The Kanazawa Bunko document, a national treasure established in the middle of the Kamakura period and known as Japan's oldest samurai library, has been significantly renewed and released with the cooperation of the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo.In addition to doubling the number of published documents, the search function has been improved and the browsing environment on smartphones and tablets has been improved.
According to the University of Tokyo, the major renewal will double the number of published documents to 1,024, improve the search function and screen display method, link with the University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute database, and new for mutual use of images between digital archives. Introduced specifications and promoted cooperation with the Humanities and Social Sciences Comprehensive Data Catalog of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa Bunko, which operates the Kanazawa Bunko, has been promoting the digital archiving of documents and has been publishing it on the web since 2020, but there were problems such as the search function and screen display method that should be improved.Therefore, in 2021, we signed a memorandum of understanding with the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo and received cooperation, and we were proceeding with a major renewal.
The document of Kanazawa Bunko is a samurai library set up in the mansion in Kanazawa-cho, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama City by Mr. Kanezawa Sanetoki in the middle of the Kamakura period.Mr. Hojo Kanazawa died with the destruction of the Kamakura Shogunate, but the documents were managed by the Shomyoji Temple in the adjacent land.
The current Kanazawa Bunko was reconstructed as a facility in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1930 in the early Showa period.In addition to documents centered on items deposited from Shomyoji Temple, it also holds works of art and local materials.
