A list for some reading on the Edo Period, and related stories.
created by lichen
last updated October, 2025
Japanese Tales
Royall Tyler
Legends of the Samurai
Hiroaki Sato
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
Miyamoto Musashi
Lady Snowblood, Vol 1: The Deep-Seated Grudge, Part 1
Kazuo Koike
The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800
Brett L. Walker
Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns
Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan
Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850
Karl F. Friday
The Tokugawa World (Routledge Worlds)
Gary P. Leupp
Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615-1868
Christine Guth
Vagabond, Vol. 1
Takehiko Inoue
Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
Taiko
Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan
Mikiso Hane
Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868
Matsunosuke Nishiyama
Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan
Rebecca Corbett
Sengoku Jidai. Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu: Three Unifiers of Japan
Danny Chaplin
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Matsuo BashĹŤ
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
Katsu Kokichi
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