Literary works from the Qing Dynasty of China, collected by a writer of Chinese verse, Noguchi Ichitaro (Pen name: Neisai, 1867-1905); History of the Ming Dynasty, donated in 1910 by Shimomura Masataro (1883-1944), the owner of Daimaru Draper in Kyoto and alumnus of Waseda; Statistical literature in early modern Japan; Governmental materials and letters related to the University's founder; Chinese military books of the Qing and Ming eras; Japanese and Chinese classical mathematics, in particular numerous editions of "Jinkoki"; Japanese books of the late Edo period; Original manuscripts of the renga masters (Sōgi, Shinkei etc.); and History of the modern Japanese legal system.