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 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.

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.

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.

Shimazu Collection - Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo

Historiographical Institute

Rare Books - Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo

Historiographical Institute

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."

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.

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.

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.