Tōyō Bunko
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The Tōyō Bunko, or Oriental Library, is Japan's largest Asian studies library and one of the world's five largest, located in Tokyo. It also functions as a research institute dedicated to the study of
The Tōyō Bunko building since 2011
The old Toyo Bunko building
George Ernest Morrison
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George Ernest Morrison was an Australian journalist, political adviser to and representative of the government of the Republic of China during World War I, and owner of the then largest Asiatic librar
Tōyō Bunko
…purchased the vast private collection of China-related publications of Australian adventurer, journalist, and Republic of China government adviser George Morrison. After the purchase, he improved the collection by increasing the number of classical Chinese, Japanese, and Western language books by receiving advice…
Morrison, in a 1902 portrait
George Morrison (1862–1920)
Ex libris George Ernest Morrison