While this is mostly geared towards Rurouni Kenshin fanfic authors, this also
has a lot of useful links for anyone trying to write anything that as to do
with Japan-
This can also be found inside the Rurouni Kenshin Fanfiction Archive
www.nabiki.com/nichan/archive/resources
Contents:
1)RK Manga Translations 7) Religion
2)RK OAV Scripts a)Shinto
3)Modern Japan b)Buddhism (Zen)
4)Online Japanese Dictionarys 8)Architecture
5)Japanese Names 9)History
6) Japanese Food 10)Mythology
a) Sushi 11)Martial Arts
b)wagashi 12)Misc: Specialty Stuff
If you have a link to add, do not hesitate to email me!
(battousai@licensedtokill.com) Thank you.
For general Rurouni Kenshin information, please try the Rurouni
Kenshin Links at the Anime Web Turnpike
1)Rurouni Kenshin Translations:
Maigo-chan's RuroKen Manga Translations
http://users.deltanet.com/~newcomb/ruroken.htm
Serizawa Kamo's Translations Page
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/stanford/130
2)OAV Scripts:
OAV 1
http://members.tripod.com/~AnimeWest/scripts/kenshinova_01.txt
OAV 2
http://members.xoom.com/Yukishiro/ova2.txt
OAV 3
http://members.xoom.com/Yukishiro/ova3.txt
OAV 4
http://members.xoom.com/Yukishiro/ova4.txt
3)Pages on Japan in general:
KYOTOday
http://www.pref.kyoto.jp/index_e.html
Japan Today
http://www.jinjapan.org/today/index.html
Japan Travel Updates
http://www.jnto.go.jp/sitemap.html
Hello Net Japan
http://www.mmex.or.jp/wnn-c/e-index.htm
Tokugawa Art Museum
http://www.cjn.or.jp/tokugawa/index.html
http://www.ouc.bc.ca/mola/jp/links-geography.htm
http://www.io.com/~nishio/japan/
Kids Web Japan
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/index.html
http://www.coara.or.jp/~mieko/miehome.htm
Japan etc. Links to more than 200 pages on proverbs, counting, dress,
more.
http://www.cowell.org/~yogo/index.html
Five Rings gamers' site; their Densetsu section has ghosts etc.
http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~kana/japan/jpculture.html
Nakasen Highway: A Jouney to the Heart of Japan
http://hkuhist2.hku.hk/nakasendo/
4)Online Japanese Dictionaries:
Jeffrey's online J<->E dictionary is at:
http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/nocolor/dict
Jim Breen's online dictionary is at:
http://www.rdt.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction2.html#japanese
A Web of Online Dictionaries; links to all kinds of specialty
vocabularies
http://www.hayamasa.demon.co.uk/afaq/afaq.html
alt.sci.lang.japan FAQ
http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/index.html
Teach Yourself Japanese
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/1090/slang.html
Keichan's Doki-doki J-town. 5 pages of slangy ways to be flippant, rude or
romantic.
5)Japanese Names:
http://www.io.com/~nishio/japan/names.html
http://hsb.baylor.edu/html/vanauken/JapaneseNames.html
http://www2.gol.com/users/billp/students/kanjiname/
http://student-www.uchicago.edu/~smhawkin/names/meiji.html
http://jinny.cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp/~skoba/hobby/rpg/Jname/
http://student-www.uchicago.edu/~smhawkin/names/hq.html
(not exclusively Japanese, but one of the better sites)
Females:
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/japanese-f
Males:
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/japanese-m
6)Japanese Food:
a)Sushi Vocabulary
http://www.bento.com/sushivoc.html
http://foodwine.com/destinations/japan/japanmenu.html
b)Wagashi (Japanese sweets):
www.wagashi.com
http://202.23.150.181/users/kkitao/class/kyoto/D308/kiyama.htm
http://www.mmex.or.jp/wnn-c/wagasi/e-index.htm
7)Religion:
a)Shinto:
http://www.jinja.or.jp/english/s-0.html
Shinto Creation Stories
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CREAT.HTM
Excerpts from Sacred Shinto Texts
http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/
Glossary of Basic Shinto Terms
http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/bts/glossary.html
b)Buddhism(Zen):
http://buddhism.about.com/culture/religion/buddhism/msub14.htm
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/KoanStudy.html
http://www.buddhanet.net/l_zen.htm
http://www.chinapage.com/zen/zenfaq.html
http://www.ajiva.com/daryl/zenfaq.html
http://www.uncwil.edu/iabs/vl/dharma.html
http://pears2.lib.ohio-state.edu/FULLTEXT/cfb_phil.htm
http://www.uua.org/uubf/sermon1.htm
8)Architecture:
http://www.kippo.or.jp/culture/build/archi_e.htm
http://www.isei.or.jp/Paper_Museum/houses.html
http://www.swifty.com/apase/charlotte/@Ejh.html
The Traditional Japanese House
9)History:
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CONTENTS.HTM
Ancient Japan, history through Heian
http://kizuna.cwru.edu/rlgn303-s99/projects/relart/resources/rehistory.html
Japanese History Resources
http://www.variable.net/hidden/japan/introduction.html
Demo for an onlinecourse on feudal Japan
Edo Japan: A Virtual Tour:
http://www.us-japan.org/edomatsu/
A trip through Edo illustrated with woodblock prints.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/5770/shinhis.htm
A lot of info on the Shinsen Gumi
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/4081/file104.html
Also has info on the Shinsen Gumi, and info particular to
Saitoh Hajime
http://www.genkiland.icestorm.com/Aoshi/hijikata.html
A page about Hijikata Toshizou, another Shinsen Gumi
member (and even more evil then Saitoh, from the reading!)
