Library Catalogs
For books and e-books offered by the UC Berkeley Library, consult the Library's Find Books and E-Books page first. In Melvyl, WorlCat, etc., click on the REQUEST or UC-eLinks button for Interlibrary loan requests. UC Berkeley faculty, registered graduate students, and staffs can also borrow materials from Stanford University Library through Research Library Cooperative Program (RLCP). For requesting materials from Stanford University Library, please use RLCP Borrowing Request forms.
For books held by libraries in Japan, use the following databases to locate materials:
- Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Sāchi 国立国会図書館サーチ: Covers holdings of the National Diet Library (NDL) and other libraries, museums, and archives in Japan, including digital archives. For searching NDL's digitized holdings only, use Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Dejitaruka Shiryō 国立国会図書館デジタル化資料. Use Kindai Degitaru Raiburarī 近代デジタルライブラリー (Digital Library from the Meiji Era) for those available on Internet only.
- WebcatPlus: Covers holdings of university libraries in Japan. Also available as a part of GeNii, an Integrated search sysmtem, consisting of CiNii, Webcat Plus, Database of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kaken), Academic Research Database Repository, and JAIRO.
Possible Starting Points
Eiga, ongaku, geinō no hon zenjōhō 映画・音楽・芸能の本全情報 2000-2004. Call No.: East Asian Ref. PN2921 .E44 2005
Guide to Japanese drama / Leonard C. Pronko. Call No.: Main (Gardner) Stacks PL734.A12 P7 1984
Japanese performing arts : an annotated bibliography / Masato Matsui ... [et al.], Asia Collection, University of Hawaii. Call No.: East Asian PN2921.A12 .T4
Kinsei engeki kenkyū bunken mokuroku 近世演劇研究文献目録 / Chikamatsu no Kai hen. Call No.: East Asian PN2921 .K56 1984--Covers publications between 1951 and 1982; for publications between 1983 and 1988, use 近世演劇研究文献目録データベース
for publications between 1990-2004, use 日本古典演劇・近世文献目録データベース
Kotenseki kenkyū gaidansu : ōchō bungaku o yomu tame ni 古典籍研究ガイダンス : 王朝文学をよむために / 人間文化研究機構国文学研究資料館編 = Guidance of how to study early Japanese books : literature of the Heian period / National Institute of Japanese Literature. Call No.: East Asian PL726.2 .K66 2012
Minzoku geinō kenkyū bunken mokuroku 民俗芸能研究文献目錄. Call No.: East Asian PN2921 .M55 2004
Nihon engeki shomoku kaidai 日本演劇書目解題 / Fujino Yoshio cho. Call No.: East Asian Z3308.L5 F93