Index of materials for EAJ205: Japanese Research and Bibliographic Methods

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I. Introductory materials

• Required/Recommended Dictionaries for Japanese Language Students

Online Dictionaries

• Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server
• Jeffrey’s Japanese-English Dictionary Server
• GOO (Japanese-English, English-Japanese, Japanese-Japanese)
• Pacific Software Online Dictionary
• Denshi Jisho – Online Japanese Dictionary
• Space ALC
• Yahoo Japan Online Dictionary
• Big Globe Search
• Sanseido Web Dictionary
• Tangorin

Other Language Resources

• Rikai
• Hiragana Megane

II. General Bibliographies and WWW Resources

• UAlbany Library page on East Asian Studies
• Selected Resources for Research in East Asian Studies
• Umass Amherst Online Resources for Japanese Studies
• Zotero

III. Using the University Libraries

• Virtual Tour
• Minerva Tutorial
• International Students’ Guide

IV. Word Processing

· Installing East Asian Language Support Under Microsoft Windows Platforms

• Word Processing in Japanese

• Installing CJK IME in Windows Vista

V. JSTOR, Project Muse, BAS, OCLC, NACSIS

• UAlbany Off-Campus Access to Databases and Online Journals—University at Albany Users Only
• BAS general searching help
• Course Materials on Worldcat and GeNii (ILL)
• Library guide to Boolean searching
• NACSIS
• GeNii
• National Diet Library of Japan

VI. Radicals of (Chinese) Characters (漢字) and Kanji Trivia

• How to use a Kanji Dictionary
• About Kanji – web page with useful information about Japanese
• On-yomi and Kun-yomi handout
• The 214 Radicals (for Japanologists)
• Types of Kanji

VII. CJK Romanization

VIII. Simplification

• Timeline for language reform
• Class handout on “History of Chinese characters and simplification”
• Information on the old Japanese orthography (旧仮名遣い)
• Chart comparing simplifications between Chinese and Japanese
• Chart of “Significantly Changed Kanji” from Nelson’s Dictionary
• Chart of hentaigana from O’Neill’s A Reader of Handwritten Japanese

IX. Calligraphy

• Course material on calligraphy
• Semi-cursive and cursive forms in Japanese
• Variant kana forms

X. Morohashi’s 大漢和辞典

• Information sheet on Morohashi’s dictionary
• Example of entry from Chinese version of the 大漢和辞典

XI. Citation/Plagiarism

• Course materials on citation in CJK
• East Asian Studies Style Guide
• Plagiarism 101—from the SUNY Albany Libraries
• MLA Style Guide

XII. Annotated Bibliographies

• Course materials on annotated bibliography and bibliography assignment
• Sample Annotated Bibliography
• UAlbany Library page on annotating a bibliography
• Writing an Annotated Bibliography (from San Diego State University)

XIII. Research Papers

• UAlbany Library site on sources for writing a term paper

XIV. Eras

• Reign Chart of Japan
• CJK Periodization chart
• English Periodization Chart
• Japanese Periodization Chart (From Nelson’s Dictionary)

XV. Chronology/Telling Time

· National Diet Library’s history of the Japanese calendar

· Nengo-calc, an online program for calendrical conversion

· Description of the rokuyō system

XVI. Units of Measure, Statistics, etc.

• CJK Cardinal/Ordinal systems
• CJK weights and measures
• Japanese measurement conversion charts

XVII. Names/Biographical Resources

• List of “name” kanji (人名用漢字別表) as designated by the Japanese government
• Online Biographical Dictionary (オンライン人名辞典)
• Public Domain Data Library 人名辞典 (Japanese language only)

XVIII. Ranks

• Course handout on Ranks

Rank Charts

• Rank chart of classical Japan
• Chart of Japanese military and business ranks

XIX. Historical Resources

• East Asian Historical Research

• Japanese Historical Resources
• Examples of pages from the Dictionary of Japanese History

• Bibliography of Japanese History up to 1912
• H-JAPAN (an academic discussion list with logs)
• H-ASIA (an academic discussion list with logs)
• H-NEAsia (an academic discussion list with logs)

XX. Literature Resources

• Course material on literature resources
• Japanese Literature in Translation
• Virginia Japanese Text Initiative
• Aozora Bunko 青空文庫
• National Diet Library of Japan

XXI. Geographical Resources

• Course Materials on East Asian Geography (pdf file—smaller, but you can’t zoom in on the maps)
• Japanese Historical Maps from the East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley

XXII. Religion/Philosophy Resources

• Course Materials on East Asian Religion and Philosophy
• Digital Buddhist Library and Museum
• Stanford Jguide to Japanese Religions
• Buddhist Studies - Buddhism/Buddhist Electronic Newsletters & Journals
• H-Buddhism (an academic discussion list with logs)
• Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
• East Asian Buddhist Studies: A Reference Guide