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Centuries of Japanese Legal Tradition

Visit Centuries of Japanese Legal Tradition The Japanese Manuscript Digital Collection at the Harvard Law School consists of twenty-two medieval legal manuscripts and annotated facsimiles that span a nearly 450 year period from 1150 to 1591. These...

Chirimen Prints

Visit Chirimen Prints Introduced around 1860, chirimen prints were crinkled paper prints created by the usual woodblock print process. This collection contains colored chirimen prints of 59 sheets in 55 sets from the late 19th century to the early 20th...

Digital Suite of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Digital Suite of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is currently under reconstruction. Please browse digitized materials from the collection here and a brief look at the materials related to Kaneko Kentarō here. The Harvard Law School Library's Digital Suite...

Early Photography of Japan

Visit Early Photography of Japan 1 Visit Early Photography of Japan 2 A collection of more than 40 souvenir photograph albums and illustrated publications with over 2,000 images from Widener Library, the Fine Arts Library, and Harvard-Yenching Library...

Ernest H. Wilson Expeditions to China, Japan, Korea, Formosa, and Islands in the Japanese Sea

Visit the Ernest H. Wilson Expeditions to China, Japan, Formosa, and Islands in the Japanese Sea, 1899-1919 The Ernest H. Wilson Expeditions to China, Japan, Formosa, and Islands in the Japanese Sea, 1899-1919 is part of a larger open collection related...

Etz-Trudell Lantern Slides

Visit the Etz-Trudell Lantern Slides This Fine Arts Library collection includes 500 hand-colored lantern slides depicting images acquired from Universalist minister Roger Frederick Etz (1855-1950) and his 1934 tour of Asia. Most of the images depict...

Gahōsha. Taishōshin kasai mokuhan gashū.

View the Taishōshin kasai mokuhan gashū. Published in 1924 by Gahōsha, this book collects woodblock prints, by various artists, of and directly after the Great Kantō Earthquake that took place on September 1 st, 1923.

George Butler Collection, Miyagi 1951

Visit George Butler Collection George Butler M.D. was stationed with the US Army at Camp Matsushima in the Miyagi Prefecture of Japan from April 1951 to January 1952. During that time he took several thousand photographs of the villages, towns and...

Horikoshi Collection

Visit Horikoshi Collection (on Flickr) This collection was accumulated by Yoshihiro Horikoshi and donated to Harvard University in 1946. It includes materials such as Story of Loyal, Prominent, and Faithful Samurai, Portrait of Great Japanese Leaders, and...

Immigration to the United States

Visit Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents immigration to the United States from the...

Japan Disasters Digital Archive

Visit the Japan Disasters Digital Archive Launched in July of 2012, the Japan Disaster Archive (JDA) is an advanced search engine for materials from around the globe, including individuals' testimonials, tweets, and content from international partners who...

Japanese Art and Design Digitization Collection

Visit Japanese Art and Design Digitization Project Visit the Japanese Art and Design Collection The collection includes textile design templates from 1791-1908, ranging from 45 titles in 88 volumes. The project encompasses Tokugawa period designs that...