Links to references

: ミュージアム検索

General eng

: 文化デジタルライブラリー

Literature and Linguistics jpn

: 収蔵品データベース

Literature and Linguistics jpn

: WikiPedia 英語版

General eng

English Wikipedia is the world’s largest encyclopedia edited by volunteers; it includes topics related to Japan. It often provides links to specialised databases and guides for the topic in question.

: 国立国会図書館サーチ

General eng

NDL Search is a search service for National Diet Library (NDL) catalogues, which are connected to public libraries, archives, museums, and academic institutions. Results in Japanese can be translated by machine into English.

: IRDB（学術機関リポジトリデータベース）

General eng

IRDB is a database for materials stored in institutional repositories in Japan. Those that can be searched include articles published in departmental memoires and journals, dissertations and theses, and digitised rare books stored by individual institutions. This database is useful to search for materials other than articles: i.e., collections that are not provided through their own interface.

: 前近代日本語テキスト翻訳

Literature and Linguistics eng

Premodern Japanese Texts and Translations is a bibliography of Japanese literary and related works, up to the year 1600. It offers bibliographical information concerning original texts, translations in Western languages, and studies. It also offers some links to eBooks

: ちりめん本データベース

Literature and Linguistics eng

Chirimen Crepe Books Database is a digital library of translated Japanese folktales printed on Chirimen crepe paper. These materials derive from a series that was translated into Western languages, which was printed as a souvenir for Westerner tourists.

: オックスフォード上代日本語コーパス

Literature and Linguistics eng

The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese is still under development. Presently, it offers lexicon search and searchable texts of Old Japanese texts from the 7th and 8th centuries AD, most of which are verses and ritual texts. All attestations in the targeted language can be seen through the lexicon page. KWIC search will be publicly available.

: 漢字字体規範史データセット

Literature and Linguistics jpn

The Hanzi Normative Glyphs Database is organised to reveal how the forms of glyphic standards changed and spread in the Sinosphere during the medieval and early modern ages. It displays every attested form of the characters and their frequencies. Results are listed in the following order: the early Tang period, the middle Tang period, Japan, other Sinosphere areas, and dictionaries.

: 木簡画像データベース

Literature and Linguistics eng

The Wooden Tablet Character Dictionary is a compilation of Chinese characters written on wooden tablets that were unearthed in Japan. Wooden tablets were used for general purposes from early civilisation to the tenth century. Since these characters are certainly different from the modern standard, such a compilation benefits not only reading wooden tablets but also understanding of the history of Chinese characters in Japan and the Sinosphere.

: 使役交替言語地図

Literature and Linguistics eng

The World Atlas of Transitivity Pairs maps approximately fifty languages, geologically and typologically, in accordance with their pairing patterns between transitive and intransitive verbs: that is to say, whether such pairs were constructed from a derivation of either a transitive or intransitive verb.