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- AATA Online (Abstracts of International Conservation Literature) - "Comprehensive database of over 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage" created by the Getty Conservation Institute. A simple search for kimono, for example, retrieves 21 results, including Shifu, a unique cloth from Japan by Susan Byrd, Ornament 12, no. 2 (1988 Winter), pp. 66-71. There is a list of Journals Covered. Use G5 as the General Category Code (Textiles, fibers and dyes). Fashion-related index terms to search for include textiles, costume, stitching, silk, cotton, wool, weaving, cloth, embroidery, tapestries, shoes, footwear, leather.
- AJR NewsLink: Japan Newspapers - American Journalism Review provides links to over 20 Japanese newspapers, most available in Japanese only.
- American Bamboo Society
- Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Japan
- Art History Resources: Japanese Art - Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College.
- Art of Japan - Created by Chris McFall, Ben Meyers, and Andrew Miller of Palo Alto, California for the ThinkQuest conference and Internet Challenge.
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art - Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Freer Gallery of Art Library - One of the finest Asian art libraries in the United States, has a searchable online catalog and Finding Aids for the Archives
- Collections: Japanese Art
- Podcasts - Curator Ann Yonemura lectures on Hokusai (28 minutes) and James Ulak interviewing artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto (40 minutes). See also Hiroshi Sugimoto
- Patterned Feathers Piercing Eyes: Edo Masters from the Price Collection - November 10, 2007–April 13, 2008.
- Contemporary Japanese Porcelain
- Japanese Screens
- Noguchi Interactive
- Asahi Shimbun - One of Japan's largest daily newspapers.
- Asia Society - New York organization has a number of useful resources for the study of Japanese culture including A Reader's Guide to the Arts of Japan, "an annotated bibliography of publications on Japanese art with more than 450 entries". Among the online exhibitions are The New Way of Tea, Bamboo Masterworks: Japanese Baskets from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection and More than Meets the Eye: Japanese Art in the Asia Society Collection.
- Asian Historical Architecture: Japan
- Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting Abstracts - Included are the Japan abstracts from 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, and 1995.
- Association of Teachers of Japanese
- Atomic Bomb Decision - Gene Dannen's site, subtitled Documents on the decision to use atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, provides full-text documents from the U.S. National Archives.
- Basic Terms of Shinto - Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
- Basketmaker in Rural Japan - Columbus Museum of Art. With Site Index.
- Bloomberg News: Japan
- British Library
- British Museum - You can Search the Collection
- Japanese Swords
- Japanese Galleries
- Bushido Online - Online encyclopedia of martial arts created and maintained by Marco Benedetti.
- Castles of Japan - Takashi Toyooka
- Center for Japanese Studies - University of Michigan.
- Ceramics with Wabi - Images of ceramics accompanied by explanatory text by Douglas M. Hooten.
- Chado, the Way of Tea - Kimiko Gunji.
- College Art Association Reviews: Japanese/Korean Art - Titles added within the past twelve months
- Concentration Camp or Summer Camp? - Robert Ito, Mojo Wire, 15 September 1998.
- Contemporary Papers on Japanese Religion - Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
- Cornell University Teahouse Project
- Costume Institute - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Among their past exhibitions:
- A Notable Acquitiion of Japanese Textiles of the Edo Period (1615-1868)
- Council of Fashion Designers, Tokyo
- Daily Life in Japanese High Schools - Eric Digest 406301, October 1996, by Marcia L. Johnson and Jeffrey R. Johnson.
- Daily Yomiuri - English-language version of the newspaper with the highest circulation in Japan.
- Diary of Lady Sarashina (1009-1059) - Full-text provided by the Hanover Historical Texts Project
- Documents of Iriki - Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo
- Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture - Columbia University
- Earthquake Research Institute - University of Tokyo server provides a page on Current Eruptions in Japan.
- Edo Japan, A Virtual Tour - "U.S.-Japan Links is a collaborative electronic media project of the 35+ Japan-America and Japan Societies across the United States through the auspices of the National Association of Japan-America Societies."
- Embassy of Japan - Washington, D.C.
- Embassy of Japan in the UK
- Emerging from Absence: An Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse
- David Ewick, Chuo University
- Encyclopedia Mythica - Has a section on Japanese Mythology.
