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
Japanese society.
Samurai William
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
Inventing Japan
Dance of life
Zen Buddhism and its influence on Japanese culture
Sources of Japanese tradition
Understanding Japanese society
The Japanese mind
The Imjin War
Anatomy of Dependence
Japanese Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
The Making of Modern Japan
Japan
Brief History of the Samurai
The enigma of Japanese power
The Japanese chronicles
In the realm of a dying emperor
The nobility of failure
Shinsengumi
History of Japan
History of Japanese art
Shinto, the Kami way
Everyday Life in Imperial Japan