Rare Books & Collections
Digital archives
- Agri. Library, UTokyo Digital Archive
- Library materials such as Kokugyu Juzu (『国牛十図』: Ten Ox Herding Pictures), Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku Nogakubu Tatemono Ichizu (『東京帝國大學農學部建物位置圖』: Tokyo Imperial University Faculty of Agriculture Building Location Map) were digitized and now available.
- Early Japanese Books – Agri. Library, UTokyo (NIJL Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works)
- Library materials were digitized through the “Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts (NIJL-NW project)” promoted by the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) and available from the “Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works”.
Use of Digital Contents
University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo provides digital contents (images, metadata, texts, etc. (hereafter “Images”)) on the following terms.
| Use | Application | |
|---|---|---|
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| Copy, transform | available | unnecessary |
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo has begun free use of Images. On the other hand, this makes it harder to grasp how much images are being used.
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Notes
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Contact
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Previous exhibition
- From the Collections of the Library, Faculty of Agriculture: the Process of Education in Agricultural Sciences (in Japanese)
- This is the website for Agr. Library’s exhibition held in 2000 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Faculty of Agriculture. On display are agricultural books and illustrations of plants and animals published in the early modern period, books by famous foreign scholars of plants and animals or people with connections to Japan, books and lecture notes by Komaba School of Agriculture instructors, Nomu Temmatsu (『農務顛末』) and Kosaku Kanko Chosa (『小作慣行調査』) researched and compiled by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Department of Agriculture and Commerce), and theses by graduates of the University of Tokyo and their bibliographies.