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[Main Library] To those who will leave Kyoto University in March
・Those who would like to order documents from other universities (photocopy, loan), please apply by Thursday, 10 March.
・Those who have borrowed books from other universities, the deadline for returning them is Thursday, 24 March.
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・If you will be enrolled after April, please indicate that in the comments on your application.
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[Main Library]Notice of Cleanup Work on the B3（2/10, 2/28-3/2）
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[Library Network] Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: 12titles including 西夏文華嚴經 and 万国人物図 have been newly released
Xi xia wen hua yan jing (西夏文華嚴經) is a Tangut translation of the Da fang guang fo hua yan jing (大方廣佛華嚴經). Of the 80 volumes, Kyoto University holds volumes 1-5 and 41 in the Graduate School of Letters, and volumes 6-10 and 36 in the Institute for Research in Humanities. Volumes 6-10 and 36 are available at the database 東方學デジタル圖書館, and volumes 1-5 and 41 are now available in the Rare Materials Digital Archive.
“西夏文華嚴經” volume 1
In addition, 10 titles of "Bankoku Jinbutsu zu (万国人物図)", held by the Main Library and the Graduate School of Letters are now available. The "Bankoku jnbutsu zu" is a generic term for illustrated books of ethnography published in the Edo period that depict the characteristics of people around the world. Shijūnikoku jinbutsu zusetsu (四十二国人物図説, Manuscripts from Konoe Collection) by Nisikawa Joken (西川如見), Kaigai jinbutsushū (海外人物輯), Kaigai shotō zusetsu kaisei (海外諸島圖説 改正), Gaiban yōbō zue (外蕃容貌圖画), and other titles were published. It show the changes of the worldviews in early modern Japan.
Left: Great Ming from “四十二国人物図説”
Center: Dutch ship from “異國人物帖”
Right: Dutch people from “異國人物帖”
Using Mirador, an IIIF viewer, you can view multiple images side by side.
Mirador (Left: “四十二国人物図説”, Right: “四十二國人物圖”)
| Collection | Record ID | Title | Author | Call No |
| G.S. Letters | RB00033348 | [西夏文華嚴經] (存5巻) | 東洋史:CXIII/S/17/貴重 | |
| G.S. Letters | RB00033349 | [西夏文華嚴經 卷41] | 東洋史:CXIII/S/11/貴重 | |
| G.S. Letters | RB00033350 | 異國人物帖 | 地理:L3/436/貴重 | |
| G.S. Letters | RB00033351 | 外蕃容貌圖画 | 田川春道撰, 倉田東岳画 | 地理:J6/2 |
| Main Library (Konoe Collection) | RB00008851 | 四十二国人物図説 | 西川忠英(如見, 求林斎, 淵梅軒)志 | 5-80/シ/1貴 |
Main Library (Muroga Collection) | RB00033341 | 世界萬國日本ヨリ海上里數国印王城人物圖 | 室賀/YG/19/2-24 | |
| Main Library (Muroga Collection) | RB00033344 | 畫本異國一覽 3巻 | 春光園花丸 [著] | 室賀/G/87/和1 |
| Main Library (Muroga Collection) | RB00033345 | 海外諸島圖説 改正 後集 | 蠖屈陳人 [撰], 柳川重信畫 | 室賀/GA/71/和2 |
Main Library (Non-rare Materials) | RB00033342 | 萬國人物盡 | 假名垣魯文譯, 一孟齋芳虎画 | 4-41/ハ/3 |
| Main Library (Non-rare Materials) | RB00033343 | 萬國人物圖繪 | 魯文譯, 芳虎画 | 4-41/ハ/4 |
| Main Library (Non-rare Materials) | RB00033346 | 四十二國人物圖 | 8-40/シ/1/巻別 | |
| Main Library (Non-rare Materials) | RB00033347 | 海外人物輯 | 永田南溪所藏, 一光齊畫 | 5-88/カ/6 |
As of February 4, 2022, the Digital Archive provides 1,669,087 images of 20,582 titles.
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