http://www.infocr.co.jp/hometown/yamaguchi/rekisi-e.html
Men Who Fought for the Meiji Restoration. Yamaguchi used to be
Choushuu.
Children of the Edo Period as Seen in Ukiyo-E:
http://www.kumon.co.jp/eng/ka1000e.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/8353/
by a MENSA Sig on feudal Japan.
The Kochi City Homepage:
http://www.city.kochi.kochi.jp/kc_welcome.htm
Has capsule bios on Ishin leaders from Tosa.
Japanese History Through Film:
http://lama.kcc.hawaii.edu/asdp/biblio/film/easian/japan/jpfilm.html
A list of historical films
http://www.us-japan.org/edomatsu/
Virtual tour of 1700s era Edo
http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/unive/
Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji.
http://www.math.uic.edu/~dturk/meijihistory.html
Timeline of Japanese history
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/ottwell-japanschools.html
Observation of boys' education in late Tokugawa
10)Japanese Mythology, and Folklore
http://mhtml.ulis.ac.jp/~myriam/deuxgb.html
Has folktales in your choice of languages
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/areas/japanese/
Encyclopedia Mythica's Japanese section
http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/jastro.html#Astro
Star Lore
Raccoon-dogs in Japanese Culture:
http://home.wxs.nl/~oosting/tanuki/in_japan.html
The Garden of Tanuki:
http://www.canismajor.demon.co.uk/tanukigarden/tanuki.htm
What attracted me to it is not only the piles of information on tanuki,
but the essay on why some women are tanuki and others are foxes!!
(But *no* clue on why Misao is a weasel!)
Mythology of the Fox:
http://www.harapan.co.jp/english/JPImage_e/kitsune.htm
Kitsune:
http://www.comnet.ca/~foxtrot/kitsune/kitsune1.htm
A story about the Fox and the Tanuki:
http://home.clara.net/wabei/xlation/quilt/tanufox.htm
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/japan.html
Another folktale page
http://home.clara.net/wabei/index.html
Lots of translated tales and links to more
11)Martial Arts:
Sho-shin:
http://www.reninet.com/shoshin/index.html
Has just about everything you might want to know about swords and
swordmaking.
http://www.home.ch/~spaw3382/bushi2.htm
Bushido site with a ton of martial arts links
http://www.cam.org/~hiro/english/hypertext/kendo.html
Kendo Stuff
http://frontpage.inficad.com/~trabino/kobudo.htm
http://www.isosceles.net/ninja/index.html
http://www.budoseek.net/
http://www.mindspring.com/~mamcgee/iaido.eishin-ryu.html
http://www.gemlink.com/~rstein/nihonto.htm
12)Specialty Stuff:
http://www.britgo.demon.co.uk/index.html
Introduction to Go.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/~rjhare/shogi.intro.html
Shogi - Japanese Chess. Shogi without cheating ^_^
http://www.ejrcf.or.jp/JRTR_No/html_rt01/his.htm
History of Japanese Railways.
http://www.csuohio.edu/history/shiga96/garden.html
The Shiga Project: A Japanese Garden
Hope some of you found this helpful!
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KFFDisc's Loving and
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