Photographs of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: Top page of NDL Great East Japan Earthquake Archive (HINAGIKU)

January 15th, 2021

It has been nearly 26 years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on January 17th, 1995. In commemoration of this tragic natural disaster, five photographs from the Kobe University Library Digital Archive Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster Materials Collection will be exhibited on the top page of HINAGIKU from January 15th to January 31st, 2021.

Kobe University Library Digital Archive Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster Materials Collection is an archive which collects such items as records of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. You can search materials of that archive via HINAGIKU.

Reference:
In this Collection comprised of about 61,000 items, about 5,300 digitalized items are opened to the public on the web (as of November 30th, 2020), and you can search materials in some ways as follows.

Digital Gallery

Photographs or Audio Materials and others are viewable. On the page of fixed-point photographs, you can see the status of restoration at the same place after the earthquake disaster.

Advanced Search screen

You can search the materials by entering some keywords or conditions.

All kinds' of material list (in Japanese)

You can see the list of materials with each type of category, and also check only newly arrived materials.