"Yonen Gaho magazine article search" is a new database added to the Picture Book Gallery on May 5, Children's Day in Japan. It provides digital images of the picture magazine Yonen Gaho in cooperation with the International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka and others. Approximately 1,100 images of out-of-copyright works of Sazanami Iwaya, Senrin Kirigaya, Shuntei Miyagawa and others, are available to search and view.

"Kodomo no Kuni magazine article search," another database of the Picture Book Gallery, has been offering digital images of the picture magazine Kodomo no Kuni since 2009. Approximately 3,700 images started to be provided inside the ILCL under the authority of the ruling issued by the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs.* This expanded the whole on-site provision of "Kodomo no kuni magazine article search" to approximately 8,500 images.

*For using copyrighted works of which the author's year of death and the copyright holder's contact information are unknown, the NDL obtains the ruling of the Cultural Affairs Agency stipulated in Article 67 of the Copyright law.

Picture Book Gallery
Click "Yonen Gaho magazine article search," "Kodomo no Kuni magazine article search" button at the upper right.

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