Sueji Umehara collection of photographs and drawings of Korean antiquities and archaeological sites
Published: 1918
Language: jpn
Format: [graphic]
Number of pages: 1452
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Photographs; Human remains (Archaeology); Antiquities
Description: Photographs and drawings possibly from archaeological survey reports of research excavations conducted by Sueji Umehara and Kosaku Hamada in Colonial Korea between 1918-1922. Images show vases and vessels, ornamental objects, armor and weapons, mounded tombs, balanced rocks, wall paintings, rubbings, human remains, and views of various sites, including the Gold Crown Tomb in Kyŏngju-si.
Notes: Collection title devised.

Photographs and drawings credited to Sueji Umehara.

Includes 1,330 gelatin silver prints, 122 paper photographic reproductions (stats), and 445 ink drawings on tracing paper.

Accompanied by original card index. Reference numbers stamped on some cards correspond to numbers stamped on mounts. Cards include references to publications.

Collection partially processed but available for research.

Japanese archaeologist Sueji Umehara (1893-1983) worked for the Colonial Government Office surveying and excavating archaeological sites in Korea before becoming a professor at Kyōto University from 1933-1956.

Identifying information on mounts in Japanese.

Tōyō Bunko shozō Umehara kōko shiryō mokuroku / [hensansha Tōyō Bunko Tōa Kōkogaku Kenkyū Iinkai]. Vol. 2: title page dated 1988; compiled by Tōyō Bunko Kodaishi Kenkyū Iinkai.