{"id":6895,"date":"2026-02-20T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:00:54","slug":"the-honbu-document-collection-reimagined-as-high%e2%80%91def-catalog-now-featuring-over-150x-more-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/news-en\/2026\/02\/20\/6895\/","title":{"rendered":"The Honbu Documents Collection Recataloged into High\u2011Def, Now  Featuring Over\u202f150x More Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February\u202f3,\u202f2026, the Waseda University History Museum added fine\u2011grained records for its <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.waseda.jp\/archive\/subDB-top.html?arg={%22item_per_page%22:20,%22sortby%22:[%222967a%22,%22ASC%22],%22view%22:%22display-simple%22,%22subDB_id%22:%22182%22}&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cHonbu Documents\u201d collection<\/a> (\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u672c\u90e8\u66f8\u985e) within the Waseda University Cultural Resource Database.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly the web catalogue displayed 120 entries at the level of a single document (one record per item). By incorporating multiple sub\u2011entries for each document, the total now stands at 19,960 records; the quantity and numbering of the underlying physical items remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260202honbusyorui_old.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"306\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Previously, a search for \u201c\u5c0f\u6cc9\u516b\u96f2\u201d (Koizumi Yakumo; Lafcadio Hearn) yielded no results.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260202honbusyorui_new.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"730\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The revised version, however, returns five matching records.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Usage information<\/h3>\n<p>Details on viewing and copying are set forth in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/en\/services\/use\/\">the user guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When requesting use of the &#8220;Honbu Documents&#8221; collection, please specify the desired material at the record level rather than by document unit. The identifier \u201c5\u2011XXX\u201d denotes an individual document; \u201c5\u2011XXX\u2011YYY\u201d indicates a sub\u2011entry (one record) contained within that document. In most cases, \u201c5\u2011XXX\u2011000\u201d refers to the record for the front cover and table of contents of a bound volume.<\/p>\n<p>For viewing the materials, we&#8217;ll provide A3 or A4 printouts of the digitized data. Photographs may be taken with a digital camera or smartphone; however, removal of the printed sheets is not permitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February\u202f3,\u202f2026, the Waseda University History Museum added fine\u2011grained records for its \u201cHonbu Documents\u201d co [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[122,94,78],"class_list":["post-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-service-en","tag-general-en","tag-history-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7020,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions\/7020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}