- European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
- European Bamboo Society
- Experimental Station for Landscape Plants - Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo. Also known as the Kemigawa Ryokuchi Experimental Station. Images include:
- Camellia Photographs
- Camellia with striped petals
- List of major [Lotus] hortivarieties with pictures
- Famous Japanese - T. Robb
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Imagebase has over 110,000 online images including 3,000 Japanese prints. A search, for example, for Higoshige, retrieves nearly 500 images.
- Fukuoka Art Museum
- Tea bowl, Song dynasty, 960–1279; Jian ware - Fujian Province, China
- Ghibli Museum - Tokyo. Dedicated to the work of Hayao Miyazaki. There is a Hayao Miyazaki Web. In The Auteur of Anime: A Visit with the elusive genius Hayao Miyazaki, by Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, January 17, 2006, the author describes My Neighbor Tororo as "one of the loveliest children's films ever made". The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki by Dani Cavallaro is described by a reviewer (Choice, February 2007) as "ambitious, thorough, knowledgeable, elaborate and enthusiastic."
Miyazaki's films include:
- Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
- Castle in the Sky (1986)
- My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
- Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
- Porco Rosso (1992)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
- Haiku by Basho - Part of the "Asian Topics" series of Columbia University, information on how to write and interpret haiku, with images, audio and video. (See also World Haiku Club which offers contemporary haiku.)
- Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden - North Salem, New York
- Hara Museum of Contemporary Art - Tokyo
- Harvard University Institute of Politics
- Japan's Future: A Setting Sun? - April 3, 2001
- Heian Bussho - " Workshop of the master Buddhist sculptor Sohei Eri and his sculptor son Kokei Eri, and Kokei's wife Sayoko, a kirigane master."
- Himeji Castle (Himeji-jo) - Virtual tour of the finest surviving example of 16th-century Japanese castle architecture.
- Historical Society of Pennyslvania - Philadelphia. It has recently merged with the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, one of the leading collections in the country in the field of immigrant and ethnic studies history. There is an online exhibition on the Japanese American Experience. Provides access to three online catalogs.
- Holy Mountain Trading Company - Information on Asian teapots, rare teas, jade, water fountains, tea gardens and many other related subjects.
- Homage to Nature: Landscape Kimonos of Itchiku Kubota - Selected kimonos representative of Itchiku Tsujigahana. An exhibition from the Itchiku Tsujigahana Co., with the sponsorship of the Sasakawa Foundation (now the Nippon Foundation) at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
- Horagai Japanese Literature Home Page - Kato Koiti. (Horagai is a large shell and is a traditional instrument in Japan.)
- Ikebana International
- Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art
- Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics - Located at Kokugakuin University, their research includes "Religious Studies, Shinto Studies, and Folklore, it also covers a wide spectrum of areas pertaining to Japanese culture, including among others the history of jurisprudence, literature, and archeology." An example of their publications is Religious Space in the Village As Seen through Festival and Legend: An Example from Mukagata, Tenryû Village, Shimoina-Gun, Nagano Prefecture."
- Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies - Columbia University. "International liaison and research center designed primarily to serve European and American scholars in all disciplines whose main area of study focuses on pre-Meiji era Japan."
- International Association of Japanese Gardens
- International Netsuke Society
- Internet Movie Database - Provides a Country Browser: Japan which contains information on over 2000 movies and TV series from Japan. Once you've located a film title, you may find a review in MRQE Movie Review Query Engine).
- Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum - Museum in Long Island City, New York provides extensive information on Noguchi's life and work. There is a Bibliography of Writings by and about Isamu Noguchi.
- JGarden: the Japanese Garden Database - Robert Cheetham
- JP Net: Japanese Language and Culture Network - MIT site provides information on the kimono, holidays, language and other aspects of Japanese culture. There are also Language Study Materials.
- J-Guide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources - "Topically arranged directory of online information resources in and about Japan, with focus on resources about Japan in the English language."
- Japan Architect - Provides access to back issues of Architecture and Urbanism and Japan Architect.
- Japan Atlas
- Japan Book Publishers Association - Has an English Page. See also Tokyo International Book Fair.
- Japan Documentation Center - Part of the Library of Congress Asian Division, the Center's collection of 5,000 items includes "source materials in fields such as economics, commerce and industry, law, politics, the environment, and social conditions" searchable via a Bibliographic Database.
- Japan File - "English-language information service which makes Japan more comprehensible to the rest of the world."
