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This month’s new releases are as follows: payer book in Ilocano of Foronda Collection held by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies; Chinese classic “Shuo wen jie zi xi zhuan” (説文解字繋傳 40卷校勘記3卷) held by the Graduate School of Letters and “Sasakike den” (佐々貴家傳) held by the Main Library.

Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive marks the 3rd Anniversary since its launch on December 1st, 2017. Our content increased from 394,069 images of 3,719 titles to 1,613,314 images of 19,427 titles.
We will continue to promote open access to rare materials Kyoto University owns.

163 from Zokyo Shoin Collection Have Been Newly Digitized And Released. As of December 1, 2020, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 1,613,314 images of 19,427 titles.

One thousand five hundred and seven title rare materials owned by the Main Library, containing Inawashiro Collection from Tanimura Collection and manuscripts in Sankei Kikuchi's own handwriting, have been released.

Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive has been linked to MINNA DE HONKOKU, a project to boost research in historical documents by enabling many people to get together and make transcriptions on the cloud system.

Twenty-five Rare books owned by Yoshida-South Library, the Graduate School of Letters, the Graduate School of Economics and the Medical Library have been digitized and released.

Seventy titles from Daiso-bon owned by the Main Library have been newly digitized and released. 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. As of November 11, 2020, the Digital Archive provides 1,404,838 images of 17,758 titles.

The digital archive was not accessible due to the University's network failure as follows:
Period: 16:50-20:30, Thursday, October 22, 2020
We are sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused.

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. As of October 9, 2020, the Digital Archive provides 1,372,575 images of 17,663 titles.

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). As of October 1, 2020, the Digital Archive provides 1,365,858 images of 17,642 titles.