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Public Database
・Database of Pictorial Images Outside Japan Sample Images
(Images and text abstracted from photographs and illustrations in research
materials on Japanese culture published all over the world.)
・Database of Old Photographs Sample Images
(Images and text on old photographs dating from the end of the Edo period
to the beginning of the Meiji period.)
・Database of Japanese Art Sample Images
(Images and text on various kinds of Japanese art, e.g. paintings, prints,
ceramic wares, etc., owned by The Pushkin State Museum and The State
Hermitage Museum in Russia and The Ferenc Hopp Museum in Hungary.)
・Database of Writings on Japan in Western Languages
(Nichibunken's collection of pre-1900 Western publications dealing with Japan)
・Nichibunken publications Database
(Information on publications put out by Nichibunken with complete texts.)
・Old Maps of Nagasaki
(Nichibunken has created a database
of 221 color photographic images of items in the collection of old maps of
Nagasaki in the collection of the Nagasaki Municipal Museum, along with catalogue
information pertaining to these images from Nagasaki Shiritsu Hakubutsukan
shiryﾐ｢mokuroku: Tosho, chizu, shashin shiryﾐ｢hen (Catalogue of Materials
in the Nagasaki Municipal Museum: Books, Maps, and Photographic Materials).
These images and the related catalogue information were digitized by
Nichibunken.)
・Cross-Referenced Simultaneous Search of Databases of Foreign Images
of Japan, Early Photographs, and Japanese Art
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