The was a collection of about 10,000 books that were destroyed in the
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
The struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshū at 11:58:44 JST (02:58:44 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes. Extensive firestorms an ...
and following fires in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
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( ) The books were the former possessions of
Hoshino Hisashi
was a Japanese historian, active in the late 19th century debates over the role of Japanese history.
Career
Hoshino was appointed professor at Tokyo Imperial University in 1888. Historical work had previously been carried out in a government d ...
before becoming part of the library of
Tokyo University and were mainly about Chinese philosophy and history.
See also
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Destruction of libraries
References
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Libraries in Japan