Koku Bungaku Kenkyū Shiryōkan

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The Koku Bungaku Kenkyū Shiryōkan ( Japanese 国 文学 研究 資料 館 , Eng. "National Research Institute for Japanese Literature", English National Institute of Japanese Literature , abbreviated: NIJL) is one of six Japanese research institutions that are part of the " National Research Institutes for the Humanities " (NIHU) heard. The NIHU, as a corporation under public law, is part of an "umbrella organization for cooperation and interdisciplinary research between universities" .

The Research Institute of Japanese Literature , which is based in Tachikawa in Tokyo , has been founded in May 1972nd In 2004 it was merged with the "Archives of the Ministry of Culture" ( 文部省 史料 館 , Monbushō Shiryōkan ). The main task of the research institute is to obtain manuscripts and books for the study of Japanese literature . The institute maintains various databases that can be accessed online. There is also an annual report ( 国 文学 年刊 , Kokubungaku Nenkan ) on the current state of research.

Overview

In 1966, the Japanese Science Council ( 日本 学術 会議 , Nihon Gakujutsu Kaigi ) advised the government to set up a "Center for Research Materials on Japanese Language and Literature" ( 国語 ・ 国 文学 研究 資料 セ ン タ ー , Kokugo Kokubungaku Kenkyū Shiryō Sentā ). At the urging of a scientific commission, the institute was established in 1972 in the premises of the archive of the Ministry of Culture. In 2004, the "Graduate University for Interdisciplinary Research" ( 総 合 研究 大 学院 大学 Sōgō kenkyū daigakuin daigaku , English Graduate University for Advanced Studies) was established. In the course of the establishment of this university , the research facility was reorganized. It received its current name, from which the reference to the archive has disappeared, and was subordinated as a legal entity to the "National Research Institutes for the Humanities". Since then, the Research Institute for Japanese Literature has been responsible for the history and literature departments of the Philosophy Faculty of the Graduate University. In 2008, the archive and research institute, whose management and organization remained different, moved from Shinagawa to the new premises in Tachikawa. In 2009 the National Institute of Polar Research and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics also moved into the building. In 2010 the original archive ceased to exist as part of an internal reorganization. Today it serves as a collection of documents for historical research.

The research facility currently has around 200,000 original works, manuscripts and copies, documents, pictures, specialist journals and books on Japanese literature. In addition, it has a large number of collections, for example on the folklorist Shibusawa Keizō , on old daimyō and aristocratic families such as the Sanada , Tsugaru and Hachisuka clans. In addition, around 500,000 historical documents from the prefectural authorities of Akita and Gunma or about individuals such as General Suzuki Soroku or the politician and poet Moriya Eifu from premodern Japan to the present.

Electronic databases (selection)

  • New image database of Nara Ehon (illustrated books) ( 新 奈良 絵 本 デ ー タ ベ ー ス )
  • Database with the location and bibliographical information on classical works of Japanese literature and biographical information on the authors ( 日本 古典 籍 総 合 目録 デ ー タ ベ ー ス , Nihon kotenseki sōgō mokuroku dētabēsu ), lists 471,000 works, 69,100 authors and 525,000 bibliographical information
  • Database of ancient Japanese books (19,900) and microfiche (224,800) ( 所 蔵 和 古書 ・ マ イ ク ロ ／ デ ジ タ ル 目録 デ ー タ タ ベ ー ス , Shozō wakosho maikuro mokuroku dētabēsu )
  • Catalog of articles on Japanese literature ( 国 文学 論文 目録 デ ー タ ベ ー ス , Kokubungaku ronbun mokuroku dētabēsu ) with approx. 550,000 entries
  • Biobibliographic database ( 伝 記 解題 デ ー タ ベ ー ス )
  • Database of historical materials and sources ( 史料 情報 共有 化 デ ー タ ベ ー ス , Shiryō jōhō kyōyūka dētabēsu ), collaborative database to which archives and institutes are connected nationwide
  • Database of the storage locations of historical sources ( 史料 所在 情報 デ ー タ ベ ー , Shiryō shozai jōhō kensaku dētabēsu )
  • Renga , Nō and Gagaku databases ( 連 歌 ・ 演 能 ・ 雅 楽 デ ー タ ベ ー ス )
  • Japanese letter stamp database ( 蔵 書 印 デ ー タ ベ ー ス , Zōshoin dētabēsu )

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The archive was set up in 1947 after the Second World War in order to counteract the risk of the loss or disappearance of documents and title deeds as a result of the war.
  2. ↑ The name of the facility was initially "National Research Institute and Archive for Japanese Literature" ( 国立 国 文学 研究 資料 館 史料 館 , Kokuritsugaku Kenkyū Shiryōkan Shiryōkan ). Note that the doubling of Shiryōkan is based on different spellings that result from the contraction of the individual spellings.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 文部省 史料 館 . In: 世界 大 百科 事 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved February 17, 2015 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ 電子 資料 館 . National Institute of Japanese Literature, accessed February 17, 2015 (Japanese).

Coordinates: 35 ° 42 ′ 44.6 ″  N , 139 ° 24 ′ 32 ″  E