Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives (山口県文書館, Yamaguchi-ken Monjo-kan) opened in Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, in 1959 as the country's first dedicated modern archival institution.[2][3][4]
History
In Shōwa 27 (1952), the Mōri family, former daimyō of Chōshū Domain, deposited its domainal documents with Yamaguchi Prefecture, whereupon they were stored, alongside materials gathered by the pre-war Prefectural History Compilation Office, at Yamaguchi Prefectural Library (ja).[5] These items were transferred in with the opening of Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives in 1959; donations and deposits - including materials from the Tokuyama Domain Mōri family - have continued since.[5]
Holdings
The archives holds approximately 530,000 documents, roughly divided into five groups:[1]
- Domain documents, including:
- Mōri Family Library (毛利家文庫)
- Tokuyama Mōri Family Library (徳山毛利家文庫)
- Prefectural Government's Old Clan Records (県庁伝来旧藩記録)
- Administrative documents, from the Meiji era onwards
- Administrative materials, from the Meiji era onwards
- Publications, photographs, films, audio recordings, etc.
- Family documents, including:
- Corporation, foundation, and family documents, including those of Edo period samurai houses
- Special library
- Textbooks, newspapers, etc.
Cultural Properties
The holdings include seven Important Cultural Properties, two Prefectural Cultural Properties, and three Municipal Tangible Cultural Properties.[6]
Important Cultural Properties
- Arimitsu Family Documents (有光家文書・長門国正吉郷入江塩浜絵図): 121 items, dating from the Kamakura period to the Edo period, together with a map of the Nagato Province Masayoshi Irie Salt Fields[7][8]
- Kumagaya Family Documents (熊谷家文書（二百五十五通）): 255 documents mounted as 13 scrolls, dating from the Kamakura period to the Edo period[9]
- Takasu Family Documents (高洲家文書・日明貿易船旗): 117 items, dating from 1351–1643, together with a Japan-Ming trade ship flag of Wanli 12 (1584)[10][11]
- Ōuchi Edition Lotus Sūtra Woodblocks (大内版法華経板木): 59 woodblocks of the Muromachi period[12]
- Noshima Murakami Family Documents (能島村上家文書・過所船旗): 199 items from the sixteenth century, together with a flag pass of Tenshō 9 (1581)[13]
- Administrative Documents of Yamaguchi Prefecture (山口県行政文書): 13,549 items, dating from the Edo period to the Shōwa era[14]
- Former Yamaguchi Prefectural Office and Prefectural Assembly Hall, together with construction records and plans (山口県旧県庁舎及び県会議事堂附工事関係記録6冊設計図5): 6 construction records and 5 plans, from the Taishō era[6]
Prefectural Cultural Properties
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