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• Books from Meiji period 近代デジタルライブラリー  <日本国会图书馆>
• Contemporary Japanese authors <青空文庫>  
  • Many works of contemporary Japanese authors including Natsume, Akutagawa, Dazai, etc. are available for free download.
• Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI)  
  
  • Historical texts written during the last 1292 years. The original version of every paragraph in every text is cross-tagged with its English translation.
• Japanese Text from Nara to Modern 電子化された日本語テキスト
• Japanese Text Initiative (University of Virginia)

• Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (100 Poems by 100 Poets) (searchable)

• Premodern Japanese texts and translations

• Rare books from National Diet Library

  • Colorful images (approx. 31,000 items) from the collections of the NDL published mostly in the Edo Period.