Shiryo Sanshu

Shiryo Sanshu (Collected Historical Materials), indispensable for research into Japanese history and culture, is a major collection of historical materials in which important works have been converted to modern-style Japanese script (reprint) for ease of use. Consisting of an old diaries section and an old documents section, important historical materials of a wide range of genres and from different eras, from ancient to early-modern times, as well as diaries of Imperial Court nobles, warriors, and Buddhist and Shinto priests, have been converted to modern-style Japanese script. These modern-style Japanese script reprints, of which more than 260 volumes have been published to the present day, stand beside the “Dai Nihon Kokiroku” (Old Diaries of Japan) and “Dai Nihon Komonjo” (Old Documents of Japan) in being evaluated by the academic world as the most trustworthy texts available.

Based on the latest printed editions, the JK editions contain the full text data as page images and as pages converted to modern-style Japanese script. The texts can be browsed, searched and copied, and it is possible to obtain search results by narrowing searches to date, book name, era, and so on.