Rein’s “Japan”; “Advance Japan” (Morris), chap. xi.; Knapp’s “Feudal and Modern Japan,” vol. ii. chaps. i.-iii.; and “Japan in History, Folk-lore and Art” (Griffis), pp. 76-91, 104-107. For special study of the language, Imbrie’s “English-Japanese Etymology,” Chamberlain’s “Hand-book of Colloquial Japanese” and “Moji no Shirube”141; Aston’s “Grammar of the Japanese Written Language”142; and Brinkley’s “Unabridged Japanese-English Dictionary.”143 On the literature, Aston’s “History of Japanese Literature,” entire; see also Chamberlain’s “Japanese Epigrams” in Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. xxx. part ii.