REFERENCIAS GENERALES

• AA.VV., Sources of Japanese Tradition. Volume 1. From Earliest times to 1600, Columbia University Press, New York, 2001 (1958).
• AA.VV., Sources of Japanese Tradition. Volume 2 – part 1. 1600-1868, Columbia University Press, New York, 2006.
• AA.VV., Sources of Japanese Tradition. Volume 2 – part 2. 1868-2000, Columbia University Press, New York, 2001 .(1958).
• Allen, Mathew, Identity and Resistance in Okinawa, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers INC,Maryland, USA, 2002.
• Aston, W.G. (transl), Nihongi. Chronicles of Japan from the earliest times to A.D. 697, Tuttle, Vermont, Tokyo, 1993 (1972).
• Chamberlain, Basil Hall (transl.), The Kojiki, Records of ancient matters, Tuttle, Vermont, Tokyo, 1986.

BIBLIOGRAFIAS

• K.H.S. Bibliography of Standard Reference Books for Japanese Studies, Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, Tokyo, 1960.
• Kishibe, Shigeo, Ethnomusicology in Japan, Asian Culture Quarterly, Vol. VII, No. 2, Summer 1979, Taipei. p. 28-37.
• Kishibe, Shigeo, Chapter on music in K.B.S. Bibliography of Standard Reference Books for Japanese Studies with Descriptive Notes, Vol. VI (B), Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, Tokyo, 1960. p. 121-172.
• Matsushita, hitoshi (compilador), A Checklist of Published Instrumental Music by Japanese Composers, Academia Music LTD, Japan, 1989.
• Mitani, Yoko and Kishibe, Shigeo, An Annotated Catalogue of Major Record Albums and Music Books in Staff Notation of the Traditional Music of Japan, Music and the World, Magazine of the Japanese National Committee of International Music Council, No. 2, 1976. p. 17-36.
• Tsuge, Genichi, Japanese Music: An Annotated Bibliography, Garland, New York, 1986.
• Waterman, R.A., Lichtenwanger, W., Herrmann, V.H., Poleman, H.I. and Hobbs, C., Bibliography of Asiatic Music, V. Central East Asia, B, Japan, NOTES, Music Library Association, Second Series, Vol. VII, No. 2, March, 1950. P. 265-279.

REPORTES

• AA.VV., Tradition and its Future in Music: Report of SIMS 1990, Osaka, Mita Press, Japan, 1991.
• AA.VV., Musical Voices of Asia: Report of Asian Traditional Performing Arts 1978, Heibonsha Limited Publishers, Japan, 1980.

TRADICION

• Sato, Soso, Soul of Japan: Introducing Traditional Japanese Arts to the New Generations, Keio University Press, Japan, 2005.

GENERO

• AA.VV., Performing Japanese Women, número especial de Women & Performance: journal of feminist theory, Vol.12, No. 1, Issue 23, 2001.