Links
Table of Contents
Game Links
- Legends of the Five Rings RPG - Official publisher's site
- AEG Forums
- Iuchi Datsuko's L5R Scriptorium - Useful links, pretty L5R Web graphics and themes.
- RPGNet L5R wiki
Rokugan
- Shinjo Yuriko's compendium of Rokugan etiquette and custom
- Wikipedia: Rokugan
- House of the Jade Lantern
- L5R Wiki
Japan
- Internet Resources: Japan - lots of links on medieval Japan (and other eras)
- Jim Breen's Japanese Page - A very nice academic page containing an extensive collection of interesting links and resources, as well as collections of images
The Brush
Language
- Jeffrey's Japanese<->English Dictionary - Gateway
- Jim Breen's Japanese-English Dictionary Project
- Japanese Translator
Names
- Onomastikon: Japan - Kate Monk's Dictionary of Names
- Behind the Names: Japanese Names - with etymology
- Japanese Names - a simple overview of Japanese naming conventions
- Wikipedia: Japanese Name - a much more elaborate overview and history
Folklore
- Tales of Old Japan, by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, on the Gutenberg Project
- Mukashibanashi Library
- Japanese Fairy Tales, by Theresa Peirce Williston
Art
- Ando Hiroshige
- Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery, a lovely collection of ukiyo-e prints
- Ukiyo-e Museum Nagoya TV Server, a wonderful collection of prints from the Edo period
- Hanga Online Gallery: has a remarkable choice of nicely scanned pictures
- Artcyclopedia: Ukiyo-e - "Images from the Floating World"
- Antique Japanese Woodblock Prints on Stuart Jackson Gallery
- Ronin Gallery
- Yoshotoshi Online Exhibition on the Fitzwilliam Museum site - a collection of impressions of woodcut prints by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
- Museum Syndicate: Works from Japan
The Sword
Samurai and Martial Arts
- The Electric Samurai and particularly its subarea the Samurai Gallery, with gorgeous pictures of historical samurai
- Ominobu: Japanese Samurai Warfare (and a whole lot more)
- e-Budokai.com, dedicated to Japanese-style martial arts
- Yachigusa Ryu - Martial arts and art. Check out the article on samurai dog armour!
Law Enforcement
- The Tokugawa police force
- Doshin - Low-grade law enforcers
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