Print version: Stalker, Nancy K., 1962- Japan : history and culture from classical to cool. Oakland, California : University of California Press, c2018 451 pages ISBN 9780520287778
Includes bibliographical references and index
Early Japan -- Forging a centralized state (550-794) -- The rule of taste : lives of Heian aristocrats (794-1185) -- The rise and rule of the warrior class (12th-15th centuries) -- Disintegration and reunification (1460s-early 1600s) -- Maintaining control : Tokugawa official culture (1603-1850s) -- Edo popular culture : the floating world (17th-19th centuries) -- Facing and embracing the West (1850s-1900s) -- Modernity and its discontents (1900s-1930s) -- Cultures of empire and war (1900s-1940s) -- Defeat and reconstruction (1945-1970s) -- "Cool" Japan as cultural superpower (1980s-2010s).