<div dir="ltr">Good Evening All, <div><br></div><div>I am a catalog librarian at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. We have recently acquired some Japanese Ehon books. I have tried to use different character recognition apps to search for title information and I found a large collection of Japanese Ehon on the Smithsonian Libraries website, but I have not had much luck finding an exact match for any of these titles. </div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have any suggestions for cataloging books in Japanese? </div><div><br></div><div>I have attached pictures of the bookseller's description and the 4 books. </div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how to approach cataloging these illustrated books or if you are able to identify them! </div><div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div>Sarah Stanhope</div><div>Managing Catalog Librarian</div><div>Museum of Fine Arts, Houston</div><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:5px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);line-height:1"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/15yph1WwIX0i_lUv1ELVlALY7eBAYK08F/view?usp=drive_web" target="_blank" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration-line:none;padding:1px 0px;border:none"><img style="vertical-align: bottom; border: none;" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png"> <span dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:bottom;text-decoration:none">Book1.JPG</span></a><img src="//ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/common/x_8px.png" style="opacity: 0.55; cursor: pointer; float: right; position: relative; top: -1px; display: none;"></div><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:5px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);line-height:1"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Om78JOFCdysGlsEML6zf593YBfi-wejp/view?usp=drive_web" target="_blank" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration-line:none;padding:1px 0px;border:none"><img style="vertical-align: bottom; border: none;" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png"> <span dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:bottom;text-decoration:none">Book1_view1.JPG</span></a><img src="//ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/common/x_8px.png" style="opacity: 0.55; cursor: pointer; float: right; position: relative; top: -1px; display: none;"></div><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:5px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);line-height:1"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PkkOQY4HRL7o_JdvzE2mlFbBb1yvp_o2/view?usp=drive_web" target="_blank" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration-line:none;padding:1px 0px;border:none"><img style="vertical-align: bottom; border: none;" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png"> <span dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:bottom;text-decoration:none">Book1_view2.JPG</span></a><img src="//ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/common/x_8px.png" style="opacity: 0.55; cursor: pointer; float: right; position: relative; top: -1px; display: none;"></div><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:5px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);line-height:1"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pG0lTAdXOV3Fv_RtH33B2yw3zPzuDFqY/view?usp=drive_web" target="_blank" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration-line:none;padding:1px 0px;border:none"><img style="vertical-align: bottom; border: none;" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png"> <span dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:bottom;text-decoration:none">Book2.JPG</span></a><img src="//ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/common/x_8px.png" style="opacity: 0.55; cursor: pointer; float: right; position: relative; top: -1px; display: none;"></div><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:5px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);line-height:1"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1213Qt15Uj9gO0nvkQEGXEvh6Zp1BUYOn/view?usp=drive_web" target="_blank" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration-line:none;padding:1px 0px;border:none"><img style="vertical-align: bottom; border: none;" src="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