Society for Japanese Arts

Vereniging voor Japanse Kunst

Links

Introduction

This page shows some links to what we think are important websites about Japanese arts.

We marked websites with extensive lists of interesting links with this icon:

Websites

Antiques Guides and Directories

 The Internet Antiques Guide (over 5000 antiques links)

listAntiques (the antiques listing service and search engine)

Asian Studies

AAS (Association for Asian Studies, Ann Arbor - United States of America)

IIAS (Asian Studies, Leiden University - The Netherlands)

ICSAA (International Center for Studies in Anthropology of Art, Cagliari - Italy)

J.S. Net Forum (Japanese Studies Network Forum, by The Japan Foundation, Japan)

National Clearinghouse for U.S. (Japan Studies, Indiana University - United States of America)

The Coombsweb ('The pioneer site for Asia-Pacific research and electronic publishing)

Cultural Centres

Shôfûkan (Website in Dutch of the Foundation Shofukan which gathers and promotes authentic and classical Japanese disciplines for a wide audience.)

Martial Arts

E-budo.com (bulletin board dedicated to Japanese martial arts and culture)

BudoSeek (martial arts community with a Japanese section)

Museums with Japanese Collections

Belgium

Musea van het Verre Oosten (Brussels - in Dutch)

Musées d'Extrême-Orient (Brussels - in French)

Etnografisch Museum (Antwerp - in Dutch, French and English)

The Netherlands

Gemeentemuseum (The Hague - in Dutch and English)

Museum Volkenkunde (Leiden - in Dutch and English)

Princessehof (Leeuwarden - in Dutch)

Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam - in Dutch and English)

SieboldHuis (Leiden - in Dutch, English and Japanese)

Wereldmuseum Rotterdam (Rotterdam - in Dutch)

More links to international museums will follow ...

Netsuke

International Netsuke Society (study and collection of netsuke and related sagemono art forms)

Paintings

Hokusai-Paintings.com (in Japanese only)

Portals and Gateways

Japan Startpagina (Portal in Dutch)

LeJapon.org (Portal in French)

Ukiyo-e.com (Portal in English)

Web Japan (Gateway in English and other languages)

Pottery and Porcelain

Gotheborg.com (by Jan-Erik Nilsson: Chinese & Japanese Porcelain, including a bulletin board)

Prints

Osakaprints.com (by Peter Ujlaki & John Fiorillo)

Ukiyo-e: The Pictures of the Floating World (by Hans Olof Johansson, including a bulletin board)

Viewing Japanese Prints (by John Fiorillo)

Woodblock Printmaking (by David Bull)

Societies

The Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc. (in English)

International Ukiyo-e Society (despite the name only in Japanese)

Swords & Tsuba

Japanese Sword Guide (by Richard Stein)

Theater

The Japan Arts Council (The National Theatre of Japan, in Japanese and partly in English)

Kabuki (by 'Regis' Aragoro Shoriya; in English)

Various

Daruma (by Gabi Greve; mainly in Japanese and in English)

Restorient (by Andrew Thompson/Sydney Thomson; an independent conservation studio, based in The National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, The Netherlands; in English)

World Haiku Club (a world-wide network of haiku poets)

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