Literature

日本語（Japanese）

Japanese literature / Chinese literature / Western literature

Japanese literature

Library catalogs

• RUNNERS Ritsumeikan Online Public Access Catalog　　　Hakuyoso Collection（Modern waka）
• Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature
  ＞ Books and Periodicals Search
  ＞ Special Collection Search　　　Diaries, scripts, other collections. Registration and reservation are required.
• Showa Women's University Library　　　Modern literary magazines
• The Museum of Modern Japanese Literature
• The Museum of Contemporary Japanese Poetry, Tanka, and Haiku　　　Meiji era-, literary coterie magazines
• Japanese today paper moment literary house （Kaizu City）　　　Vanity publications and literary coterie magazines
• Yamanashi Prefecture Museum of Literature

Bibliographies and indexes

• Overseas, Tale of Genji and Heian Literature Article Index
• National Institute of Japanese Literature Database
  ＞ Database of Research Thesis in Japanese Literature
  ＞ Fragmentary Manuscripts Database of Japan
• Kanbun Database （Nishogakusha University）　　　Japanese kanbun and Chinese classics published in Japan

Bibliographies of translations

• Index Translationum （UNESCO）
• noh translations　　　English translations
• premodern Japanese texts and translations　　　-1600, English translations
• Information on Japanese Children's Books Translated and Published in Foreign Languages （National Diet Library）
• Japanese Literature in Translation Search （Japan Foundation）　　　Postwar-
• Translation, Tale of Genji and Heian Literature Articles Index

Full-text databases

• J-TEXTS Digital Library of Japanese Literature
• Aozora Bunko
• "Tale of Genji" Digital Archives Links
• Database of Modern Haiku （Gendai Haiku Association）　　　Meiji era-, prize-winning works
• Cross-Referenced Search for Nichibunken Databases　　　Renga, Waka, Haikai
• JapanKnowledge Lib　　　※Subscription database for on-site use only
  ＞ The Complete Collections of Japanese Classical Literature
• Association of Haiku Poets & Museum of Haiku Literature Haiku Search　　　2010-, prize-winning works

Authors

• "Encyclopedia of Children's Literature" electronic version
• List of authors whose copyrights have expired （Aozora Bunko）
• The Museum of Modern Japanese Literature Photo Collection Search
• Haikai ; Haiku Poets of the Edo Era
• Bungakusya Soutairoku

Links etc.

• How to Look for and Find Book Reviews in Japanese (Search Guide) （National Diet Library）
• Literary Museum Database List
• Dictionary of Narrative Elements
• Yatanavi

Chinese literature

Full-text databases

• Scripta Sinica Database
• Kanseki Repositry
• Database of Tang Poetry （Zhengzhou University）
• National Taiwan Normal University Library Database of Ancient Texts

Western literature

Library catalogs ・ Bibliographies ・ Indexes

• Kodaka Nobumitsu Vintage Paperbacks　　　-Late 1960s American paperbacks, charge for reading
• Bibliographia Germanistica Japonica （National Institute of Informatics）
• Masahiro Noda Collection　　　Science fiction and fantasy literature, charge for reading

Bibliography of translations

• Index Translationum （UNESCO）
• Japanese Translaton List ameqlist

Full-text databases

• Project Gutenberg

Quotations

• Latin proverbs and locutions
• Wikiquote

Authors

• American Authors on the Web
• British and Irish Authors on the Web
• Gale's Literary Index
• Writers Directory （British Council）　　　Contemporary authors in the U.K.
• "Encyclopedia of Children's Literature" electronic version

Other

• The Internet Speculative Fiction Database　　　Science fiction, fantasy, horror
• Dictionary of Narrative Elements