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                | E-Library » Book Catalogue 
 Below is the full listing of reference books that are currently available in Japan Creative Centre for the public to browse (Last updated May 2013).
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                        | Project Japan: Architecture and Art Media Edo to Now | Graham, Cooper |  
                        | Kengo Kuma Recent Project | Futagawa, Yukio |  
                        | Arata Isozaki | Oshima, Ken Tadashi |  
                        | After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan | Daniell, Thomas |  
                        | Beyond The Bubble, The New Japanese Architecture | Bognar, Botond |  
                        | Tadao Ando 1, Houses & Housing | Ando, Tadao |  
                        | Tadao Ando 2, Outside Japan | Ando, Tadao |  
                        | Tadao Ando 3, Inside Japan | Ando, Tadao |  
                        | Toyo Ito Recent Project | A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co. Ltd. |  
                        | Fujimori Terunobu Architecture | Fujimori, Terunobu |  
                        | The Contemporary Tea House, Japan's Top ArchitectsRedefine a Tradition
 | Isozaki, Arata |  
                        | Super Potato Design: The Complete Works of Takashi Sugimoto | Locher, Mira |  
                        | Japan Houses | Iwatate, Marcia |  
                        | The Japanese House, In Space, Memory, and Language | Takeshi, Nakagawa |  
                        | Traditional Japanese Architecture | Locher, Mira |  
                        | The Japanese House: Architecture & Interiors | Murata, Noboru &Black Alexandra
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                        | Tokyo SkyTree Under Construction | Masashi Kuto |  |  
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                | Contemporary Arts |  
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                        | Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art? | Mori Art Museum |  
                        | Wandering and Questioning Korehiko Hino:Paintings and Drawings
 | Shanghai Art Museum |  
                        | Modern Japanese Prints: The Twentieth Century | Carnegie Museum of Art |  
                        | Keiichi Tanaami "Kochuten" | Tanaami, Keiichi |  
                        | Emotional Drawing | SOMA Museum of Art |  
                        | Yokohama Triennale 2008: Time Crevasse | Yutaka, Mikami |  
                        | 日本の现代アートをみる Nihon no Gendai A-to wo Miru | 喜多, 俊之 |  
                        | Contemporary Japanese Masters: New Bamboo | Earle, Joe |  
                        | When Lives become Form: Dialogue with the Future Brazil/Japan | Hasegawa, Yuko |  
                        | RAPT! 20 Contemporary artists from Japan I | Yasuko, Furuichi |  
                        | RAPT! 20 Contemporary artists from Japan II | Yasuko, Furuichi |  
                        | Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Fired with Passion | Lurie, Samuel J. |  
                        | Drop Dead Cute,The new generation of women artists in Japan
 | Vartanian, Ivan |  
                        | Contemporary Clay,Japanese Ceramics for the New Century
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                        | Shibori, Creating Color & Texture on Silk | Brito, Karren K. |  
                        | Hotrod 36 | Walaker, Jan |  |  
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                | Contemporary Design |  
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                        | The Way of Asian Design | NTU School of Art,Design and Media
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                        | 地場産業+デザイン (Industrial Economies & Design) | 喜多,俊之 |  
                        | Japan Design, Good Design Award Year Book 2007-2008 | Japan Industrial DesignPromotion Organisation
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                        | Japan Design, Good Design Award Year Book 2008-2009 | Japan Industrial DesignPromotion Organisation
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                        | Japanese Design | Sparke, Penny |  
                        | Designing Design | Hara, Kenya |  
                        | Wa:The Spirit of Harmony and Japanese
 Design Today
 | Kashiwagi, Hiroshi |  
                        | Design Japan, 50 Creative Years with theGood Design Awards
 | Japan Industrial DesignPromotion Organisation
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                        | Complete Collection of The G-Mark SystemThe Good Design Award for 50 Years
 | Japan Industrial DesignPromotion Organisation
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                        | Graphic Design in Japan 2007 | Shigeo Fukuda, JapanGraphic Designers
 Association Inc.
