Oya Soichi Bunko
in Setagaya-ku, JapanCategory: Attraction
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Japan, 〒156-0056 Tōkyō-to, Setagaya-ku, Hachimanyama, 3 Chome−10−20, 公益財団法人大宅壮一文庫 Print route »
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Oya Soichi Bunko is a library in Japan that holds the popular, non-academic magazines and books collected and prized by Oya Soichi, with continuations of the collection after he died. Magazines include those about the popular culture of the day. Oya Soichi played an important role as a social critic for 50 years, during which time he published translations, anthologies, and books and also accumulated over 200,000 magazines, journals, and books. After he died in 1970, Oya Soichi Bunko was founded in Hachimanyama, Tokyo and later in Ogose, Saitama in an effort to catalog the books written by Oya Soichi as well as make available his own significant body of work.
