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References: One family's photographs 1941-66
Primary Sources (excluding the albums)
Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office. "Percentage of Households Possesing Major Durable Goods—All Japan (1959-2004)."
Masuda, Matsuki. Katei Shashin Ju-Ni Ka Getsu [12 months of the family photograph]. Tokyo: Genkosha, 1953.
Yoshioka, Senzō. "Mama No Kamera Kyōshitsu (1): Pinboke De Mo Kamawanai." Yoiko, July 1962, 74–75.
Secondary Sources
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Darnton, Robert. The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History. New York: Basic Books, 1984.
Dasgupta, Romit. Re-Reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012.
Edwards, Elizabeth. "Photographs and the Sound of History." Visual Anthropology Review 21, no. 1 & 2 (2006): 27–46.
Edwards, Elizabeth and Janice Hart eds., Photographs Objects Histories: On the Materiality of Images. Routledge, 2004.
Leheny, David. "'By Other Means': Tourism and Leisure as Politics in Pre-War Japan." Social Science Japan Journal 3, no. 2 (October 2000): 171–86.
McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. London & New York: Routledge, 1995.
Plath, David W. "My-Car-Isma: Motorizing the Showa Self." Daedalus 119, no. 3 (Summer 1990): 229-44.
Ross, Kerry. Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.
Sandbye, Mette. "Looking at the Family Photo Album: A Resumed Theoretical Discussion of Why and How." Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, no. 6 (2014).
Thomas, Julia. "Power Made Visible: Photography and Postwar Japan's Elusive Reality." Journal of Asian Studies 67, no. 2 (May 2008): 365–94.