To have a better and more helpful learning experience, please check out the recourses recommended by Prof. Bruce Coats.

☞Required readings:

1. "Yokohama: Prints from 19th c. Japan" ed. Ann Yonemura, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990
2. "Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan" by Henry D. Smith, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1988
3. "CHIKANOBU: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints" ed. Bruce Coats, Brill, 2006

☞MIT Visualizing Cultures website about Asia in the 18-20th centuries.

☞Essays and prints about Yokohama and Yokohama-e

☞Essays and prints about Kobayashi Kiyoshika's Tokyo:

1. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/kiyochika_tokyo/index.html
2. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/kiyochika_tokyo_02/index.html
3. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/kiyochika_tokyo_03/index.html

​☞Essays and prints about the "Westernization" of Japan:

1. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/throwing_off_asia_01/index.html
2. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/throwing_off_asia_02/index.html
3. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/throwing_off_asia_03/index.html ​

​☞Reviews of "CHIKANOBU: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints"​​​​​​​​​

1. http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1006#.Yw2cSuzMKi4
2. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/22artswe.html​