April 16, 1981: Tears on the Kimono
A Tale of Flowering Fortunes: Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period translated with an introduction and notes by William H. McCullough, by Helen Craig McCullough
October 11, 1979: Cult of the Sword
Some Japanese Portraits by Donald Keene
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto, translated by William Scott Wilson
Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879 by Noel Perrin