databases are in Japanese, they do not have mirror sites in English or other foreign languages. Full-text databases can be used to search for specific words and passages in historical works of literature, however they are not suitable for reading large sections of text. databases: Nara ehon database (image) Nihon koten bungaku taikei database(full-text) Kokusho kihon database (catalogue) Bunken chōsa kādo database (catalogue) Kindai bunken databases Kindai bunken gazō database (image) Kindai shoshi database (catalogue) Meijiki shuppan kōkoku database(full-text) Kokusho zasshisho mokuroku OPAC database(catalogue) Maikuro shiryū wakosho mokuroku database (catalogue) Oushū shozai nihon kosho sōgō mokuroku Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books in Europe (catalogue) Nijyūichi daishû database (full-text) Kokubungaku ronbun mokuroku database (catalogue) Shiryōkan shūzô shiryō database Shiryōsho zaijōhō kensaku sisutemu database Shiryō jōhō kyōyūka database Renga database (unavailable) En'nō database (unavailable) External links NIJL homepage (English) Science and technology in Japan Japanese literature