- Japan Foundation - Has an English page, an Information Center Library, a Performing Arts Network, and a calendar of NYC Japanese Film Screenings.
- Japan House - College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization
- Japan Information Access Project - "Washington, DC-based, independent, nonprofit research center to strengthen international understanding of Japanese science, technology, industry, security, and policy." Offers special reports, an excellent collection of links to Japan related sites, and information on previous and upcoming events.
- Japan Journal - "Monthly magazine published in English-, Chinese-, and Spanish-language editions."
- Japan Maps - From the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Japan, my Japan! - Mitsuharu Matsuoka.
- Japan National Tourist Organization
- Japan Society - New York.
- Japan Times
- Japan - United States Friendship Commission - "Independent federal agency that provides support for training and information to help prepare Americans to better meet the challenges and opportunities in the US-Japan relationship through grant programs for institutions in the following areas:
- Japanese studies in the United States
- public affairs and education
- the study of the United States in Japan
- the arts
- Japan Window
- Japan Yellow Pages
- Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project - "Enhanced access to the UW [University of Washington] Libraries holdings on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Included in the project is a virtual exhibit focusing on the Puyallup assembly center, Camp Harmony, and enhanced access to archival guides and inventories." (Photographs, documents, book extracts, correspondence, drawings and newsletters.)
- Japanese American National Museum - Los Angeles
- Japanese and Comparative Literature - Michael Watson, Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama.
- Japanese Fine Prints - "300 prints and a few drawings 1688-1915. Primarily woodcuts depicting actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, English and European visitors." In the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. The collection is searchable or browsable (select Preview: All the Images to see thumbnails).
- Japanese Garden - Clifton Olds, Professor of Art History Emeritus, Bowdoin College
- Japanese Historical Maps - University of California, Berkeley
- Japanese Journal Information Web - Searchable Union List of Japanese serials and newspapers consisting of nearly 6,000 titles held by 23 libraries or available on the WWW. Developed by The Ohio State University Libraries Japanese Collection for the AAU/ARL/NCC Japanese Journal Access Project. Provides links to Major Sources for Japanese Tables of Contents.
- Japanese Journal of Religious Studies - Nanzan Institute. Volumes 1-34 (1974 to 2007) are available online.
- Japan Library Association
- Japanese Old Photographs of the Bakamatsu-Meiji Period - Nagasaki University Library
- Japanese Patent Office
- Japanese Policy Research Institute (JPRI) - Provides access to publications.
- Japanese Pottery Information Center (e-yakimono.net) - With Site Map. Highlights include Photo Tours, a Guidebook which contains 200 images of styles, clays, kilns, glazes, and techniques and a Who's Who of artists, experts and exhibitions, some of which are stories by Robert Yellin from the Japan Times.
- Japanese Studies - Duke University Libraries
- Japanese Text Initiative - A collaborative effort of the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library to make texts of classical Japanese literature available online. Includes a section on Noh Plays.
- Japanese Traditional Pottery - An exhibition organized and circulated by The Japan Foundation through the International Exhibitions section of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
- Jasper's Origami Menagerie - John Paulsen's site also has origami diagrams.
- Jeffrey's Japanese - English Dictionary - Jeffrey Friedl.
- Joseph Wu's Origami Page
- Kamakura Print Collection - Prints and Etchings of scenes in Kamakura, Japan by Peter Miller.
- Kanazawa Kutani-ware
- Kanji Alive - "Free online tool for learning to read and write Kanji."
- Kansai Digital Archives
- Karakuri: Japanese Mechanical Puppets - Central Japan Network.
- Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations)
- Kimonos of Japan - Lonely Planet video (02:29 minutes)
- Kinokuniya Company Ltd. - Bookstores with a wide range of Japanese and foreign books. With links to Stores. You can search for books in English.
- Kisho Kurokawa - Tokyo architecture firm.
- Kunihiko Moriguchi - "Kunihiko Moriguchi is one of Japan's preeminent kimono painters....the likeliest client for one of his unique creations (which cost between forty thousand and eight thousand dollars) isn't a geisha or a rich man's wife but a self-made woman, often a business executive in her forties, who buys it for a family wedding or a corporate social event." From Letter from Japan, "The Kimono Painter," by Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, October 17, 2005, p. 116. (See Abstract.)
