Dance and Theatre
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General
- How to search performing arts industry
- Performance Records database of "Buyonenkan"
- EPAD
- Designer's Works Theater Database (Japan Association of Theatre Designers & Technicians)
Classical performing arts
General
- The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum Digital Archives Collection (Waseda University) Library catalogs, playbills, scripts, etc. Cross-searchable
- Database List (Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University)
Performance Records
- Kabuki Performance Database
- Noh Performance Programs owned by RCCPA (Kobe Women's University)
- Cultural Digital Library : Performance Records (Japan Arts Council)
- Misemono Database Late Edo era
Library catalogs ・ Bibliographies ・ Indexes
- Research Center of Classic Performing Arts, Kobe Women's University : Collection Search Tachibana Bunko Collection, etc.
- Chikamatsu Drama Research Institute (Sonoda Women's University) Joruri,Kabuki
- Japan Arts Council Collection Search National Theatre, National Noh Theatre, National Bunraku Theatre
- Digital archive of materials related to Noh (The Nogami Memorial Noh Theatre Research Institute of Hosei University)
- Database of Book Catalogues about Puppet Play Bunraku,Joruri
- How to Search Translations of Noh and Kyogen, Website (Research Navi) (National Diet Library)
- References on Cultural Properties (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties) "Yokyoku kai""Nohgaku gahou""Makuma", etc.
Playbills
- TOKYO Archive (Tokyo Metropolitan Library)
- Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts(National Institute of Japanese Literature) Select"Search Work", Input "番附" in Category field
- Digitized Playbill Database (University of Tokyo)
- Shochiku Otani Library Collection, Shibai Banzuke Browsing System -1944
- Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo Database
- Database of the Surimono Select "項目検索" and check "番附" in 形態分類, "芝居・浄瑠璃・歌謡" in 内容分類
- Hankyu Culture Archives : Colored Woodblock Prints and Playbills Select "番付/すべて" in "詳細検索", select "番付/役割" if you want to search "役割番付"
- Shibai Banzuke (Kabuki Playbills) Portal Database (Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University)
- Cultural Digital Library : Bunraku Materials (Playbills) (Japan Arts Council) 1891-1959
Scripts
- Shochiku Otani Library Collection, GHQ-censored Scripts Browsing System Kabuki
- Shochiku Otani Library Collection, Gidayu Scripts Browsing System
- Noh Chant Books (Utaibon) (Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University)
- Collection of Thwacking Boards or Blocks for Printing Utaibon owned previously by the Hinoki Shoten (Kobe Women's University) Utaibon
Digital sound recordings
- Historical Recordings Collection (National Diet Library)
- Rōkyoku (Naniwabushi) Digital Archive (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Western ・ Contemporary
Performance Records
- JAPAN 2.5-DIMENSIONAL MUSICAL ARCHIVES (JAPAN 2.5-DIMENSIONAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION)
- ACL Contemporary Theater Criticism Archive
- Contemporary Theatrical Performance Records (Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum of Waseda University)
- Chronological database of performances of traditional Japanese theater (Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University) Joruri, Kabuki, Shimpa, Shingeki
- Ballet Archive (Showa University of Music) Domestic performance, 1940s-
Library catalogs ・ Bibliographies ・ Indexes
- Ikeda Bunko Takarazuka Revue, article index available
- Japan Arts Council Collection Search New National Theater, Tokyo
- Database of Book Catalogues about Puppet Play including books and pamphlets from outside Japan
- Saitama Arts Theater theater arts archives
Scripts
- Simply Scripts
- Contemporary Theatrical Performance Records (Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum of Waseda University)
- Playtext Digital Archives
- ZA-KOENJI Public Theatre Archive
- Theater League Scenario League
- Japan Arts Council Collection Search New National Theater, Tokyo
- Japanese Drama Database (The Japan Foundation)
Pamphlets
- Eiryo Ashihara Collection (Research Navi) (National Diet Library) Ballet, drama and circus ※Permission is required to use some materials out of this collection.
- Contemporary Theatrical Performance Records (Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum of Waseda University)
- Suruga-ya
- Japan Arts Council Collection Search New National Theater, Tokyo
Digital sound recordings
- Historical Recordings Collection (National Diet Library)