Hokkaido University Library (Northern Studies Collection)
I collected the majority of my resources here, including travelogues from Nagayama Takeshirō (which frequently mentions the Ainu it seems), reports on Karafuto Ainu and their deportation to Hokkaido, reports and papers related to W.S. Clark, etc. I have a good haul of readable archival materials, and some higher resolution retakes of materials I collected last time including two Tondenhei histories compiled in the 1880s.
Additionally, I had the bright idea of searching simply for "活字" in the archival search engine and collected a wide variety of documents either published in movable type originally, or later reprinted in historical journals. These include some interesting travelogues. All of it is quite readable. The journals were published in the 1970s and it may be useful to collect more of these if they're cheap.
Also in the 活字 collection, I found two reprinted Koga Dōan books on coastal defence from the 1880s. They mention Hokkaido and the United States frequently. I'm not certain, but he seems to claim that Ezo was an "unpeopled borderland" (無人の境), which draws into question the novelty of later terra nullius claims and deindigenization discourses which both erased the presence of the Ainu. I wonder, though, if there was influence of New World settler colonialism on this thinking via 蘭学 texts Koga read which would have informed his knowledge on the matter, as in formal discovery doctrine and popular pioneering narratives alike, was of course typical to imagine oneself as the first 'person' on aboriginal land.
I was able to locate more by Sekiba. It seems he was a Kantian, who, like Nitobe Inazō, quoted Faust. Very Germanocentric, but kind of fascinating how he achieved a high level fluency and took such interest in the Arts. How much influence did philosophers and poets have on his outlook? He also discusses eugenics, such as surveys of Japanese blood types. Included is a short second book on the Ainu from the 1930s.
Lastly, rather than by some more アイヌ史資料集, I selectively photocopied some smaller volumes, including -- I believe -- a print copy of the above mentioned Karafuto Ainu report, and some testimony on some British residents in Hakodate who stole some Ainu bones and were arrested, of which I likewise collected a handwritten copy. I should order British National Archives copies of English language testimony if I follow up on this story. Other scholars have already, but not for the purpose of discussing the ugly introduction of racialized phrenology into Japan.
Otaru Municipal Library
I briefly visited here and collected some newspaper articles related to Oyabe Zen'ichirō and Katō Masanosuke's speech on Ainu education, and happened upon some articles on trips to Russia to find export markets for Hokkaido products. The Oyabe speech appears in its entirety, paired with articles related to the Ainu. The Russian trade article is interesting as its another example of how desperate Hokkaido officials were to find export markets. Of course they would be, but it seems to have been a major preoccupation.
Hokkaido Prefectural Library (Northern Resources Library)
I spent one day at this library and collected resources related largely to Nagayama Takeshirō and the Tondenhei. They should generally be high quality copies, but I found out later that the high intensity spotlights from the copy table may have been too much for my poor phone camera. There may be some distortion or blurred sections.
Perhaps significantly, I found a Tondenhei textbook! Most of it looks quite generic, and if anything, useless or obvious to people who spent most of their time farming (such as a section on which vegetables are nutritious), but the opening chapter is a nationalistic celebration of the army with a Tondenhei focus.
Hokkaido Former Prefectural Office
I did not use the archival sources this trip. I have collected a lot already and have found the sources by and large both generic (ie. statistical reports without much commentary or explanation) and difficult to use effectively. Moreover, I have many leftovers from last time. However, I did collect some resources from the museum section including a copy of an edict banning Ainu salmon fishing in the name of protecting (保護) valuable salmon stocks for commercial use. I didn't take photos, but there were some labels for tins of salmon for export. I believe I didn't take photos unfortunately, but in the Hokkaido University-housed Clark papers, he describes salmon canning in detail and gives Washington state canneries as a model, going so far as to recommend importing the fish themselves (which is ridiculous). A story unfolds, which seems to suggest Ainu were being banned from fishing to maximize profits. Maybe see how this relates to the destruction of Ainu/Wajin fishing guild.
Another document describing Ainu land being 'nationalized' (国有化). Some other readable photographs along these lines on my cell phone; copies likely available online or in books.
Sapporo Beer Museum
General Observations: I visited the museum for another project. There is some content on Horace Capron and Kuroda Kiyotaka), a quote by Shima Yoshitake, and some other information useful for my purposes. I should find the Shima book, but this is the poem in its entirety:
河水遠く流れて 山隅に峙つ
平原千里 地は膏腴
四通八達 宜しく府を開くべし
他日 五州第一の都
Things I still want
Tondenhei journals, documents which relate the Tondenhei to the Ainu, documents by or about 19th century Ainu which relate to the direct and indirect consequences of colonial policy, documents by Japanese which relate to perceptions of お雇い外国人, pre-1890s newspapers, journals. Collections of Hokkaido newspapers from the Meiji peroid.
