The Shido Bunko, or the Institute of Oriental Classics, is an attached institution with a director, six faculty members and four researchers by contract at Keio University. The work comprises the investigation of Japanese and Chinese classical materials at home and abroad, the collection and arrangement of materials microfilmed and digitalized, and the research by the bibliographical method.
The Shido Bunko received a research grant (a special area studies A of Grant-in-Aid for Center for Japanese Studies Scientific Research) from the MEXT in 2004 academic year for “the research on Japanese and Chinese dictionaries and encyclopedias.” The Shido Bunko is even a professional library for public with 140 thousands volume of books and six thousands reels of microfilms. Otherwise, the Shido Bunko has three “Shido Bunko Seminar” for graduate students to learn about the bibliographical method using rare materials in spring and autumn in each term. Moreover, the Shido Bunko opens a lecture once a year.
The lecture, a title of ”A genealogy on the knowledge of miscellaneous matter from Dunhuang manuscripts to printing book in the Republic of China” by Professor Tokio Takada of the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University was held in December first in 2004 academic year. Shido Bunko Ronshu (The Shido Bunko Journal) No. 39 issued in February 2005 contains six articles and two bibliographies as research results.
