Prefix search of metadata item values can be done by entering a slash (/) before the search string.

Example: To find a material whose title begins with the text string "port," enter "/port" in the title column of the advanced search.

Exact match search of metadata values can be done by entering slashes (/) before and after the search strings.

Example: To find materials of the title "tsunami" and not "big tsunami" or "tsunami warning," enter "/tsunami/" in the subject column of the advanced search.

Phrase search is available by entering quotation marks ("") before and after the retrieval strings.

It is used, for example, when searching in English by specific word order, such as "Earthquake and Tsunami." The difference between single- and double-byte letters and spaces is not distinguished.

When you enter only the retrieval strings, partial match search is done. When you enter single- or double-byte spaces between the keywords, partial match search is also done by AND condition.

You can search for items by the "date created" or "date issued." By using the dates field of the advanced search, you can also search by "year" and "year/month," and also choose the "range specification" and "date specification."

Example:

• To search for items created after 2011, enter "2011/(null)/(null)-(null)/(null)/(null)" in the dates field.
• To search for items created before 2011, enter "(null)/(null)/(null)-2011/(null)/(null)" in the dates field.
• To search from March 2000 to October 2012, enter "2000/03/(null)-2012/10/(null)" in the dates field.
• To search from March 11, 2011 to October 31, 2012, enter "2011/03/11-2012/10/31"in the dates field.

When the number of search results exceeds 1,000, the following message is displayed.
"The number of search results exceeds 1,000. Please refine your search."

When no item corresponds to the search conditions, the following message is displayed:
"No results found for "***"."
"***" is any retrieval string.

Move to the setting screen.

Move to the help screen.

Switch the language using the pull-down menu.

• 日本語(Japanese)
• English

Change the size of characters.

If you click once, the characters will be enlarged.

If you click twice, the characters will be enlarged even more.

If you click a third time, the characters will return to their original size.

* If you want to lock the size, change the settings from the setting screen.

The colors will be inverted.

* If you want to lock the color of the display, change the settings from the setting screen.

By clicking the logo "National Diet Library Great East Japan Earthquake Archive," you can move to the top page. It is the same for other pages.

You can select the type of search by clicking the Simple search, Advanced search, or Category tabs.

When you move to the top page, the Simple search screen is displayed as the initial state.

You can browse each content by clicking the images.

* If the content is held by an affiliated organization, you can access the content page of the organization.

By clicking, you will move to the search results list screen (Pictures).

On the search results list screen (Pictures), items which appear when you search without specifying the condition using the simple or advanced search will be displayed.

By clicking, you will move to the search results list screen (Sound and Videos).

On the search results list screen (Sound and Videos), items which appear when you search without specifying the condition using the simple or advanced search will be displayed.

Shortcuts to each page of the National Diet Library Great East Japan Earthquake Archive.

Click the link to access each of the pages.

The four latest news items are displayed. Click on a title of the news, and you can read the full text of the news items.

By clicking "All indication", all of the news will appear in a list.

Links to the top page of each institution or service are available from the Footer link, except for "About". The button "About" is linked to "About the National Diet Library Great East Japan Earthquake Archive (Nickname: HINAGIKU)", and "Contact us" to the "9 Inquiries".

It is the same for other pages.

• National Diet Library
• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
• NDL Search
• About
• Contact us

Change the size of characters.

If you click once, the characters will be enlarged.

If you click twice, the characters will be enlarged even more.

If you click a third time, the characters will return to their original size.

The colors will be inverted.

You can click the check box of the providers you want to narrow for searching.

By clicking "Show all", all providers are displayed.

By clicking "Check all/ Uncheck all", you can select / cancel all providers.

If you don't select any providers (leave the check box blank), all providers will be preserved.

[Sort key]
You can select the sort condition with the first or the second sort key as follows:
Relevance, Date (newest), Date (oldest), Title (ascending), Title (descending), Creator (ascending), Creator (descending), Publisher (ascending), Publisher (descending)

[Number of lists]
You can select the number of the search results as follows:
10 results per page, 20 results per page, 40 results per page, 60 results per page, 80 results per page, 100 results per page.

By clicking, you will save the setting of each item.

You can search by a method other than the date search.

All the providers will be searched for regardless of the settings.

You can search by any items except "Dates".

You can search by entering the title of a material.

You can search by entering the name of the creator, contributor or publisher of a material.

