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 (Shogakukan)
• Full-text Database of Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei （National Institute of Japanese Literature）　　　Iwanami Shoten. Available at institutions of higher education in Japan and worldwide as well as at libraries and other places.
• 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