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Collections of Asian art:

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	Asia Society, New York
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	Cleveland Museum of Art
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo.	Asian Art Museum, Seattle	Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Los Angeles County Museum of Art	British Museum, London	Musée Guimet, Paris
National Palace Museum, Taipei	Palace Museum, Beijing	Kyoto National Museum
Tokyo National Museum	Nara National Museum	National Museum of Korea, Seoul

The Japanese Garden, created by Clifton Olds of Bowdoin College. Take a virtual tour of the historic gardens of Kyoto at this site. Includes pictures, histories and maps.

Asian Historical Architecture, "a photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage. Here you can view over 5700 photos of 404 sites in fifteen countries, with extensive background information and 'virtual tours.'" The site includes numerous pictures of sites in Japan.

“Ise Grand Shrine Rebuilt,” YouTube, May 27, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTrSx1peqUo

Journeyman Pictures, “Ise Shrine - Japan,” Nov. 30, 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVy2toIHhig

JAANUS (Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System), a searchable, on-line dictionary of Japanese architectural and art historical terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent. "This dictionary contains approximately 8000 terms related to traditional Japanese architecture and gardens, painting, sculpture and art-historical iconography from approximately the 1st century A.D. to the end of the Edo period (1868). Terms from related fields such as lacquer, ceramics, textiles and metalwork have been included where they are considered to be of general interest and/or impact on the principal fields of architecture, painting and sculpture."

BuddhaNet's Buddhist Studies, a site that provides an introduction to several aspects of Buddhism, with sections entitled Basic Buddhism Guide; Buddhist Studies for Primary and Secondary Schools; Online Study Guide; Buddhist History and Culture; and The Buddhist World.

The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art, created and maintained by the Department of History of Art at The Ohio State University. Especially valuable for its online exhibitions (not just of Buddhist art) and projects (including an online searchable database of the images of the Huntington Archive).

Buddhism & Shintōism in Japan: A to Z Photo Dictionary of Japanese Sculpture & Art, compiled by Mark Schumacher.

East Asian Scroll Paintings, created and maintained by the University of Chicago's Center for the Art of East Asia. This invaluable resource provides high-resolution, scrolling digital images of Chinese and Japanese handscrolls. A bonus: the images are annotated.

Viewing Japanese Prints: Illustrated introductory essays on the artists, designs, and techniques of traditional and modern Japaese prints, designed and written by John Fiorillo of the University of California at Berkeley. Here you can find information on individual artists as well as technical information on woodblock printing. He has a good links page too.

The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams and Substance, an online exhibition at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

The Colorful World of Ukiyo-e: Color in Japanese Woodblock Prints, an online exhibition at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

H-Japan, an H-NET discussion list. The online discussion logs, book reviews and resources may be useful in your research.

Digital Asia, a resource of the H-ASIA network. It includes links to various websites and databases focusing on Asian history, politics, cultures, languages, and societies.

The award-winning Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages, started and maintained by my old friends (Andrew Midkiff and Patrick Young) at the University of Michigan. A very good general source for all art historians.

Virtual Library Museums Pages, started by Jonathan Bowen. Want to know about the collections and special exhibitions of museums all over the world? Go here first and find their websites.

The HWS Library.

Canvas, the electronic course center for HWS, with a mirror site to this one (but with an online grade book and discussion board).

And, finally, Artstor, an essential database of online images of art and architecture. HWS has an institutional subscription; you can search the digital library without creating an account, but creating an account (allowing you to download images) is free.

Links last checked on 19 January 2024.