- 'Green Waves' Kimono (1973) - By Moriguchi Kunihiko, Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum number. FE.420:1-1992
- Kyoto Journal - Has Selections from Back Issues.
- Kyoto National Museum - There is an English Page and an Online Gallery and Masterworks, "detailed graphic and text introductions to over one hundred of the finest masterpieces in the Kyoto National Museum collection." (See the Furisode Kimono with Noshi Bundle Design.) Offers an Online Database which currently contains over 10,000 images of over 5,000 objects or works owned by the museum, searchable by keyword or category.
- Kyodo News Web
- Kyoto Kimono - "Vintage Japanese kimono, obi, fabrics..." See also Marla Mallett Textiles.
- Kyoto University Digital Library - See Keito Goto's presentation on the Kyoto University Digital Library & Institutional Repository at ADL 2006 (The 9th International Conference on Asia Digital Libraries), November 30, 2006. He discusses some of the resources listed below.
- Japanese fauna ( Fauna Japonica ) - "This work of Philipp Franz Balthazar von Siebold (1796-1866) was compiled by three scholars of the Leyden Museum on the basis of the enormous number of zoological specimens collected by Siebold during his stay in Nagasaki 1823-1829 and of rough sketches by the Japanese artist Keiga Kawahara and others. It was published serially in five volumes over the long period of 1833-1850."
- Kunijo Kabuki Ekotoba - "Illustrated Manuscript of Japanese Classical Play Kabuki."
- Age of Natural History
- Enjoying Japanese Tales, Otogi Zoshi - Includes the story of Tsukumogami
- Natural Treasure - In Japanese only. Collection of legends compiled 900 years ago.
- Chinese Documents Collection of Qing era & Rep. of China - In Japanese only
- Islamic Ancient Material Collection - In Japanese only
- Meiji Restoration collection - In Japanese only
- Fujikawa collection - In Japanese only
- Zokyo Shoin collection - In Japanese only
- Tanimura collection - In Japanese only
- Konoe collection - In Japanese only
- Lafcadio Hearn - Full-text stories about Japan provided by the Eldritch Press.
- Libraries
- Duke East Asian Collection
- Harvard-Yenching Library
- Indiana University - East Asian Collection - Bloomington
- Library of Congress Asian Reading Room
- Princeton East Asian Library
- Stanford University - East Asia Library - With Japanese Collection.
- University of Alberta Libraries - East Asian Studies
- University of California Berkeley East Asian Library
- University of Illinois - Asian Library - Urbana-Champaign
- University of Maryland East Asian Collection
- University of Minnesota - East Asian Library
- University of Toronto - Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library
- Yale East Asia Library
- Library of Congress Webcasts - See also Library of Congress Podcasts
- Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor - Edward Miller, 15 January 2008 [59 minutes].
- A Money Doctor from Japan: Megata Tanetaro in Korea, 1904-1907 - Michael Schiltz, 5 December 2007 [61 minutes].
- Modern Japanese Arts and Crafts in Kyoto: From Asai Chu to Yagi Kazuo - Shigemi Inaga, 7 June 2007 [78 minutes].
- Highlights of Japan-U.S. Relationship: History, Cultural Exchange and Future Development - Various speakers, 6 April 2007 [166 minutes].
- Science and Technology Policy in Japan - Yukio Sato, 13 July 2006 [72 minutes].
- Allen Say - National Book Festival. Children's book author Allen Say came from Yokohama, Japan, to the United States when he was 16 years old. 12 October 2002 [23 minutes].
- Life Photo Archive - Hosted by Google. Here are a few searches:
- Kyoto
- Hiroshima
- Lost Japan - Alex Kerr recounts his experiences in Japan over a 30 year period in this book published by Lonely Planet.
- Marc Peter Keane - Japanese garden designer
- Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Government of Japan (Monbu-sho) - Provides a useful list of links to other sites which include universities, schools, museums, and institutions.
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts - Has a strong Asian Arts collection. (See Explore the Collection.)
- Missouri Botanical Garden - Provides a tour of Seiwa-en, their Japanese garden.
- Mizuho Securities: Research & Links - Useful collection of links for Japanese business and finance information, with additional links to resources for
newspapers,
law,
government and
politics.
