Links to references

: 都年中行事画帖

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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

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Ethnography and Folklore jpn

Ethnography and Folklore jpn

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Ethnography and Folklore jpn

Ethnography and Folklore jpn

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The Queer Japan Web Archive aims to preserve websites created by non-profit Japanese organizations which research, advocate for, support, and provide services to LGBTQ communities.

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: Database of Folklore Illustrations

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It contains the images of all pages of ezoshi, or illustrated story books from the Edo period in the Nichibunken collection.

: Japanese Media and Popular Culture

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: 民話研究センター 民話アーカイブ

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: 博物館アーカイブ

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: 松茂町教育委員会収集民具

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: 北方研究データベース

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: 岩手県立博物館デジタルアーカイブ

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: 写真の中の明治・大正 : 国立国会図書館所蔵写真帳から

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The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs highlights scenery from the last decade of the nineteenth century to the early decades of the twentieth century from Tokyo and Kansai. Both count 500 and 400 items, respectively. It is possible to search for photographs by maps, categories, and keywords.

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The East Asia Image Collection, Lafayette College presents digitized contemporary postcards, photographs, and slides which showcase from Japan’s colonial expansion era to occupation era, including China, Korea, Japan, and Indonesia, Colonial Taiwan, and Manchuria (it particularly highlights these last two areas).

: 日本昔話資料：稲田浩二コレクションデータベース

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The Japanese Folklore Database from the Inada Koji Collection, National Museum of Ethnology offers a summary and catalogue of the collection. The collection comprises recordings of folklores throughout the country. The database offers a catalogue and summary of each recording.

: 近代日本の身装電子年表

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Chronology of Clothing Culture in Japan: 1868–1945 highlights the changes in fashion from ethnic style to western style clothing. The collection contains data as well as images. The database can be accessed by two methods: chronology and memoirs; however, neither of these options are provided in English. The database offers a chronology of the different fashions styles, which makes it possible to understand the styles according to different time periods