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Zokyo Shoin Collection consists of Buddhist sutras and books collected from the archives of temples by a publisher in Kyoto, Zokyo Shoin and is categorized in four sections: “Zokyo Shoin-bon”, “Nichizo-bon (published)”, “Nichizo-bon (unpublished)” and “Shinshu-bon”. Among these, 54 items from “Zokyo Shoin-bon” and 20 “Nichizo-bon (unpublished)” have been newly digitized and released. As of November 20, 2019, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 1,290,729 images of 14,328 titles.

Zokyo Shoin-bon is a collection of Buddhist sutras and books used as original text for Dainihon Zoku Zokyo, which was compiled under the leadership of Tatsue Nakano (1871-1934) and published by Zokyo Shoin from April 1905 to 1912. Dainihon Zoku Zokyo consists of 750 volumes of Buddhist sutras and books in 150 cases selected from 6,957 volumes of original texts written by over 950 Buddhists collected from the archives of temples. Zoku Zokyo includes many noted writings by Indian or Chinese Buddhists, which previously published Dainihon Kotei Kunten Daizokyo did not cover.

Nichizo-bon (unpublished) is composed of the books on Japanese Buddhism collected for a planned but unrealized sequel to Nihon Daizokyo, a Zokyo in 48 volumes compiled in Japan including writings by more than 300 Japanese Buddhists. The collection includes writings by Buddhist priests of great learning of every Japanese Buddhist sect.

The digitization of part of the materials released this time is supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (JP19HP8002).
 

Ninety-two items from Shimada Bankon's Shugendo Collection "Shimada Collection" have been newly digitized and released.

▼Shimada Collection

"Shimada Collection" is a unique collection of books on Shugendo, Japanese mountain asceticism-shamanism incorporating Shinto and Buddhist concepts, into which Shimada Bankon (島田蕃根; 1827-1907), a buddhologist during the Meiji era, combined documents handed down through the Shimada family and his own collection.

Shimada Bankon was born in Tokuyama, currently Yamaguchi Prefecture, in 1827 and died of an illness in Kyoto at the age of 81 in 1907. Having learned Shugendo and Buddhism in Hieizan and Miidera respectively, he was well-informed about each sect of Buddhism. In the beginning of the Meiji era, he returned to secular life and became a professor at Kojokan (興譲館), a domain school of the Mori family. He came up with a plan to publish Daizokyo (大蔵経; reduced-size ed.) and established Kokyo-shoin (弘教書院) with Fukuda Gyokai (福田行誡; 1809-1888) in 1879. In five years of hard work, the large-scale enterprise resulted in the publication of 419 volumes of Daizokyo. He is also well known for his enthusiasm to collect and preserve Buddhism books.

The Main Library of Kyoto University takes part as a core university in the "Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts (NIJL-NW project)" led by the National Institute of Japanese Literature, which supports the digitization of the 92 books released this time.

5 libraries in Katsura will be closed from February 1st to March 31st because of moving to Katsura Library.

• Library of Global Engineering
• Library of Architecture
• Library of Physics
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering Library
• Library of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

They’ll be integrated into Katsura Library in April.

You can't use Inter-campus Delivery Service from January 6th  to early April.
You can rent books for a long time during the closing period except for Electrical and Electronic Engineering Library.
Please understand that this may cause inconvenience.

Katsura Library

reference：About a new library at Katsura Campus

Contact us:
Library Section, General Affairs Division, Graduate School of Engineering
E-Mail: 090stosho at mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
TEL: 075-383-3571

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Date: Sunday, Nov 24, 2019 Time: 9:00-18:00 (JST)

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[Main Library Academic Support Section]

! Only students on the Uji campus !

Uji Library "Book hunting" 2019

It is a plan to select "Books you want to put in Uji Library" at the bookstore.
For example, "I want to enrich my specialized books and nearfields" ,
and "I want to check new publications and basic books" . . . etc...
Only students on the Uji campus can participate.

Please select books for student research and learning on the Uji campus.
(literary books etc. are excluded from the subject)

Date: One Day (Weekday) in December 2 (Mon.)-December 19 (Thu.), 2019
           14:30-16:30 (meet and dismiss at the Maruzen).

Place: Maruzen Kyoto Main Store
            Keihan Obaku - Sanjo Keihan pays round-trip transportation expenses
             (excluding commuter pass range)

How to apply: Apply from the form on the Uji library website
Qualification: Students engaged in research at the Uji Campus
The closing day for applications: November 22, 2019 (Friday) 17:00
(In case of too many applicants, the participants are determined in consideration of the Faculty, subject, etc...)

Book hunting on Web will be held at the same time.

Contact: Uji Library
E-mail: ujibunkan[at]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp  ([at] => @)
TEL: 0774-38-3010

A new collection "Mathematics in Classics (Dep. Math.)" of 592 books has been released. This collection consists of books on Wasan, or Japanese mathematics, including astronomy, Chinese classics, as well as Western mathematics held by the Department of Mathematics, Mathematics Library, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University.

▼Mathematics in Classics (Dep. Math.)

Wasan, or Japanese mathematics, developed in Japan independently from the Western mathematics, through the Edo Period and the Meiji Era. It has fostered many math enthusiasts among general Japanese people and a custom called Sangaku hono (算額奉納), dedication of Ema (votive picture of a horse) to shrines when difficult problems were solved, became popular. The collection includes Jinko-ki (塵劫記), an introductory book that triggered enthusiasm in mathematics among Japanese people, and Katsuyo Sanpo (括要算法), a posthumous collection of Seki Takakazu's works.

Many books that have played significant roles in the progress of Western mathematics are also available: Euclid's Elementorum, Apollonius’s Conicorum, and Diophantus’s Arithmeticorum (our holding is the same edition as the one on which Fermat wrote the famous "Last Theorem" in the margin). Anyone who is interested in mathematics can enjoy the development of mathematics through these books.

The digital archive provides 1,262,613 images of 14,162 titles as of October 30, 2019.