| • | Ihara Toshio "Meiji engekishi" Waseda University Press 1933 |
| • | Imao Tetsuya "Kabuki o miru hito no tameni" Tamagawa University Press 1993 |
| • | Imao Tetsuya "Kabuki no rekishi" Iwanami Shinsho 2000 |
| • | Onoe Shoroku "Shoroku geibanashi" Kodansha Bunko 1992 |
| • | Supervised by Orita Koji "Kabuki nyumon" Tankosha 1997 |
| • | Orita Koji "Kabuki monogatari" Tankosha 1998 |
| • | Kanamori Kazuko • Yoshida Chiaki "Kabuki fashion" The Asahi Shimbun Company 1993 |
| • | Edited by Kabuki Gakkai "Kabuki no rekishi: Atarashii shiten to tembo" Yuzankaku Shuppan 1998 |
| • | Kugimachi Kumaji "Kabuki odogushi" Seidosha 1991 |
| • | Supervised by National Theatre "Kabuki no isho" Fujingahosha 1974 |
| • | Edited by Sanuki Yurindo "Jushichidai ichimura uzaemon kikigaki: Kabuki no kodogu to engi" Japan Broadcast Publishing Co., Ltd. 1983 |
| • | Shino Yotaro "Kabuki kata no densho" Engeki Shuppansha 1991 |
| • | Domoto Masaki "Kabuki buyo no kansho" Engeki Shuppansha 2002 |
| • | Edited by Torigoe Bunzo et al. "Iwanami koza: Kabuki/bunraku" Vol.1, Vol.2 Iwanami Shoten 1997 |
| • | Nakamura Ganjiro "Ganjiro geidan" Koyo-Publishing, Inc. 2000 |
| • | Edited by Nojima Jusaburo "Kabuki jimmei jiten" Nichigai Associates 2002 |
| • | Hattori Yukio "Kabuki key words" Iwanami Shinsho 1989 |
| • | Hattori Yukio "Kabuki kotobacho" Iwanami Shinsho 1999 |
| • | Edited by Hattori Yukio "Kabuki no hyogen o saguru" Engeki Shuppansha 2001 |
| • | Edited by Hattori Yukio et al. "Kabuki jiten" revised and enlarged, Heibonsha 2000 |
| • | Supervised by Hattori Yukio, written by Akasaka Chiseki "Kabuki kotoba no jiten" Kodansha 2000 |
| • | Hattori Yukio "Edo kabuki" Iwanami Dojidai Library 1993 |
| • | Hattori Yukio "Oinaru koya" Heibonsha Library 1994 |
| • | Edited by Fujita Hiroshi "Kabuki handbook" Sanseido 2006 |
| • | Fujinami Yohe "Shibai no kodogu - Soi to densho" Japan Broadcast Publishing Co., Ltd. 1974 |
| • | Furuido Hideo "Buyo techo" new edition, Shinshokan 2000 |
| • | Matsuda Seifu et al. "Kabuki no katsura" newly-revised, Engeki Shuppansha 1998 |
| • | Yamada Shoichi "Kabuki ongaku nyumon" Ongaku no tomo sha Corporation 1986 |
| • | Edited by The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University "Engeki hyakka daijiten" Heibonsha 1983 |
| • | Edited by The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University "Shibai-e ni miru edo/meiji no kabuki" Shogakuan 2003 |
| • | Watanabe Tamotsu "Kabuki" Chikuma Gakugei Bunko 1993 |
| • | Watanabe Tamotsu "Kabuki techo" new edition, Kodansha 2001 |
| • | Watanabe Tamotsu "Kabuki kata no miryoku" Kadokawa Shoten 2004 |
| • | Engekikai zokan "Kabuki meisaku buyo" Engeki Shuppansha 1991 |
| • | Engekikai zokan "Maruhon kabuki" Engeki Shuppansha 1995 |
| • | Bessatsu engekikai "Kabuki nyumon series 3: Yakusha to yakugara" Engeki Shuppansha 2002 |
| • | Bessatsu engekikai "Kabuki nyumon series 4: Dogu/isho hyakka" Engeki Shuppansha 2004 |
| • | Bessatsu engekikai "Kabuki nyumon series 5: Kabuki yogo jiten" Engeki Shuppansha 2005 |
| • | Bessatsu engekikai "Buyo meisaku jiten" newly-revised, Engeki Shuppansha |
| • | "Kabuki meisaku jiten" Engeki Shuppansha 1996 |
| • | Many items of data obtained from National Theatre performance data collection (mainly data concerning performance of works in the "Kabuki repertoire" pages) |
