[Library Network] Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: 21 Materials On Natural History Owned By The Biological Science Library, Faculty Of Science Have Been Released
Twenty one materials on natural history owned by the Biological Science Library, the Faculty of Science have been released. These are rare materials that cannot be found elsewhere, including fine botanical illustrations and manuscript research records.
▼The Age of Natural History
https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/collection/nat-hist
Surveys of Japanese Plant specimens in several European Herbaria by G. Koidzumi
- Plantae Japonicae Thunbergianae (RB00031713)
- Plantae Japonicae Musei Botanici Lugduno-Batavi (RB00031841)
- Revisio Plantarum Japonicarum Musei Parisiensis (RB00031842)
- 在蘭佛日本植物範型考索引 (RB00031843)
- The revisions of the type specimens of Japanese plants preserved in the various herbariums of Europa and America (RB00031844)
Original drawings by T. Yamada for "Trees and shrubs indigenous in Japan proper, vol. 3" (searchable)
Natural History and Taxonomy related Books
- Flora Sibirica, sive historia plantarum Sibiriae, Tomus 1 (RB00031715)
- Fundamenta agrostographiae (RB00031716)
- Historiae Naturalis de Arboribus et Plantis (RB00031717)
- 壇朝顔通 (RB00031718)
- llustrations and descriptions of the plants which compose the natural order Camellieae, and of the varieties of Camellia japonica, cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain (RB00031719)
- llustrations of the Botany and Other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere (RB00031720)
- Vierundzwanzig Vegetations-Ansichten von Kustenlandern und Inseln des Stillen Oceans (RB00031721)
- Hymenophyllaceae Javanicae; sive descriptio Hymenophyllacearum archipelagi Indici, Iconibus illustrata (RB00031722)
- A history of the British hydroid zoophytes. Vol. II.―Plates (RB00031723)
- Monographie der Medusen, Theil 2 (RB00031724)
- Hooker's Icones plantarum; or, figures with descriptive characters and remarks, of new or rare plants, selected from the Kew Herbarium. Fourth series. vol. 8 (RB00031725)
- Kunstformen der Natur, Zweite, versurzte Auflage in 30 Tafeln (RB00031726)
- A Monograph of the Snakes of Japan (RB00031727)
- 原色版 日本蛇類圖譜(和文テキスト)・(図版) (RB00031728)
- 原色版 日本蛇類圖説 (RB00031729)
The restoration and digitization of these rare materials were funded by the Global COE program "Formation of a strategic base for biodiversity and evolutionary research" from 2010 to 2012 and the digital data was publicized in the "Biological Science Library Digital Archives" website operated by the Faculty of Science. The data has this time been transferred to Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive, a university-wide platform to make digitized rare materials open access.
As of October 9, 2020, the Digital Archive provides 1,372,575 images of 17,663 titles.
Left & center: Illustrations of the Botany and Other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere (RB00031720)
Right: 『大日本樹木誌 巻之三』 (RB00031714)
[Library Network] Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: Two rare materials belonging to the Graduate School of Letters have been digitized and released
Two rare materials belonging to the Graduate School of Letters have been digitized and released in the Digital Archive: Da ming sheng tu (大明省圖) and Shuo wen jie zi xi zhuan (説文解字繋傳 40卷).
Da ming sheng tu (大明省圖), also called Da Ming yu di tu (大明輿地圖) from the label on its box, is a large-sized colored picture map of mainland China consisting of two East and West scrolls. The released data also includes a merged image of the two scrolls set side by side to show the whole map at one glance.
Shuo wen jie zi xi zhuan (説文解字繋傳 40卷) is an annotated edition of Shuo wen jie zi by Xu Kai (徐鍇; 920-974) who served Southern Tang in China. This copy is a rare early print from the reprint edition by Qi Junzao (祁寯藻; 1793-1866) in 1839.
As of October 1, 2020, the Digital Archive provides 1,365,858 images of 17,642 titles.
Shuo wen jie zi xi zhuan (説文解字繋傳 40卷)
Service restored - [Maintenance] Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive (September 16, 2020)
The maintenance work was completed (2020/09/16 10:30) and the service has been restored.
Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive will suspend its service due to the system maintenance for about 1 hour from 10:00 am, September 16, 2020.
The service will be restored as soon as the maintenance work has been completed.
Thank you for your understanding.
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[Library Network] KULINE's and Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive's metadata now searchable through NDL Search
Starting July 6, KULINE's and Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive's metadata are searchable through NDL Search, which search result directly brings you to the Digital Archive site to see our images.
NDL Search and Kyoto University OPAC KULINE (rare books) have been linked to each other, making rare books' metadata in KULINE searchable through NDL Search. NDL Search's search result includes the URLs of rare books that have been digitized and made open access in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive, which directly brings you to the Digital Archive site to see our images.
