When Taihoku Imperial University (the predecessor of Taiwan University) was first established in 1928, university officials purchased the collection of Taiwan aborigine artifacts and specimens, including part of the personal library and manuscripts, of Ino Kanori, the renowned pioneer of Taiwan Studies in Japan. Of these materials, the aborigine artifacts became the collection of specimens managed by the university's Institute of Ethnology, while the books and manuscripts were incorporated into the university library as the "Ino Collection." However, the library did not implement any central management or control of the books and manuscripts but rather integrated them with the rest of the library's holdings. In fact, many of the manuscripts were placed on the stacks without first being catalogued. Thus, although the Ino Collection is unusually famous, no one could enumerate its entire contents. Recently, after devoting considerable resources to the reclassifying of this collection, it is now possible to apprehend the Ino Collection in its entirety. According to the results of this re-cataloguing and reordering process, the Ino Collection consists of approximately four hundred separate items. Of these items, approximately three hundred are bound publications related to Taiwan studies that were published during the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) eras. Another twenty-some items are Qing period publications bound in the traditional Chinese style, while an additional sixty-some titles consist of hand-copied texts and original manuscripts. The most treasured items in the Ino Collection are these hand-copied texts and manuscripts. The hand-copied volumes preserve historical materials not found elsewhere in the world, while many of Ino Kanori's original manuscripts are even more invaluable.