On July 2018, 7, Jissen Women's University signed a memorandum of understanding on the construction of a database in the International Collaborative Research Network Construction Plan for Historical Japanese Books with the National Institute of Japanese Literature, which is headed by Mr. Robert Campbell. This is the first private women's university in the Kanto region to participate in the "International Collaborative Research Network Construction Plan for Japanese Historical Books (Historical Book NW Project)".
The National Institute of Japanese Literature has been conducting the historical bibliographic NW project since 2014. In collaboration with universities in Japan and overseas, about 30 classic bibliographic databases have been imaged and integrated with the existing bibliographic database in Japan. Create a historical bibliographic database of words.In addition, we will build a network of international joint research using the images.
This is expected to deepen research not only in Japanese literature but also in various fields, develop research on fusion of different fields that has never existed before, and achieve results as a countermeasure against the cultural property crisis by converting images into data.
Jissen Women's University / Jissen Women's University Junior College Department Library is the former collection of Dr. Tokuhei Yamagishi (former president of Jissen Women's University), which holds many valuable materials such as old commentary on Genji Monogatari and Chinese books. "Bunko", stories such as Genji Monogatari collected over the three generations of Edo period national scholar Kurokawa Harumura, Makoto, and Shindo, "Kurokawa Bunko" holding manuscripts and published books related to writing, and Japanese poems and stories collected by the university. There is a Jobanmatsu Bunko that holds manuscripts and woodblocks in a wide range of fields such as Japanese language studies, scents, and cookbooks.Jissen Women's University, which has abundant materials, cooperates with the historical book NW project, and valuable materials held by the university are released as color digital materials so that they can be widely used by researchers and educators in Japan and overseas. Become.
At the signing of the signing, Robert Campbell, director of the National Institute of Japanese Literature, said, "The inclusion of valuable materials from the early modern and Edo periods of Jissen Women's University in the database will greatly contribute to the promotion of research on Japanese literature."Eiichiro Shiroshima, President of Jissen Women's University and Jissen Women's University Junior College, said, "Utako Shimoda, the founder of Jissen Women's University, who will celebrate its 120th anniversary next year, focused on Japanese literature and Japanese literature. It is a pleasure and honor for the university to be open to the world and used for research. "
