Fonds/Series
Shozan Bunsho: Burnt Records
- Title
- Shozan Bunsho: Burnt Records
- Level of Description
- series
- Archival History
- In the second half of the 1960s, the Financial History Division put together under the name "Documents that escaped the flames" those of the documents kept by the Documents Division Records Section which were saved from burning during the Great Kanto Earthquake and materials taken over from tax offices and others after the earthquake and compiled their catalogues. The materials thus put together and organized are (1)documents that escaped the flames during the earthquake (Meiji period, 28 volumes), (2) Hansei Roku (clan system records; Meiji period, 15 volumes), (3) Government Bond Agency (Meiji period, 17 volumes), (4) materials related to salary decisions (Meiji period, 6 volumes), (5) miscellaneous materials (Meiji period, 11 volumes), (6) materials taken over from the Okinawa Tax Office (Edo period, 16 volumes), (7) materials taken over from the Okayama Tax Office (Edo period, 19 volumes), (8) public bonds (circular documents of the Finance Bureau, Taisho period, 39 volumes), (9) materials related to correspondence with overseas during the Taisho period (6 volumes). Of these, (1), (2),(4),(5),(8) and (9) have been transferred.
- Related Material
- <a href="http://www.digital.archives.go.jp/DAS/meta/Fonds_en_F2005031018532602970" target="_blank">「Shozan Bunsho (Burnt Records)」</a>
https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/3835351
[Fonds/Series] "Shozan Bunsho: Burnt Records", National Archives of Japan Digital Archive, https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/3835351（accessed 2026-07-15）
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