Japanese Culture and Art on the Web 

Japanese Culture Resources / Japanese Art

JAPANESE CULTURE RESOURCES ON THE WEB

·         Bunka Digital Library (Japanese-language website with information about kabuki, nō, kyōgen, bunraku and other dramatic forms from Japan)

·         Highlighting Japan (Two online magazines from the government of Japan.  One focuses on images of Japan and the other contains articles about the country.)

·         Kinema Club (Resource about Japanese film and television) 

·         Japan Pictionary (Straightforward dictionary of words having to do with Japanese culture, Japanese words are in romanization)

·         Key Aspects of Japan (Brief descriptions of important concepts having to do with Japanese culture)

·         Digital Asia Library (Library-selected websites on many facets of Asia)

JAPANESE ART RESOURCES ON THE WEB

·         E-Kokuho (Website showing images of National Treasures in the possession of the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno, In multiple languages)

·         Shosoin online (Japanese-language website about the Shōsōin, a repository of artistic objects built in the eighth century in Nara)

·         Webmuseum: Japanese Art & Architecture (English-language website with pictures of artifacts made throughout Japanese history)  

·         National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Home of the world's finest collection of modern Japanese art; website in both English and Japanese)

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Updated February 8, 2008

 

 

Detail of tanzaku (painting-card).

(Dated 1902, See inscription)

Ink on cloth-covered paper.

Collection of Jeffrey Angles.