Posted on September 8, 2009 by Tao
UC Berkeley Japanese Historical Maps.
Based on the collection in the East Asian Library of UC Berkeley, the online collection includes over 1100 images of maps and books. Installation of a special viewer is required.
What do you think of this resource?
Filed under: Japanese | Tagged: history, maps | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 6, 2009 by Tao
Mokpo Photo Gallery 木浦写真館.
Created by the Matsubara Laboratory at Kyushu University, this resource provides digitized maps and photos related to Mokpo, the “Japanese Street” in the colonial Korea.
What do you think of this resource?
Filed under: Japanese, Korean | Tagged: imperial Japan, maps, photos | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 27, 2009 by Tao
Access here.
Developed by the Reed Institute, this digital library “gathers together a large body of primarily European and American images of the island of Taiwan — called ‘Formosa’ by foreign visitors in the 19th Century — and its various peoples.” – Reed Institute
Filed under: Chinese, Taiwan, databases | Tagged: bibliography, images, language, maps | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 18, 2009 by Tao
Access here.
Kristina Troost at Duke shared with me a fantastic tool for finding the right Japanese image databases for your research topic. This tool covers over 80(!) visual resources and most of them are free. FOREASt only covers some of them. You can choose resource(s) by subject, era, period, format, region, and/or resource provider. [...]
Filed under: Japanese, databases | Tagged: images, maps, photos | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 28, 2009 by Tao
Digital Silk Roade.
This Digital Silk Road Project hosted at NII includes several interesting resources:
Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books on Silk Road (in western languages)
Digital Maps of Old Beijing
Silk Road Maps
Filed under: Chinese, databases | Tagged: maps, rare books, Silk Road | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 26, 2009 by Tao
Access here.
This digital collection consists of 900 old Japanese maps and 280 titles of illustrated books and scrolls 絵本・絵巻.
Filed under: Japanese, databases | Tagged: ehon, images, maps | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 26, 2009 by Tao
Access here .
It includes a digital archiving system, which provides a searchable catalog for Naikaku bunko 內閣文庫 and 公文書. Its digital gallery showcases digital images of a number of documents, maps, and other types of materials.
Filed under: Japanese, databases | Tagged: archives, books, catalog, government docs, images, maps | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 26, 2009 by Tao
The USC Digital Archives includes a number of databases on East Asia and Asian Americans, including:
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Collection (About)
Internet Mission Photography Archive (About)
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (About)
Korean American Digital Archive (About)
Korean Digital Archive (About)
Sea of Korea Map Collection (About)
Filed under: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, databases | Tagged: Christianity, diasporas, images, maps | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 9, 2009 by Tao
Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era.
Based on the collection in the University of British Columbia Library, this online collection has 285 maps.
What do you think of this resource?
Filed under: Japanese, databases | Tagged: maps | Leave a Comment »