1. John Clammer, Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption. (Oxford, 1997).
2. As famously described by Neil McKendrick in his seminal paper, “The Consumer Revolution of Eighteenth-Century England,” in The Birth of a Consumer Society., ed. Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, and J. H. Plumb (London, 1982), 9–33.
3. Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. (Princeton, NJ, 2000), especially chap. 3.
4. Penelope Francks, The Japanese Consumer: An Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan. (Cambridge, UK, 2009).
5. Constantine Vaporis, “To Edo and Back: Alternate Attendance and Japanese Culture in the Early Modern Period,” Journal of Japanese Studies. 23 (1997): 25–68.