（「俳優八代目市川団十郎　於浪華島之内客舎死　嘉永七甲寅年八月六日　天王寺邑一心寺葬　行年三十二歳　法名浄莚信士」） （「俳優八代目市川団十郎　於浪華島之内客舎死　嘉永七甲寅年八月六日　天王寺邑一心寺葬　行年三十二歳　法名浄莚信士」）

Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University

The Art Research Center was established in 1998. Since then, the Center’s mission has been not only to conduct historical and social research and analyses of both tangible and intangible human cultural properties such as visual and performing arts and craftsmanship, but also to record, organize, preserve, and disseminate the research outcomes. To make the vast amount of database of resources on Japanese culture kept at the Art Research Center available to joint researchers in and outside of Japan, while providing the hitherto accumulated digital archiving and database management technologies as the basis for research project activities to promote information archiving and the circulating of joint research on knowledge. Through these undertakings, the Center aims to “become a world class research center” in the field of Digital Humanities.