Resources for Japan Scholars: Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive
Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive
Kyoto University has a broad collection of digitised historical material, including natural history drawings, maps, rubbings and rare books—including medical, mathematical and engineering treatises as well as literary works—to name a few. Japanese materials are catalogued in Japanese only, however overviews of sub-collections are provided in English. The collection also contains a significant number of fully digitised European rare books which provide insight into the knowledge from Europe that Japanese scholars became familiar with during Meiji times.
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Main image: Sourced from Centre for Open Data in the Humanities’ Kuzushiji Dataset (Source)
