Hoshino Library Explained

The was a collection of about 10,000 books that were destroyed in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and following fires in Japan.[1] [2] The books were the former possessions of Hoshino Hisashi before becoming part of the library of Tokyo University and were mainly about Chinese philosophy and history.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/administ/pdf/LOSTMEMO.PDF LOST MEMORY - LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES DESTROYED IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
  2. Web site: ja:漢籍関係年表. http://www.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tenjikai/tenjikai95/nenpyo.html. Chinese classics. Tokyo University General library. 5 September 2011. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20120329040824/http://www.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tenjikai/tenjikai95/nenpyo.html. 29 March 2012. dead.

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