The authors have been performed literature surveys on July 28, 1889 Kumamoto earthquake taking an opportunity of the occurrence of 2016 event in Kumamoto Prefecture. In the previous paper, reconnaissance reports and newspapers at that time were surveyed. In this paper, more literature surveys including archived Kumamoto prefectural documents were added. Processes of collecting damage data and summing up were traced using those official documents. Damage statistics appeared in various reports were also discussed based on their origins.
