Collaboration Surrounding UC Berkeley’sJapanese Collection to Provide Global Access“The Future of Digital Japanese Studies: NCC’s Evolving Role as a Catalyst for Collaborative Research”
March 24, 2018, 10:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Washington D. C.
Toshie Marra
C. V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley
tmarra@library.berkeley.edu

1950: Mitsui Acquisition

Mitsui Collection,
consisting of 100,000
items of books, maps,
rubbings, etc., arrived at
UC Berkeley East
Asiatic Library in 1950

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1) Basic Collection 基本図書 (20,000 vols.)
2) Gakken Collection 土肥慶藏顎軒収集資料 (28,195 vols.)3) Imazeki Collection 今関天彭収集資料 (19,838 vols.)
4) Motoori Collection 本居大平家襲蔵資料 (8,694 vols.)5) Sōshin Collection 三井高辰宗辰収集資料 (22,742 vols.)
6) Map Collection 三井高堅宗堅収集 (2,000 items)7) Asami Collection 浅見倫太郎収集朝鮮本資料 (6,737 vols.)
8) Rubbings Collection 三井高堅収集聴氷閣文庫 (500 items)
計 108,706 items
From： Roger Sherman, “Acquisition of the Mitsui Collection by the East
Asiatic Library, University of California, Berkeley” (Master’s thesis,University of California, Los Angeles, 1980), p. 23

3/24/18 AAS Annnual Conference3Collaboration: 1980s
Under Donald H. Shivery (Director, 1983-1992)– Grants from National Endowment for the Humanities and the U. S. Dept. ofEducation– Human support from the National Diet Library, the National Institute ofJapanese Literature, and several other Japanese institutions– Focus: cataloging and preservation of the Mitsui Collection materials– Publications:• Mitsui Bunko kyūzō Edo hanpon shomoku: Kariforunia Daigaku Bākurē-kō shozō『三井文庫旧蔵江戸版本書目: カリフォルニア大学バークレー校所蔵』(Yumani Shobō, 1990)• Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, and others. “Kariforunia Daigaku Bākurē-kō kyū Mitsui
Bunko shahon mokuroku kō カリフォルニア大学バークレー校旧三井文庫写本
目録稿.” Chōsa kenkyū hōkoku 調査研究報告 5 (March 1984): 261-340• “Kariforunia Daigaku Bākure-kō kyū Mitsui Bunko zō gokai kankei shiryō saimokukō カリフォルニア大学バークレー校旧三井文庫蔵御会関係資料細目稿.”
Chōsa kenkyū hōkoku 調査研究報告 9 (March 1988): 95-118

3/24/18 AAS Annnual Conference4Japanese Historical Maps Collection (ca. 2,300 titles):Comprising ca. 2,300 titles of woodblock, copperplate, manuscript, andother maps dating from 17th-20th centuries• 2003: Digitization project began with support from David Rumsey andhis Cartography Associates– 1,900+ images available at Japanese Historical Maps website
http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/ including 800+ maps

• 2017-: ca. 1,500 pre-1923 maps from the Mitsui Collection are being
digitized with CLIR funding for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections
and Archives• 2017-: 39 maps out of scope of CLIR project, atlases and selected
landscape prints are being digitized with support from Prof. YanoKeiji, Ritsumeikan University with JSPS KAKENHI– Map Warper Japanese version is being developed: https://mapwarper.h-gis.jp/

1/16/16 ARC

5http://luna.davidrumsey.com:8380/luna/servlet/s/pe8ysh

https://mapwarper.h-gis.jp/

3/24/18 AAS Annnual Conference6Sugoroku Collection (ca. 150 titles):Comprising ca. 150 titles of e-sugoroku: 43 from the Edo period, 69
from the Meiji, and 2 from the Taisho and 2 from Showa (38 with nodate determined)• 2006-2008: Digitized by Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan
University, with metadata prepared by Prof. Ryo Akama– 235 images available at http://www.dh-jac.net/db7/sugoroku/search.htm– 241 images available at Japanese Historical Maps website in “Game”
http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/– Based on the metadata created by Prof. Akama, UC Berkeley cataloging staff
cataloged individual sugoroku sheets in OPAC and WorldCat

