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Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives

Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives (山口やまぐち県けん文書ぶんしょ館かん, Yamaguchi-ken Monjo-kan) opened in Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, in 1959 as the country's first dedicated modern archival institution.[2][3][4]

Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives
山口やまぐち県けん文書ぶんしょ館かん
Yamaguchi Prefectural Library
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34°10′54″N 131°28′35″E / 34.181540°N 131.476307°E / 34.181540; 131.476307
Location150-1 Ushirogawara, Yamaguchi
EstablishedApril 1959
Collection size530,000[1]
Building information
BuildingYamaguchi Prefectural Library
山口やまぐち県立けんりつ山口やまぐち図書館としょかん
WebsiteOfficial website (ja)

History

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In Shōwa 27 (1952), the Mōri family, former daimyō of Chōshū Domain, deposited its domainal documents with Yamaguchi Prefecture, whereupon they were stored, alongside materials gathered by the pre-war Prefectural History Compilation Office, at Yamaguchi Prefectural Library (ja).[5] These items were transferred in with the opening of Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives in 1959; donations and deposits - including materials from the Tokuyama Domain Mōri family - have continued since.[5]

Holdings

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The archives holds approximately 530,000 documents, roughly divided into five groups:[1]

  • Domain documents, including:
    • Mōri Family Library (毛利もうり家か文庫ぶんこ)
    • Tokuyama Mōri Family Library (徳山とくやま毛利もうり家か文庫ぶんこ)
    • Prefectural Government's Old Clan Records (県庁けんちょう伝来でんらい旧藩きゅうはん記録きろく)
  • Administrative documents, from the Meiji era onwards
  • Administrative materials, from the Meiji era onwards
    • Publications, photographs, films, audio recordings, etc.
  • Family documents, including:
    • Corporation, foundation, and family documents, including those of Edo period samurai houses
  • Special library
    • Textbooks, newspapers, etc.

Cultural Properties

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The holdings include seven Important Cultural Properties, two Prefectural Cultural Properties, and three Municipal Tangible Cultural Properties.[6]

Important Cultural Properties

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  • Arimitsu Family Documents (有光ありみつ家か文書ぶんしょ・長門ながと国こく正吉まさよし郷きょう入江いりえ塩浜しおはま絵図えず): 121 items, dating from the Kamakura period to the Edo period, together with a map of the Nagato Province Masayoshi Irie Salt Fields[7][8]
  • Kumagaya Family Documents (熊谷くまがい家か文書ぶんしょ（二に百ひゃく五ご十じゅう五ご通つう）): 255 documents mounted as 13 scrolls, dating from the Kamakura period to the Edo period[9]
  • Takasu Family Documents (高洲たかす家か文書ぶんしょ・日明ひあがり貿易ぼうえき船せん旗はた): 117 items, dating from 1351–1643, together with a Japan-Ming trade ship flag of Wanli 12 (1584)[10][11]
  • Ōuchi Edition Lotus Sūtra Woodblocks (大内おおうち版ばん法華経ほけきょう板木はんぎ): 59 woodblocks of the Muromachi period[12]
  • Noshima Murakami Family Documents (能島のうじま村むら上家うわや文書ぶんしょ・過か所ところ船せん旗はた): 199 items from the sixteenth century, together with a flag pass of Tenshō 9 (1581)[13]
  • Administrative Documents of Yamaguchi Prefecture (山口やまぐち県けん行政ぎょうせい文書ぶんしょ): 13,549 items, dating from the Edo period to the Shōwa era[14]
  • Former Yamaguchi Prefectural Office and Prefectural Assembly Hall, together with construction records and plans (山口やまぐち県けん旧きゅう県けん庁舎ちょうしゃ及および県けん会かい議事堂ぎじどう附ふ工事こうじ関係かんけい記録きろく6冊さつ設計せっけい図ず5): 6 construction records and 5 plans, from the Taishō era[6]

Prefectural Cultural Properties

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  • Materials relating to Yoshida Shōin (transmitted by the Yoshida family) (吉田よしだ松陰しょういん関係かんけい資料しりょう（吉田よしだ家か伝来でんらい）): 754 items, including a portrait inscribed by Yoshida in the fifth month of Ansei 6 (1859), and his zeppitsu or final writing (Tangible Cultural Property)[15]
  • Oda Family Household Items, Merchant House Materials, and Townhouse (小田おだ家かの生活せいかつ用具ようぐ・商家しょうか資料しりょう・町家まちや): 1,011 documents (Tangible Folk Cultural Property)[16]

From the archives

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b 所蔵しょぞう文書ぶんしょ概要がいよう [Overview of the Documents Held] (in Japanese). Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives". Yamaguchi Prefecture. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  3. ^ Ogawa Chiyoko (1991). "Archives in Japan: The State of the Art". American Archivist. 54. Society of American Archivists: 548.
  4. ^ Koga, Takashi (2007). "Overview of Archives and Archival Issues in Japan". p. 3.
  5. ^ a b 山口やまぐち県けん文書ぶんしょ館かんの歴史れきし [History of Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives] (in Japanese). Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  6. ^ a b 当館とうかん蔵ぞうの指定してい文化財ぶんかざい [Cultural Properties at the Archives] (in Japanese). Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  7. ^ 有光ありみつ家か文書ぶんしょ [Arimitsu Family Documents] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  8. ^ 長門ながと国こく正吉まさよし郷きょう入江いりえ塩浜しおはま絵図えず [Nagato Province Masayoshi Irie Salt Fields] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  9. ^ 熊谷くまがい家か文書ぶんしょ（二に百ひゃく五ご十じゅう五ご通つう） [Kumagaya Family Documents] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  10. ^ 高洲たかす家か文書ぶんしょ [Takasu Family Documents] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  11. ^ 日明ひあがり貿易ぼうえき船せん旗はた〈万まん暦れき十じゅう二に年ねん十じゅう月がつ吉日きちじつ／（麻布まふ）〉 [Japan-Ming Trade Ship Flag] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  12. ^ 大内おおうち版ばん法華経ほけきょう板木はんぎ [Ōuchi Edition Lotus Sūtra Woodblocks] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  13. ^ 過か所ところ船せん旗はた〈天正てんしょう九きゅう年ねん四よん月がつ廿にじゅう八はち日にち/〉能島のうじま村むら上家うわや文書ぶんしょ [Noshima Murakami Family Documents & Flag Pass] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  14. ^ 山口やまぐち県けん行政ぎょうせい文書ぶんしょ [Administrative Documents of Yamaguchi Prefecture] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  15. ^ 吉田よしだ松陰しょういん関係かんけい資料しりょう（吉田よしだ家か伝来でんらい） [Materials relating to Yoshida Shōin (transmitted by the Yoshida family)] (in Japanese). Yamaguchi Prefecture. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  16. ^ 小田おだ家かの生活せいかつ用具ようぐ・商家しょうか資料しりょう・町家まちや [Oda Family Household Items, Merchant House Materials, and Townhouse] (in Japanese). Yamaguchi Prefecture. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
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