Asian Library Artifact Collections – The Claremont Colleges Library

The Asian Library’s artifact collections are good examples for classes highlighting Asian civilization, history, and material cultures.

Buddhist Art Objects

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Incense Burner

Framed image of Kannon/Guanyin fresco at Horyuji Temple

Porcelain Statue of Guanyin

Japanese cabinet for two gilded statues of the Buddha, one inside the cabinet and the other on the top of the cabinet.

Japanese Family Buddhist Shrine

Statue of the thousand-handed Buddha

Statue of Sitting Monk

Printing Cultures

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Porcelain, Ceramic, Lacquer Artifacts

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Asian Studies Digital Collections

The Asian studies digital collections range from Chinese manuscript and archival collections, Korean rare books, Japanese traditional woodblock prints, to oral history interviews on key figures of the American occupation government in postwar Japan.

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Asian Library Special Collections

Among the many rare collections held in the Asian Library are correspondence, manuscripts and historical photos; Buddhist sutras and artifacts; Japanese and Korean maps; Chinese rare books of history, literature, local gazetteers; early Chinese translations of the Bible, western science and technology books.

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Asian Library

The Asian Library of The Claremont Colleges is a distinguished library within the Claremont Colleges Library. We support The Claremont Colleges’ curricula in the arts & humanities, social sciences, STEM, and language studies focused on Asia.

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