Overview
From Paula Curtis Collection[1]: The University of Tokyo was established in 1877 as the first national university in Japan. As a leading research university, UTokyo offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels and conducts research across the full spectrum of academic activity. The University aims to provide its students with a rich and varied academic environment that ensures opportunities for both intellectual development and the acquisition of professional knowledge and skills.
The University of Tokyo Library System is composed of 30 libraries, with the General Library being the largest among them. While providing services to the researchers and students of UTokyo, the General Library also plays a central role in the operation and management of the Library System. The General Library’s history can be traced back nearly 130 years to the university’s founding. The library houses approximately 1.3 million books, including rare collections from on and off campus, drawing the attention of many researchers. Some collections were inherited from academies in the Edo period. The General Library has shared with the Internet Archive portions of our digitized collections, including the Image Database of Annotated Books in the Mori Ōgai Collection, Genji Monogatari (an early manuscript of the Tale of Genji), and the Kamei Collection - Opere di Giovanni Battista Piranesi (etchings from “Opere di Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francesco Piranesi e d’altri”).
- Institution/Author: The Internet Archive
- Period: Premodern,Modern
- Geographic Focus: Japan,East Asia
- Access: Open Access
Digital Humanities Resources on East Asia by Dr. Paula R. Curtis ↩︎