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Japanese Historical Text Initiative. Japanese Historical Text Initiative ( JHTI) is a searchable online database of Japanese historical documents and English translations. It is part of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. [1]
Although Japan's reverence for its unique history and art is well documented and illustrated by collections of art and documents, there is almost no archivist tradition. Before the creation of the National Archives, there was a scarcity of available public documents which preserve "grey-area" records, such as internal sources to show a process ...
Historiography of Japan. Bibliography of Japanese history; Bulletin of the National Museum of Japanese History, in Japanese; Japanese Journal of Religious Studies; Journal of Japanese Studies; Monumenta Nipponica, Japanese studies, in English; Social Science Japan Journal; History of East Asia; History of Japanese art; History of Japanese Americans
History of Japan. The history of education in Japan dates back at least to the sixth century, when Chinese learning was introduced at the Yamato court. Foreign civilizations have often provided new ideas for the development of Japan's own culture.
Part of the ordination certificate of Enchin from 833. The term "National Treasure" has been used in Japan to denote cultural properties since 1897.The definition and the criteria have changed since the introduction of the term. These ancient documents adhere to the current definition, and have been designated National Treasures since the Law for the Protection of Cultural P
History. The antecedents of the modern Japanese encyclopedia date from the ancient period and the Middle Ages. Encyclopedic books were imported from China from an early date, but the first proto-encyclopedia produced in Japan was the 1000-scroll Hifuryaku (秘府略), compiled in 831 upon the emperor's orders by Shigeno no Sadanushi (滋野貞主) and others, only fragments of which survive today.
v. t. e. The historiography of Japan ( 日本史学史 Nihon shigakushi) is the study of methods and hypotheses formulated in the study and literature of the history of Japan . The earliest work of Japanese history is attributed to Prince Shōtoku, who is said to have written the Tennōki and the Kokki in 620 CE. The earliest extant work is the ...
Kodomo no kuni was published monthly in Japan for over twenty years, beginning in the Taishō era in 1922 and continuing until the early Shōwa era in 1944. Other publications for children had begun about a decade earlier in Japan, but Kodomo no kuni was the first of its kind to specifically support the education of children with the arts.