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
Selected Websites for Classical Japanese texts
- The University of California's Japanese Historical Text Initiative
- http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/jhti/homepage.htm
- 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:
- 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:
- 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.
- Premodern Japanese Texts and Translations (Michael Watson) includes links to online texts:
- 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:
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.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):
