Ok, so you've got a handle on the hiragana and katakana. Now it's time for their big brother, kanji. Websites like The Kanji SITE are useful for when you have access to a computer, of course, but I absolutely recommend including some form of dead-tree material in your study plans too, for those times when you're stuck on the Chuo line at 7:31am, or sat under a tree in Yoyogi Park on a Sunday afternoon.

Below you'll find a number of excellent books to structure your kanji study around, or use as reference materials, or just for entertainment. Dive on in.
Kanji Pict.O.Graphix: Over 1000 Japanese Kanji and Kana Mnemonics (Zzz)Essential Kanji: 2, 000 Basic Japanese Characters Systematically Arranged for Learning and ReferenceWrite Your Name in Kanji
Kanji Pict.O.Graphix: Over 1000 Japanese Ka...
by Michael Rowley
£10.70
This is a great book, which uses some very well-designed associative pictures (or "visual mnemonics") to help you remember kan...
Essential Kanji: 2, 000 Basic Japanese Char...
by P.G. O'Neill
£9.72
I don't actually have this one myself, but it gets very good reviews. Covering 2000 kanji, roughly equivalent to the official ...
Write Your Name in Kanji
by Nobuo Sato
£11.25
A book which lets you change your clumsy Western name into elegant Japanese kanji - with hilarious results. This can be done p...
Kanji Cards: v.ume 1Kanji Cards: v. 2 (Tuttle Flash Cards)Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary
Kanji Cards: v.ume 1
by Glen McCabe
£14.21
Making your own kanji flashcards is good for practicing stroke order, researching vocabulary and taking control of your kanji ...
Kanji Cards: v. 2 (Tuttle Flash Cards)
by Alexander Kask
£13.23
Making your own kanji flashcards is good for practicing stroke order, researching vocabulary and taking control of your kanji ...
Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary
by Jack Halpern
£15.02
My current dictionary of choice. It uses a great system called SKIP to help you look up kanji you don't recognise quickly, wit...
Let's Learn KanjiKanji and Kana: A Handbook and Dictionary of the Japanese Writing System (Tuttle Language Library)Japanese Kanji Flashcards: The Complete Set of Kanji for Levels 3 & 4 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test: 1
Let's Learn Kanji
by Joyce Yumi Mitamura
£12.51
Kanji and Kana: A Handbook and Dictionary o...
by Wolfgang Hadamitzky
£11.54
Probably most useful as a syllabus of sorts, this book takes you through the 2,000 most common kanji, giving you a solid frame...
Japanese Kanji Flashcards: The Complete Set...
by Max Hodges
£11.88
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