- Mori Art Museum - Tokyo
- Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens - Delray Beach, Florida musuem "dedicated exclusively to the living culture of Japan. It also offers Japanese style gardens, nature trails, sparkling lakes and ponds teeming with colorful carp and turtles, cascading waterfalls, shaded picnic pavilions and a rare bonsai collection of miniature trees."
- Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE) - Find reviews of Japanese movies.
- Muji Online - Department store.
- Murasaki Shikibu: Brief life of a legendary novelist: c. 973-1014 - By Royall Tyler, Harvard Magazine, page 32, May-June 2002, Volume 104, Number 5.
- Museum Information Japan
- Museum of Modern Art - You can browse and search the collection. Exhibitions include:
- Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles - November 12, 1998-January 26, 1999.
- Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958-1968 - July 9 - October 6, 1998.
- Museum of Oriental Ceramics - Osaka, Japan.
- NACSIS Electronic Library Service (NACSIS-ELS) - provides an integrated system of bibliographic databases and an electronic document delivery of Japanese academic journals on the Internet. Bibliographic databases of books available for sale include Books.or.jp and TRC Web Server. (Both require software to read and input Japanese characters.)
- Nara National Museum - Web site for this Nara museum has images of sculpture, paintings, writings, applied arts and excavated relics. English page available.
- National Association of Japan-America Societies (NAJAS) - Has a collection of U.S.-Japan Links.
- National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies - Contents include:
- Internet Guides
- Japan Bibliographies
- National Diet Library - Japan's national library, located in Tokyo. The
Rare Books department section is unfortunately only available in Japanese, but it is well worth exploring just for the images. There are
100 items in an online exhibition of books from the collection, which includes Japanese items and a number of
non-Japanese works from around the world. (See Maps
1,
2,
3 and
4.)
Included in the exhibition are works (with images) by:
- Redoute,
- John Gould,
- Salisbury
- Kelmscott Chaucer - title page.
A large number of images of Japanese prints are also included, with some
scrolls in Shockwave (requires plug-in). Other sections of note include Scenic mementos of Japan,
Vienna International Exposition,
Modern Japanese Political History Materials.
- National Institute of Japanese Literature
- National Museum of Japanese History - Has an English page.
- National Museum of Modern Art - Tokyo. A bit tricky to search if you can't read Japanese. Has English page.
- Search entire site
- Search Collection
- Search OPAC (Library Catalog)
- Browse by Artist Name
- Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan
- Search Art Museums in Japan - Searches the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; and the National Museum of Art, Osaka. A red icon to the left of the four boxes indicates an online image is available.
- Four Seasons (1913) - by Yamamoto, Shunkyo (1871 - 1933). Color on silk·a set of four hanging scrolls.
- Priest Burning a Wooden Image of Buddha by Yamamoto, Shunkyo
- Landscape, Mt. Aso (1932) by Yamamoto, Shunkyo
- Morning-Glories (1942) by Makino, Torao (1890 - 1946). Oil on canvas. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
- Self-Portrait (1931) by Makino, Torao
- Preparing to Dance (1914) by Uemura, Shoen
- Noble Man under Plum Blossoms (1942) by Ogiyu, Tensen. Color on silk, framed. Owned by the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (J00199).
- Pear Blossoms (1914) by Irie, Hako (1887 - 1948). Color on silk·two-panel folding screen. Owned by The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (00285).
- Crows and Cherry Blossoms by Kikuchi, Hobun (1862 - 1918). Late Meiji period sumi, tint color on paper·hanging scroll. Owned by National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (00427)
- Vying in Fragrance (1942) by Komuro, Suiun (1874 - 1945). Color on silk, framed. Owned by the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
- Woman Warming Her Hands over a Brazier (1924) by Koga, Harue (1895 - 1933). Oil on canvas. Owned by the The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (O00134).
- New York Times - Free full-text articles from the archives from 1987 to the present.
- Review/Film: Searching for Japan, In a Sea, in a Mind And in Metaphor - by Vincent Canby, New York Times, June 17, 1992. Review of The Inland Sea.
- New Yorker Magazine - You can search the archive for stories and articles about Japan. Recent articles include:
- Our Far-Flung Correspondents, "Night Kitchens," - By Judith Thurman, New Yorker, September 5, 2005, p. 66-74. "Workshops where tofu is handmade by artisans faithful to the old tradition."
- On the Beat: Waiting for Matsui - By Michael Shapiro, New Yorker, March 3, 2003.