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                        | Graphic Design in Japan 2010 | Mitsuo Katsui, JapanGraphic Designers
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                        | Plastic Culture:How Japanese Toys Conquered the World
 | Phoenix, Woodrow |  
                        | The Soul of Design | Kita, Toshiyuki |  
                        | Washi and Urushi, Reinterpretation of Tradition | Kita, Toshiyuki |  
                        | Printed Matter in Fashion | Yusuke Shouno |  |  
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                | Encyclopedia |  
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                        | Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture | Buckley, Sandra |  
                        | Pictorial Encyclopedia of Japanese Life and Events | Kaneyoshi, Nakayama |  
                        | Pictorial Encyclopedia of Japanese Culture,The Soul and Heritage of Japan
 | Kaneyoshi, Nakayama |  
                        | The Otaku Encyclopedia:An Insider's Guide to the Subculture of Cool Japan
 | Galbraith, Partick W. |  |  
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                | FOOD |  
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                        | Sushi | Liley, Vicki |  
                        | Japanese Foods That Heal | Belleme, John |  
                        | The New Art of Japanese Cooking | Morimoto, Masaharu |  
                        | Yoshoku, Japanese Food Western Style | Lawson, Jane |  
                        | Washoku (Winner of The IACP Cookbook Awards) | Andoh, Elizabeth |  
                        | The Japanese Kitchen | Barber, Kimiko |  
                        | Sushi: Taste and Technique | Barber, Kimiko &Takemura, Hiroki
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                        | Yum-Yum Bento Box | Watanabe, Crystal &Ogawa Maki
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                        | Izakaya: Japanese Bar Food | Hardie Grant books |  |  
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                | General |  
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                        | Their Majesties, the Emperor and Empress of Japan | MFA, Japan |  
                        | The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture | Sugimoto, Yoshio |  
                        | Japan Style | Calza, Gian Carlo |  
                        | Japan Country Living | Katoh, Amy Sylvester |  
                        | Japan Country Living | Katoh, Amy Sylvester |  
                        | Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society | Secker, Harvill |  
                        | March was made of Yarn | Secker, Harvill |  
                        | Kanji Power! | Souun Takeda |  
                        | Japanese Children's Favorite Stories | Sakade, Florence |  
                        | Japanese Children's Favorite Stories (Book Two) | Sakade, Florence |  |  
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                | Interior Design |  
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                        | Japanese Style, Designing with Nature's Beauty | Lim, Sunamita |  
                        | Hip Dining | Nepilly, Ellen |  
                        | Hip Lounging | Nepilly, Ellen |  
                        | Japan Style (Architecture + interiors + design) | Mehta, Geeta |  
                        | JAPAN, The Art of Living | Katoh, Amy Sylvester |  
                        | Japan Home: Inspirational Design Ideas | Parramore, Lisa |  
                        | Kobori Enshu, A Tea Master's Harmonic Brilliance | Mares, Emmanuel |  
                        | Japanese Gardens: Right Angle and Natural Forms | Nitschke, Gunter |  
                        | Zen Gardens, The World of Landcapesby Shunmyo Masuno
 | Masuno, Shunmyo |  
                        | Zen Gardens vol. II, The World of Landcapesby Shunmyo Masuno
 | Masuno, Shunmyo |  
                        | Ten Landscapes - Shunmyo Masuno | Trulove, James Grayson |  |  
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                | Media & Photography |  
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                        | SHIBUYA | Nguan |  
                        | Advertising Photography in Japan 2007 | Japan AdvertisingPhotographers' Association
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                        | Advertising Photography in Japan 2008 | Japan AdvertisingPhotographers' Association
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                        | Advertising Photography in Japan 2009 | Japan AdvertisingPhotographers' Association
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                        | Japanese Cinema | Galbraith IV, Stuart |  
                        | Japanese Horror Cinema | McRoy, Jay |  
                        | Sky and Sea: Heartbeat of the EarthKumamoto a photographic collection
 | Kumamoto Prefecture |  
                        | New Cinema from Japan Magazines(Quarterly Issues)
 | UniJapan &The Japan Foundation
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                        | Voyage:View of the World by Japanese Photographers (Vol. 8)
 | Kodansha International Ltd.
