#HarvardYenchingLibrary

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Last week, we had a wonderful tour of the Harvard-Yenching Library, the most comprehensive East Asian collection for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Western materials in the United States.

Thank you so much to our colleagues in the Harvard-Yenching Library for the tour and showing us some of your exquisite collections!

Image 1: Video showing some books from the Japanese Collection

Image 2: Kuniko Yamada McVey, Librarian for the Japanese Collection, showing us the 1920 publication of the wood block prints of flowers.

Image 3: Detail from one of the folded books, showing a woodblock print of cyclamen.

Image 4: From the Special Collections

西洋草花圖譜 Seiyō kusabana zufu 谷上廣南著畵. Tanikami Kōnan choga. Author / Creator 谷上廣南. Tanikami, Kōnan. Published: 京都市 : 芸艸堂, 大正 6 [1917] Kyōto-shi : Unsōdō, Taishō 6 [1917] 5 v. : chiefly col. ill. ; 28 cm. Japanese HOLLIS number: 990081538480203941

National Diet Library of Japan, digitized all volumes and made publicly accessible.

若冲畫譜 Jakuchū gafu [若冲居子; 編輯者近藤德太郎; 縮圖者山田光太郎]. [Jakuchū koji ; henshūsha Kondō Tokutarō ; shukuzusha Yamada Kōtarō]. Author / Creator 伊藤若冲, 1716-1800. Itō, Jakuchū, 1716-1800 Edition 再版. Saihan. Published: 京都 : 芸艸堂, 明治41 [1908] Kyōto : Unsōdō, Meiji 41 [1908] 4 v. : chiefly col. ill. ; 34 cm. Japanese Author / Creator 近藤德太郎. Kondō, Tokutarō Meiji 41 [1908] HOLLIS number: 990081537280203941

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Spiral stairs at #HarvardYenchingLibrary (Taken with Instagram)