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Kokushi daijiten

Alternate Titles: 国史大辞典 Encyclopedia of Japanese History

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Kokushi daijiten is a digitized version of all 15 volumes (17 books) of one of the largest encyclopedias of Japanese history. It encompasses every aspect of Japan's history and includes entries in related fields such as archaeology, folklore, religion, art, Japanese language, Japanese literature and geography. The interface of the digital version allows you to search among the main entries (approximately 54,000 entries) as well as subentries (approximately 4,000 entries carefully chosen from subentries of all levels). In addition, you can conduct a search by specifying only the references or authors.

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Asian Studies; History; Japanese

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