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On this page: Arts | Biographical
Information | Business
| Economics | Ethnic Studies
| Finances | Foreign
Relations | Geography | History
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Law | Language | Literature
| Media | Politics
| Religions | Science & Technology
This list includes subscription-based databases. Click on when you access those databases outside the library.
Arts
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Art Libraries' Consortium
Search for an item in major art museum libraries in Japan.
- Artstor online database
A digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art,
architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view,
present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.Includes many Japanese arts.
- Bunka Geino Database 文化芸能データベース (Japan Arts Council)
Searchable databases for images, catalogs of Japanese performing arts.
Bunkazai Online 文化財オンライン
Japan's Agency of Cultural Affairs' database via NII. Searchable database of images of cultural objects (Japanese only)
- NCC Japan Art Catalog Project via the Sackler/Freer Gallary
Contains Japanese exhibits catalogs through the Exchange Program (JAC) between the NCC and the National Art Center.
- The Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts
The site is produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Kodansha International Ltd., which is responsible for the contents of the site. Many aspects of Japanese arts in English.
- The University Museum, The University of Tokyo
Databases for publications of The University of Tokyo: Online versions of the University Museum publications.
- Databases for Art publications 東京大学総合研究博物館
明治、大正、昭和初期の美術雑誌検索データベース Allows to browse the table of contents of the following art journals: 方寸(1巻1号-5巻3号)、現代の洋画(1-27)、美術園(1-13)、東洋美術(1-20)、みづゑ(No.1、7月号ーNo. 250、12月号)
- Ukiyoe Gazo Links 浮世絵画像リンク集
Many links related to Japanese woodblock prints.
- Nihon no Bijutsu
Translation of titles of each issue created by Ohio State University
Biographical Information
Bibliography
Dictionaries
Descriptions of individuals
- Kinsei Kijinden: sei, zoku (近世畸人伝 正・続 English
/ Japanese)
Nichibunken's database provides digitized full text and prints of
Kinsei kijinden (EAST DS872.A1 K553 & EAST DS871.75 .B36 1979 )
biographical information of people during the Tokugawa (Edo) period.
- Online
Jinmei Jiten (オンライン人名辞典)
Koseisha, a publisher, compiled a list
of links to an individual biographical information. It includes both
Japanese and non-Japanese people.
- Writers
from Japan (English)
Collection of English language sites of
Japanese women writers.
- Shibusawa Ei'ichi Denki Shiryo (渋沢栄一伝記資料)
Biographical information of Ei'ichi Shibusawa
Portraits (肖像画)
- Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures ( English
/ Japanese )
The NDL site provides two hundred statesmen, government officials,
military officers, businessmen, and others who had an impact on building
modern Japanese society. Can search by category and Japanese alphabetical
order.
- Tokyo
Daigaku Shiryo Hensanjo Database (東京大学史料編纂所)Needs to log in
(free). Click on "肖像情報データベース."
Family Crests (家紋)
- Kamon World
(家紋World)
Many images of Japanese family crests and brief descriptions.
- Okinawa no Kamon
(沖縄の家紋)
Family crests unique in Okinawa.
Business
Economics
Ethnic Studies
Finances
Foreign Relations
Geography
- Japan Knowledge
Japanese language world encyclopedia, dictionaries, online books, maps & more.
- Japanese Historical Geographical Dictionary (Nihon Rekishi Chiri Taikei 日本歴史地理大系)
via Japan Knowledge
Japanese language historical geography & maps. Search by keyword.
- Japan Atlas
- Japanese Historical
Maps
UC Berkeley's Japanese historical map images. The database
can be searched by county, province, author, keywords, & data fields.
- Geographical
Survey Institute of Japan 国土地理院
- National
Archives of Japan Digital Archives 国立公文書館国図高精細画像
Historical maps images and descriptions. Needs to install plugins to view maps.
- Korean
Cities & Counties 韓国・北朝鮮の市郡名
List of Korean cities and counties
with Japanese transcription.
- Journal of Geography 地学雑誌
- Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era: via University of British Columbia Library
- Historical GIS map of the Kanto Plain : includes downloadable GIS data useful for understanding the transformation of the Kanto Plain (Tokyo, Yokohama, etc.) from a predominantly rural area to its present, densely-populated state. Japanese only.
History
Law
Language
- Dialects in Japan
(ふるさと日本のことば)
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.) site. Provides dialects
by clicking a prefecture on the map. Some contain audio samples (need
to download free "Real Player" software available at site).
Literature
- Toyo Bunko (東洋文庫) via Japan Knowledge
Online book of Heibonsha's Toyo Bunko. Can search within the Toyo Bunko database.
- Heian Jinbutsu shi Tanzakucho (平安人物志短冊帖 English
/ Japanese)
Nichibunken's database is a collection of rectangular cards (tanzaku)
on which poems were written by persons whose names appear in the Heian
jinbutsu shi.
Media
Politics
Religions
Science and Technology

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