Humanities Links

Useful links to websites about the humanities and general-purpose databases. For details, please check the Humanities Links Explanatory Notes.

• Click on each heading to find additional links to websites devoted to a specific area. Abridged version below.
• The * symbol indicates a database subscribed to by the National Diet Library for on-site use only, for which only the name has been posted (no link).

Search Engines (Show more)

• Bing
• Google
• Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

Library Catalogs (Show more)

In Japan

• CiNii Books
• NDL Online
• NDL Search
• WorldCat
• Keio University KOSMOS
• Tokyo Metropolitan Library
• Prefectural Public Library OPAC ・ Inter Library Loan Information
• Waseda University Library Catalog WINE

Periodicals in Japan

• Ishikawa Takeyoshi Memorial Library
• Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature
• Sanko Library
• Showa Women's University Library
• Naritasan Library for Buddhism
• The Museum of Modern Japanese Literature
• Hokkaido Prefectural Library

Worldwide

• Explore the British Library
• Hathitrust Digital Library
• KVK: Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
• Library of Congress Online Catalog
• TEL: The European Library
• WorldCat

Trade Catalogs (Show more)

In Japan

• Amazon
• Books.or.jp
• Nihon no Furuhon-ya

Worldwide

• Books in Print *
• Ulrich's web *

Catalogs of Old Japanese Books and Chinese Books (Show more)

• National Chinese Book Database
• Integrated Classical Chinese Books Database, Toyo Bunko
• Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books
• Waseda University Kotenseki Sogo Database Japanese & Chinese Classics

Full-Text and Contents Databases (Show more)

• Google Books
• NDL Online
• Aozora Bunko

Periodical Indexes (Show more)

• CiNii Research
• Fujisan.co.jp
• Google Scholar
• NDL Online
• Web OYA-bunko *
• Zassaku Plus *
• Tokyo Metropolitan Library

Newspaper Indexes (Show more)

• Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search *
• Yomidas Rekishikan *

Learning in General, Encyclopedias, and Museums (Show more)

• researchmap Researcher Search
• Wikipedia
• Kotobank
• JapanKnowledge Lib *

Library and Information Science (Show more)

• Web NDL Authorities
• Public Library Directory
• National Diet Library Classification
• Special Library Guide

Publishing and Copyrights (Show more)

• Printing Museum Library
• CRIC Library

Philosophy and Religion (Show more)

• INBUDS - Indian and Buddhist Studies treatise Database
• The SAT Daiz?ky? Text Database
• Buddhist Temple Materials Database

Japanese History, Geography, and Regional Studies (Show more)

• National Archives of Japan Digital Archive
• Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo Database
• nihu INT

Historical Digital Images (Show more)

• Professions (Shokunin) on Early Modern Japanese Pictures Database
• Visual Archive of Natural History Bibliotheca
• Colored Woodblock Print Archives

World History, Geography, and Regional Studies (Show more)

• Annual Bibliography of Oriental Studies 1934-1980, 2001-
• Annual Bibliography of Oriental Studies 1981-2000
• Toyo Bunko

People and Portraits (Show more)

• National Diet Library Digital Collections
• World Biographical Information System Online *
• Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
• National Archives of Japan Digital Archive

Architecture (Show more)

• The Construction Industry Library
• Nanyodo Web Shop
• Architectural Institute of Japan Library

Television and Radio Programs (Show more)

• TV Ratings
• Television Drama Database

Arts (Show more)

• Japanese Woodblock Print Search
• National Cultural Properties Database
• TOBUNKEN Research Collections
• Art Libraries' Consortium Cross-Search
• Cultural Heritage Database

Manga (Show more)

• Kyoto International Manga Museum
• Media Arts Database, Manga
• Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture

Photography (Show more)

• The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs
• The Mainichi Photo Bank

Music (Show more)

• Music and movie links（National Diet Library）

Dance and Theatre (Show more)

• The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum Digital Archives Collection

Motion Pictures (Show more)

• allcinema Movie & DVD Database
• Foreign Film General Situation
• Kawakita Memorial Film Institute Database
• Statistics of Film Industry in Japan

Amusement (Show more)

• Culture Station
• Media Arts Database, Video and Arcade Games

Language (Show more)

• JapanKnowledge Lib *
• Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research

Japanese Literature (Show more)

• Index translationum
• Database of Research Thesis in Japanese Literature

Foreign Literature (Show more)

• Gale's Literary Index
• Index translationum

Other NDL Links (Show more)

• AsiaLinks Link pages on Asia
• Parliamentry Documents and Official Publications Room related sites

Convenient Tools (Show more)

• Kanreki
• Convert Traditional Chinese Characters to Pinyin
• Benricho ; Interconversion System between Old Japanese Kanji and New Japanese Kanji