Around 50 titles from the HBLL’s Rare Japanese Book collection have been scanned and added to the BYU repository on the Internet Archive. The repository contains a number of illustrated books, manuscripts, and scrolls — including the well-known ghost scroll Bakemono no e, a portion of which is shown here. For more information about the …
One of the more recent additions to BYU’s Rare Japanese Collection is a manuscript which recounts the adventures of Japanese sailors shipwrecked in Vietnam in 1794. The 16-man crew of the fishing vessel Daijomaru spent a year in Vietnam before making their way to Nagasaki via Macao, Canton, and Saho. The manuscript describes the shipwreck …
Special Collections has a small but significant collection of rare Japanese materials from the Tokugawa period. Some items are currently on display in the library’s Guns, Scrolls, and Swords exhibit, and others have been featured in past exhibits as well. On occasion, we have the chance to add to the collection. Here are the most …
150 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln was shot by assassin John Wilkes Booth while attending the play “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC. He would pass away during the morning of April 15, 1865. Within weeks, this event would be memorialized in print by journalists, artists, poets, and historians. One of the …