pmjs is an interdisciplinary forum for those doing research
into earlier periods of Japanese art, culture, history, religion
and literature. For information about the pmjs mailing list or
online resources see index.
This page consists of external web links ordered by category.
Please send suggestions about format and content to editor.
Some text in Japanese.
Last revised Sunday, February 09, 2003
pmjs home page: external links
top links
web searches: google
(J) | goo (J) | Altavista
| Excite | Hotbot
books: Webcat-E
| Diet
Library | Amazon.co.jp
| Addall.com
guides to Japanese (Asian) studies on
the Internet
Library collections, library searches,
guides
NACSIS Webcat:
search of J university libraries (J/E)
National Diet Library
- search (国会図書館)
Library of Congress:
search page
British Library - BL's guide
to Japanese
online catalogues
SOAS Library
(London)
East
Asian Libraries Co-op (Ohio State)
UK Japanese Union
Catalogue (英国日本語出版物総合目録)
Duke
guide to printed resources on Japan
Electronic texts: Japanese except for
JTI all require Japanese display
Japanese
Text Initiative (Virginia)
Electronic
Texts of Pre-modern Japanese Literature
(Satoko Shimazaki/Columbia)
Noh
text project (謡曲三百五十番集入力) Hangyo bunko
sites by the following scholars contain downloadable premodern
texts or links to same
M. Shibata
(Meisei Univ.)
A.
Okajima (Fukui Univ.)
S. Kikuchi
(Konan Women's)
H. Namihira
(Meio Univ.)
Y Hagiwara (Komazawa
Univ.)
Aozora bunko look
under "sa" for Sarashina nikki... Expanded book format
is very readable.
Kundoku
Man'yoshu
Electronic texts: General and non-Japanese
Oxford Text Archives:
search for "Genji" E-texts of Seidensticker trans.
and NKBZ (Shogakukan) text.
Gutenberg: no
Meiji translations as yet, to my knowledge. Hearn is as close
as one gets.
Labyrinth
Library:
See what the "other" medievalists have done
and grow green with envy...
CETH
- Directory of Electronic Text Centers
Online bookshops
Duke's
list of bookstores in Japanese (Asian) studies (K.K.Troost)
Addall.com: compares
prices for dozens of online booksellers; used books too
Amazon.com (US), Amazon.co.uk -- see FAQ
concerning Amazon links on this site.
Asian Rare Books
(New York): Japan Booklists
Barnes
& Noble Out of Print and Used Book--always worth checking
Blake's Books:
Fine Used Scholarly Books
Powell's Books: competitive
prices, electronic books also
TRC info.
on J books in print (J)
book-Kanda: second-hand
J book search (J)
Books in other languages: German (amazon.de
| bol.de) French (bol.fr)
Associations, institutes, conference organizers
* Institutes
and Programs in the United States, Australia and Europe (Duke's
list)
AAS: Association for
Asian Studies
AISTUGIA: The
Italian Association for Japanese Studies NEW
SITE (2003.03-)
AJLS:
Association for Japanese Literary Studies
American
Oriental Society
ASAA: Asian
Studies Association of Australia
ASCJ:
Asian Scholars Conference Japan
Asia Society (New
York)
Asiatic Society
of Japan (日本アジア協会)
ATJ: Association
of Teachers of Japanese
Berkeley (UC) Institute
of East Asian Studies
Cambridge University,
Oriental Faculty
Columbia
University: Institute for Medieval Japanese
Dijtokyo: German Institute
for Japanese Studies (Tokyo)
EAJS: European Association
for Japanese Studies
German institutes of Japanese studies: Cologne
| Hamburg
| Heidelberg
| Munich
Graduate
Programs in Asian Philosophy and Religion (Dr. Charles Muller)
Harvard
Univ.: overview of Asian programs
Historiographical
Institute (Hensanjo, Univ. of Tokyo)
Humanities
Web sites in Japan (Prof. Goto Hitoshi/Tohoku Univ.) J/E
IIAS, International
Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden
Institute
of Oriental Culture (Toyo Bunka Kenkyujo), University of
Tokyo (J/E)
Japan Foundation (includes
backnumbers of Japan Book News)
JS Net Forum
- Japanese Studies Network Forum
Michigan:
Center for Japanese studies
Monogatari
kenkyukai (物語研究会)
National Clearinghouse
for U.S.-Japan Studies (Indiana)
National Language Research
Institute (Japan)
Nichibunken:
International Research Center for Japanese Studies (J/E)
NIJL: National Institute
of Japanese Literature/Kokubungaku kenkyu shiryokan
Nordic Institute of Asian
Studies (Denmark)
OAG Tokyo
(Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens)
Oxford University,
Institute of Oriental Studies
Societe des Etudes Japonaises
de Tokyo (SEJT)
Union
List of Japanese Serials and Newspapers (Ohio State): very
helpful
Journals, publishers, academic resources
online
Full text of backnumbers of many journals now available
online to JSTOR subscribers.
Check your library for details. "Five year moving wall"--i.e.
issues up to 5 years ago are available. When possible the webpage
given for JSTOR below is for the journal in question.
