About Encyclopedia of Japanese History

This 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 as well as the illustrations.

Contents information

Original books	国史大辞典
Publisher	Yoshikawa Kobunkan
Publication date	March 1, 1979 - April 1, 1997
Number of volumes	A work in fifteen volumes（seventeen volumes）
Book price (including tax)	¥273,000
Release date of JK	September 1, 2010
Number of entries	54,000 entries
Number of characters	32,000,000 characters
Search mode	OneLook Search / Individual Search
Accompanying materials	Explanatory note / How to use the Individual Search