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The total of 121 titles - 33 titles held by the Main Library, including Genji monogatari (Saga-bon), and 88 titles held by the branch and departmental libraries are now newly released in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.
As of March 1, 2019, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive has 1,121,569 images of 12,913 titles.

Dr. Yu Fujikawa's collection, held by the University of Tokyo, is now available at the website "Digital Fujikawa - History of Medicine in Japan."

Kyoto University Library Network and Keio University Media Center launched the digital unification project in September, 2018. The collection, held by the Faculty of Education, as well as the Graduate School of Education of the University of Tokyo, includes the textbooks and the related books from the late Edo period through Meiji period.

The URL for "Digital Fujikawa" is as follows.
We hope this would be helpful for your research.

https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/collection/fujikawa
http://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/rdl/digital_fujikawa/index.html

The digital images newly released this time include 219 titles of "Korean Metal/Stone Rubbings Collection", 850 manuscripts from "Kawai Collection", 356 titles of "Modern Educational Wallcharts". Other than these, transcriptions and explanations are added to "Meiji Restoration Collection" and Nara Ehon Collection. As of January 29, 2018, 1,071,087 images of 12,793 titles are available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

■Korean Metal/Stone Rubbings Collection 금석집첩・속첩 (held by the Main Library)
The collection consists of the rubbings of inscriptions engraved on metal or stone memorials throughout Korea that had been constructed from the Silla Era to the end of the Joseon Dynasty. The main part of the rubbings is considered to have been created in the middle of the 18th Century, with the follow-up part that includes rubbings in the former half of the 19th Century added later. Today, some of the memorials have been lost or deteriorated to illegible, which put more significance on this copy that shows what was originally inscribed on the memorials.

■Kawai Collection (held by the Main Library)
Kawai Collection consists of Korean rare manuscripts and books formerly held by Dr. Hirotami Kawai (1872-1918) who studied mainly history of Korea and its economy. The items newly released this time are 850 manuscripts digitized under the collaborative project between Kyoto University Library, the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University and the Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea University.
▼Materials digitized under the project based on the agreement between Kyoto University Library, the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University and the Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea University

■Modern Educational Wallcharts (held by Yoshida-South Library and the Kyoto University Museum)
The collection comprises of educational wallcharts ranging from those used for instruction at the predecessors of the Third High School, i.e. former Osaka School of Western Study (Hanpu Yo Gakko, established in Osaka in 1869) and Osaka English School (Osaka Eigo Gakko, established in 1874), to the ones published during the World War II. This includes various areas of arts and sciences, such as topographical and geological maps, operation maps, botanical, zoological and paleontological charts, periodic tables, ancient customs and legends, chronological tables, anatomical charts, etc.

『금석집첩 천』

Modern Educational Wallcharts

Many old books have collectors' seals on them that furnish valuable information on the books' provenance and transmission. The Collectors' Seal Database provided by the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) has accumulated images of collectors' seals and their information, which users can search by what is inscribed on the seal, the number of characters, the placement of each character, the number of lines, where the text is broken in lines, etc. Seals collected from Tanimura Collection held by Kyoto University Library are also included in the database.

We have linked Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive's 265 titles of Tanimura Collection to the Collectors' Seal Database so that users can easily refer to the detailed information of the seals on these books.

Please click the links on Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive to the Collectors' Seal Database, and then...



The information of the Collectors' Seal Database appears.

Digital images of the materials held by the libraries of the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, publicized on the Internet are now freely reusable without application or fee.

The Graduate School of Science has introduced a new rule on the reuse of the digital images of its library materials, in order to promote the use of the digital images created from its rare materials and publicized on the Internet as part of the Open Access Promotion Project. Under the new rule, the digital images of materials held by the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, publicized on the Internet are reusable without application or fee.

Currently, the Main Library, Yoshida-South Library and the libraries of the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, permit the free reuse of their digital images by indicating their attribution and any change made to them. Please refer to "Guide for Content Reuse" of Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive for detail.

Many of the rare materials held by Kyoto University are used in publications or broadcasting. For example, Newe Zeyttung auss der Insel Japonien and Kunijo Kabuki Ekotoba are cited in textbooks for students. Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive publicizes 1,071,087 digital images of 12,793 titles as of January 29, 2019.

938 new items have been released in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: 477 writings by royalists from "Collage on Folding Screens, Meiji Restoration Collection", and 461 Korean rare books from "Kawai Collection" and others digitized in collaboration with Korea University.
As of December 12, 2018, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive has 1,047,928 images of 11,350 titles, surpassing the one million mark.