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“Show all” in Sugoroku database at
http://www.dhjac.net/db7/sugoroku/search.htm

http://japanmaps.davidrumsey.com/luna/ser
vlet/s/8fsrty

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8Dōbanga (Copperplate Prints) Collection (ca. 2,400 prints):
Consists of 355 sheets, 42 albums with over 1,900 prints, and ca. 80
miscellaneous materials including fans, scrolls, and copperplates
produced between 1855 and 1920, including keidaizu, meishoe,maps, banzuke, mitate, hyakunin isshu, etc.
• 2014-2016: Digitized by ARC, Ritsumeikan University, withmetadata being prepared by Prof. Ryo Akama• 2,441 images available at http://www.dhjac.net/db/nishikie/search_UCB.php

3/24/18 AAS Annnual Conference9http://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/resultsbig.php?f9[]=*&f11[]=1&f23[]=%E6%98%A5%E7%87%88&format=resultsp.htm&-max=50&singleskip=0&enter=ucb&skip=0

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B-1_1_19_00_007.jpg

3/24/18 AAS Annnual Conference112/13-14/2018: “Workshop on the Digital Archive and its Uses for Japanese Humanities”
organized by Prof. Jonathan Zwicker (UC Berkeley) and Prof. Ryo Akama (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

“From Digitization to Digital Curation: the Edo Library Project” by Prof.
Jonathan Zwicker and his students••

DH project with Scalar on Takizawa Bakin’s (1767-1848) Chosakudō issekiwa
著作堂一夕話: Translation and annotation
Digitization funded by UC Berkeley Library’s eTextbook pilot which offers grants
and programmatic support to instructors to create open textbooks and materials

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Edo Printed Books (ca. 5,000 titles in 16,000 volumes)• 1990: Mitsui Bunko kyūzō Edo hanpon shomoku: Kariforunia
Daigaku Bākurē-kō shozō 『三井文庫旧蔵江戸版本書目: カ
リフォルニア大学バークレー校所蔵』 published withsupport from NIJL and NDL• 2017: National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) made 760
titles in 134,000+ images (658 Edo printed books and 102manuscripts) from microfilms available in NIJL’s 日本古典籍総合目録データベースhttp://base1.nijl.ac.jp/~tkoten/ and 新日本
古典籍総合データベース https://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp/?ln=ja• Kotenseki workshops cosponsored by Center for JapaneseStudies and East Asian Library at UC Berkeley and NIJL held in2016 http://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/KotensekiWorkshop and in2017 http://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/KotensekiWorkshop2017.

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15Manuscripts Collection (ca. 2,700 titles in 7,500 volumes + ca.
4,400 single sheet items)• 1957: with funding from Dept. of State, ALA, and SLA, Prof. Ogura Chikao
examined 1,288 manuscripts• 1983: an inventory by 4 scholars from NIJL and Kyoto University confirmed
2,724 titles in 7,400 volumes and produced brief titles lists:– Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, and others. “Kariforunia Daigaku Bākurē-kō kyū Mitsui
Bunko shahon mokuroku kō カリフォルニア大学バークレー校旧三井文庫写本目録稿.” Chōsa kenkyū hōkoku 調査研究報告 5 (March 1984): 261340– Oka, Masahiko. “Kariforunia Daigaku Bākurē-kō kyū Mitsui Bunko shahon
mokuroku kō tsuika カリフォルニア大学バークレー校旧三井文庫写本目録稿追加.” Chōsa kenkyū hōkoku 調査研究報告 8 (March 1987): 360361– “Kariforunia Daigaku Bākure-kō kyū Mitsui Bunko zō gokai kankei shiryōsaimoku kō カリフォルニア大学バークレー校旧三井文庫蔵御会関係資料細目稿.” Chōsa kenkyū hōkoku 調査研究報告 9 (March 1988): 95-118
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16Manuscripts Collection (cont.) : Mostly uncataloged• 2015- : NIJL scholars examine and evaluate each manuscript• 2016- : Prof. Motoi Katsumata (Meisei Univ.) and his collaborators
are creating a bibliographic database for individual manuscripts withsupport from Mitsubishi Foundation, JSPS KAKENHI and Meisei
Univ.

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Thoughts on Future Collaboration• Different types of materials require different levels of curation• Digitization of rare holdings takes resources and time
• Virtual access to digitized images alone may not be good enough for someresearchers (e. g., text mining, GIS analysis, etc.)• Librarians need to work closely with researchers for potential use of librarymaterials• Each library can collaborate with other libraries across the world to provide
researchers with better access to research materials—coordinateddigitization can provide more comprehensive access to scattered researchmaterials• Collaboration: the key for our success in the future

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19Thank you
Toshie Marra
Tel: 510-643-0656
tmarra@library.berkeley.edu