The was a collection of about 10,000 books that were destroyed in the
1923 Great Kantō earthquake and following fires in
Japan.
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( ) The books were the former possessions of
Nishimura Shigeki
was a Japanese educator and leader of the Meiji Enlightenment during the Meiji period. He also went by his pen-name of Nishimura Hakuo. He wrote more than 130 books and over 200 articles in his long literary career.
Born to the family of the ...
before becoming part of the library of
Tokyo University
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...
and were mainly about Chinese philosophy and history.
See also
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List of destroyed libraries
300px, The urn containing ashes of the most precious Polish incunabula and manuscripts, deliberately burnt in the Krasiński Library by a Nazi Germany">Nazi German ''Brandkommando'' following the fall of the Warsaw Uprising
Libraries have been ...
References
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Libraries in Japan
Destroyed landmarks