A database for academic institutions to search and browse all volumes of Edogawa Rampo's handmade "Harimaze Nenpu" in a cross-sectional manner.
The " Harimaze Nenpu " is a scrapbook containing a vast number of materials collected, organized, and preserved by Edogawa Rampo. The database contains more than 2,600 original documents, including Rampo's own notes, diaries, manuscripts, letters from writers and publishers, movie and theater pamphlets, press sheets, and clippings from domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines, all of which are attached to the pages with Rampo's comments.
The database will include the entire period from 1894 to 1964 (9 volumes), with a detailed catalog. The postwar and wartime portions, which are being fully disclosed for the first time, include various advertising materials for publications, films, plays, television, radio, and other media in which Rampo was involved, as well as notes and leaflets related to domestic and international translations. There are also numerous original documents related to the Japan Literary Society, the Taiseiyokusankai, Tonari Gumi, etc., which are extremely valuable as a record of a writer who lived through the war years.
The database also allows searches of individual pasted materials, making it useful not only for the history of modern literature, film and video, media, and publishing culture, but also for the study of popular culture in general.
The database is included in the J-DAC "Handwritten Materials by Japanese Modern Literary Writers" and can be cross-searched with the autographs of other modern literature writers.

This database contains a large collection of original materials that complements the main database "Harimaze Nenpu".
It is composed of a wide variety of materials, including not only Rampo's handwritten materials such as drafts of "Murder on D Hill" and "The Human Chair", translation notes of Poe and Doyle, but also leaflets for movies, plays, and records, and flyers for a popular amusement park, the highest building newly constructed at that time and so on.
These materials are the first to fully open to the public.
It contributes to the study of popular culture in general, as well as modern literature, movies, media, and publishing culture history.