Digital Archive of Semi-rare Books [Resources and Historical Collections Office]

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

Collections and Classical Documents which are as precious in quality as Rare Books are designated as “Semi-rare books”; there are approximately 5,700 items (as of April, 2024)

Records of Showa Denko K.K. local factories (Local Business and Industrial DB)

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

The database includes approximately 2,500 items the internal records of Showa Denko K.K. local factories : company regulations, records of labor management, accounting data, plans etc.

Documents of Shirokiya

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

Historical manuscripts (369 items) which were handed down in the Shirokiya Omura Family of Shirokiya, a (kimono/sundries) store which had its flagship shop in Kyoto in early modern period, and 4 shops in Edo – Nihonbashi shop at Nihonbashi Tori Icchoume, Ichigaya, Tomizawacho and Bakurocho.
The collection consists of documents regarding the management of stores in Edo and documents related to trade partners such as the Tokumi-Doiya.

Documents of government policy decision in Japan

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

The documents relating to policy decisions of the government or local governments of Japan, such as records of various councils and commissions.

Tsuchiya Collection (Documents)

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

You can find 4,027 items of historical materials donated by the family of Professor Emeritus Takao Tsuchiya (1896-1988).
It consists of the following three types of materials:
(1) Early modern documents purchased by Professor Tsuchiya mainly in the 1930s from antiquarian bookstore such as the Ganshodo Bookstore in Kanda, Tokyo.
(2) Manuscripts from the Aizawa Family, samurais of the Sendai Domain and the parental home of his foster mother.
(3) Modern historical materials which Professor Tsuchiya helped in the compilation such as;
・　Materials related to "Nihon Ginko 100nen-shi"
・　Materials related to "Chiho Kin'yu-shi"
・　Materials on "Nidai Kosuge Tanji Denki"
・　Materials on Akashi Teruo, president of the Dai-ichi Bank
etc.

The Bank of Tokyo Collection

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

Books previously owned by the Research Department of the Bank of Tokyo, includes many books from the Research Department of its predecessor, Yokohama Specie Bank

Special Materials [Resources and Historical Collections Office]

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

Materials that are not designated as rare or semi-rare in the Economics Library, but are considered to be particularly important as academic resources or cultural assets

Documents of Nakagawa Yukitsugu

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

The documents previously belonging to Nakagawa Yukitsugu (1920-2015), an economist in Japan, former Executive Director of the Bank of Japan and former president of Nomura Research Institute, Ltd., consist of materials from his tenure as a member of secretariatt of the Economic Recovery Programme Commission.

Documents Regarding Textile Merchants in Nishijin

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

This collection offers 89 items covering 1742-1898, mainly private bonds addressed to Wakuya Tobei from the early modern period and documents related to Yamada Ichijuro, a textile merchant who lived in Bandoyacho, Gojoagaru, Muromachi-dori, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, from the Meiji period.

Materials of Japan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

The database includes approximately 1,200 materials collected by the editor to compile 『日本製鐵株式會社史 : 1934-1950』 (Nippon seitetsu kabushikigaisha-shi).

Records of Yamaichi Securities (first donation)

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

A group of managerial materials (5,704 cases) of Yamaichi Securities which went bankrupt in November, 1997.
These materials consists of the first donation accepted in 1998, and the second donation accepted in 2004.
The first donation mainly consisted of materials collected and organized to compile Yamaichi’s corporate history while the second were mainly internal documents current at the time of the bankruptcy.

Digital Archives as Alternative Sources for Deteriorated Materials

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

Among the general books owned by the Library of Economics, some materials have heavily deteriorated and difficult to make the originals available, have been digitally photographed in accordance with Article 31, Paragraph 2 of the Copyright Act.

Documents Regarding Labor Unions’ Regular Conventions

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

"Materials handed out at assemblies and central executive committee meetings of some labor unions in Japan, such as the National Center, council/united fronts and industry labor organizations (3,700 items as of April 2011).
Some materials are from corporate labor unions and local labor unions.
Materials continue to be acquired for this collection."

