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Asian Languages And Literatures-old: Find Books

Books at Wesleyan and other libraries

Rare Books (Japanese)

早稲田大学 古典籍総合データベース

立命館大学書籍閲覧システム

九州大学日本古典籍画像画像データベース 

龍谷大学電子図書館 370 titles including extensive Shin Buddhism texts and Nara ehon. 

愛媛大学鈴鹿文庫 Extensive collection on Shinto and Japanese historybooks and manuscripts.

国文学研究資料館奈良絵本データベース

京都府総合資料館 Rare Books data base 200 titles including pictuire scrolls and prints. 

デジタル奈良絵本 リンク集 藤原重雄

米国議会図書館蔵奈良絵本 

Les Nara ehon de la BnF (Nara ehon of French National Library) 27 titles held by BnF are viewable.

Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan from the Spencer Collection in New York Public Library

東洋文庫所蔵絵本

近世絵手本画譜類画像検索データベース

東方學デジタル圖書  (京都大学人文研究所蔵中国古典籍のデジタル化 Digitized Chinese Classics)

more Japanese books

  • Bookstores & Publishers -- at Washington University
    -- by Azusa Tanaka
    Need to quickly grasp where to purchase Japanese books? Start here. Simple and direct.
    -- Publishers
    -- Used bookstores
  • Finding Books -- at University of Hawaii at Manoa
    -- by Tokiko Bazzell
    Looking for books in e-formats? This is a great place to start. Annotations explain the scope of different services. There's also an list of important library catalogs. Do not miss the small but useful bibliography section.
    -- eBooks
    -- Library catalogs
  • Guide to LC Classification on Selected Japanese Materials -- at University of Toronto
    -- Anonymous
    Easy to browse list of topics related to Japan. The initial letter & number combinations are almost universally applied throughout academic libraries in the United States and Canada. For example - NA 1550 will mean Japanese Architecture at all academic libraries and in all library catalogs in North America.
    -- English language
    -- LCSH
    -- Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • More Ways to Find Books
    Off the beaten path resources for locating texts, especially for print along with a list of eBook resources. There's also a small section for locating book reviews online.
    -- Book reviews
    -- eBooks

Book Reviews/ Blogs/ Podcasts

Podcast

New Books in East Asian Studies Interviews with authors, hosted byCarla Nappi at the University of British Columbia.

Online sources

H-Net Japan Reviews Scholarly review of contents in multi-formats.

松岡正剛の千夜一夜 1,500 book reviews by Matsuoka Seigo

Asahi shinbun book revew 朝日新聞書評

情報工学 Passion for the Future blog by 橋本大也

Japanese Book News, Japan Foundation

紀伊國屋書店 「書評空間」

エキサイトレビュー reviews of all medium including books, films, anime, manga, TV programs, games, and software applications. 

Dissertation Review offers non-critical reviews of recently defended, unpublished doctoral dissertations.

Print sources

「書評年報」

「図書新聞」

「週刊読書人」 バックナンバー内容情報