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nihuINT: Integrated Retrieval System for the Humanities[In Japanese]
Cross search system for more than 100 databases provided by the 6 institutes of the National Insutitutes of Humanities.
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Artifacts
Artifact Catalog[In Japanese]
Basic information on the artifacts of economic activities, everyday life, rituals, and manufacturing tools held in the National Museum of Ethnology, such as their names, images, dimensions and weight, where they are used and by whom, and the year of acquisition.
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Detailed information on artifacts in the catalogue[In Japanese]
Detailed information on the artifacts of economic activities, everyday life, rituals, and manufacturing tools held in the National Museum of Ethnology, such as their local names and translation, images, materials used in their construction, dimensions and weight, when, where and how they are used and by whom, and the place and date of collection.
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Articles on Artifacts in the Publications[In Japanese]
Bibliographic information on articles describing artifacts held in the National Museum of Ethnology.
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Korean Daily Commodities Collection[In Japanese]
Information on all daily commodities owned and used by a family in Seoul, South Korea. For each item, its location in their apartment, manner of acquisition, and the family's memories about it are recorded.
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The George Brown Collection
Basic collection information for materials collected by George Brown, a missionary and ethnographer who worked in the Pacific Islands from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, and now held in the National Museum of Ethnology.
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Audio-Visual Materials
Visual Materials Catalog[In Japanese]
Information on movie films, videotapes and DVDs held in the National Museum of Ethnology (photographs excluded).
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Videotheque[In Japanese]
Information on visual contents provided by the Videotheque System in the main exhibition hall of the National Museum of Ethnology. It is searchable by keywords as well as by the menu of a Videotheque booth.
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Performing Arts Film (New)[In Japanese]
Information on film records of music, dance and theater that the National Museum of Ethnology has made at various places in the world since 1982. Videos are only allowed to be viewed inside the Museum.
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Nepal Photo Database
Photographs taken by TAKAYAMA Ryuzo, a graduate student of Osaka City University at that time, and other members of the 1958 Academic Expedition in north-western Nepal, and information on artifacts collected by the expedition and now held in the National Museum of Ethnology.
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The MATSUO Minori Postcard Collection[In Japanese]
A database of postcards bought by MATSUO Minori in places visited during his service in the Japanese Navy from 1919-1923. High-quality digital images of the postcards and information related to them can be accessed and magnified on a sliding scale.
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Audio Materials Catalog[In Japanese]
Information on records, CDs and audio tapes held in the National Museum of Ethnology.
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Itemized information on audio records in the audio materials catalog[In Japanese]
Piece-by-piece information on music, and episode-by-episode information on traditional folktale records in the audio materials held in the National Museum of Ethnology.
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Library Materials
Book and Periodical Catalogue  (OPAC)
Bibliographic information about the books and periodicals held in the library of the National Museum of Ethnology.
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Languages
The NAKANISHI Collection: World Literary Materials[In Japanese]
Information (with images of letter samples) on books, newspapers, manuscripts, and artifacts written in various languages and writing systems collected from all over the world by the late NAKANISHI Akira, former president of Nakanishi Printing Co. Ltd., and later donated to the National Museum of Ethnology.
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The YOSHIKAWA Database of Materials for a Sumerian Lexicon
Digitized notebooks with keywords for Sumerian language studies compiled by YOSHIKAWA Mamoru, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Letters, Hiroshima University.
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Talking Dictionary of Khinina-ang Bontok
An electronic dictionary of the Khinina-ang Bontok language spoken in Mountain Province, the Philippines, compiled by Lawrence A. Reid, Researcher Emeritus, University of Hawai‘i. It contains image and sound data, as well as information typically found in a printed dictionary.
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Japanese Traditional Folktales: The INADA Koji Collection New[In Japanese]
Information (including sound data) on Japanese traditional folktales, documented by Inada Koji at Kyoto Women's University and his group in 29 prefectures of Japan from 1967-1978 (446 tapes, about 190 hours recording). Sound data is only available inside the Museum.
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Clothing Culture
Clothing and Accessory Collection[In Japanese]
Detailed information and images of clothing materials and accessory artifacts held in the National Museum of Ethnology, and field photographs.
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Publications Concerning Clothing Culture
Index of periodical articles and books that concern the culture of costumes and clothing. This database contains the following items: 1) Japanese periodical articles (current), 2) Japanese periodical articles (before the end of World War II), 3) Foreign language periodical articles, 4) Japanese books, 5) Foreign language ethnographies.
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Chronology of Clothing Culture in Japan 1868-1945 renewal[In Japanese]
A digital chronology on clothing culture in Japan from 1868-1945 when western style clothing was not popular. It consists of information on events, contemporary conditions and memoirs which were collected from newspapers and clothing magazines in that period.
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Useful Databases outside the Museum
NACSIS-Webcat
National Institute of Informatics's union catalog database of books and journals held by the libraries of universities and other institutions.
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