Online resources: Classical Japanese

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  • Vocabulary of Japanese classical texts. (= Koten taishō goihyō / Miyajima Tatsuo hen). 古典対照語彙表 / 宫島達夫編 Kasama Shoin.
Description: Vocabulary of approximate 23,000 content words in 14 Japanese ancient texts including ``Tsurezuregusa and ``Hojoki. It also contains word frequencies. More information Print version is available: PL685 .M49 1975
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Selected Websites for Classical Japanese texts

  • The University of California's Japanese Historical Text Initiative
http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/JHTI/
includes ancient chronicles, gazetteers, civil codes, and more, with each paragraph of original text cross-linked to its translation.
also: a short list of useful links.
  • University of Virginia's Japanese Text Initiative:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/texts/chronology_hor-premodern.html
  • The National Diet Library's digital projects:
Kindai Digital Library includes classical texts:
http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/BISmplSearch.php
(Select --> 日本文学 --> 古代･中世 (= 914.3) to see 107 texts; there are more in other categories as well)
Digitized rare books and manuscripts, including Taketori monogatari:
http://rarebook.ndl.go.jp
Digital Archive Portal
http://www.dap.ndl.go.jp/home/
allows searching across digital archives -- so one does not need to go to each one by one --
  • Aozora Bunko includes many classical works in addition to modern literature.
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/index.html
  • Premodern Japanese Texts and Translations (Michael Watson) includes links to online texts:
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/trans/index.html
  • Ryukyu Daigaku portal --
http://www.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/erwg/denshika.html
links to rare items, including: 筑波大学附属図書館の貴重書
  • Nara Joshi Daigaku's collection of Edo travel diaries --
http://www.lib.nara-wu.ac.jp/nwugdb/kindex.html
Each journey is mapped out; texts are presented in facsimile along with translations and notes, etc.
  • Here's a website with the text of Taketori Monogatari converted to HTML:
http://klab.ri.aoyama.ac.jp/data/taketori.htm


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Special web-based tools for Classical Japanese

  • Nichibunken's classical poetry search engines --
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/graphicversion/dbase/jidai.html (chronological searches)
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/graphicversion/dbase/kigo.html (kigo searches)
  • NIJL has many specialized databases, as well as digital texts:
http://www.nijl.ac.jp/contents/d_library/index.html#a2
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023111/0231116047.HTM
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/imjs/publications/kana.html
OSU Library has a couple of copies of this: PL551 .Y34 1998
  • JapanKnowledge (Ohio State and other licensed users only):
http://na.jkn21.com/
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More websites (known to be active Nov. 2006, yet to be reviewed)

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