National Diet Library Newsletter
No. 109, June 1999
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Selections from the NDL collection
Momotaro
The NDL has 130,000 children's books and 1,200 titles of children's journals in its collection. To make the best use of these materials, the International Library of Children's Literature will be opened in the next spring as a branch library of the NDL.
As a part of its digital library project, the NDL is digitizing more than 8,000 children's books published before 1955. Among these, about 3000 titles are copyright free or the NDL got permission from the copyright owners.
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The library is planning to provide these digital books to patrons through the inhouse network in the new library. We have taken out a few images from the stacks of this digital library, reduced the size and added an English translation for English readers. Here are all ten pages of "Momotaro" (The Peach Boy), a well-known Japanese nursery tale. Click on the little arrow to start. "Momotaro", illustrated by Goro Arai, Koyosha Shuppan, 1951, Osaka, 10 p.
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