Noh Plays

The Japanese Text Initiative (JTI) is a long-running digital humanities project jointly developed by the University of Virginia Library and the University of Pittsburgh's East Asian Library to make classical Japanese literature freely available online. Launched in 1995, the collection provides searchable electronic editions of major literary works in the original Japanese, many accompanied by English translations, romanisation and scholarly annotations. Its holdings include classics such as the Man'yōshū, Kokin Wakashū, The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book, Hōjōki, Tsurezuregusa, as well as a substantial collection of Noh plays with translations by scholars including Arthur Waley, Ezra Pound and Royall Tyler. Designed primarily for students and researchers, the JTI remains one of the most important open-access resources for the study of Japanese literature, allowing users to browse texts by author or title and perform full-text searches across the corpus.