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Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive has been linked to MINNA DE HONKOKU, a project to boost research in historical documents by enabling many people to get together and make transcriptions on the cloud system.
 

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MINNA DE HONKOKU was launched as a project to make transcriptions for historical records on earthquakes by the Kyoto University Society for Historical Earthquake Studies (京都大学古地震研究会) in 2017. The system has been continuously developed by the National Museum of Japanese History, the Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo and the Kyoto University Society for Historical Earthquake Studies. The renewal of the system in July 2019 increased historical documents available on the system by installing a new technology to access images released in accordance with the International Image Interoperability Framework, IIIF.

Since Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive is compliant with IIIF, some of our digital content has been transcribed on MINNA DE HONKOKU. This time, we have directly linked the content to the transcriptions on MINNA DE HONKOKU. We will further increase the open access digital images of our rare materials, so that they are to be made the best use of by more people.
 

Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive 『三河国[東海道図]』

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Seventy titles from Daiso-bon owned by the Main Library have been newly digitized and released in the Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

Daiso-bon is a collection of books formerly owned by Daiso (大惣), a book lender run by Sohachi Onoya (大野屋惣八) and his family in Nagoya from the middle of the Edo period to the middle of the Meiji period. Book lenders at the time usually kept books in high demand in their stock and sold the ones out of fashion away to buy new ones. Daiso, however, had a policy not to sell away books they had bought and increased their inventory until the end of the Edo period when they became the largest book lender in Japan. After the arrival of mass production of books in the Meiji period, many book lenders disappeared, Daiso being no exception. Around 1898, Daiso decided to close the business and sold its enormous inventory of 16,734 titles of books, most of which were acquired by the Imperial Library (current National Diet Library), Tokyo Imperial University, Kyoto Imperial University, the Higher Normal School (current University of Tsukuba). Daiso Collection owned by Kyoto University amounts to 3,667 titles, or 13,081 volumes.

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Kyoto University started digitizing Daiso-bon in academic year 2020 under the “Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts” by the National Institute of Japanese Literature in which Kyoto University Library participates. This time, 70 titles from that work have been released.

As of November 11, 2020, the Digital Archive provides 1,404,838 images of 17,758 titles.

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