Thousands of early modern Japanese books from UCLA, Berkeley, UCSF to be digitized in Yanai Initiative project | UCLA

"Thousands of early modern Japanese books and manuscripts from the libraries of UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco are being digitized to create a resource that will be accessible to scholars around the world.

The digital archive, which could ultimately be the largest of its kind outside of Japan, will encompass rare materials from the early 1600s through 1868, including illustrated scrolls, books, maps and medical texts."