SHACHI - Language Resource Metadata Database

Database of noun accents in Osaka dialect.

A dialect of 13 Japanese major cities, Sapporo, Hirosaki, Sendai, Niigata, Nagoya, Tokyo, Toyama, Osaka, Kochi, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Kagoshima, and Okinawa. 5 generations, totaled 70 males and females perticipated. The data was compiled in CD-ROMs.

Dialects of ten major cities are collected. 2 males and 2 females a city, 20 speakers in total read a simple "weather forecast" aloud. Their ages range over 5 generations, There are 40 trucks and just choosing a truck number (1-40), your desired reader's recording will start playing. 5 CD-ROM compiles the following data. vol.1 Osaka/ vol.2 Kochi and Fukuoka/ vol. 3 Nagoya and Sendai/ vol. 4 Sapporo and Hirosaki/ vol. 5 Hiroshima and Kagoshima/

Ryukyuan Language Database is a collection of text and sound data of the Ryukyu dialect, which are compiled as database and shared through information and telecommunications network.

This is a database of Japanese classic poems compiled by Imperial command. It includes the database management system for analyzing Japanese classic poems. The database contains not only the general information of 1,111 Japanese classic poems in the original, but also the translations in English, and the parts of speech of each word in both Japanese and English. The database management system consists of two components: a database publishing system called "Bare Bone Database (BBDB)" and a database quality control system called "Bare Bone Quality Control (BBQC)." Using this management system, all the elements of the Kokinshu DB have been combined systematically, and users can not only search the information they want, buit also calculate the number of authors, poems, words by the parts of speech, and so forth.

From each "renga" (classic Japanese linked poems) compiled in the Renga database developed by International Research Center for Japanese Studies, the associated words in the first half and the latter half of a poem are extracted and made into the database. By typing a word that appears in the first half of the poem, users can find the associated word in the latter half of the poem, and the reverse search is also available.

This database contains all renga collections, composed before the Eiroku era (up until the death of renga poet Soyo) and the major works since and up until the Bakumatsu period. Professor SETA Katsuhiro of Nara National College of Technology, who collected this material, has graciously donated this data to Nichibunken to support Japanese studies.

This database was created to enable Japan researchers residing in Japan as well as abroad to more easily utilize the Kojiruien. Its search function is based on the 51-volume edition (bound in Western style) published in the Taish? period (1912-1926). This database was planned as a part of an innovative "Graduate Student Education Initiative Project" of the Department of Japanese Studies, a division of the School of Cultural and Social Studies in the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI). It was completed with the support of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies and the cooperation the National Institute for Japanese Literature

All twenty-one Imperial anthologies, the Manyoshu, Hubokuwakashu and other major individual waka collections are contained in the database. Professor SETA Katsuhiro of Nara National College of Technology, who collected this material, has graciously donated this data to Nichibunken to support Japanese studies.

This database contains the major haiku collections, including Basho and Buson. Professor SETA Katsuhiro of Nara National College of Technology, who collected this material, has graciously donated this data to Nichibunken to support Japanese studies.