Japanese Studies

This section includes guides to both print and online sources for photographs, works of art, and manga.

1. Print sources in the East Asian Collection
   Images include: photographs, photo essays, art work, manga/cartoons and other non-photographic images, hikifuda (advertising handbills), and more. You will find retrospectives recapping periods of modern Japanese history, as well as resources that focus on particular topics, such as women, children, Okinawa, and southeast Asia, and medieval and pre-modern Japan.
2. Manuscript materials in Rare Books, Manuscript and Special Collections Library 
   Some maps and photographs can be found in Duke's collection of reports from missionaries, early British diplomats to Japan, the East India company papers, diaries and letters from merchants and seamen as well as in such collections as the Stereographic card collection, 1860-1928, the postcard collection and the Hartman Center advertising collection.  Holdings can be searched through their finding aids. 
3. Japanese University Library Digitization Projects
   These are indexed at Ryukyu University.
4. Japanese Museums
   Japanese Museums, like ones in Europe and the United States, often put images up on their websites.
5. Manga
   
6. Maps
   Historical maps have been digitized by Japanese and North American institutions.
7. Photographs
8. Websites organized by image subject and historical period.