; Hazen, Josie, Cut and Make Japanese Masks, Dover Publications, Inc, NY, 1994

Takenada, Reiko, Japanese Flower Arrangement Enchanting Ikebana Step-by-Step, Kodansha America, Inc, JAP, 1998

Takenada, Reiko, Japanese Flower Arrangement Ikebana Step-by-Step, Kodansha America, Inc, JAP, 1998

Tames, Richard & Sheila, Country Topics: Japan, Franklin Watts, CT, 1994

Thompson, Kay Morrissey, Japanese Ink Painting as Taught by Ukai Uchiyama, Charles E. Tuttle Company, VT, 1994

van Arsdale, Jay, Shoji, Kodansha International Ltd., JAP, 1988

Vilhar, Gorazd; Anderson, C Matsuri, Shufunotomo Co, Ltd, JAP, 1994


Other Resources


AsiaforKids 2000 Educational Catalog, Master Communications, Inc, OH, 2000

Best of Japanese Design-Video, HGTV Hamanaka, Sheila & Ohmi, Ayano, In Search of the Spirit-The Living National Treasures of Japan, Morrow Junior Books, NY, 1999

Hiroshige & Eisen, The Old-time 69 stages on the Nakasendo Highway, Ukiyo-e, Fukui Asahido Co, JAP, n/a

Ishikawa, Jun-ichi, Nipponia No 11: Qtrly Magazine introducing Modern Japan, Heibonsha Ltd, JAP, 1999

Shin'ichi, Inagaki, Ukiyo-E Cats: A Kodansha Postcard Book, Kodansha International Ltd., NY, 1993

Tuttle, Tuttle Spring 2000 Catalog, Tuttle Publishing, VT, 2000

Urakami, Hiroko, Japanese Family-Style Recipes, Kodansha International Ltd., JAP, 1992

Urban Connections, Inc, Views of Japan, Urban Connections, Inc, JAP, 1997


Vocabulary

Japan Timeline

Map of Japan


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