- Letter from Japan, "The Kimono Painter," by Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, October 17, 2005, p. 116. (See Abstract.)
- Nihon Art - Fine Japanese Art & Antiques - Swords, paintings, prints, ceramics, and woodwork.
- Nihon Sumo Kyokai Official Grand Sumo Home Page
- Nikkei Net Interactive - Japanese business news.
- 1940 Japan-America Student Conference - Diary of James J. Halsema, a student delegate to the 7th Japan-America Student Conference held in Japan July 8-19, 1940.
- Nuno - Innovative textile company headed by Reiko Sudo. Material Things, their U.S. importer and distributor, provides examples of their fashion line, home accessories (lovely table runner) and Fabrics (librarians may enjoy their bookshelf line.) The store, Nuno Works, also provides fabvic images:
- Mango Mango - "Fruits in cross-section offer a treasure trove of designs like this mango on satin."
- Yam Flower - "Ink stain rounds reminiscent of a field of tiny mountain yam blossoms."
- Azemichi - "A lovely country vista pattern of paths through rice fields printed on canvas."
- Floral Pattern - "Simple hand-drawn flowers go well with this hemp-toothed cotton amundsen."
- Office of Japan Affairs - U.S. Department of State
- Online Japanese Dictionary
- Open Japan - Allows you to view Japanese encodings on the Internet without Japanese support in your browser.
- Pacific Asia Museum - With interactive exhibition: Nature of the Beast: Animals in Japanese Paintings and Prints
- Petals on a Wet Black Bough: American Modern Writers and the Orient - Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Exhibition, Yale University.
- Prime Minister's Official Residence - Has an Organization Chart with extensive list of links to Japanese ministries and agencies.
- Radio Nippon - Vancouver, Canada
- Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies - Harvard University.
- Remembering Nagasaki - San Francisco Exploratorium.
- Research Center for Japanese Garden Art - Kyoto University of Art and Design
- Reviews of Japanese Films - "Collection of reviews and articles on recent Japanese films written by Aaron Gerow for the Daily Yomiuri, a national daily that is published in English by one of Japan's largest newspapers, the Yomiuri Shimbun"
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Japanese Philosophy
- Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art
- Ryokans - Japanese inns
- Yoyokaku - Karatsu. With monthly Newsletter. Mentioned in Our Far-Flung Correspondents, "Night Kitchens," by Judith Thurman, New Yorker, September 5, 2005, p. 66-74.
- How a Japanese Inn Fell to Foreigners - By Yuka Hayashi, Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2005. About the Shiroganeya in Yamashiro Onsen has access to hot-spring "discovered by a high priest in the eighth century."
- Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
- Sake - The best sake is made from polished rice: the outer layers of the rice have been milled away to remove bitter and sour flavors. Sake made with rice with 50% or more of the original grain removed is known as daiginjo, and that with 60% or less is known as ginjo, or 'special brew'. Junmai, or 'pure rice sake', is made only from rice, water, a mold called koji and yeast. Eric Felton, in his The Subtle Sorts of Sake, Wall Street Journal, February 10-11, 2007, recommends four brands of sake: Kirin-zan Daiginjo, Kuromatsu-Hakushika "White Deer", Takasago "Divine Droplets" and Hoyo Kura No Hana "Fair Maiden". See also Sake World "created, written and is updated by John Gauntner, widely recognized as a leading non-Japanese authority on sake."
- Schauwecker's Guide to Japan - Stefan Schauwecker maintains this guide which has a number of useful sections including one on Japanese History.
- Search Art Museums in Japan
- Seiwa-en - "A Japanese garden of pure, clear harmony & peace."
- Seventeen Kinds of Wallpaper Patterns - Patterns used at kabuki plays, not only on the costumes but as on dyed souvenir hand towels. From the Mathematics Museum. See also the Japanese Temple Geometry Problem.
- Shakuhachi - Site devoted to the traditional Japanese bamboo flute. With audio links.
- Shiseido
- Shiro Kuramata: 1934-1991 - Exhibition on the Japanese designer of furniture and interiors at the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center at New York University.
- Shoujo Manga - Matt Thorn's site on comics for girls.
