I just spent about half an hour wandering around on the web looking for
wildlife unique to Japan for a certain scene in a certain fic. (Ended up
just using sparrows, blah!) Anyway, I thought some of you might be
interested in the following references:
http://www2.osk.3web.ne.jp/~wwgkanda/
Has wildlife by region, summer and winter homes. Particularly good for
birds.
http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/multimed/sounds/
Sounds of aforementioned animals.
http://www.wink.ac/~ohno/
Photographs of Japanese birds. Most of the page is in Japanese.
http://www.big.or.jp/~shimpset/
Another bunch of images of birds.
Yes, this is all for the birds. :P
Anyway, I try to keep an index of references up to date here:
http://dmoz.org/Bookmarks/M/minty/Japanese_References/
They're a mixture of things, bands, pop culture, japanese death poetry,
that sort of thing. Hope this helps.
Colleen
(what am I thinking, some people don't even read the manga!)
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