Itasaka Bokusai (II)

...The latter include Nagatoya in Edo and Daiso in Nagoya, which had collections equivalent to today's public and academic libraries. As for private libraries, the Asakusa Bunko of Bosai Itasaka II and the Aoyagi Bunko of Bunzo Aoyagi, a samurai of the Sendai domain, are well known.
[Modern and later]
In his book "Western Affairs," Yukichi Fukuzawa described the existence of libraries in Western countries, or "bibliotheques," as he called them, and was impressed by the fact that these were available to everyone.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Itasaka Bosai (2nd)" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…後者には江戸の長門屋，名古屋の大惣などが知られており，いわば今日の公共図書館と学術図書館を兼ねるだけの蔵書をもっていた。なお民間の文庫としては，2世板坂卜斎の浅草文庫，仙台藩士青柳文蔵の青柳文庫などが名高い。
［近代以降］
　福沢諭吉は《西洋事情》で，西洋諸国の図書館，すなわち彼の表現によれば〈ビブリオテーキ〉の存在を紹介し，これが万人の利用に供されているさまに感服した。…

※「板坂卜斎（２世）」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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