Digitization project at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Library's Japan Collection. Collaborations with the museums in Japan (the National Museum of Japanese History & the Okinawa Pre. Museum) and with an academic institution (the Univ. of the Ryukyus) are presented.

1. Digitization Project of Early Japanese
Materials at the University of Hawaii at
Manoa Library Japan Collection:
Collaborations and Resource Sharing
Roundtable on Global Access for Early Japanese Materials
Collections
CEAL Committee on Japanese Materials (CJM) & the North American
Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC)
Tokiko Y. Bazzell, Japan Studies Librarian, UHM Library
March 24, 2014, 7:30-9:30 pm, Marriott 302, Philadelphia

2. Outlines
 Brief overview of the Sakamaki/Hawley
Collection at UHM Library
 Collaborations with museums in Japan
 Collaborations with an academic institution in
Japan
 Future plans
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3. Sakamaki/Hawley Ryukyu/Okinawa
Collection

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Sakamaki/Hawley Collection
•1,300+ titles
•400+ titles are 古典籍
• manuscripts, woodblock
prints, scrolls, rubbings, maps,
etc.
http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/okinawa/collections/sakamaki_hawley/titlelist.pdf

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Sakamaki/Hawley Collection

6. Collaborations with Museums in
Japan
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7. Collaborations
(1710 琉球人登城之行列図)
National Museum of Japanese History (2006)

8. 琉球人登城之行列 1710
Courtesy for the slide, created by Mr. Travis Seifman

9. Collaborations
(1671 琉球使者金武王子出仕之行列)
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art (2008)

10. Procession of the Ryukyu Kingdom’s Prince Kin to the Edo Castle
(detail) 1671
琉球使者金武王子出仕之行列 1671
Courtesy for the slide, created by Mr. Travis Seifman

11. Collaboration with the University
of the Ryukyus Library
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12. Digitization Timeline
 December 2012 Selection of the target materials
(300 titles)
 September 2013 Memorandum of
Understanding was signed
 November 2013 Start of the digitization at UHM
 March 2014 Completion of digitization: 281
titles/16,376 tiff frames
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Scanner: DigiBook SupraScan II
6 seconds scan time
600 dpi, 24-bit color setting

15. 琉球人来朝之記
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16. 琉球人来朝之記
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17. 琉球人来朝記
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18. Future Plans

19. http://manwe.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/d-archive/
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23. UHM Sakamaki/Hawley Collection page
http://manwe.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/d-archive/list?col=116
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24. Thank you very much
Tokiko Y. Bazzell
<tokiko@hawaii.edu>