Hoshino Library

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The {{nihongo|Hoshino Library|星野文庫|Hoshino bunko}} was a collection of about 10,000 books that were destroyed in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and following fires in Japan.[http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/administ/pdf/LOSTMEMO.PDF LOST MEMORY - LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES DESTROYED IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY] ( {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905105742/http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/administ/pdf/LOSTMEMO.PDF |date=September 5, 2012 }}){{cite web|script-title=ja:漢籍関係年表|url=http://www.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tenjikai/tenjikai95/nenpyo.html|work=Chinese classics|publisher=Tokyo University General library|accessdate=5 September 2011|language=Japanese|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329040824/http://www.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tenjikai/tenjikai95/nenpyo.html|archive-date=29 March 2012|url-status=dead}} The books were the former possessions of Hoshino Hisashi before becoming part of the library of Tokyo University and were mainly about Chinese philosophy and history.