5-Z Classified Historical Manuscripts [Resources and Historical Collections Office]

Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics

"Among materials classified and stored as Classification 5 (economic history, economic situations, (Japan)) at The Library of Economics, these are documents and printed/handwritten copies (418 items) from the early modern/modern period were reclassified as Classification 5-Z (Historical Manuscripts).
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The collection mainly consists of materials purchased from antique bookstores between the end of the Taisho era to early Showa era, and is believed to be collected by Faculty of Economics Professor Emeritus Tsuchiya Takao.
Contents are diverse, but there are some that are in substantial groups, such as the Tokorono-mura in Tsugagun, Shimotsuke-no-kuni (currently Nikko City, Tochigi) Documents.

The Ogyū Family Papers

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

A collection of documents handed down in the family of Ogyū Sorai, a prominent Edo-period Confucian scholar. It contains manuscripts in Sorai’s own hand as well as other documents. The collection was donated to the University of Tokyo in 2021 by Sorai’s descendants, Mr. Ogyū Shigeki and Ms. Shōji Taeko

Kano Kokichi collection

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

This is an inheritated group of materials collection of Kano Kokichi (1865-1942), who served as the principal of the former First Higher School (Ichiko) and the first president of the College of Letters at Kyoto Imperial University, includes mainly school affairs documents, personal letters, and diaries. (This collection is only partially publicly available.)

Kanze Archive

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

Kitani Collection

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

Historical materials on Jōruri, diaries, letters, calligraphy and paintings from the late Edo period to the Meiji period former collection of drama and Jōruri researcher Kitani Hogin (1877-1950).

Digital Kuroki Kanzo Collection

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

This is a digitized "Kuroki Book Collection" consists of cultural materials related to Japanese theater and music from the early to late Edo period and the early Meiji period collected by Professor Kanzo Kuroki (1882-1930) of the former Tokyo High School, known as an expert on early modern theater and music.

Komaba Library Rare Materials Digital Collection

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

Valuable materials from the collection of Komaba Library have been digitized and are available.

Early Japanese Books - Komaba Library (NIJL Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works)

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

This is a group of materials digitised through the Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts, which has been promoted by the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL).
The image data is available from the Kokusho Database (The Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts) operated by the NIJL.

Honzosho collection

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

This is a collection of approximately 1,700 books related to Honso-gaku (herbal medicine or phytomedicine) that have been among the materials collected and maintained by Research Institute for Natural Resources (foundation) which was established in Showa16th (1941) as a natural science museum focusing on full-scale research.

The early Earth sample collection

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

The oldest rock samples on the Earth and their thin section photographic data

The First Higher School Collection "Dormitory Records"

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

Records of the autonomous dormitory of the former the First Higher School, one of the predecessors of the College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo.

Digital collection of Dai-ichi Koto Gakko (Ichiko) [the First Higher School of Japan]

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

Digital collection of Dai-ichi Koto Gakko (Ichiko) [the First Higher School of Japan], the predecessor of the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences.

Dainihon kaishi hensan shiryo

Graduate School of Engineering / Faculty of Engineering Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

These materials were collected by the Ministry of the Navy for the compilation of the "Nihon Kaishi"(Japanese Maritime books), and were transferred to the Komaba Library after the World War II. The collection is particularly rich in books of Suigun (The water forces of the Sengoku period) and shipbuilding-related materials.

CPAS WWII Propaganda Poster Collection

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

This collection features ninety U.S. propaganda posters produced during the Second World War. Center for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS) acquired these posters, originally housed at Stanford University, in 1983 through a Japanese contact.

CPAS Takagi Yasaka Digital Archive

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / College of Arts and Sciences

This digital collection focuses on the writings of Takagi Yasaka (1889-1984), Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo. Takagi was the first holder of the Hepburn Chair of American Constitution, History and Diplomacy at the Faculty of Law of the Imperial University of Tokyo and a pioneer of American studies in Japan.

Rare Books - Graduate School of Education and Faculty of Education Library

Graduate School of Education / Faculty of Education

This is a valuable collection of books held by the Graduate School of Education, Faculty of Education Library, at the University of Tokyo.

Fujikawa Collection

Graduate School of Education / Faculty of Education

This archive contains 174 digitized textbooks and educational-related documents from the late Edo period through the Meiji era, curated from the collection of Yu Fujikawa, a medical historian, doctor of medicine, and doctor of literature.

Takagi Teiji Lecture Notebooks

Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences

These are handwritten notes by Takagi Teiji (1875-1970), a professor at the former Imperial University of Tokyo who is said to be Japan's first world-famous mathematician.

