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EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURES: Japanese

Japanese Literature

Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Literature
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL723 .B5
Japanese Fiction Writers, 1868-1945
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL747.55 .J36 1997
Japanese Fiction Writers since World War II
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL747.8 .J36 1997
Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL723 .S354 1994
Japanese Women Writers: a Bio-Critical Sourcebook
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL725 .J37 1994
Medieval Japanese Writers
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL726.3 .M43 1999
The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL726.1 .M495 1985
Shinchō Nihon Bungaku Jiten
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL707 .S46 1988
A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL717 .R551 1988

Japanese-Language Databases

CiNii
Japanese-language index to articles, books & journals.

General Japanese Reference Works

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan
Call Number: Clapp Ref DS805 .C36 1993

Find more reference works on Japan in the library catalog.

Cultural Atlas of Japan
Call Number: Clapp Ref f DS821 .C62 1988
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
Call Number: Clapp Ref DS805 .K633 1983
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Japanese Economy
Call Number: Clapp Ref HC462.9 .H73 1994
Modern Japan: an Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism
Call Number: Clapp Ref DS805 .M63 1998

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL535 .M34 1986
Kanji Pict-O-Graphix: Over 1,000 Japanese Kanji and Kana Mnemonics
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL677.6 .R69 1992
Kenkyusha's New English-Japanese Dictionary
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL679 .K388 1980
Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL679 .K4 2001
Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL679 .N4
Oxford-Duden Pictorial English-Japanese Dictionary
Call Number: Clapp Ref PL679 .P29 1983