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bullet The Art of Bonsai
bullet Asian Religions and Cultures
bullet Aspects of Japanese Culture and Society: An Anthropologist's View
bullet The Bonsai Primer
bullet CNN.com Asia
bullet Cultural Japan (The Japan Zone)
bullet The Doll Theater - Bunraku Exhibit
bullet Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji Stroke Order Practice on the Web
bullet A History of Ikebana
bullet History of Judo and Jujitsu
bullet History of the Kimono
bullet An Introduction to Bunraku
bullet Japanese Calligraphy
bullet Japanese Coinage
bullet Japanese Etiquette
bullet Japanese Festivals
bullet Japanese Food Links
bullet "The Japanese Garden" - Bowdoin College
bullet Japanese Recipes
bullet The Japanese Sword Arts: Kendo, Kenjutsu, and Iaido/Iaijutsu
bullet Japanese Writing Tutor
bullet Judo- The Japanese Art of Self Defense
bullet Kabuki for Everyone
bullet The Kimono
bullet My Name in Japanese
bullet National Holidays in Japan
bullet Noh Mask Home Page
bullet Religion in Japan
bullet Sacred Sites of Asia
bullet Scripts of All Asia
bullet Seiwa-en:  A Japanese Garden
bullet Seven Principles from "The Zen Way to the Martial Arts"
bullet The Shiga Project - The Japanese Garden
bullet Tea In Japan
bullet Tokyo Food Page
bullet Traditional Theater in Japan

 
    The Arts:
bullet Art in Edo Japan (1615-1868)
bullet "The Art of Japan" - British Museum
bullet Art Treasures from Kyoto
bullet Artcyclopedia -- The Arts of Japan
bullet The Arts of Asia - Japan (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
bullet Asianart.net
bullet Asian Art Images - data base
bullet Asian Art - Metropolitan Museum of New York
bullet Asian Arts: The on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia
bullet Asian Historical Architecture - Over 5,000 photos of 350 sites in Asia
bullet Buddhist Art
bullet Costumes from the Heian period
bullet Hirado Porcelain of Japan - From the Kurtzman Family
bullet Japanese and Southeast Asian Ceramics
bullet Japanese Art - an extensive collection (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
bullet Japanese Art - many, many images (Berger Foundation)
bullet Japanese Art and Architecture - An Overview (WebMuseum)
bullet Japanese Architectural Sites (Japan Atlas)
bullet Japanese Architecture in Kyoto Before 1200
bullet Japanese Buddhist Art (The Asia Society)
bullet Japanese Porcelains (The Asia Society)
bullet Japanese Stoneware (The Asia Society)
bullet Japanese Woodblock Prints (The Asia Society)
bullet Joseph Wu's Origami Site
bullet Korean Ceramics
bullet Masterworks - Art of Japan
bullet Masterful Illusions - Japanese Prints from the Anne van Biema Collection
bullet The Nara National Museum
bullet Origami and Japanese Gardens
bullet The Tokyo National Museum
bullet Toshogu --- a Seventeenth Century Monument
bullet Traditional Japanese Art - over 260 links
bullet Traditional Japanese Crafts (Japan Atlas)
bullet The Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts
 

    Music/Theater/Film:
bullet Kabuki Sounds
bullet Kurosawa Akira - biography
bullet Noh Drama
 

    Literature:
bullet 100 Poems by 100 Poets
bullet An Account of My Hut
bullet Bashô's Narrow Road to the Deep North
bullet The Celebration of Women Writers from Japan
bullet Diaries of Court Ladies
bullet Essays in Idleness
bullet "Ghosts, Demons and Spirits in Japanese Lore" - essay by Norman A. Rubin
bullet Haiku (1)
bullet Haiku (2)
bullet Haiku by Bashô
bullet A History of Japan's Literature
bullet Japanese Folktales
bullet Japanese Literature Sources
bullet Japanese Mythology
bullet Japanese Poetry
bullet Murasaki Shikibu - (Lady Murasaki: 973-1025? A.D.) - Women in History Curriculum
bullet The Tale of Genji
 

    Buddhism:
bullet BuddhaNet
bullet Buddhism:  An Introduction
bullet Frequently Asked Questions About Zen Buddhism
bullet "Japan, Buddhism and Military Aristocracies" - Frank E. Smitha
bullet Japanese Buddhist Temples
bullet Zen Art (Japanese Buddhist Temples II)
bullet Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library

 
    Shinto:
bullet All About Shinto
bullet

Sacred Spaces in Shinto - Jinja (Shrine) Shinto
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Sacred Texts of Shinto
bullet Shinto (1)
bullet Shinto (2)
bullet "Shinto & Buddhism: Wellsprings of Japanese Spirituality" - essay by Paul Watt
bullet Shinto Creation Stories
bullet Shinto Shrines:  A Virtual Tour
bullet Shinto Shrines II
bullet What Is Shinto?

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bullet Early Japanese Poetry
bullet 712:  Japanese Creation Myth - From Genji Shibukawa: Tales from the Kojiki
bullet 1000:  Diary of Murasaki Shikibu
bullet 1212:  An Account of My Hut - Kamo no Chômei
bullet 1782:  Kaibara Ekken or Kaibara Token - Greater Learning for Women

 

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