You can search by entering ISBN, ISSN, ID number of HINAGIKU, and others.

The ID number of HINAGIKU is XXX a part of the URL of detailed information screen as follows:
https://kn.ndl.go.jp/#/part/XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XX
Example:
In the case of the URL of a detail information screen as follows:
https://kn.ndl.go.jp/#/part/R200200045-IM00000011-00,
the ID number of HINAGIKU is "R20200045-IM00000011-00".

You can search by entering the subject or classification.

You can search by entering the name of a place, prefecture, municipality, and others.

You can search by entering the date (for example the photographing date) when the material was created, published and released.

You can search by selecting one or more items from Document, Pictures, Sound and Videos, Website.

By clicking the "Check all/ Uncheck all" all content types are selected / canceled.

* By clicking "Uncheck all", you can search as selecting all.

You can click the check box of the providers you want to narrow for searching.

By clicking "Show all", all providers are displayed.

By clicking "Check all/ Uncheck all", you can select / cancel all providers.

* If you don't select any providers (leave the check box blank), all providers will be searched.

[Sort key]
You can select the sort condition with the first or the second sort key as follows:
Relevance, Date (newest), Date (oldest), Title (ascending), Title (descending), Creator (ascending), Creator (descending), Publisher (ascending), Publisher (descending)

[Number of lists]
You can select the number of the search results as follows:
10 results per page, 20 results per page, 40 results per page, 60 results per page, 80 results per page, 100 results per page.

By clicking, materials being available on the web will be only searched.

* "Available on the web" refers to materials that can be browsed from the Internet.

Advanced search will be performed and moved to the search results list.

Restore the search condition of Advanced search to the initial state.

The Content types "Website", "Document", "Pictures", "Sound and Videos", "Other" are displayed.

By clicking the name of Content type, you will move to the search results list screen.

* Depending on the material, multiple values may be given. In that case, it is included in the number of each value.

By clicking "►", the top category "prefecture names" are displayed.

By clicking "►" lower level "prefecture names", "municipality names" housing the materials are displayed.

By clicking "prefecture names" or "municipality names", you will move to the search results list screen.

* Depending on the material, multiple values may be given. In that case, it is included in the number of each value.

By clicking "►", years are displayed.

By clicking "►" lower level "year", "months" are displayed, and further by clicking "►" lower level "months", "days" are displayed. By clicking "Year" or "Year-month" or "Year-Month-Day", you will move to the search results list screen.
* Depending on the material, multiple values may be given. In that case, it is included in the number of each value.

The Data Provider list is displayed.

By clicking the Data Provider name, you will move to the search results list screen.

The Language list of "Japanese", "English", "Chinese", "Korean" and others are displayed.

By clicking a language name, you will move to the search results list screen.

* Depending on the material, multiple values may be given. In that case, it is included in the number of each value.

The Availability list is displayed.

By clicking "Available on the Web" or "Available only at the NDL", you will move to the search results list screen.

You can refine the search results by selecting "Content type", "Location", "Dates", "Data Provider", "Language" and "Availability".

Number of the search results is displayed.

When the number of search results exceeds 1,000, this message is displayed.

By selecting each one of the following items and pressing the "Sort" button, you can sort the search results.

[Sort key]
Relevance, Date (newest), Date (oldest), Title (ascending), Title (descending), Creator (ascending), Creator (descending), Publisher (ascending), Publisher (descending)

[Number of lists]
10 results per page, 20 results per page, 40 results per page, 60 results per page, 80 results per page, 100 results per page

* The Title, the Creator / Publisher's ascending or descending order is Japanese alphabetical order.

* "Relevance" is degree of relevance of each material to the search term originally made in HINAGIKU, and is calculated based on the number of search keywords in the metadata, frequency of appearance, and others.

The page guide of the search results list is displayed as follows.

• Numbers : Move to the selected page.
• "|◄" : Move to the previous page.
• "|◄◄" : Move to the first page.
• "►|" : Move to the next page.
• "►►|" : Move to the last page.

The icon is displayed. If there are thumbnail images, the images are displayed. If the contents can be browsed, you will move to the browsing page of each content by clicking it.

* If the content belongs to the affiliated archive, you will move to the browsing page of that archive.

If there are contents which can be browsed, by clicking it, you can move to the browsing page.

* If the content belongs to the affiliated archive, you will move to the browsing page of that archive.

