Japan Studies Guide

Cultural Japan is an aggregator database that aggregates and searches across museums, libraries, and archives.

A digital archive mostly of materials related to various Japanese performing arts.

An aggregating database that searches pre-modern Japanese books available online.

This site provides high-definition images of the National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties owned by the Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum, Kyushu National Museum and the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties aligned under the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, together with their descriptions in multiple languages (Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean).

An online gallery of select items in the National Museum of Japanese History's collection.

The site allows you to look through some of the notable items in the Japanese collection of Harvard-Yenching Library. Items include woodblock prints, maps, scrolls, and postcards, etc.

The collection has more than 1,500 Japanese print from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

Ohio State has the largest collection of manga outside of Japan.