Provides enhanced search functionality for the complete Aozora Bunko collection (青空文庫). It has been developed together with University of Chicago's ARTFL project. (Professor Hoyt Long)
Comprehensive archives of digitized materials (rare books, periodicals, dramatic scripts, etc.). (Now incorporated the Digital Library from the Meiji Era (NDL) 近代デジタルライブラリー 国立国会図書館)
Japan Arts Council's digital archive of resources pertinent to Japanese traditional performing arts. Includes records of performances 1979-present. Also available: actors' portraits (mainly from the 1930s and 1940s); about 500 bunraku bantsuke 文楽番付 [rankings of puppet plays] (Meiji 24 [1891]- Shōwa 34[1959]); Shibai-kinmō-zui 戯場訓蒙図彙 (1803) in full-text form; nishiki-es and noh-related paintings, and more. In Japanese only.
"The East Asia Image Collection (EAIC) is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, rare books and slides under the general editorship of Paul D. Barclay, Associate Professor of History, Lafayette College and the direction of Eric Luhrs, Director of Digital Scholarship Services, Lafayette College Library. The EAIC documents the history of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52). Images of Taiwan 台湾, Japan 日本, China 中国, Korea 朝鮮, Manchuria 満洲国, and Indonesia are included."
"The collection comprises 50-60 woodblock-printed books and manuscripts ranging from practical manuals and pattern books produced by textile manufacturers and merchants in the 17th and 18th centuries to lavish design books from the early 20th century."
It consists of over 1,000 postcards that were created before 1945. This project digitized over 800 postcards and envelopes, which were all produced in Japan.
It consists of 344 postcards, bromides, and prints that were created before WWII. Most of the postcards were created in Japan along with some made in Hawai'i, China, and Taiwan (Formosa).
"The Japanese Censorship Collection contains 1,327 marked-up copies of censored monographs and galley proofs for approximately 1,100 titles, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s." Circa 260 items are available online.
Edward Sylvester Morse Papers were given to the Peabody Museum in 1926 and consist of 99 boxes of personal and professional papers including diaries, correspondence, research files, drawings, lecture notes, publications, scrapbooks and manuscripts. Collection digitized in its entirety. Papers (ca. 1858-1925, 40 cubic feet), document the numerous and valuable contributions made by Morse to the areas of malacology, zoology, ethnology, archaeology and art history. Included are diaries, scrapbooks, correspondence, research files, drawings, manuscripts, publications and teaching materials and drawings.
Edward Sylvester Morse Papers were given to the Peabody Museum in 1926 and consist of 99 boxes of personal and professional papers including diaries, correspondence, research files, drawings, lecture notes, publications, scrapbooks and manuscripts. Collection digitized in its entirety. Papers (ca. 1858-1925, 40 cubic feet), document the numerous and valuable contributions made by Morse to the areas of malacology, zoology, ethnology, archaeology and art history. Included are diaries, scrapbooks, correspondence, research files, drawings, manuscripts, publications and teaching materials and drawings
East India Company offers access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947. Our library has access to the following modules: Module 1: Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1947; Module 3: Factory Records for China, Japan and the Middle East; and Module 4: Correspondence: Early Voyages, Formation and Conflict.
East India Company offers access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947. Our library has access to the following modules: Module 1: Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1947; Module II: Factory Records for South Asia and Southeast Asia, 1595-1830; Module 3: Factory Records for China, Japan and the Middle East; and Module 4: Correspondence: Early Voyages, Formation and Conflict.
This collection consists of two major components. One is the digitized version of the original personal papers of Satow and the other is transcripts, recently-made, for all the Satow's diaries and travel journals.
This collection consists of two major components. One is the digitized version of the original personal papers of Satow and the other is transcripts, recently-made, for all the Satow's diaries and travel journals.
Online Archives of Ukiyoe and Other Visual Materials
"The East Asia Image Collection is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52). Images of Taiwan 台湾, Japan 日本, China 中国, Korea 朝鮮, Manchuria 満洲国, and Indonesia are included."
The public library/museum of the Chuo ward in Tokyo, Japan. Click (おすすめ資料一覧) to go directly to the site for digitized visual materials (496 items; in Japanese only).