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Yamakawa Collection

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Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 405 books
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Western Books
  • Subject : Literature, Linguistics

Private collection of Prof. Yamakawa Johei(山川 丈平) about German literature, idioms and proverbs.

Yamamoto Collection

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Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 550
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Japanese Books
  • Subject : Philosophy, Religion

Philosophy and History of Philosophy
Former Collections of the late Professor Emeritus Kiyoyuki Yamamoto

Yamao Tokizo collection

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Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 130 books
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Japanese Books, Western Books
  • Subject : Law, Politics

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Yasuda Collections

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Holding : Medical Library
  • Volumes : about 700 books
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Wahon, Japanese Books, Western Books
  • Subject : Literature, Linguistics, Medical Science

Books purchased from the former collection of Dr. Shohei Yasuda (? -1919), assistant professor of the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine.

Yasukochi collection

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Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 472 books
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Japanese Books
  • Subject : History, Geography

The collection of Hiroshi Yasukouchi (?-1953, former Fukuoka High School and Kyushu Imperial University), assistant professor at Oita University. -1953, graduated from the former Fukuoka High School and the Faculty of Law and Letters of Kyushu Imperial University), mainly on national history.

Yomihon Collection

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Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 756 volumes
  • Category : Special Collection (Original)
  • Contents Type : Wahon
  • Subject : Literature, Linguistics

227 sets, 756 volumes collection of Yomihon, Japanese books from the Edo period. This excellent collection includes books published in both Edo and Kamigata. Different versions of the same books are also collected.

 

Yoshimura Collection

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Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 353 sets 674 books 88 letters
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Wahon, Archival Documents
  • Subject : Philosophy, Religion, Literature, Linguistics

Personal collection of Yoshimura Syuyou(吉村秋陽) and his descendants, the confucianists who served under the Mihara domain in Hiroshima. The collection mainly consists of diaries, manuscripts and letters.

Accession date:January 23, 1985
ID: 1184043904-1184051607

Yukiyama Collection

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Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 779 books
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Western Books
  • Subject : Literature, Linguistics

Private collection of Prof. Yukiyama Toshio(雪山 俊夫) about German literature and German language.

Zashunpu Collection

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Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 1,356 books
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Wahon, Chinese Books, Japanese Books
  • Subject : Philosophy, Religion

Research book collection about Song Ming thought authorized by Prof. Kusumoto Masatsugu(楠本正継) funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Donated in 1960
 

Aimi Collection

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Holding : Central Library

Former collection of books mainly related to Japanese art history by art historian Aimi Kaoru (Shigekazu, 1874-1970) from the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods. Donated in 1984.

Oe Collection

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Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 570 books
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Japanese Books, Western Books
  • Subject : Literature, Linguistics

Former collection of books mainly related to English linguistics by Saburo Oe (大江 三郎) (1930-1986), professor of the Faculty of Letters, who led the research on semantics and pragmatics in the English academic community in Japan.

Oshima Collection

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Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 127 books
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Japanese Books, Western Books
  • Subject : Philosophy, Religion

Former collection of books mainly related to ethics by Naoji Oshima (大島 直治) (1879-1967), first professor of ethics at the Faculty of Law and Letters and first president of the University of Kitakyushu.

Gazoku Collection

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Holding : Central Library

Kimon Collection

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Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 492 books
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Wahon, Chinese Books
  • Subject : Philosophy, Religion

Documents related to Confucianism, mainly from the former collection of Seian Ikuta (生田 正庵) (1870-1936), a Yomei scholar.

Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 180 sets 488 volumes
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Wahon
  • Subject : Literature, Linguistics

This is a collection of Kusazoshi (草双紙) formerly held by Matsura Family of Hirado Domain, and acquired by Kyushu University in Showa 40.

Zaizanrou Collection

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Holding : Central Library

Former collection of books and documents related to Korean studies of Korean scholar Maema Kyosaku (前間 恭作) (1868-1941).

Sumi Collection

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Holding : Central Library

Autograph manuscripts and old books of Sumi Yasuaki (1750-1808) and Yasunori (1784-1847), scholars of Japanese language and literature in the Tottori.
The collection consists mainly of Japanese and Chinese books related to Japanese linguistics and Japanese literature.

Tanaka Collection

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Holding : Central Library
  • Volumes : 483冊
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Japanese Books, Western Books
  • Subject : Literature, Linguistics

Former Collection of the late Professor Eiichi Tanaka
Focusing on French literary works

Nagakawa Collection

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Holding : Central Library

Tatsuo Nagakawa(長川 達夫)'s old collection of books on philosophy.

長嵜文庫

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Holding : Medical Library
  • Volumes : 56点
  • Category : Private Collection
  • Contents Type : Wahon, Japanese Books, Western Books
  • Subject : Medical Science

The collection includes 56 books of three generations of Nagasaki doctors, microscopes, monme scales, glass mortars and pestles, balances, etc. donated by Akira Nagasaki, graduate of Kyushu University School of Medicine, assistant professor of pediatric surgery, part-time lecturer of medicine) around 1998, and the materials except Japanese books were registered as "Nagasaki Collection" in FY2016. The collection includes lecture transcripts by the first professor of the Department of Pediatrics, Ito Yukihiko, and lecture notes of Nippon Medical School in the 1935's. Japanese books will be added to the catalog in due course.

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