We hope you will frequently visit the Digital Archive site and use the images!
Service restored - [Maintenance] Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive (July 2, 2020)
The Maintenance work was completed (2020/07/02 13:00) and the service has been restored.
Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive will suspend its service due to the system maintenance for about 2 hours from 10:30 am, July 2, 2020. The service will be restored as soon as the maintenance work has been completed. Thank you for your understanding.
[Library Network] Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: Map And Drawing Owned By The Kyoto University Museum Have Been Released
Digital images of a map and a drawing owned by the Kyoto University Museum have been released in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.
Tsubokiri no goken zu is a drawing of a sword for protection that had been handed down from generations of Emperors to their crown princes at the installation ceremonies.
Ezo ga shima chizu is an antique map of Hokkaido created by Hata Awagimaro (秦檍丸; 1760-1808) who dedicated himself to the investigation of the island.
As of June 17, 2020, the Digital Archive provides 1,365,123 images of 17,640 titles.
[Main Library] Rare Materials exhibited outside Kyoto University during AY2019
Past exhibitions (Japanese only)
▼Academic year 2018
▼Academic year 2017
▼Academic year 2016
▼Academic year 2015
▼Academic year 2014
[Library Network] Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: Tannowa Document released under the joint project with Princeton University
Kyoto University Library Network has released the digital images of Tannowa Document the Kyoto University Museum owns in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive under the joint project with the Kyoto University Museum, the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, and the Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University.
▼Tannowa Document
The documents of the Tannowa collection consist of 53 records which have been pasted into five scrolls. They cover the period from the early 13th through the late 14th century, and provide insight into the actions of the Tannowa, a warrior family who resided in the eponymous Tannowa estate in Izumi province.
This collection is unique in that it provides, in great detail, evidence for the actions of the warriors of the central Kinai region (five provinces near Kyoto), which rarely survive. These document reveal much about social and political conditions during the turbulent 14th century, when wars were fought between the Northern and Southern courts in Izumi from 1331 through 1392.
The most remarkable documents in this collection include edicts from chancelleries of the noble Kujō house, the oldest surviving Tannowa documents, as well as other documents of appointment or records by the Kujō proprietor (ryōke). In addition, a series of documents by Kusunoki Masanori, found in scroll two, are noteworthy, as are records from Ashikaga Takauji, the founder of Japan’s second warrior government.
Zenjō junii ke mandokoro kudashibumi
The information on this project is also posted on the website of the Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University.
Joint Princeton Kyoto Website: The Tannowa Collection
https://eas.princeton.edu/news/joint-princeton-kyoto-website-tannowa-collection
https://twitter.com/JamieSaxonArts/status/1251194206149844994?s=20
[Library Network] Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: Important Cultural Property "Dainihonshi hensan kiroku" vol.6-10, 21-50 (G.S. Letters) newly released
The Graduate School of Letters of Kyoto University and the Kyoto University Museum have been carrying out the restoration and digitization of an important cultural property Dainihonshi hensan kiroku held by the Graduate School of Letters since academic year 2017. One thousand five hundred six images of the restored volumes 6-10, 21-50 are now available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.
▼Important Cultural Property - Dainihonshi hensan kiroku (G.S. Letters)
Dainihonshi hensan kiroku (大日本史編纂記録) is a collection of more than 6,000 letters (copies) exchanged between Shokokan (彰考館; Mito Domain’s office for history compilation) in Mito (currently in Ibaraki Prefecture) and Edo (currently Tokyo) and their Kyoto office regarding the compilation of Dainihonshi (*1) by Tokugawa Mitsukuni (徳川光圀; 1628-1701). A total of 42,810 people and organizations and 15,159 historical records and literature works are mentioned in the letters and the content covers a wide range of aspects of the time, such as history, literature, Confucianism and Japanese classical literature, as well as the publishing culture during the Genroku Period, which makes this rare material a first-class historical record.
The rare material, before being restored, consisted of 248 volumes of about 10,000 sheets (one sheet folded in half to form a pouch makes two pages) in the form of fukuro-toji yotsume-toji (袋綴四つ目綴装) with sheets of papers folded at the fore edge and sewn at the back edge at four points. However, the rebinding and restoration done to the material during the Edo period were not appropriate to secure its long-term preservation; they also made it impossible to read the majority of the volumes without damaging them, because the text near the back edge was sewn inside the spine. Therefore, a restoration project was launched in academic year 2018, with a plan to restore first 20 volumes funded by the Sumitomo Foundation. The Graduate School of Letters has also set up Kyoto University Fund for the restoration of its library collection and the Kyoto University Museum acquired the university's special budget for this project in 2018.
Each volume of Dainihonshi hensan kiroku is to be released on the Internet through Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive upon the completion of restoration and digitization processes. As of March 27, 2020, the Digital Archive provides 1,365,106 images of 17,638 titles.