Links to references

: 鹿児島大学デジタルコレクション

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: 京都外国語大学附属図書館 京都外国語短期大学附属図書館 貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

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: 貴重書デジタルアーカイブズ, 神戸市立中央図書館

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: 京都外国語大学附属図書館 京都外国語短期大学附属図書館 デジタル展示会～世界と日本～

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: 熊本大学附属図書館 貴重資料展

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: 京都外国語大学附属図書館 京都外国語短期大学附属図書館

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: 富山大学 ヘルン文庫

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: 岡山大学池田文庫絵図公開データベース

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: 佐賀大学附属図書館 貴重書コレクション

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: 東北大学附属図書館デジタルコレクション

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The Tohoku University Library Digital Collection is a cross search gateway for the library’s digitised collections, all of which include either rare books or historical documents collections. A description of each database is provided on the ‘Database list’ page

: WDL

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The World Digital Library is a collaborative project aiming to provide primary materials from all countries and cultures. In terms of Japanese materials, this library offers materials mainly from the pre-modern period such as: maps, Buddhist canons, fine arts, literature, natural history, and historical documents. The main contributors are Library of Congress (US) and the National Diet Library of Japan

: 慶應義塾大学メディアセンターデジタルコレクション

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The Digital Collection features high-resolution images of our special collections. In addition to the images of Yukichi Fukuzawa's works and the incunabula collection that were previously available, the new site will feature the entire the Gutenberg 42-line Bible and the Nara Ehon and Emaki collection. Also, Seiichiro Takahashi's Ukiyo-e collection can now be viewed in high resolution.

: デジタルシルクロードプロジェクト

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The Digital Silk Road Project, a joint project of Toyo Bunko and the National Institute of Informatics, is a project aiming to digitise materials connected to the Silk Road. The materials are from the holdings of Toyo Bunko, and in particular from the Morrison Collection, a large collection focused on Asian studies. It includes expedition records, academic studies, historical records, photographs, and maps. It also provides full-text searching

: アラビア語舄本ダイバーズコレクションデータベース

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The Daiber Collection Database is a collection of Arabic manuscripts on Islam collected by Professor Hans Daiber. This database offers a description of each manuscript and image. Images of each manuscript can be seen by clicking ‘画像’ next to the number of the manuscript in question.

: 漢籍善本全映像資料庫

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The Digital Library of Classical Chinese Materials, Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, provides descriptions and digitised images of 4630 rare Classical Chinese works of the institute holdings (as of March 2009). Only the first page of materials is offered in colour

: 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

: 日本災害DIGITALアーカイブ

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The Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters, run by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, focuses on preserving and sharing the memory of the disasters. It collects online records, blog articles, messages on twitter, and multimedia works connected to the disaster.