Research Guides: Japanese Theatre Studies: Database (General)

Japan Search

JAPAN SEARCH - Find Digital Archives in Japan

Link to Japan Search
National Diet Library, Japan provides a national platform for aggregating metadata of digital resources of various fields, that is linked to 264 databases, and contains 31,209,909 searchable contents.

Cultural Japan

Cultural Japan - Discover digital resources on Japanese Culture from all over the world

Link to the database of Cultural Japan
This database collects information related to Japanese culture published in museums, libraries, etc. around the world, and to provide them with a common and reusable format.

Shin Nihon kotenseki sōgō dētabēsu (NIJL)

国書データベース（国文学研究資料館）

Link to Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts

Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts is compiled, with an intention to provide about 100,000 digitized images accompanied with 600,000 bibliographic information stored at different institutions in Japan, by the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) whose website, https://www.nijl.ac.jp/en/ also provides all kinds of beneficial information about Japanese literature in English as well.

Waseda University Cultural Resources Database

早稲田大学文化資源データベース - 坪内博士記念演劇博物館

Link to the database of Theatre Museum
The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University houses diversified resources, including 47,000 ukiyo-e prints, primarily "yakusha-e," kabuki-themed works depicting actors and theatres.

Waseda daigaku kotenseki sōgō dētabēsu

早稲田大学古典籍総合データベース

Link to Database for Waseda University
Database for Japanese & Chinese Classics held by Waseda University Libraries (English/Japanese)

National Diet Library (NDL) SEARCH

国立国会図書館サーチ

Link to NDL SEARCH
Consolidated Search Tool for databases including NDL, National Archives of Japan, academic & public libraries, and museums in Japan. (English/Japanese)

Information about institutions included NDL SEARCH (Japanese)

National Diet Library (NDL) Digital Collections

国立国会図書館デジタルライブラリー

Link to NDL Digital Collections
Database for digitized collections by National Diet Library, Japan (Some of the items are available only at the NDL and/or partner libraries for Digitized Contents Transmission Service.)

Kokuritsu hakubutsukan shozōhin tōgō kensaku sisutemu

国立博物館所蔵品統合検索システム

Link to the database of ColBase
Integrated Collections Database of the National Museums, Japan is a service that enables a cross-sectional search of the collections of the four National Museums of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum and Kyushu National Museum) and the collections of the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. (English/Japanese)