Address

Saargemuender Str. 2, 14195 Berlin, Germany

contact

Library
Tel: +49 (0) 30-83907-167
Fax: +49 (0) 30-83907-220
e-mail: bibliothek@jdzb.de

Size of collection

The Japanese-German Centre Berlin has no antiquarian collections.

Antiquarian materials in Germany

Detailed catalogues of the major collections of antiquarian materials in Germany were compiled by the late Dr Eva Kraft between 1980 and 1990 and published in 5 volumes by Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart:Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland / im Einvernehmen mit der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. Im Auftrag der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen.Bd. 27: Japanische Handschriften und traditionelle Drucke aus der Zeit vor 1868 / beschrieben von Eva Kraft.

• Im Besitz der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, Staatsbibliothek und Staatliche Museen, Kunstbibliothek mit Lipperheidescher Kostümbibliothek, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Museum für Völkerkunde Stuttgart 1982, ISBN: 3-515-03481-1
• In München: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Deutsches Museum, Münchner Stadtmuseum - Puppentheatermuseum, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart 1986, ISBN: 3-515-04396-9
• In Bonn: Japanologisches Seminar der Universität; Bremen: Kunsthalle Bremen, Übersee-Museum; Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde; Köln: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Stuttgart 1988, ISBN: 3-515-05017-5
• In Bochum, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN: 3-515-05307-7
• In München: Neuerwerbungen der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Stuttgart 1994, ISBN: 3-515-06223-8

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Access to bibliographic data

Printed catalogues
As yet there are no electronic catalogues of antiquarian materials in the major German collections so the abovementioned catalogues should be consulted. Chinese works are not generally included. Depending on the institution surimono albums, illustrated scrolls and “shikishi” may be included.
There are naturally other collections of antquarian material than those mentioned in the 5-volume catalogue but they are either small in size, included in museum catalogues or were formerly in East Germany. Moreover, even in those libraries and museums for which the late Dr Kraft did compile catalogues, there are many instances of materials being added to the collections after appearance of her catalogues and for which no catalogue has yet been published .
Below is a list of publications on Japanese collections of museums and art museums in Germany which can be searched for antiquarian materials not included in the 5-volume catalogue:

Japanese collections in European museums / ed. by Josef Kreiner ; Toyota Foundation Symposium ; (Königswinter) : 2003　Bonn : Bier, 2005
Vol. 1, General prospects, JapanArchiv ; 5,1,ISBN: 3-936366-06-3
Vol. 2, Regional studies, JapanArchiv ; 5,2, ISBN: 3-936366-11-X

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