■Collage on Folding Screens (Meiji Restoration Collection) 477 titles
Viscount Yajiro Shinagawa, who had collected relics of late royalists during the Meiji Restoration and founded Sonjodo, organized letters, petitions, memorandums, paintings and poems by the royalists and posted them on folding screens in order to secure their long-term preservation. Presently there exist 23 folding screens among “Meiji Restoration Collection”: 21 consisting of six panels each and the rest, two panels each. The records of the writings in the digital archive include the images of the individual writings and the folding screens on which they are posted.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="603" class="right"] Collage on Folding Screen (No.757)[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="618" class="right"] Collage on Folding Screen (No.773)[/caption]

■Korean Rare Books (Kawai Collection and others) 461 titles
Kawai Collection consists of Korean rare manuscripts and books formerly held by Dr. Hirotami Kawai (1872-1918) who studied mainly history of Korea and its economy. Then Kyoto Imperial University (presently Kyoto University) bought the collection from his family in 1919 and has preserved it since then. The collection is indispensable in the research of Korean society, culture and especially finance, because it covers many fields such as official and private records, politics, economy, religion and customs. The items newly released this time are 461 titles of Korean rare books from Kawai Collection and others digitized under the collaborative project between Kyoto University Library, the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University and the Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea University.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="298" class="right"] Kaisa zenzu (Kawai Collection)[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="734" class="right"] Myouhou rengekyou (Other Rare Materials)[/caption]

The Maintenance work was completed (2018/11/29 10:45) and the service has been restored.

Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive will suspend its service due to the system maintenance for about an hour from 10:00am, November 29, 2018.
The service will be restored as soon as the maintenance work has been completed.
Thank you for your understanding.

49 books held by the Main Library and the Graduate School of Science have been newly released.
996,520 images of 10,426 titles in total are available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive as of November 13, 2018.

Kyoto University Library Network and Keio University Media Center concluded an agreement on the Joint Project on Digital Unification of Fujikawa Collection (Digital Fujikawa) and launched an integrated website that virtually brings together the holdings of both universities in one place by using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) protocol on September 28, 2018.

Fujikawa Collection was built by Yu Fujikawa (1865-1940), who taught the history of medicine at Kyoto Imperial University Medical College and Keio University School of Medicine and authored History of Medicine in Japan (Nihon igakushi) in 1904 and History of Disease in Japan (Nihon ekibyoshi) in 1912. In order to write these and his other works, he had collected Japanese and Chinese medical books published between the Heian era and the beginning of the Meiji era and Western medical books in Japanese translation after the middle of the Edo period, mainly around the end of the Edo period.

This project intends to contribute to the development of the research in the history of medicine in Japan by providing the comprehensive view of Fujikawa Collection that has been physically divided into several parts, each currently held by a different institution. This is also a showcase of digital unification utilizing IIIF features, for which we plan to increase digital images available and participating institutions and develop new functions, in order to progress this project from the current trial phase to a full-scale phase by the end of academic year 2020/2021.

[Website]
Digital Fujikawa
http://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/rdl/digital_fujikawa/index.html

[Available records] (As of September 28, 2018)
Kyoto University:    4,710 records
Keio University:    450 records (More than 1,000 records to be added in the future)

[Related websites]
Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive
　Top site:    https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en
　Fujikawa Collection:    https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/collection/fujikawa
Digital Collections of Keio University Libraries
　Top site:    http://dcollections.lib.keio.ac.jp/en
　Fujikawa Collection:    http://dcollections.lib.keio.ac.jp/en/koisho
International Image Interoperability Framework    https://iiif.io/

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"The Age of Natural History", "Thai Newspaper Collection during World War" and other digital images from rare materials held by Kyoto University's Graduate Schools have been newly released. 962,432 images of 10,377 titles are available in the Digital Archive as of September 7, 2018.

"The Age of Natural History" is a digitized collection of rare materials on natural history held by the Graduate School of Science, Medical Library and the Main Library.

▼The Age of Natural History

Natural History is the study of natural objects including animals, plants and minerals; collecting, recording and categorizing the information of their species and characteristics.

This collection includes important works on natural history such as Flora Japonica and Fauna Japonica by P.F.B. von Siebold, Histoire naturelle by G.L. de Buffon and Systema naturae by C. von Linne.

These images, some with detailed explanation, were first made open to the public in the former Kyoto University's Digital Library in 2001 or later. Images in higher resolution are now available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

"Thai Newspaper Collection during World War II" held by CSEAS was digitized from three newspapers published in Thailand during World War II and now held by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. The publishers no longer exist and part of the issues of the newspapers are difficult to find even in Thailand. (This project received permission for digitization from National Library of Thailand.)

Krungdeb Varasab Daily News (RB00000072)
The Siam Rashdra Daily News (RB00000073)
Lak Mueang (RB00000074)

These images were first made open to the public in the former Kyoto University's Digital Library in 2005. Images in higher resolution are now available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

▼Thai Newspaper Collection during World War II (CSEAS)