抄録
Dajokwan had gathered the list of foreign books purchased by the ministries of the Japanse Imperial Government, and had supervised those books since 1881. I investigated the process of editing the catalogue of the books, and examined when the foreign architectural books owned by the National Archive of Japan had been purchased, by the ownership stamps and labels on them. The books former owned by the Ministry of Finance consist of techinical series books published in UK and the patternbooks published in USA. This library is similar to Kaitakushi's collection. It is to be said, the Japanese Imperial Government would learn the western-style architecture not only from the foreign engineer but also from the foreign architectural books.
