Shinobazu Bunko

Japanese: 不忍文庫 - しのばずぶんこ

This library was owned by Yashiro Hirokata, a Japanese classical scholar from the mid-Edo period. It was so named because it was located on the banks of Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, Edo. Hirokata was said to be one of the greatest book collectors of the Edo period, and had a collection of about 50,000 books stored in three storehouses. After his death, most of his books were given to Hachisuka Narimasa, the lord of the Awa domain, and were added to the Awa Bunko. After the Meiji Restoration, the library was entrusted to the Tokushima Prefectural Library, but most of it was destroyed in air raids during World War II and a fire at the library in 1950. [Ishii Atsushi]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

江戸時代中期の国学者屋代弘賢（ひろかた）の文庫。江戸，上野不忍池畔にあったところからこの名がある。弘賢は江戸時代屈指の蔵書家といわれ，約5万冊の蔵書を書庫3棟に収蔵していた。没後，大部分が阿波藩主蜂須賀斉昌に譲渡され，阿波文庫に加えられた。明治維新後，同文庫は徳島県立図書館に委託されていたが，第2次世界大戦下の空襲と1950年の同館の火災によりほとんどを焼失した。【石井敦】

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