Links to references

: 熊谷デジタルミュージアム

History jpn

: 弘前大学附属図書館貴重資料

History jpn

: 熊本大学附属図書館 阿蘇家文書

History jpn

: 山口大学考古資料データベース

History jpn

: Resesarchmap

Research Societies, People, and Databases eng

Researchmap is a directory of researchers in Japan. It lists most of the researchers working at universities, national research institutions, and some private institutions. It also accepts registration from graduate students by request. At times, the directory contains duplications and out-dated information

: 東北大学附属図書館デジタルコレクション

Bibliography and Digital Libraries jpn

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Collection is a cross search gateway for the library’s digitised collections, all of which include either rare books or historical documents collections.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

: 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.

: 地域研究コンソーシアム

Research Societies, People, and Databases eng

The Japan Consortium for Area Studies consists of institutions and organisations that focus on areal studies. Its list of members (navigation links in sidebar: ‘About the Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JACS)’ » ‘Members’) can also be used as a collection of links to institutions and organisations

: CiNii

Research Societies, People, and Databases eng

CiNii is a bibliographic database service for scholarly literature published in Japan; it mainly contains post-WWII journal articles and bibliographical records from university libraries’ catalogues. CiNii is comprised of CiNii Articles and CiNii Books. Depending on the circumstances, CiNii Articles can provide full text articles (sometimes through local repositories).

: 日本思想史文献データベース検索

Research Societies, People, and Databases jpn

The Database of Japanese Intellectual History contains bibliographical information regarding Japanese intellectual history, from antiquity to the present day, published after 1965; data covers widely for example religions and ideologies. The interface can be changed into English by clicking the language link on the left hand side of the screen

: 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

: 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.