Hamish A. Todd Lead Curator, Japanese & Korean, The British Library

Roundtable on Global Access for Early Japanese Materials Collections Philadelphia, 25 March 2014

Accessing Early Japanese Materials in Europe

Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books in Europe コーニツキ・欧州所在日本古書総合目録

• http://base1.nijl.ac.jp/~oushu/

• Based on data compiled by Prof Peter Kornicki, Cambridge University

• Hosted by National Institute of Japanese Literature since 2001

• Wide coverage – 136 collections in 21 countries

• Large amount of data – approx. 14,000+ records

• “List of Libraries” is useful directory of collections of early material

• Institutions in “List of Libraries” not necessarily represented in database (yet)

• Data input still in progress

• Unclear which institutions’ holdings are complete e.g Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 137 items listed

but almost 1,000 in the collection, BL 645 but we have 3,500+

However……

Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books in Europe

Total holdings @March 2014

Country # Records

GREAT BRITAIN 5116

GERMANY 1989

BELGIUM 1650

SWEDEN 1278

FRANCE 1203

RUSSIA 1017

ITALY 811

DENMARK 214

IRELAND 160

POLAND 128

NORWAY 53

HUNGARY 47

ISRAEL 8

PORTUGAL 7

VATICAN 6

SWITZERLAND 5

NETHERLANDS 4

TOTAL 13696

CiNii Books

• http://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/

• 29 European libraries members

• Few European libraries add records for antiquarian material

• Only 351 holdings for pre-1867 material in European libraries

• Comparison of holdings of pre-1867 material between Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books in Europe and CiNii

Kornicki CiNii

UK 5116 285

Germany 1989 48

France 1203 0

• OJAMASG Directory - details of 13 European institutions which participated in Tenri Antiquarian Materials Workshops 200-2009 &2013

• Information on size, scope & history of collections how to access bibliographic data: online/prints catalogues how to access material

• Data has been merged with North American Directory to create Directory of Overseas Collections of Old and Rare Japanese Books, Other Print Materials and Manuscripts 海外日本古典籍所蔵機関ディレクトリhttp://base1.nijl.ac.jp/~overseas/index-j.html

Overseas Japanese Antiquarian Materials Study Group在外日本古典籍研究会 (OJAMASG)http://www.jlgweb.org.uk/ojamasg/introduction.html

East Asian catalogues = http://gso.gbv.de/xslt/DB=1.97/• Can be searched in English or German • Either enter a specific title or to browse the whole collection use 貴重書

as Subject Heading• 454 books, 82 manuscripts, 26 maps• Entries in OPAC have links to digitised version if available

Or search Digitised Collections page = http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/dms/• Select Ostasiatica [East Asian Collections] then select Japonica• 416 digitised works available online → 550 by end of 2014

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlinベルリン州立図書館Berlin, Germany

• Collection Online databasehttp://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx

• One of the most complete online catalogues for a major European collection

• Contains records for c.1,350 books & manuscripts + 1000s of prints

• Digitisation is being carried out by Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University

• So far complete images for 200 titles are available

• Images in the museum’s online database are free for use in teaching, research & scholarly publication

British Museum大英博物館London, UK

Bibliothèque Nationale de Franceフランス国立図書館Paris, France

• Collection of early Japanese material :

Printed books: 1,451 vols

Manuscripts: 303 vols

Single-sheet items: 251 prints, 116 paintings, 80 maps

• Access via printed or card catalogues but

• Some items included in Online cataloguehttp://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/cdc.html

• Digitised: 87 Japanese manuscripts on Gallica digital library http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Náprstek Museum ナープルステク博物館Prague, Czech Republic

• The Náprstek Museum has a collection of 25,000 pieces of Japanese arts & craftshttp://www.nm.cz/Naprstkovo-muzeum

• Many items are included in Czech national digital archive eSbírky website http://www.esbirky.cz/.

• Site is in Czech but can be searched in English using Google Translate• There are images for Japanese prints, photographs and postcard collections

http://www.esbirky.cz/hledat/podsbirka/242884/

Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts & Culturesセインズベリー日本藝術研究所Norwich, UK

Collection of early Japanese material: • Printed books: c. 30 items• Maps: c. 60 items (including maps published in Europe) from the Cortazzi

Collection. Digitised: http://www.dh-jac.net/db7/cortazzi/search_e.htm• Ukiyoe prints: c. 40 items (including prints made after 1868) Digitised in ARC Ukiyoe database http://www.dh-

jac.net/db/arcnishikie/searchp.htm

British Library 大英図書館Ｌｏｎｄｏｎ，ＵＫ

• Collection of early Japanese material : Printed books: 3,500+ works Manuscripts: 400 works Single-sheet items: 251 prints, 116 paintings, 80 maps

• Online data: Pre-1700 publications in Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books in Europe Material acquired since 1986 in CiNii Books and BL Explore

• Digitised: 22 Nara ehon in Keio University’s 世界のデジタル奈良絵本http://dbs.humi.keio.ac.jp/naraehon/index.html

No “one-stop shop”but

we are working on it!

If at first you don’t succeed……

ask a(nother) librarian !