Arms & armor of the samurai: the history of weaponry in ancient Japan. Bottomley, Ian. Crescent Books, 1988. 192 p.

The Art of Japanese Paper. Buisson, Dominique. Paris: Terrail, 1992.

Beyond the Tanabata Bridge: traditional Japanese textiles. Rathbun, William Jay, ed. Thames and Hudson, 1993. Folk textiles, kasuri, sashiko, etc.

The Book of Kimono. Yamanaka, Norio. Kodansha, 1986. (Shows how the kimono is put on from the skin up, how to tie obi, how to put on hakama.)

Carved Paper: the Art of the Japanese Stencil. Tai, Susan Shin-Tsu, ed. Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Weatherhill, Inc., 1998. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.

Four Centuries of fashion: classical kimono from the Kyoto National Museum Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1997. Exhibit catalogue for Feb.5-Mar23, 1997.

Fukusa: the Shojiro Nomura Fukusa Collection. Hays, Mary and Ralph. Mills College Art Gallery, 1983. ex. cat. Fukusa are special wrappings for gifts.

Geisha. Dalby, Liza Crihfield. Vintage Books, 1985. Story of Dalby's life as a geisha/anthropologist in Kyoto.

Itchiku tsujigahana: Landscape Kimonos by Itchiku Kubota. National Museum of Natural History, 1995. http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/traditio/kimonos/kimoneng.html

Japanese Costume: History and tradition. Kennedy, Alan. Greenwich Editions, 1990. Historic kimonos, Noh costumes, Kesa.

Japanese costume and the makers of its elegant tradition. Minnich, Helen Benton in collaboration with Shojiro Nomura. Rutland: C.E. Tuttle, 1963. o.p.

The Japanese Kimono. Munsterberg, Hugo. Oxford University Press, 1996.

Kesa: the elegance of Japanese monks' robes. Till, Barry and Paula Swart. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1996.

Kimono: fashioning culture. Dalby, Liza Crihfield. Yale Univ.Press, 1993. (The development of the kimono. Current use and social implications.)

The Kimono inspiration: art and art-to-wear in America. Stevens, Rebecca and Yoshiko Wada. The Textile Museum, 1996. (Discusses the influence of the Kimono on American painters and on the wearable art movement in the U.S.)

Kosode: 16-19th century textiles from the Nomura collection. Stinchecum, Amanda. Japan Society, Kodansha, 1984.

Make your own Japanese clothes: patterns and ideas for modern wear. Marshall, John. Kodansha, 1988. Includes kimono, mompei, haori, even tabi.

Mingei: Japanese Folk Art From the Brooklyn Museum Collection. Moes, Robert. Universe Books, 1985.

Mingei: Two Centuries of Japanese Folk Art. Tokyo: Japan Folk Crafts Museum, 1995. Exhibition catalogue.

Narratives in cloth: embroidered textiles from Aomori, Japan: from the collection of the Keiko Kan Museum Foundation. Milgram, Lynne. Toronto Museum for Textiles, 1993. The embroidery in the title is sashiko.

Piecework magazine Sept./Oct. 1994. Special issue devoted to indigo textiles. Several articles on traditional Japanese dying, sashiko, etc.

Riches from rags: saki-ori & other recycling traditions in Japanese rural clothing. Yoshida, Shin-ichiro and Dai Williams. San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, 1994. ex.cat.

Robes of elegance: Japanese kimonos of the 16th-20th centuries. Hayao, Ishimura. North Carolina Museum of Art, 1988.

Shibori, the inventive art of Japanese shaped resist dyeing. Wada, Yoshiko, Mary Kellogg Rice, and Jane Barton. Kodansha, c1983. (This is THE book if you have any interest in Japanese textiles or resist-dyeing of any kind.)

The Story of the Kimono. Liddell, Jill. E.P. Dutton, 1989. (One of the basics.)

Ukiyo-e: 250 years of Japanese art. Neuer, Roni [et al.] Mayflower Books, 1981. Reproductions of woodblock prints from the Edo/Tokugawa era.

When art became fashion: kosode in Edo-period Japan. Gluckman, Dale C. and Takeda, Sharon Sadako. L.A. County Museum of Art, 1992.

Japanese costume and textile arts (Kosode to No isho). Noma, Seiroku. Weatherhill/Heibonsha, 1974. (v. 16 in: Survey of Japanese Art).

Textile Art of Japan. Yang, Sunny and Narasin, Rochelle M. Shufunomoto, 1989. (Includes some modern clothing and interior designs using traditional textiles.)

Coloring book of Japan. Santa Barbara: Bellerophon Books, c1971.

Japanese girl and boy paper dolls. Allert, Kathy. Dover, 1991.

Japanese kimono paper dolls in full color. Sun, Ming-ju. Dover, 1986.

Japanese prints coloring book. Sibbett, Ed. Dover, 1982.

Kabuki costumes paper dolls. Sun, Ming-ju. Dover, 1995. 16 p.