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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