Links to references

: 都年中行事画帖

Ethnography and Folklore jpn

Kyoto Festivals and Customs consists of a two-volume album of hand paintings that depict Kyoto’s annual festivals and customs during the pre-WWII era. Each painting accompanies a detailed description of the subject. While it has no interface in English, the ‘画帖一覧’ link brings you to the thumbnails of the images

Maps and Geology eng

Maps of Japan from the Collection of Sir Hugh and Lady Cortazzi, now on loan to the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, is a unique and rare collection of old Japanese maps that integrate both European and Japanese perspectives on Japan from the early sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Areas of maps range from the Japanese islands to a map of a local city. It is not known how much of the collection is digitised.

General eng

nihuBridge is a unified interface to databases and resources of the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU), which comprises six national humanities institutes, and some cooperated institutions. This interface enables one to find humanities materials offered by the institutions. It also provides a description of each database in English, even when that database has no interface in English.

History, General jpn

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.

Maps and Geology jpn

Contains information on the whereabouts of old maps, mainly urban maps made in early modern Japan. Images attached for maps in the Nichibunken collection.

Arts and Crafts, General jpn

General jpn

Japanese Multi-Volume Sets Discoverability Improvement

: Hinagiku National Diet Library Great East Japan Earthquake Archive

General, History General

Ethnography and Folklore jpn

Ethnography and Folklore jpn

Ethnography and Folklore jpn

Ethnography and Folklore jpn

Ethnography and Folklore jpn

Ethnography and Folklore jpn

Maps and Geology jpn

Several variations of Japanes maps (standard, photo, dissaster etc.)

: Japanese Map Warper

Maps and Geology jpn

Maps and Geology eng

Maps and Geology jpn

General jpn

Maps and Geology jpn