Shogi Openings
There are four major Shogi Systems being played. Rather than trying to understand by words, click the links to see how each systems are being played on animated Shogi boards.
Bishop will be exchanged early in the game. Rook's pawn remain on the board. Again, there are several variants in this category.
Bogin (棒銀=Climbing Silver) This is not the same as Ai-gakari Bogin
Hayaguri gin (はや繰り銀=Rapid advancing Silver)
Koshikake gin (腰掛銀=Sitting Silver)
The above three systems possesses Paper/Scisors/Stone relationships to each other.
Once you understand the fundamentals of openings, there are some more detailed openings shown in "Study Room" section of othis site.
For further study, there is a Japanese site named "Chidori gin's Senpou Zukan" that lists more than 100 openings.
I was going to put together the navigation tips about the site. However, Takodori' san beat me to it and I don't need to do it any more! He catalogued the site and posted them here and here. Nice work!