外國人論日本的特性的書很多，日本人都編出重要的書目了，
我想，20 世紀 外國人的日本論，或許更重要。
我們每個人或多或少有自己對日本及日本人的經驗或體會，那些都是不可或缺的，我們最好也能將它們"寫"下來。
現在做些極簡單的作者和相關書籍的掃瞄。
談"美しい日本"之兩進路：Bruno Taut 1880-1938）氏桂離宮等vs ：川端康成《日本的美與我》(3次演講)及沒後書......
民國期的人物，如周作人或魯迅等的日本論，都有其洞識力。現在只談周作人的。他的見解，可以參考《知堂回想錄》或鍾叔河編的《知堂書話、翻譯的日本書，包括石川啄木 Ishikawa Takuboku。起碼是20 世紀上半葉日本論中最好
Katsura: Imperial Villa
by Yoshiharu Matsumura, Manfred Speidel Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius, Kenzo Tange, Francesco Dal Co, Arata Isozaki：桂離宮( Katsura Rikyū )：庭園內飛石之"真・行・草" 陶特、格罗皮乌斯、柯布与桂离宫
ブルーノ・タウト（Bruno Julius Florian Taut、1880年5月4日-1938年12月24日）は、ドイツの東プロイセン・ケーニヒスベルク生まれの建築家、都市計画家
《日本美之再發現》
2位美國的日本通
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3個法國人的著作/演講，也都很有意思：
ロラン・バルト（Roland Barthes、1915年11月12日 - 1980年3月26日）は、フランスの哲学者、記号学者、批評家。高等研究実習院（École pratique des hautes études）教授、コレージュ・ド・フランス教授を歴任した。
中文本約有5種《符號帝國》，最近的近的麥田出版社2014。
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《月亮的另一面》
Gathering for the first time all of Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist's dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another. Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Levi-Strauss's early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he visited the country five times. The essays, lectures, and interviews of this volume, written between 1979 and 2001, are the product of these journeys. They investigate an astonishing range of subjects--among them Japan's founding myths, Noh and Kabuki theater, the distinctiveness of the Japanese musical scale, the artisanship of Jomon pottery, and the relationship between Japanese graphic arts and cuisine. For Levi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. Molded in the ancient past by Chinese influences, it had more recently incorporated much from Europe and the United States. But the substance of these borrowings was so carefully assimilated that Japanese culture never lost its specificity. As though viewed from the hidden side of the moon, Asia, Europe, and America all find, in Japan, images of themselves profoundly transformed. As in Levi-Strauss's classic ethnography Tristes Tropiques, this new English translation presents the voice of one of France's most public intellectuals at its most personal.
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Marguerite Yourcenar，1903—1987)
