OrganizationLibrary

Opening Hour

Monday-Friday (9:30-17:00)

Location

First Floor of ILCAA

How to Enter 

For TUFS faculty members, students, staff, and emeritus professors including ILCAA members.

No prior contact is necessary. You can enter using your campus card, just like at the university library.

For Fellows, Junior Fellows, and Collaborative Researchers

No prior contact is necessary. If you have a campus card (facility use card), you can enter by presenting it at the entrance gate.
If you do not have a campus card (facility use card), you can enter by filling out the designated form. Please bring an ID issued by your affiliated institution.

For those affiliated with other universities or research institutions

For visits and browsing open-shelf materials only, no prior contact is necessary. Please bring an ID issued by your affiliated institution and fill out the designated form on the day of your visit.
If you wish to view specific materials, please contact us in advance. Kindly provide the following information via email:

• Name
• Affiliated academic institution
• Date and time of visit
• Contact information
• Materials you plan to view (not required if undecided)
• Whether you wish to make copies
• Whether you wish to view microfilm materials
• Whether you wish to use the TUFS Library
• Additional remarks
• Contact: ILCAA Library
• Email: tosho-aa[at]tufs.ac.jp (please replace [at] with @)
• Tel / 042-330-5597

For individuals not affiliated with the above categories

Prior contact is required. Visits without prior contact will not be permitted. Please provide the following information via email in advance:

• Name
• Date and time of visit
• Contact information
• Materials you plan to view (not required if undecided)
• Whether you wish to make copies
• Whether you wish to view microfilm materials
• Whether you wish to use the TUFS Library
• Additional remarks
• Contact: ILCAA Library
• Email: tosho-aa[at]tufs.ac.jp (please replace [at] with @)
• Tel / 042-330-5597

How to Browse

You are free to browse the materials available on the open shelves in the Library. For the use of valuable books, prior inquiry is required except for ILCAAmembers including fellows, junior fellows, and collaborative researchers. For details, please refer to [ILCAA Collection](https://wp.tufs.ac.jp/library/en/top-2/how-to-use/service/borrowing/ilcaa/).

To search the online catalog of the ILCAA collection, please use the [TUFS OPAC](https://www-lib.tufs.ac.jp/opac/en). The card catalog for books is located on the Stack Room Level 1 of the TUFS Library, and for magazines, it is in the ILCAA Library.

Additionally, general books and personal collections from the ILCAA collection are shelved on the first floor of the TUFS Library and can be used under the same conditions as the TUFS library’s holdings.

About the Collection

In order to facilitate inter-university joint research, the Institute Library has been making every effort since its establishment in 1964 to collect materials and basic data indispensable for the study and research of languages and cultures of Asia and Africa. As of now, library holdings total 140,000 volumes, 1,800 titles of journals, 12,000 reels of microfilm, 70,000 sheets of microfiche, and other digitized materials (documents, maps, photographs, videos).
The library has holdings of several rare materials. Among the remarkable resources are: the Khmer script version of the Tripitaka (the Buddhist sacred texts). The original texts have been lost during the wars in Cambodia. However, reproductions were made from the ones in the Institute Library, and then donated to the cultural and educational institution and temples in Cambodia. These reproductions of the texts contributed to the revitalization of Cambodian culture. The library also possesses a valuable collection by the late Prof. Erin Asai (1895-1969), a renowned scholar of Austronesian studies.
The collection, acquired in 1970, includes land contract documents, videos, photographs, lexicon, linguistic material, field notes on the indigenous people of Taiwan.

Among the other remarkable resources are:

• A collection of theatrical posters in Ottoman period.
• Description de l’Egypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches, 2nd ed.
• Views in Cairo, a collection of lithographs depicting Cairo in 19th century by Robert Hay.
• 65 Iranian newspapers issued from the late 19th century to 1970.
• Back numbers of the monthly Bengali literary journals published during the 19th and 20th centuries.
• A set of pictures describing sugar manufacture of the Qing period.
• A Picture book of people in Taiwan illustrating Taiwan folklore in Qing period.
• The Mongolian Buddhism Texts of the Qing period
• The Mongolian Bible (St. Petersburg, 1819)
• The Records of the Manzhouguo (Manchukuo) Legation in Thailand
• The Papers of Jisaku Shinoda, a Japanese colonial official in the pre-Second World War’s Korea
• The Korea’s Joseon Dynasty documents (ex-Prof. Hiroyuki Miura Collection)
• Qing Archival Documents

The Institute Library also houses personal collections of the following prominent linguists and historians:
Kengo Yamamoto (the Manchurian language), Takashiro Kobayashi (the Mongolian history), Shinji Maejima (the Islamic studies), Ioketek Ong (the Taiwanese language and culture).

Also, a part of the collection of Kazuo Otsuka (anthropology, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies) is included.

User’s Guide for “Naoyoshi Ogawa and Erin Asai Collection of Resources on Taiwan”

“Naoyoshi Ogawa and Erin Asai Collection of Resources on Taiwan” is a collection from the Research Institute of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Some materials from the collection, mainly written documents (fieldnotes, vocabularies, etc.), have been digitized and are available for academic use. Those who want to access the materials should contact the ILCAA library after confirming their contents and ID with the catalogue (“Ogawa Naoyoshi Asai Erin Taiwan Shiryo Kenkyu (Study of Naoyoshi Ogawa and Erin Asai Collection of Resources on Taiwan).” Mio, Yuko, and Toyoshima, Masayuki, eds. 2005). Books and some manuscripts registered as part of the “Asai Library” collection can be searched via the OPAC of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Library.

• Among the resources, the use of images (photographs), videos (films), and sound materials (records), including viewing, is permitted only in the following cases:

1. Academic research conducted within ILCAA, or that conducted in collaboration with ILCAA.
2. Performance, screening, broadcasting, and public transmission at exhibitions organized or supported by ILCAA.
3. When a formal request is submitted for non-profit reproduction, performance, screening, broadcasting, or public transmission by:
   ・ The descendants of the providers of the original materials;
   ・ The descendants and relatives of individuals who are subjects of collection, photography, filming, or recording of the materials;
   ・ Official organizations inheriting the culture of the concerned ethnic groups (such as organizations established by the national or local government, like “The Council of Indigenous Peoples” of Taiwan).

• Prior written permission is required to view digitized written materials of “Naoyoshi Ogawa and Erin Asai Collection of Resources on Taiwan,” and certain documents of “Asai Library,” held by ILCAA.
• Under certain conditions, it is permitted to reproduce digitized written materials from the “Naoyoshi Ogawa and Erin Asai Collection of Resources on Taiwan,” and certain documents of “Asai Library,” stored in ILCAA. Please apply for reproduction of the materials using a prescribed form. In principle, the reproduction fee will be charged in accordance with the Regulations for Document Reproduction of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Library. However, the fee may be waived for providers of the original materials or for collaborators and their affiliates involved in arranging and preserving the resources. A separate prior written permission is required if you want to use reproduced materials for the following: exhibition, performance, screening, public transmission or acts of making a work available for transmission (such as uploading on World Wide Web pages), broadcasting, or publication based on such uses.

Photocopying, Reproduction, and Borrowing of Materials

If you wish to borrow or make photocopies of materials owned or stored by the Institute, please contact the library.

TUFS Library

Please note that we may ask you to follow the procedures in accordance with the “Detailed Regulations on Reproduction and Borrowing” for certain reasons.
The permission form for the procedures can be downloaded from here.