Dreaming Ages History
Feudal Japan: reading list
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Books to read by lamplight after the episode.
A History of Japan
Conrad Totman (Blackwell, 2nd ed., 2005).
View on AmazonSamurai: The World of the Warrior
Stephen Turnbull (Osprey, 2003).
View on AmazonHideyoshi
Mary Elizabeth Berry (Harvard University Press, 1989).
View on AmazonThe Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu, trans. Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics, 2003).
View on AmazonThe Pillow Book
Sei Shōnagon, trans. Meredith McKinney (Penguin Classics, 2006).
View on AmazonThe Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Bashō, trans. Nobuyuki Yuasa (Penguin Classics).
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Narration on the channel is AI-generated text-to-speech. Sleep well.