The historian will thus require the use of a number of specialized guides for access to these collections. Series Under Multiple Authorship The student of Japanese history, first approaching these collections, is likely to find himself overwhelmed by the vast resources in reference works, source materials, and scholarly studies of all varieties which confront him. Guides to collectanea are of two types: those which describe and classify the collections themselves, and those which list the contents of the individual collections. Bibliographical data are supplemented with a brief note on the general interest or emphasis of each journal.
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