Special Materials
The Komuro and Sawabe Memorial Collection (about 5,500 volumes)
This is the book collection of Shinsuke Komuro (1852-1885) and Seishu Sawabe (1856-1886), activists in a Japanese
civil rights movement (Jiyu Minken Undo) during the Meiji Period. It was established in 1891 through the fundraising
efforts of Nobuyuki Nakajima, Eikichi Kimura and Masanao Matsumoto. The Memorial Collection focuses on reference
materials related to Japanese history -mainly manuscripts written during Japan’s modern period-and comprises the
most part of the book collection of Suiken Tachihara, a Confucian vassal of the Mito Domain and the president of the
Mito Shikan (editorial office) who worked tirelessly in editing Dainihonshi (Great Chronicles of Japan) and made its
original text, as well as his handwritten manuscripts and transcriptions. It also includes the book collection of
the Wagaku Kodansho (an institute for Japanese studies) established by Hokiichi Hanawa in the middle of the Edo
Period. These rare and valuable books are the subject of much attention in the library.
Collection Catalogs
For more detail (In Japanese)
【 Doshisha University Digital Collections 】image page
Kaihyo Ibun（海表異聞）
