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The NDL Digital Exhibitions features the NDL’s unique collections with explanations covering various themes such as nishiki-e, landscape photographs and historical materials. Discover your favorites!
Digital Exhibitions of the National Diet Library

This digital exhibition presents a variety of materials from the collection of the National Diet Library, including nishiki-e and photographs of Japanese Landmarks mainly from the Edo, Meiji...

NDL Gallery is a small digital exhibition related to the permanent “Gallery Exhibitions” at the National Diet Library Gallery in the Tokyo Main Library.

The NDL Image Bank is a public-domain digital gallery of the National Diet Library. Our website has thousands of out-of-copyright Japanese artworks and images from the extensive collections ...

This exhibition features selected material from exhibitions held during 2018 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the NDL.

This exhibition introduces autographs and the drawings of well-known people in Japan who played active roles in many different fields from the early modern times until the Showa era.

This exhibition introduces the 150-year history of exchanges between Japan and France.

Wasan is the native Japanese mathematics of the Edo period. This digital exhibition shows Wasan materials with their bibliography.

This exhibition gives an outline of international expositions and Japanese industrial exhibitions in the late 19th century and introduces the industrial technology development of the time.

This exhibition introduces the history of Japan-Netherlands exchange in two parts.

This exhibition introduces documents, newspaper articles, etc. related to Japanese immigration to Brazil from our collections.

This exhibition aims to provide electronically on the website the materials of the special exhibitions held in 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the National Diet Library.

This exhibition presents representative documents related to modern and contemporary Japanese political history.

This exhibition presents materials related to the natural history of the Edo era. (In Japanese)

This exhibition presents incunabula, books that were printed using metal type up to the year 1500.

This exhibition presents portrait photographs of statesmen, government officials, military officers, businessmen, scholars, cultural figures and others who had an impact on building modern J...

This exhibition follows the trail of book collectors in Japan through ex-libris ownership stamps in books.

This exhibition shows the important documents with commentaries concerning the formulation of the Constitution of Japan.

This page offers an accessible introduction to the history of the Japanese calendar with digital images of the Daisho-reki calendar, which was popular in the Edo period.

The contents of an exhibition held in 1998 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the NDL have been reproduced in digital form. (In Japanese)

This exhibition features articles on a variety of topics and serves as an invitation to visit the world of the National Diet Library's collections.
* The digital exhibition "Nippon in the world" closed down in 2020.
* The digital exhibition "The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs" and "The Landmarks of Edo in Color Woodblock Prints" closed down in December 2025.
Digital Exhibitions of the International Library of Children's Literature

The exhibition features 35 Japanese picture book authors of the Heisei Era and reviews developments during this period by looking back on these individualistic works.

The National Diet Library's collection of books on the theme of the history of Japan during the late Edo and Meiji periods, including those held by the International Library of Children's Literature, is presented in an encyclopedia format. (In Japanese)

This exhibition presents the historical outline of the Japanese children's literature since the Meiji era through about 450 children's books. Special-feature sections of outstanding authors and illustrators, stories featured in Japanese-language textbooks and its original piece and works of children...

This exhibition presents about 50 books representative of the 19th century, at the dawn of modern children's literature, from the Winnington-Ingram Collection comprising children's books of Great Britain from the 18th to 20th centuries.

This exhibition introduces Japanese children's books translated in thirty countries and regions, and also their Japanese originals.
* The digital exhibition "Picture Book Gallery" closed down in December 2025.
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