Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, National Archives of Japan

1.4. Alphabetical Index Search screen

With Alphabetical Index Search, you can search documents by clicking on the Alphabetical Index link.

Alphabetical Index Search screen The "Series hierarchy" is shown on the left and "Alphabetical Index Search" on the right.

Regarding Alphabetical Index Search (area circled in red ①) please refer to "1.4.1. About Alphabetical Index Search."

Series layers (area circled in red ②) displays a list of the series in hierarchical layers. Clicking on the link to a series will display the search results list screen for catalogue information subordinate to the series in question.

1.4.1. About Alphabetical Index Search

Upper section of the Alphabetical Index Search screen Shown in this section are "Search by Category," "Search by Alphabet," and "Kana" buttons.

・Search by Category/Search by Alphabetical Order:Allows you to switch between "Search by Category" and "Alphabetical Index Search." Regarding Search by Category, please refer to "1.3. Search by Category screen."

・Alphabetical Index:Select a letter to search for title words that begin with the selected letter. You can select only one letter.

The search results are displayed in a list on the bottom part of the screen.

Lower section of the Alphabetical Index Search screen Shown in this section are the search results, the "Term Details" button, and the "Search" button.

・Results X Selected item Y:Displays the number of search results and the selected letter.

・Search results:Groups and displays results alphabetically based on the first two letters.

・Term details:Click the term details button to display the Term Details screen. For details, please refer to "1.3.3. About Term Details Search."

・Search:Click the Search button to perform a search with the selected title word as the keyword; the search result list will be displayed. For details, please refer to "1.5. Search result screen."