Links to references

: WDL

Bibliography and Digital Libraries eng

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materials mainly from the pre-modern period such as: maps, Buddhist canons, fine arts, literature, natural history, and historical documents.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

Bibliography and Digital Libraries eng

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

Bibliography and Digital Libraries eng

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

Bibliography and Digital Libraries eng

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

Bibliography and Digital Libraries jpn

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

: The Hyakugo Archives WEB

History eng

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 archive includes documents pertaining to the daily operations of the temple as well as lawsuits and bequests.

History eng

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.

: ラウレスキリシタン文庫データベース

Religious Studies, History eng

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.). On the other hand Virtual Library displays rare materials belonging to the university’s Kirishitan Bunko collection.

: 幕末・明治期古写真メタデータベース

History jpn