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• Atkins, Paul S.: Revealed Identity: The Noh Warrior Plays.
• Averbuch, Irit (1996): The Gods Come Dancing: A Study of the Japanese Ritual Dance of Yamabushi Kagura. Cornell East Asia Series.
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• Cummins, Antony (2017): Iga and Kōka Ninja Skills: The Secret Shinobi Scrolls of Chikamatsu Shigenori. History Press.
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• Cummins, Antony & Minami, Yoshie (2014): The Book of Ninja: The Bansenshukai. Watkins Publishing.
• Cummins, Antony & Minami, Yoshie (2016): Samurai War Stories: Teachings and Tales of Samurai Warfare. History Press.
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Specialist literature

• Akiba, Gengo et al. (2001): Primer for Selecting Dharma Names.
• Amyx, Jennifer A. (1997): Sankin Kotai: The Institutions and Culture of Tokugawa Rule. Stanford APARC Working Paper.
• Bottomley, Ian & Thatcher, David (2013): The Samurai Armour Glossary.
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• Kobayashi, Victor N. (1965): Moral Education in Japan: Past and Present. Comparative Education Review.
• Obayashi, Taryo (1985): Uji Society and Ie Society: From Prehistory to Medieval Times. Journal of Japanese Studies.
• O’Neill, Patrick G. (1984): Organization and Authority in the Traditional Arts. Modern Asian Studies.
• Owyoung, Steven D. & Horton, H. Mack (1989): Japanese Calligraphy: Art and Technique.
• Quinter, David (2015): From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan. Brill.
• Rhee, Song Nai (1970): Tokugawa Education: Confucian Thought and Practice.
• Sellers-Young, Barbara (1992): Tradition and the Individual Talent: Zeami’s Theory of Acting and the Iemoto System. Asian Theatre Journal.
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• Sesko, Markus (2014): Koshirae-Taikan: The Compendium of Sword Fittings.
• Wakita, Haruko & Phillips, Anne Walthall (1993): Women and the Ie Institution in Medieval and Tokugawa Japan. U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal.