[
{
"pname":"Address",
"pvalue":"East Asia Library<br/>557 Escondido Mall<br/>Stanford, CA 94305"
}
,
{
"pname":"Contact Person <small>(Please replace the \"[ATMARK]\" with the symbol @ when e-mailing the contact person.)</small>",
"pvalue":"Katherine Matsuura, Japanese Studies Librarian<br/>kathim[ATMARK]stanford.edu"
}
,
{
"pname":"Collection Size",
"pvalue":"There are 8,312 Japanese printed books, manuscripts, and single-sheet format items in the East Asia Library special collections (locked stacks), which span Edo, Meiji, Taisho periods, as well as colonial and wartime scopes. Additional rare materials await processing and will become available in the future. Beyond the East Asia Library, there are more than 500 Japanese maps (Edo period and Gaihozu) located at the David Rumsey Map Center and Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections."
}
,
{
"pname":"Collection Description",
"pvalue":"<p>Edo to early Meiji:  Stanford has a substantial Hanpon Collection that includes 611 titles from the late 18<sup>th</sup> and early 19<sup>th</sup> centuries.  The collection mainly consists of illustrated books on literature (<i>waka, yomihon, gō kan,</i> etc.), arts and manuals, education (<i>kyō kun, ō raimono,</i> etc.) as well as geography. There is also a substantial collection of souvenir prints (keidazu) from the 17<sup>th</sup> century-early 20<sup>th</sup> century (more than 400 prints), as well as growing collections of broadsheets (kawaraban), nishikie, Buddhist materials, hanging scrolls (kakejiku), ehon, and materials centered on numerous subjects, such as games (sugoroku), cookbooks, sericulture / agriculture, incense (kodo), and more.</p><p>Additional miscellaneous materials are amongst the oldest in the Japanese collection and include Nihon Shoki Tsusho (1762), Chikyu Seizu (1874), Gokaiko Yokohama no Zenzu (1859), Hyoron Edo Shogun kaishi (1878), Seii ryakuron (1859), Myomoku Shussho Indaramo (1665), Shotoku Taishi Denreki (1628), Genji Monogatari Hahakigi (mid-Edo period), Zoku Ikkyu Hanashi (1731), Edo Sunago Musume Katakiuchi (1719), Komachi Sakura Monogarari zenpen Toka Rysui Ono no Komachi Seisuiki (1821), Sankyo Benron (1711), Hakkesho (1652), Bokuzei Genkisho (1714), Kegon Gokyosho Fukkoki (1669), Banshu Meisho Junran Zue (Harima meisho junran zue) (1804), Nagasaki Oo ezu (1802)</p>"
}
,
{
"pname":"Material Availability for Researchers' Viewing/Examination",
"pvalue":"Available on request"
}
,
{
"pname":"Online Access to Relevant Bibliographic Information",
"pvalue":"OCLC (brief in-process records)<br/>OPAC (brief in-process records):  <a href=\"\">https://searchworks.stanford.edu/</a><br/><br/>Special Collection subject search headings with Edo/early Meiji content:<br/><ul><li>Stanford Hanpon Collection</li><li>Stanford Ehon Collection</li><li>Japanese rare materials related to travel</li><li>Collection of Buddhist Materials in the locked stacks</li><li>Collection of Japanese Buddhist musical materials</li><li>Collection of Japanese scrolls in the locked stacks</li><li>Collection on the history of incense</li><li>Collection of historical materials related to sericulture, textiles and agriculture in Japan</li><li>Early Modern News Sheets: Japan</li><li>Japanese facsimile collection</li><li>Japanese historical cookbook collection</li><li>Japanese historical games collection</li><li>Japanese medicinal history collection</li><li>Nishikie</li><li>Japanese religious ephemera collection</li><li>Japanese theater collection</li><li>Rare Japanese titles 2015</li></ul>Special Collection subject search headings with Modern content:<br/><ul><li>Takarazuka Collection at the East Asian Library</li><li>Stanford Kyokasho Collection</li><li>Wartime archival materials: Japan</li><li>Rare Japanese materials from the 1940s and 1950s</li><li>Collection of Mount Diamond materials</li></ul>"
}
,
{
"pname":"Printed Catalogs of Relevant Titles",
"pvalue":"Kasuya, Hiroki. \"Sutanfōdo Daigaku Fūba Kenkyūjo East Asian Collection zō 'Edo jidai hanpon' mokuroku.\" <i>Gobun</i> 76-78 (Mar., June, Nov. 1990)."
}
,
{
"pname":"Possibility of Material Reproduction",
"pvalue":"The East Asia Library has not made rules for reproduction yet."
}
]