Source materials for Engineering History: The University of Tokyo Digital Archive

Graduate School of Engineering / Faculty of Engineering Graduate School of Information Science and Technology

As part of "the project of curating source materials for engineering history", Libraries for Engineering and Information Science & Technology conducts research and collection of materials and objects that are academic assets of the Graduate School of Engineering, the Faculty of Engineering and the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology.

Digital Cultural Heritage

Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies

A part of collections in Multi-media and Socio-information Studies Archive and III/GSII Library (Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies Library), the Unviersity of Tokyo are available on this page.

ERI Library Special Collections

Earthquake Research Institute

The ERI Library Special Collections comprise a collection of valuable materials related to disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis held by the Earthquake Research Institute Library (ERI Library).

Shionoya Collection

Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia

Early Japanese Books - Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia Library (NIJL Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works)

Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia

This is a group of materials digitised through the Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts, which has been promoted by the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL).
The image data is available from the Kokusho Database (The Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts) operated by the NIJL.

Rare Books - Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo

Historiographical Institute

Shimazu Collection - Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo

Historiographical Institute

Bingo Fukuyama Abe-ke Historical Materials - Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo

Historiographical Institute

A group of historical documents consisting of diaries, letters, and other pamphlets and old documents of one paper unit, the Abe family during their service in the post.

Database of specimens of Carex L. (Cyperaceae)

University Museum

Database of plant specimens of Carex L. (Cyperaceae) in the Herbarium of the University of Tokyo (TI).

Sekino Tadashi Collection

University Museum

明治期後半から昭和期初頭にかけて日本及び朝鮮半島、中国の文化財調査とその修理保存に活躍した建築史学者である関野貞が収集した資料群です。

Abe Masanao Collection Database, The University Museum, the University of Tokyo (UMUT)

University Museum

This is a group of materials mainly consisted with a large number of meteorological records from fixed-point observations of clouds over Mount Fuji by the meteorologist Abe Masanao (1891-1966), also known as the "Count of Clouds."

Catalogue of the Insect Collection of Prof. Chûjirô Sasaki and Associated Researchers, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo

University Museum

Database of the insect collection created by Prof. Chûjirô Sasaki, one of the first professors, and associated researchers at the Laboratories of Sericulture, College of Agriculture, Imperial University.

Gramophone Collection Database

University Museum

The phonographs collection owned by University Museum, The University of Tokyo counts over 80 units and a variety of phonographs produced mainly in the USA, the UK and Japan, from the model devised by Edison, who was its inventor, to the toy phonographs of later years, are in display on this collection. By encompassing this Collection Database, you glimpse the 'sound design' genealogy pursued by each generation since Edison.

Catalogue of the Yasunobu Naritomi Butterfly Collection, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo

University Museum

Database of the butterfly collection created by Mr. Yasunobu Narutomi, who was mainly involved in research on Taiwanese butterflies.

Collection Database of the Miyake family, a modern medical family, The University Museum, the University of Tokyo (UMUT)

University Museum

This is a collection data on medical instruments, photographs, and other materials collected by the Miyake family, a modern medical family spanning four generations and made a significant contribution to the development of modern medicine, consists of Miyake Gonsai (1817-1868), Miyake Hide (1848-1938), Miyake Koichi (1876-1954), and Miyake Jin (1908-1969).

Non-Antarctic meteorite specimens

University Museum

These are non-Antarctic meteorite specimens from the meteorite collection at the University Museum.

Fujishima Gaijiro Collection

University Museum

東京帝国大学工学部建築学科教員として建築史学の研究・教育に携わった藤島亥治郎が収集した資料群です。

Database of plant specimens collected during the Meiji period

University Museum

Database of plant specimens collected during the Meiji period in the Herbarium of the University of Tokyo.

Digital Map Collection [Center for Spacial Information Science]

Center for Spacial Information Science

This page contains maps from around the world that were collected for the International Cartographic and Geographical Exhibition held in conjunction with the International Geographic Congress & International Cartographic Conference in Japan in 1980 (1980 IGC-ICC). These maps are housed in the Kashiwa Library, the University of Tokyo and have been digitized and made publicly available through the Kashiwanoha Paper Maps Digital Archive Project.