Masatake Tanaka papers, 1929–1997.

Materials collected and created by Masatake Tanaka, a plant geneticist, during scientific expeditions in Southwest Asia and Central-South America between the 1950s and 1980s. Over ten thousand accessions of wheat and other genetic resources, now maintained at the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, were mainly collected by scientific expeditions of Kyoto University. The field notes explain the collection sites and habitats of the plant materials, and the “cultivation notebooks” describe how the plants were maintained after the collection. The information allows us to trace the origins of wheat genetic resources kept at Kyoto University. Moreover, his photographs and maps show the life and culture in the area investigated. The archival materials, together with the genetic resources, should help people understand the regions and also contribute to the researchers’ effort in breeding locally-adapted varieties at the place of origin.

• [Name of Creator(s)] Masatake Tanaka, 1920–2001
• [Date] 1929–1997
• [Archivist and Date] 2023
• [Extent] 42 volumes of field notes, 16 maps, 81 photographs (478 sheets of positives, 21 albums of printed photographs and others), 48 cultivation notebooks, 4 specimens, 14 folders of reprints, 128 research materials, 23 scrapbooks, 114 reports and abstracts, 10 audio-visual materials (lectures and speeches), 56 personal papers (8 passports and others)
• [Existence and Location of Copies] 561 metadata records
• [Conditions of Access and Use] At the present time, we do not accept a request because the archival materials are under processing.