Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyū Center

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Building of the research center in Kyoto

The Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyu Center ( jap. 国際日本文化研究センター , ~ Senta , dt "International Research Center for Japanese Studies", Eng., International Research Center for Japanese Studies , in short Nichibunken ( 日文研 )) is a Japanese research institute for culture Japan. It belongs to the " National Research Institutes for the Humanities " (NIHU) and as such is part of the "umbrella organization for cooperation and interdisciplinary research between universities" . The research center was founded in 1987 and is located in the district Nishikyō in Kyoto , in Kyoto Prefecture .

overview

In the run-up to the establishment of the research center, there were initially considerations on methods of cultural comparison in 1982, which were employed with the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology . In 1987 the research center was founded. The first leader was the philosopher Takeshi Umehara . In 1990 the research center moved to its current premises with a total size of 31,120 m². Kazuhiko Komatsu currently heads the research center.

The library currently (as of March 2013) has around 494,000 books, 332,000 of which are in Japanese and 162,000 in foreign languages; it also has 179,900 audiovisual media and 3,300 microfilms .

Electronic databases (selection)

  • Rara database: Collection of 66 illustrations of rare books published in Western languages ​​about Japan before the Meiji Restoration (before 1850). The books were. The books are fully recorded and indexed in terms of content and bibliography.
  • Database with 1057 books in European languages, which were published before 1900 and which refer to Japan.
  • Database with 3077 images of yōkai , figures of Japanese folk beliefs, monsters and other supernatural beings.
  • Renga database with 197,228 chain poems; includes all Renga collections before the Eiroku period (1558–1570) and the most important Renga works from the Eiroku to the end of the Edo period . The collection was created by Katsuhiro Seta and donated to the research institute.
  • Waka database of 190,423 Japanese poems; includes all imperial anthologies and the most important private anthologies. The collection was created by Katsuhiro Seta and donated to the research institute.
  • Haikai database with 25,652 Japanese haikus; includes works by Bashō and Buson , among others . The collection was created by Katsuhiro Seta and donated to the research institute.
  • Kojiruien database: full text search in Japan's most extensive history encyclopedia (51-volume edition from the Taishō period ).
  • Zen text database with 1290 Zen texts from the Japanese Middle Ages
  • Noma Collection: database with 64 works on medicine; also includes works from the 16th century on human anatomy.
  • Soda Collection: Database with 1104 works on the history and cultural history of medicine and pharmaceutical science; compiled by the medical historian Hajime Sōda.
  • Database with 317 illustrations of the Iwakura mission from Kunitake Kume's work Tokumei zenken taishi Bei-Ō kairan jikki from 1878
  • Database of Japanese works of art in foreign collections: includes paintings, prints, ceramics and lacquerware.
  • Database with 5431 hand-colored photographs from the end of the Edo to the beginning of the Meiji period .
  • Database with 221 old, colored pictures and maps of Nagasaki .
  • Database with images of historical sites in Kyoto
  • Heian jinbutsushi - a who's who of old Kyōto of the Edo period.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Overview. International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2014, accessed February 19, 2015 .
  2. ↑ General Information. International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2014, accessed February 19, 2015 .
  3. ↑ List of Nichibunken Databases. International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2014, accessed February 19, 2015 .

Web links

Coordinates: 34 ° 59 ′ 17 ″  N , 135 ° 40 ′ 1 ″  E