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• The Japanese Dance (London: W. Heinemann, 1910), by Marcelle Azra Hincks
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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• Japanese Cinema: Film Style and National Character (1971), by Donald Richie (page images at PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• The Dance, Ancient and Modern, trans. by Arabella E. Moore (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Dance: Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dancing, by Lady Frazer, illust. by Percy Macquoid (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Amateur's Vademecum: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Dancing, by E. B. Reilley (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Code of Terpsichore, by Carlo Blasis (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Sketches Relative to the History and Theory, but More Especially to the Practice of Dancing, by Francis Peacock (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Dancing, by James P. Cassidy (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise on the Use and Peculiar Advantages of Dancing and Exercises, Considered as a Means of Refinement and Physical Development, by Francis Mason (page images and partial HTML at LOC)

• A Treatise on the Art of Dancing, by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Louis Horst: Musician in a Dancer's World (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Janet Mansfield Soares (page images at HathiTrust)

• Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes Towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Egil Bakka, Theresa Jill Buckland, Helena Saarikoski, and Anne von Bibra Wharton (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes Towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Egil Bakka, Theresa Jill Buckland, Helena Saarikoski, and Anne von Bibra Wharton (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes Towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Egil Bakka, Theresa Jill Buckland, Helena Saarikoski, and Anne von Bibra Wharton (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Dance: A Very Social History (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rizzoli, c1986), by Carol Wallace, Don McDonagh, Jean L. Druesedow, Laurence Libin, and Constance Old (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Story of Japan (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1922), by R. Van Bergen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Japan from a Japanese Perspective: Some Pointers for Textbook Writers and Publishers, by International Society for Educational Information (HTML at archive.org)
• The Story of Japan (c1897), by R. Van Bergen (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Richard B. Finn (HTML at UC Press)
• Democratizing Japan: The Allied Occupation (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1987), ed. by Robert E. Ward and Yoshikazu Sakamoto, contrib. by Akira Amakawa, Hans H. Baerwald, Theodore McNelly, Masahide Ōta, Hideo Ōtake, T. J. Pempel, Susan J. Pharr, Yoshikazu Sakamoto, Kurt Steiner, Eiji Takemae, Hideo Tanaka, and Kenzō Uchida (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• The History of Japan (2 volumes; London: Printed for the translator, 1727), by Engelbert Kaempfer, trans. by John Gaspar Scheuchzer
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The History of Japan, Together With a Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 1690-92 (3 volumes; includes an appendix on a 1673 voyage to Japan by Delboe, Gibben, and Ramsden; Glasgow: J. MacLehose and Sons; New York: Macmillan, 1906), by Engelbert Kaempfer, trans. by John Gaspar Scheuchzer, contrib. by Simon Delboe, Hamond Gibben, and William Ramsden
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• Japan (New York: Holiday House, c1948), by Cornelia Spencer, illust. by Rafaello Busoni (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christian Converts and Social Protest in Meiji Japan (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002), by Irwin Scheiner (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• An Account of the Rising at Ximabara, and of the Notable Siege Thereof, and of the Deaths of Various of Our Portuguese Fellow-Countrymen for the Faith (Alemquer, Portutal: Typ. e Pap. H. Campeão, 1901), by Duarte Correa, trans. by Guilherme J. C. Henriques
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• V Kogti͡akh I͡aponskogo Imperializma: Borʹba Koreĭskogo Naroda za Nezavisimostʹ (in Russian; Moscow: Government Publishing House, 1919), by Vladimir Dmitrievich Vilenskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Fookoua Siriak: ou, Traité sur l'Origine des Richesses au Japon, Écrit en 1708 (extract from Nouveau Journal Asiatique, in French; Paris: Schubart et Heideloff, 1828), by Arai Hakuseki, trans. by Julius von Klaproth
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Kojiki (with notes by the editor), ed. by Basil Hall Chamberlain (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Geschichte des Christentums in Japan (2 volumes in 1, in German; 1902-1904), by Hans Haas
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The White Peril in the Far East: An Interpretation of the Significance of the Russo-Japanese War (1905), by Sidney Lewis Gulick (page images at Google; US access only)
• As the Hague Ordains: Journal of a Russian Prisoner's Wife in Japan (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1907), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Origins of Japan's Modern Forests: The Case of Akita (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1985), by Conrad D. Totman (PDF and Epub with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• The Ideals of the East, With Special Reference to the Art of Japan, by Kakuzō Okakura (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Traces That Remain: A Pictorial History of the Early Days of the Baha'i Faith Among the Japanese, ed. by Barbara R. Sims (illustrated HTML at bahai-library.org)

• Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), ed. by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), ed. by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2017), by Simon Andrew Avenell (PDF with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2017), by Simon Andrew Avenell (PDF with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• The Origins of Japan's Modern Forests: The Case of Akita (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1985), by Conrad D. Totman (PDF and Epub with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• The Origins of Japan's Modern Forests: The Case of Akita (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1985), by Conrad D. Totman (PDF and Epub with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2017), by Simon Andrew Avenell (PDF with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• Wanderers and Settlers in the Far East: A Century of Jewish Life in China and Japan (New York: Twayne Publishers, c1962), by Herman Dicker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Birth of the Japanese Labor Movement: Takano Fusatarō and the Rōdō Kumiai Kiseikai (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1989), by Stephen E. Marsland (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• Castles in the Far East: The U.S. Carmy Corps of Engineers Okinawa and Japan Districts, 1945-1990 (1990), by Gretchen Charles Greeson (page imagest at US Army Corps of Engineers)

• Geschichte des Christentums in Japan (2 volumes in 1, in German; 1902-1904), by Hans Haas
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), ed. by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Democratizing Japan: The Allied Occupation (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1987), ed. by Robert E. Ward and Yoshikazu Sakamoto, contrib. by Akira Amakawa, Hans H. Baerwald, Theodore McNelly, Masahide Ōta, Hideo Ōtake, T. J. Pempel, Susan J. Pharr, Yoshikazu Sakamoto, Kurt Steiner, Eiji Takemae, Hideo Tanaka, and Kenzō Uchida (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c1989), by James R. Bartholomew (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c1989), by James R. Bartholomew (PDF at Ohio State)

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