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National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) releases Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works (tentative edition)

by Unknown User on 2017-06-19T07:00:00-10:00 | 0 Comments

National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) has released its Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works (tentative edition). 

The image below is a sample search of the keyword "琉球" (Ryukyus) in Japanese kanji. 

The URL: https://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp/?ln=en

Image of a search result by using the NIJL's Pre-Modern Literature database

Some resources found in this databases have images of the text of the title. Below is an image of Ehon Ryukyu gunki (繪本琉球軍記 / えほんりゅうきゅうぐんき ). 

Image of the Ehon Ryukyu gunki, search result from the NIJL's pre-modern Japanese literature database

For those who are interested in reading the cursive Japanese (kuzushiji), some information on useful tools are found on the site here (linked to the Japan Studies Librarian's page at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

 


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