Toyo Bunko - Toyo Bunko

This is a library and research institute that collects and makes available to the public (Library Department) books and magazines related to humanities, humanities, and natural geography of various parts of Asia (including Japan), and publishes research and the results of such research and presents them at lectures (Research Department). In August 1917 (Taisho 6), Iwasaki Hisaya purchased 24,000 items, including European books, pamphlets, maps, and copperplate prints related to China from George Ernest Morrison, then advisor to the President of the Republic of China (former Beijing correspondent for The London Times), and expanded the scope of the collection to cover all of Asia. In November 1924, the institute was incorporated as a foundation, and continues to exist to this day. The number of books, microfilms, and other research materials is increasing every year, and as of 1986 (Showa 61), the total number is approximately 700,000. Among its most famous collections are the Iwasaki Collection, which includes old Japanese books, many handwritten works by scholars and writers from the Edo period, the Dunhuang manuscripts, which are copies of originals in London, Paris, and Beijing, and the 60,000-page collection of letters from the Jesuits housed at the Ajuda Palace in Lisbon.The museum is located at 2-28-21 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.

[Kazuo Eno]

"The Fifteen Year History of the Toyo Bunko" (1929), compiled and published by the Toyo Bunko Foundation ; "Sixty Years of the Toyo Bunko" by Eno Kazuo (1977, Toyo Bunko Foundation)

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アジア（日本を含む）諸地域の人文科学、人文および自然地理関係の書籍・雑誌などを蒐集(しゅうしゅう)公開し（図書部）、それらに関する研究とその成果の公刊、講演会による発表を行っている（研究部）図書館兼研究所。1917年（大正6）8月、岩崎久弥(ひさや)が当時の中華民国大総統顧問（『ロンドン・タイムズ』前北京(ペキン)特派員）モリソンGeorge Ernest Morrisonから購入した中国に関するヨーロッパ文の図書、パンフレット、地図、銅版画など2万4000点をもとに、蒐集の範囲をアジア全域に拡大し、1924年11月、財団法人組織に改め、今日に至る。図書・マイクロフィルムなどの研究資料を毎年増加、1986年（昭和61）現在の総数約70万点。なかでも日本の古刊本、江戸時代の学者・文学者などの自筆本多数を含む岩崎文庫、ロンドン・パリ・北京にある原本を複写した敦煌(とんこう)文書、リスボンのアジューダ宮殿所蔵のイエズス会士書簡集6万ページ余などは、とくに名高い。所在地は東京都文京区本駒込(ほんこまごめ)2-28-21。

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『財団法人東洋文庫編・刊『東洋文庫十五年史』（1929）』▽『榎一雄著『東洋文庫の六十年』（1977・財団法人東洋文庫）』

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