Japan -- Social life and customs books

The Book of Tea

Kakuzo Okakura

The Book of Tea is a cultural essay that treats the humble leaf as a gateway to philosophy, history, and…

Bushido, the Soul of Japan

Inazo Nitobe

In Bushido, the Soul of Japan Inazo Nitobe offers a concise, comparative study of the samurai’s moral code,…

Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic

Sidney Lewis Gulick

Sidney L. Gulick’s Evolution of the Japanese, Social and Psychic is a scholarly survey that attempts to…

Tales of Old Japan

Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale

Tales of Old Japan is a collection of Japanese legends, folk tales, and moral sermons assembled by Lord…

Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings

Edward Sylvester Morse

Edward S. Morse’s Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings is a scholarly ethnographic survey of domestic…

Japanese Plays and Playfellows

Osman Edwards

Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories

Matilda Chaplin Ayrton

In Ghostly Japan

Lafcadio Hearn

Letters from China and Japan

Dewey, John; Dewey, Alice Chipman

Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life

Lafcadio Hearn

The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People, and Missions

R. B. Peery

A daughter of the Samurai

Etsuko Sugimoto

Mysterious Japan

Julian Street

A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist

Marie Carmichael Stopes

Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs

J. M. W. Silver

Kakemono: Japanese sketches

A. Herbage Edwards

Working Women of Japan

Sidney Lewis Gulick

An English girl in Japan

Ella M. Hart Bennett

The Japanese New Year's Festival, Games and Pastimes

Helen Cowen Gunsaulus

When I Was a Boy in Japan

Sakae Shioya