SUBJECT
HEADINGS
Use these to search the catalogue for
additional books in the Barr Smith Library.
Subject heading in Basic Search or
Any Keywords in Guided Keyword Search
Art, Japanese
Art, Buddhist
Pottery, Japan?
Print? Japan?
Painting, Japanese
Art, European Japanese (or Oriental) influences
Ukiyoe
Momoyama
concepts such as floating world as a phrase in guided
keyword search.
RESOURCES ELSEWHERE
The Barr Smith Library holds limited resources for some of
these topics.
For in-depth research it may be necessary to consult the libraries
of Adelaide's other two universities. You can search across
all three library catalogues by clicking on the link to Other
Catalogues at the top of our catalogue search screen and
you can borrow from these other university libraries.
University of South
Australia(city West)
The Library
of the Art Gallery of South Australia should only be
consulted as a last resort.
ENCYCLOPAEDIAS AND
DICTIONARIES
Asia and specific countries
Encyclopedia of Asian history, ed. Ainslie T. Embree. 4
vols. 1988
Reference collection 950.03 E56
Encyclopaedia of Asian Civilizations. L. Frederic. 10
vols. 1977-1984
Reference collection 950.03 L888e
Encyclopedia of Asian culture ed. P.N.
Chopra 1999.
Reference collection 950.03 C549e
Japan
Cambridge encyclopedia of Japan, ed. R. Bowring. 1993
Reference collection 952.003 B788c
Cultural atlas of Japan. 1988
Reference collection 952 C697c
Japan : an illustrated encyclopedia, Kodansha
1993
Refe 952.003 K76j and Main Collection 952.003 K76j (not for
loan)
Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan 9 vols.1983
Reference collection 952.003 K76
Encyclopedia of contemporary Japanese culture, ed.
Sandra Buckley. 2002
Reference collection 952.003 B924e
Modern Japan : an encyclopedia of history, culture, and
nationalism ed. James L. Huffman. 1998
Reference collection 952.003 H889m
The Encyclopedia of Japanese pop culture, by Mark
Schilling. 1997
Reference collection 306.0952 S334e
Papinot, E. Historical and geographical dictionary of
Japan.
Reference collection 952.003 P217d
Roberts' guide to Japanese museums of art and
archaeology. 1987
Reference collection 708.952 R645ra
A cultural dictionary of Japan, ed. M. Yamaguchi
1979
Reference collection 915.2 C968
Companion to Japanese history, ed. William M. Tsutsui, 2007
Reference collection 952 T8829c
Biographical dictionaries of Japanese artists
Biographical dictionary of Japanese art, ed. Yutaka
Tazawa. 1981
Reference collection 920 B61392
Roberts, Laurance P. A dictionary of
Japanese artists: painting, sculpture, ceramics, prints,
lacquer, 1976
Reference collection 920 R646d
Arts, Symbolism and Beliefs
The Dictionary of art, ed. Jane Turner. 34 vols.1996.
Reference collection 703 T948d
Encyclopedia of world art. 15 v. 1959.
Reference collection 703 E56
Hall, J. Illustrated dictionary of symbols in Eastern and
Western art. 1994
Reference collection 704.94603 H177i
Handbook of Japanese mythology, Michael Ashkenazi, 2008
Reference collection 299.56 A8259h
Hotei encyclopedia of Japanese woodblock prints, ed. Amy Newland, 2005
Main collection 769.952 N549h
Ling, T. O. Dictionary of Buddhism 1972
Reference collection 294.03 D554
Dictionary of buddhist terms and concepts 1983
Reference collection 294.303 D554
Bonnefoy, Y. Asian Mythologies. 1991
Reference collection 291.1303 B716d see
Japan pp 263-296
A dictionary of Buddhist and Hindu iconography, illustrated :
objects, devices, concepts, rites, and related terms,by
Fredrick W. Bunce. 1997
Reference collection 294.303 B942d
INDEXES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Bibliography of Asian studies. 1971-
1941-1965, 1966-1970- also at Reference collection 950.05 B582
Art Abstracts 1984-
1929- available in print at Reference collection 705 A776
Academic OneFile1980-
20 million peer-reviewed, articles, a large proportion of which are full-text from more than 8000 journals, including many art journals.
Academic Search Premier
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals aross all subject areas, including art.
JSTOR includes full text of older issues of journals, including:
Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Burlington Magazine Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Coverage from journal's first issue until 3-5 years ago, so not current.
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) Searches for journal articles published over more than 200 years.Limited search terms - usually titles of articles.
You can limit searches to time periods.
Some full text available.
Many early journals may be held either in our Store or at the State Library.
Full text searching of a smaller number of journals is available via
Periodicals Archive Online.
Project Muse full text of nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies etc etc.
For articles from Australian journals
APA-FT: Citations 1978- and full text for selected articles 1995
If you need newspaper coverage of recent exhibitions and news on art, use
Factiva, an index to Australian and international newspapers with full text.
Bibliographies
Japan
A
Reader's Guide to the Arts of Japan (Asia Society)
an annotated bibliography to English language print resources about
Japanese art.
Green, W. Japanese woodblock prints : a
bibliography of writings from
1822-1993 entirely or partly in English text. 1993
Reference collection 769.952 G798j
Introductory bibliography for Japanese studies
1974-.....materials in Japanese.
Reference collection 952.05 I61
Japan and the Japanese: a bibliographic guide to reference
sources. 1996.
Reference collection 052.0016 M235j
Japanese history and culture from ancient to modern times:
seven basic bibliographies. 2nd. ed.1995.
Reference collection 952.0016 D746j.2
Japanese studies from pre-history to 1990: a bibliographical
guide. 1992
Reference collection 952.10016 P455j
Shulman, F. Japan (World bibliographical series)
1989......."Fine arts" start on p 488
Reference collection 952.0016 S562j
Buddhism
Yoo, Y. Buddhism: a subject index to periodical; articles in
English, 1728-1971. 1973. See Art
pp7-15.
Reference collection 294 Y59b
WWW SITES
Japanese
art section of Art History Resources on the web; Chris
Witcome's excellent guide from Sweet Briar College. He also lists
Japanese
museums and galleries.
Tokyo National Museum
Kyoto National
Museum
Art of China Consortium - despite its title it still has a useful Japanese art section
Asian Art Museum of San
Francisco
Asian Arts: an
on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of
Asia
Los Angeles County Museum of Art:
LACMA
Japanese art
J-Guide: Stanford guide to
Japan information resources
Web
Japan - Fine arts
More Than Meets
the Eye: Japanese Art in the Asia Society
Collection
Universes in
Collision: Men and Women in 19th Century Japanese Prints
Ukiyo-e: the
pictures of the floating world
Traditional crafts of
Japan
For more websites, go to Intute - Visual arts and seach for Japanese, or a more specific term if you wish..
The result will be links to over 120 quality, evaluated sites. |
