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Find Images
The following organizations provide digital images of Japan with clear instructions for the use:
- Image Archives
- National Diet Library
- Union catalog of the collections of the national art museums, Japan
- Artize.net Provides digital images of collections from Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum, and cultural heritage institutions.
- Historical Agro-Environment Browsing System Includes nearly 900 map sheets of rapid survey maps, covering the Kanto Region surrounding Tokyo. Provides detailed land use information in the areas during 1880s.
- P&P online catalog - fine prints: Japanese, pre-1915 (Library of Congress)
- The art of Asia (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- British Museum . Objects from Japan can be located through "Collection database search".
- Victoria and Albert Museum
Ukiyo-e Images
- Takahashi Seiichiro Ukiyo-e Collection, Digital Gallery of Rare Books & Special Collections (Digital Gallery of Keio University Library)
- The Floating World of Ukiyo-e, Shadows, dreams, and substance (Library of Congress)
Historical Maps
- Historical Agro-Environment Browsing System (National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences) Covers most of the Kanto region. Provides detailed information on the land use of Japan in the 1880s.
- Japanese Historical Maps (East Asian Library, University of California , Berkley)