History

A database of illustrated encyclopedias published in early modern Japan. Includes Kinmōzui (1666) and other “Kinmōzui”-type encylopedias as well as books with pictorial and diagramed information.

Portraits of famous politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen, scholars and artists from the Meiji era onwards and information about them can be viewed. In addition to the person's name, you can also search by occupation, year of birth and place of birth.

The Tokyo Digital Museum is a digital catalogue of museums funded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture: Edo-Tokyo Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Museum Of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum.

The Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan (Joan Piggott et al. eds., 2006) is now searchable on the Internet. It provides basic terms with regard to Japanese Classical culture in English.

Lantern Slides of the Nippon Rikkokai provides images of lanternslides, which capture the lives of Japanese immigrants to Americas between the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

The Newspaper Clipping Collection contains clippings from Japanese newspapers between 1911 and 1970. Whilst its main focus is on economics and business issues, there are also clippings related to social, cultural, domestic, and international affairs

The Hyakugo Archives Web is an open archive that enables the public to access the Hyakugo Archives Collection, a document archive of a temple spanning from the eighth to the eighteenth century.

The Nagasaki Shipping List and Advertiser, founded in 1861, is the first English newspaper in Japan. The archive provides digitised images of the newspaper; a full text search is also available.

The Laures Rare Book Database & Virtual Library, Kirishitan Bunko, Sophia University is a catalogue and digital gallery containing the works of Jesuit and other missionaries to Japan. The Laures database has been revised from Laures’s seminal descriptive catalogue (1951, 2nd ed.).