Thousands of early modern Japanese books from UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco to be digitized in Yanai Initiative project

Book on scanner bed, with illustration of bird on flowering tree branch

Sean Brenner, Humanities | February 23, 2026

Thousands of early modern Japanese books from UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco to be digitized in Yanai Initiative project

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