The Pulverer Collection, acquired in its entirety by the Freer Gallery of Art in 2007, includes numerous rare and pristine examples of Japanese illustrated books produced in the Edo period and beyond. For more than thirty years Dr. Gerhard Pulverer, a renowned medical researcher in Germany, and his wife Rosemarie traveled the world and assembled the collection. Their holdings of more than 900 titles encompass almost 2,200 volumes that range in date from the early seventeenth century to the 1970s. Today the Pulverer Collection is regarded as one of the most outstanding and comprehensive collections of Japanese illustrated books outside Japan. This site marks the initial phase of an ongoing project to make all of the volumes available online. Cataloguing is now in progress, and we are also adding short scholarly entries for many of the titles (available on the commentary tab for individual titles). We are adding new titles every month and are expanding information about these books through these essays and other features. Please note that this is a work in progress--we are regularly making updates to improve the site. We encourage you to return often and to offer feedback on the project. Generous support from the Getty Foundation through the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI), with additional support from the Anne van Biema Endowment Fund, has enabled the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery to make the Pulverer Collection available to researchers, bibliophiles, and art lovers around the globe.

The electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies (ejcjs) is a journal in the Social Sciences and Humanities that is dedicated to publishing academic research and scholarly writing on all issues related to contemporary Japanese society, economy, politics, literature, theatre, cinema, and culture. The journal adopts a multi-disciplinary stance in the hope that it will contribute to a deeper and broader understanding of Japan and the Japanese people as an integral part of global 21st century life and that it will, consequently, help to improve our understanding of the totality of human experience. As such, therefore, we encourage submissions in all areas of sociology, economics, political science, and cultural studies that have contemporary Japan as their principal area of focus but that also relate Japan to broader developments elsewhere in the world. Contributions are posted as and when we receive, review, and edit them. ejcjs is committed to working towards sustainable development worldwide. Consequently, our editorial policy is to offer access to all pages in this journal free of charge and only over the internet. ejcjs operates an unusual publishing model in that, in addition to there being no charge for access to our material, we do not charge administrative fees to our contributors. Our journal is financed purely on the basis of the goodwill provided by our readers, our contributors, our editorial board, and any other benefits that we can gain by publishing over the internet.

Oriental Sea had been use as a are surronding Japan incruding both Sea of Japan side and Pacific ocean side when Europeans arrival to Japan. Although on some maps they wrote in the sea of Japan place, it is not established place of name. There are three type of description of Ocean

Database for Animation Studies

The Aftermath project is a large scale attempt to understand the legacy of the Imjin War (1592-1598), also known as Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Invasions of Korea.

To promote the study and understanding of Japanese art history, visual and material culture, by coordinating structured and informal opportunities for interchange and dialogue among members at special exhibitions and symposia of Japanese art and at other scholarly conferences in North America, and by encouraging research and dissemination of research, on our e-mail list, to which members are automatically subscribed when they join our organization, and on the secure, members section of this website.

Ancient Japan revealed through excavating kofun

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).

This database provides individual information on 524 graves in the Cowra Japanese War Cemetery, which is located in Cowra, New South Wales.

It's all about Japanese Castles. There is information, photos and maps of 150 Japanese castles.

This web exhibition “The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 ： as seen in prints and archives” has been produced as a collaboration between the Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR) and the British Library. Its aim is to bring together the collection of prints of the Sino-Japanese War held by the British Library and documents made public by JACAR to show how the events of the Sino-Japanese War were depicted and recorded by the people of the time.

Mary Griggs Burke assembled an unparalleled collection of Asian art — more than one thousand Japanese, Chinese and Korean masterworks spanning five millennia — between 1963 and 2012.

Vaše vstupenka do Asie, Váš průvodce Orientem....

Orientalistický Expres, z. s. je sdružením českých současných i bývalých studentů a dalších členů akademické obce, jejichž badatelský zájem se soustředí či soustředil na některý z regionů Orientu v nejširším možném významu tohoto slova.

The guide offers tools and resources for conducting research in Japanese studies.

Harvard University. Includes the Petzold scrolls collection, Chirimen hanga, Flickr collection, and Manchukuo collections of postcards and newspapers. The Petzold scrolls collection is a collection of the Harvard-Yenching Library that includes 424 scrolls (primarily paintings, woodblock prints, calligraphy, and rubbings from Japan, but also some materials from China and Tibet) acquired from German-born scholar of Buddhism, Bruno Petzold (1873-1949) in 1951.

Digital Humanities Japan is an international and interdisciplinary community of scholars and professionals interested in working with digital methods, tools, and resources for Japanese Studies. As a collective, we aim to foster collaboration between those with similar interests by promoting scholarly dialogue, holding workshops to develop technical skills and project ideas, and creating a central platform for the sharing of resources related to digital methods.

Japanese Woodblock print search engine. Searches thousands of Ukiyo-e, Meiji, Shin Hanga, and Sosaku Hanga prints. A database of Japanese woodblock prints collected from institutions around the world. Spans the 17th to 20th centuries. Includes a visual image search for finding prints.

The Japanese Historical Text Initiative is a digitized, searchable database of important Japanese historical documents and their English translations.

English-language interactive tool for teachers and students interested in incorporating the wonders of early Japan in teaching and learning across a range of subjects including history, geography, environment, cuisine and religious studies.

Online resources for better understanding the Japanese grammar and syntax. | Ohio State University

The Hachiman Digital Handscrolls project presents digital versions of Japanese illuminated handscrolls (emakimono) on the subject of the Hachiman deity created between the 14th and 19th century.

The Mongol Invasions of Japan website is devoted to understanding the Mongol Invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281 through interactive maps, digitizations of handscrolls on the Mongol attacks, and guided views of the content.

A guide to mostly free online resources and software that facilitates Japanese research and study.

Learning, knowledge, research, insight: welcome to the world of UBC Library, the second-largest academic research library in Canada.