By clicking, you will move to the details screen.

If a search string is hit at the simple search / advanced search, it will be highlighted with a yellow frame.

* Some metadata items will not be highlighted.

By clicking, you will move to the page of "Data Provider" of each material. Depending on the "Data Provider", it will move to the top page of the "Data Provider" website.

By clicking "Return to top", the top of the same page will be displayed.

"Other services", "Related keywords" and "Export your results" can be used. For details, please refer to "g "Refine your results" and "Other services"".

You can refine the search results by selecting "Content type", "Location", "Dates", "Data Provider", "Language" and "Availability".

Number of search results

When the number of search results exceeds 1,000, this message is displayed.

By selecting each one of the following items and pressing the "Sort" button, you can sort the search results.

[Sort key]
Relevance, Date (newest), Date (oldest), Title (ascending), Title (descending), Creator (ascending), Creator (descending), Publisher (ascending), Publisher (descending)

[Number of lists]
10 results per page, 20 results per page, 40 results per page, 60 results per page, 80 results per page, 100 results per page

* The Title, the Creator / Publisher's ascending or descending order is Japanese alphabetical order.

* "Relevance" is degree of relevance of each material to the search term originally made in HINAGIKU, and is calculated based on the number of search keywords in the metadata, frequency of appearance, and others.

The page guide of the search results list is displayed as follows.

• Numbers : Move to the selected page.
• "|◄" : Move to the previous page.
• "|◄◄" : Move to the first page.
• "►|" : Move to the next page.
• "►►|" : Move to the last page.

The icon is displayed. If there are thumbnail images, the images are displayed. If the contents can be browsed, you will move to the browsing page of each content by clicking it.

* If the content belongs to the affiliated archive, you will move to the browsing page of that archive.

If there are contents which can be browsed, by clicking it, you can move to the browsing page.

* If the content belongs to the affiliated archive, you will move to the browsing page of that archive.

By clicking, you will move to the details screen.

By clicking, you can browse each content.

* If the content is held by an affiliated organization, you can access the content page of the organization.

Refer to e-5

By clicking "Return to top", the top of the same page will be displayed.

The refined retrieval conditions selected at "d-1" are displayed in "Refine your results". Clicking the "Remove" button on the right side of each refined condition will cancel each refining and display the search results list before each refining.

After refining the search results, the items which can be refined will be displayed in the left pane(d-1, e-1).

You can search on the services other than HINAGIKU in "Services by NDL", "Administrative Document", "Academic information", "Search engines", and "Other" by entering search terms which you used on HINAGIKU.

If the search term is collected in Web NDL Authorities, "Broader terms", "Narrower terms", and "Related terms" corresponded with the search term will be displayed.

By clicking "Broader terms", "Narrower terms" or "Related terms", the string you clicked can be searched as "search term".

* If you search with multiple search terms, they are not displayed.

You can export the search results which are displayed in the search results list screen by RSS.

By clicking "RSS", the RSS feed screen will be displayed.

When you export the search results of "Search results list screen (Pictures)" or "Search results list screen (Sound and Videos)" by RSS, you will display the screen and designate "Pictures" or "Sound and Videos" of "Content type" on the left pane(d-1, e-1).

By clicking "Back to results", you will return to the Search results list screen.

By clicking "View the content", you will move to the content display screen. If there is no content, it is not displayed.

The icon is displayed. If there are thumbnail images, the images are displayed. If the contents can be browsed, you will move to the browsing page of each content by clicking it.

* If the content belongs to the affiliated archive, you will move to the browsing page of that archive.

By clicking, you will move to the browsing page of each content.

* If the content belongs to the affiliated archive, you will move to the browsing page of that archive.

The title and creator of the Search results list screen are displayed.

* In some cases, there are differences from the title and creator which are displayed under the Metadata details.

The metadata of the content is displayed.

If a search string is hit, it will be highlighted with a yellow frame.

* Some metadata items will not be highlighted.

The link to the metadata details screen of the affiliated archive is displayed.

* In some cases, the top page URL of the affiliated archive is displayed.

By clicking, you will move to the page of "Data Provider" of each material. Depending on the "Data Provider", it will move to the top page of the "Data Provider" website.

The metadata file of RDF will be downloaded.

Only a part of the "Data provider" which can be downloaded is displayed.

You can add the page of this details screen to Hatena Bookmark or post it on X.