Japanese 381: Junior Year Writing on Japan

The documents themselves are in Japanese, but there is an English search engine and English summaries. Look for the English "On-Site Exhibitions" to see the original Japanese documents put into historical context.

Maps, photographs, posters, scrolls, and documents with English language summaries.

compiled by the National Diet Library

The Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI) is a rapidly expanding database made up of historical texts dating back more than 1200 years. The original version of every paragraph in every text is cross-tagged with its English translation, making it possible for any researcher to see, on the same screen, both the original and English translation of any word or phrase appearing in any JHTI text.