What to Read After Japanese Culture
Readers who loved Japanese Culture by H. Paul Varley keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Japanese Culture is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Japanese Culture
The Japanese mind
Sources of Japanese tradition
Samurai William
Inventing Japan
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
Zen Buddhism and its influence on Japanese culture
Understanding Japanese society
Japanese Society.
Dance of life
The enigma of Japanese power
Brief History of the Samurai
The Anatomy of Dependence
Japan
The Making of Modern Japan
Japanese Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
The Imjin War
History of Japanese art
Shinsengumi
Miyamoto Musashi
Shinto
The Japanese chronicles
Everyday Life in Imperial Japan
Shinto, the Kami way
In the Realm of a Dying Emperor