- Shofuso - Japanese House and Garden located on the grounds of the Horticultural Center in the West Philadelphia section of Fairmount Park. It was designed by Junzo Yoshimura was built in Japan in 1954 for modern housing exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
- Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929) - Ian Ruxton's site on the British scholar-diplomat, linguist and noted Japanologist in Meiji Japan.
- Space Bm
- Suffering under a Great Injustice”: Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar - Library of Congress American Memory Online Collections
- Suntory Museum of Art - Tokyo. Includes images of many of the objects in the museum's collection including pottery, lacquerware, glass, textiles, and paintings.
- Tadao Ando - Winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995.
- Tea Ceremony - TeaHyakka Magazine
- Teaching Edo Art in Japan - National Gallery of Art.
- Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) - Part of World Civilizations, Richard Hooker's Internet classroom and anthology which represents the "culmination of over two years of web-based teaching and learning" at Washington State University.
- Tokyo City View
- Tokyo Food Page - Complete guide to Japanese cuisine and eating in Tokyo, with recipes, culinary travel tips and restaurant listings.
- Tokyo Web Cams
- Tokyo Stock Exchange
- Trussel's EclectiCity - Many sections relating to Japanese culture.
- Tsukuba University Rare Books Library Digital Collections
- Tuttle Publishing - "Premier publisher of English-language books in Japan."
- UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection - "Four hundred Japanese woodblock prints on health-related themes."
- UK Japanese Union Catalogue - Japanese Script. Hosted by Cambridge University Library. (See also the Romanized Japanese Union Catalogue.)
- Ukiyo-e: the Pictures of the Floating World - Hans Olof Johansson
- United States-Japan Foundation
- Universes in Collision: Men and Women in 19th-Century Japanese Prints - Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia.
- University of Tokyo
- University of Tokyo Library System - See Major Collections.
- University of Tokyo Magazine "TANSEI" - The July 2007 issue has a panel discussion on Speaking of Books, the Library and the University with Koichi Kabayama, Director of the Printing Museum, Tokyo; Ayumi Watanambe, Chief Announcer at NHK; and Kazuhiko Saigo, Director of the University of Tokyo Library.
- Using Online Resources to Find Relevant Information in Japanese Newspapers - Compiled by Sharon Domier, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, c1988.
- Virtual Japanese Garden - View 30 slides of the Kohrakuen Garden at the Raikyuji Temple, Takahashi-city, Okayama, Japan. (Tip: let the entire slide collection load before viewing).
- Virtual Museum of Traditional Japanese Arts - Produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Kodansha International Ltd.
- Wajima-Nuri - Japanese traditional lacquer ware.
- William Elliot Griffis Collection - "Major collection of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century print, manuscript, photographic and ephemeral materials relating largely to the early history of Japan-U.S. relations in the modern period."
- Wood-fired Stoneware from Shigaraki - by Shiho Kanzaki
- World Heritage List - UNESCO's list of cultural and natural heritage World properties recognized as exhibiting "outstanding universal value" includes the following Japanese historic sites: Himeji-jo, Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area, Yakushima,
Shirakami-Sanchi, Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama, Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome), Itsukushima Shinto Shrine, Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara, Shrines and Temples of Nikko and the Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu.
- Yokohama Boomtown: Foreigners in Treaty-Port Japan (1859-1872)
- Yomiuri Shimbun - Japan's most widely read newspaper.
- Zensuke - Carries a wide and interesting selection of authentic Japanese products
including ceramics, cast iron teapots, trivets, wind chimes and origami paper. Some favorites:
- Cherrywood Tea Canister
- Clay Poetic Donabe Pot Warmer
- Dimpled White Hakusan Cups
- Brown Sea Otter Cast Iron Paper Weight
- Japanese Tokoname Kyusu Teapot
- Multi Color Cut Technique Tokoname Kyusu Teapot
- Rope Texture Tokoname Kyusu Teapot
- Nerikomi Cut Design Tokoname Kyusu Teapot
- Shades of Green Tokoname Kyusu Teapot
- Sweet Swirl Tokoname Kyusu Teapot
- Tokoname Yuzamashi by Hosoji
- Iwachu Cast Iron Brown Trio Windchime
- Antique Brown Basket Weave Cast Iron Trivet
- Iwachu Black Hexagonal Hobnail Cast Iron Trivet
- Blue Ocean Fish Saucers - depicting Bonito, Halfbeak, Flyingfish, and Flatfish
