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Sources
This is where I list the books and websites I've looked at to write whatever I have on painting. I'll be honest about my opinion about the sources, but don't take a lack of a review as meaning anything. It might just mean that I read the book long ago and have only glanced back at a few pages recently, so can't say anything meaningful. There will be a link to any websites referenced, but I'll offer book links to either Amazon so that you can buy the book if you so wish, or to a review page here, or both if possible. If there is no Amazon link, I couldn't find it on Amazon when I put the entry in here - that doesn't mean it's unavailable now. (And no special endorsement of Amazon is implied by this.)
The Art of Twentieth-Century Zen by Audrey Yoshiko Seo with Stephen Addiss (review) (buy it)
The Art of Zen by Stephen Addiss (review) (can't find it on Amazon)
Of Water and Ink: Muromachi-Period Paintings from Japan 1392-1568 by Watanabe Akiyoshi, Kanazawa Hiroshi & Paul Varley (review) (buy it)
Zen Painting: Brushmarks of Infinity by Yasuichi Awakawa (review) (buy it)
100 Views Of Mount Fuji by Timothy Clark (review) (buy it)
The Art and Culture of Japan by Nelly Delay (review) (buy it)
The Art Of East Asia ed by Gabriele Fahr-Becker (review) (buy it)
Japanese Art Of The Edo Period by Christine Guth (review) (buy it)
Japanese Colour Prints by J. Hillier (review) (buy it)
Japanese Painting by Theo Lesoualc'h (review) (buy it)
Great Works Of Japanese Graphic Art by Douglas Mannering (buy it)
Sesshu by Tanio Nakamura and Elise Grilli (review) (seems not to be available to buy at present)
Playfulness in Japanese Art by Nobuo Tsuji (review) (seems not to be available to buy at present)
The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi by William Scott Wilson (review) (buy it)
Japanese Art by Joan Stanley-Baker (*BUY THIS FIRST!!!*) (review) (buy it)
Nanga by Joan Stanley-Baker (review) (can't find it on Amazon)
A tremendous site on ukiyo-e by John Fiorillo, good on artistic matters, absolutely magnificent, the best I've seen anywhere, on technical questions of print-making.