日本史：從神話到民族/參考文獻
如果你只是想了解更多日本歷史，這裡有一些不錯的書籍。為了進一步閱讀，維基百科上有一些不錯的文章，可能值得一看。如果你對日本歷史很感興趣，或者只是想學習另一種語言，這裡有一些不錯的日語課程這裡。瞭解漢字的含義可能就值得了，這樣你就可以從地名等地方得到一些字面意思。為了進一步閱讀，我還建議你訪問華夏公益教科書上的一些其他書籍，這些書籍與本書略有重疊，例如關於第二次世界大戰的書籍，它對日本在更廣泛的主題中歷史上的地位有更多背景資訊。
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關於平安時代的英文資料出奇地少。大多數重要的文學作品已被翻譯，可以作為了解貴族生活的切入點。早期平安時代資料尤其匱乏，主要是因為史料稀少，留給歷史學家研究的東西很少。在平安中期以後，日記和其他非官方文字開始出現，但這些內容只出現在這裡涵蓋的時間段的末期。對於早期平安時代，幾乎所有內容都依賴於從現存的官方記錄中獲取資訊。
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