Research resources

日本芸術文化振興会
図書検索
Japan Arts Council libraries catalog. Includes National Theatre, National Noh Theatre, National Bunraku Theatre, New National Theatre.
(Japanese, English)
文化デジタルルアイブラリー 能楽資料Japan Arts Council Bunka Digital Library.Noh texts and illustrations.
(Japanese)
国文学研究資料館
連歌 演能 雅楽 DB
National Institute of Japanese Literature catalog of renga, nōgaku, gagaku materials.
(Japanese, English)
立命館大学 ARC Open DBRitsumeikan University Art Research Center collection of databases. Includes Noh and Kabuki.
 (Japanese, English)
野上記念法政大学
能楽研究所能楽資料
デジタルアーカイブ
The Nogami Memorial Noh Theatre Research Institute of Hōsei University.
Source materials dating from fifteenth century to the present
– Manuscripts from the Muromachi period (1392–1568), manuscripts and printed sources from the Edo period (1603–1868)
– Books, journals and catalogues published after the Meiji Restoration of 1868
– Paintings and other pictorial materials.
– Research literature in English and other foreign languages. 
Particularly valuable materials:
– Kurumaya utaibon set dating from the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568–1603) from the former collection of NOGAMI Toyoichirō
Den-Kojirō Nobumitsu utaibon set formerly owned by the Date family of Sendai
Horiike utaibon set
Tenshō kyōgenbon, the oldest surviving collection of Kyōgen storylines.
Independent collections
– Kōzan Bunko (represents the most extensive collection of Noh-related materials in Japan, and was assembled by EJIMA Ihei, former proprietor of the Wan’ya Shoten, publisher of Hōshō-school utaibon)
– Hannyakutsu Bunko (includes the greater part of writings transmitted in the Konparu family, and was formerly housed at the temple Hōzanji of Ikoma, Nara prefecture.
– KANZE Shinkurō-ke Bunko
– Sagi-ryū Kyōgen Mizuno Bunko
– Kusukawa Bunko
– Miyake Bunko
– Kōsai Bunko
– Nogami Bunko
– Furukawa Bunko
– KAWAMURA Takashi Bunko
– SASANO Ken-shi Kyūzō Shiryō
観世アーカイブKanze school archive. Nō chant and choreography books.
(Japanese)
Pitts River MuseumPitts River Museum nō mask collection 
(English)
Tsukioka Kōgyo
The Art of Noh
University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) collection of Tsukioka Kōgyo’s Japanese color woodblock prints on nō and kyōgen
(English)