Books printed in the Taisho era (1912-1926) were newly added to the “Digital Library from the Meiji Era” <http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/> (Japanese only) on July 3, 2007. This time, about 7,200 titles (about 15,700 volumes) of books, including those whose copyrights had already expired, became available. You can see digital images of books such as:

Hoso Yawa is a collection of stories about laws all over the world in all ages. It was written by Nobushige Hozumi, who contributed to the development of the legal system in modern Japan.

Kyoto Yuran Annai is a guidebook to Kyoto, which includes some photographs of Kyoto scenes. You can feel as if you were traveling in Kyoto in the Taisho era!

From Kyoto Yuran Annai
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For newly added books printed in the Taisho era, we adopted grayscale images which can express shading of black and white more delicately. In addition, grayscale images of about 330 volumes of photographic collections in the Meiji era became available on July 3, so that you can enjoy photographs in more delicate images.

Now, about 97,000 titles (about 143,000 volumes) are available in the Digital Library from the Meiji Era in total, including books published in the Meiji era. We continue to add new titles to make it more useful. We hope you will enjoy it!