National Institute of Japanese Literature

The National Institute of Japanese Literature (Kokubungaku kenkyû shiryôkan, 国文学研究資料館, or NIJL） was established in May of 1972 with the primary aim to preserve manuscripts and books relating to the study of Japanese literature. Original texts and microfilms of these originals are stored in the NIJL, and an increasing number of texts are currently being digitally photographed. The NIJL provides several useful tools for the scholar of Japanese literature, including a compilation of research published yearly in the journal Kokubungaku nenkan (国文学年刊). It also has expended much effort to developing on-line tools in the form of the various electronic databases.

The Digital Library

Databases ===Nara ehon database=== (image) ===Nihon koten bungaku taikei database=== (full-text) ===Kokusho kihon database=== (catalogue) ===Bunken chōsa kādo database=== (catalogue)

Kindai bunken databases

====Kindai bunken gazō database==== (image) ====Kindai shoshi database==== (catalogue) ====Meijiki shuppan kōkoku database==== (full-text) ====Kokusho zasshisho mokuroku OPAC database====(catalogue) ===Maikuro shiryū wakosho mokuroku database=== (catalogue) ===Oushū shozai nihon kosho sōgō mokuroku Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books in Europe=== (catalogue) ===Nijyūichi daishû database=== (full-text) ===Kokubungaku ronbun mokuroku database=== (catalogue)

Shiryō jōhō kyōyūka database

===Renga database=== (unavailable) ===En'nō database=== (unavailable)

External Links

• NIJL homepage (English)