TOC = table of contents
Asian
Theatre Journal (Hawaii). TOC from 1994. Article abstracts.
Asiatische
Studien (Switzerland)
Bibliography
of Asian Studies (BAS): Coverage from 1971. Institutional
OR individual membership.
Bulletin
of the School of Oriental and African Studies - TOC
online
Carfax co:
contents pages for academic journals by e-mail
Cornell
East Asia Series website. Now possible to order securely
online
Curzon
Press. (Link is to "Books on Japan" page)
East
Asian Buddhist Studies: a Reference Guide (Robert
Buswell, rev. William Bodiford)
Electronic Journals
in Asian Studies (ANU/Australia)
Harvard
Journal of Asiatic Studies: Backnumbers from 1936 on JSTOR
(5 year wall). Index only for JSTOR subscribers.
Ingenta: (formally
UnCover) search for academic papers by author, title, keyword.
The Journal
of Asian Studies: Table of contents and feature articles
from vol. 60.1 (Feb. 2001). Backnumbers from 1941 on JSTOR.
The Journal of
Japanese Studies: online author index for vol. 1- (from Autumn
1974). Online table of contents--including book reviews--from
Volume 24, Number 2 (Summer 1998).
Michigan:
Publication Program of the Center for Japanese Studies, University
of Michigan
Monumenta Nipponica.
Backnumbers from 1938 on JSTOR
(5 year moving wall). Index of book
reviews (from 54.4, Winter1999). The MN site can be searched
from the pmjs top page.
Networked Digital Library
of Theses and Dissertations
NOAG:
Nachrichten der Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens
(Hamburg). Table of contents online from 1991. Full text of book
reviews (German).
Oriens
Extremus (Hamburg). TOC online from 33. Jahrgang, 1990, Heft
1.
Project
Muse: Scholarly Journals Online
The Romanian Journal
of Japanese Studies
UMI (dissertations)
Individuals' pages
See these both for content and for ideas about how to use
web pages for research and teaching in Japanese studies. Only
pages of premodern/early modern interest included here.
Oskar
Benl
(1914-1986): A three-page tribute to the German scholar and
translator
Lewis
Cook (Queens College, CUNY) Text and commentary on Kokin
Wakashu at Japanese Text Initiative
Steven D.
Carter (University of California, Irving). "The Tale
of Genji and its Reception."
Anthony
Chambers (Wesleyan). Again, link to a course on Genji.
Janet
R. Goodwin (Medieval Japanese history) Research description,
list of publications...
Wolfgang
Michel (Kyushu Univ) Database on Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716)
A.
Charles Muller (Toyo Gakuen Univ.) "Resources for the
study of East Asian languages and thought"
Morgan
Pitelka (Sainsbury Institute) links, ceramics, directory
of grad. students in premodern studies
Kenneth L. Richard
(Siebold University in Nagasaki). Genji, waka, monogatari,
kanbun...
Roland
Schneider (Univ. of Hamburg). Detailed bibliography
Michael Watson
(Meiji Gakuin Univ.) Heike & Genji studies, noh.
X. Jie Yang
(Calgary): kanaClassic, emaki reader...
Mailing lists in Japanese studies
The Early
Modern Japan Network: now "compiling a directory of
early modern Japan specialists (roughly late sixteenth to mid-nineteenth
century) from all disciplines" (Philip Brown)
H-Japan.
Broad in scope but well-monitored.
jlit-l (Japanese literature): send the message "Subscribe
jlit-l" to majordomo@purdue.edu
Lists
and Listserv Addresses for Japanese studies (Duke)
Japanese museums on internet, art/culture
links
Duke
guide to online museums
Watson's list of museums in Tokyo
area
lists: public
museums (J) | private
museum (J)
good websites: Nezu
| Suntory
National
museums links (Rekihaku)
Chinese
and Japanese Art History Virtual Library
Bibliography
of Japanese art by Sylvan Barnet and William Burto
Kabuki
at Tokyo Kakuki-za, National Theatre (current schedule)
Kanze homepage (of Yarai
Noh Theatre, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
Japanese language / reference / computing
in Japanese
KanaClassic:
info. about CD-ROM for learning to read hentaigana (E)
AsianDoc/C.Chu:
Internet Reference Tools for East Asian Studies (E)
Mojikyo Net: Specialists
need more kanji characters than JIS can provide. Mojikyo meets
this need. Their gif and true type fonts now available on CD-ROM.
I've tested it and it works: 90,000 characters (CJK) at your
command. Excellent search engine.
Shodouka: Japanese
mail/WWW without Japanese on your computer--back
on net again
Nihongo
to moji code: clear Japanese explanation (Kanzaki)
Play
eKanji: put in Morohashi number, get an image of the kanji
General interest.
For students, non-specialists
Suggestions, corrections welcome
Michael Watson, Professor
Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University
Yokohama 244-8539, Japan
fax +81 (45) 863-2265
watson@k.meijigakuin.ac.jp
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Acknowledgements, notes
Thanks to everyone who has written to make suggestions about
the site. I'm grateful for helpful comments from Denise O'Brien
and Morgan Pitelka (2000/07).
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