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                        | Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse
 | Ingulsrud, John E/ Allen, Kate
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                        | きせつのいろ Color of the Season | Morita Toshitaka |  
                        | 日本の名景100 | Katsuhiro Yamanashi &Tomita Fumio
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                        | The Art of Osamu Tezuka, God of Manga | McCarthy, Helen |  
                        | Japan Media Arts Festival in Singapore 2008 | Singapore Art Museum |  
                        | 500 Essential Anime Movies, The Ultimate Guide | McCarthy, Helen |  
                        | Little Boy: The Art of Japan's Exploding Subculture | Murakami, Takashi |  
                        | Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics | Gravett, Paul |  |  
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                | Performance Culture |  
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                        | Japanese Plays:Classic Noh, Kyogen and Kabuki Works
 | Sadler, A.L. |  
                        | Crucible Bodies | Uchino, Tadashi |  
                        | Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage, 1780-1830 | Gerstle, C. Andrew |  
                        | Kabuki | Toshio, Kawatake |  
                        | hidden FACES, The Art of Japanese Masks | Asean CivilisationsMuseum
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                        | Stage Costumes of KABUKI | Shochiku Isho Co. Ltd |  
                        | Netsuke Masks | Bushell, Raymond |  |  
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                | Pop Culture |  
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                        | Idle Idol: The Japanese Mascot | Harrison, Edward/Harrison John
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                        | Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential:How Teenage Girls Made a Cool Nation
 | Brian Ashcraft/Shoko Ueda
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                        | Tokyo Cyberpunk:Posthumanism In Japanese Visual Culture
 | Brown, Steven T. |  
                        | Hip Hop Japan | Ian Condry |  
                        | Anime : From Akira to Howl's Moving Castle | Napier, Susan. J |  
                        | Getting Genki in Japan | Pond, Karen |  |  
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                | Sports & Martial Arts |  
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                        | BUDO The Martial Ways of Japan (Nippon Budokan)  | Nippon BukokanFoundation
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                        | Katana: The Book of Japanese Blades | Aoi, Takashi |  
                        | BUDO, Teachings of the Founder of Aikido | Ueshiba, Morihei |  |  
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                | Traditional Arts |  
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                        | Kobori Enshu, A Tea Master's Harmonic Brilliance | Mares, Emmanuel |  
                        | 美の出会い展: 大名茶人.遠州400年 (Tea Ceremony) | 小堀, 遠州 |  
                        | Beyond Golden Clouds (Japanese Screens from TheArt Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum)
 | Katz, Janice |  
                        | BURIKIJapanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American
 Automobile: The Yoku Tanaka Collection"
 | Earle, Joe |  
                        | Ikebana, The Art of Arranging Flowers | Sato, Shozo |  
                        | Japanese Prints | Fahr-Becker, Gabriele |  
                        | Japanese Paper Crafting: Create 17 Paper Craft ProjectsMake your Own Beautiful Washi Paper
 | Lafosse, Michael G. |  
                        | 红心:小堀宗慶の世界 | 小堀 , 宗慶 |  
                        | 小堀遠州 綺麗さびの極み (Tea Ceremony) | 小堀, 宗実 |  
                        | The Fine Art of Kimono Embroidery | Kusano, Shizuka |  
                        | Ukiyo-e | Calza, Gian Carlo |  
                        | Hiroshige: Prints and Drawings | Forrer, Marthi |  
                        | Japanese Textiles: In the Victoria and Albert Museum | Jackson, Anna |  
                        | Hokusai, Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e | Nagata, Seiji |  
                        | Inspired Flower Arrangement | Kawase, Toshiro |  
                        | Classic Bonsai of Japan | AUTHOR |  
                        | 遠州茶会記集成 Enryushu Chakai | 小堀, 宗以 |  
                        | The Five Rings : Miyamoto Musashi's Art of Strategy | Groff, David. K |  
                        | Legends of the Samurai | Sato, Hiroaki |  |  
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                | Travel |  
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                        | Mt. Fuji, The Wellspring of Our Faith and Arts | Shizuoka-YamanashiJoint Council for Mt. Fuji
 World Cultural Heritage
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                        | Shop Identity Series Vol. 5: Tokyo | BNN Inc. |  
                        | Ryokan: Japan's Finest Spas and Inns | Seki, Akihiko |  
                        | Seeing Kyoto | Carpenter, Juliet Winters |  
                        | Seeing Kyoto | Shoji, Kaori |  
                        | A Pictorial Journey to Japan's Cultural Treasures:The BEAUTY of JAPAN
 | Kaneyoshi, Nakayama |  
                        | JAPAN Mini Encyclopedia of Japan | Yoro, Takeshi |  
                        | Old Japan Discovered | Richie, Hiroyuki |  
                        | Japan: The Cycle of Life | John Bester, JulietCarpenter, Diane
 Durston, Patricia Massy,
 Margaret Price, Mark
 Oshima, Patricia Fister
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