THE ANNUAL OF RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BUDD RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY (RIBC No. 32 (2008) CONTENTS N ote 1: A gainst the use o fS ilk rob es in early m o dern Japanese B - U eda Shoh en 's in terpretatio n on D aoxuan's p ro hib ition o , D ian e R iggs (T ran slated by K ensuke O ka N ote 2: T w o sources related to O tan iK ozuiand his C entralA sia Im re G alam b os (B ritish L ibrary) ◇Note 2 Two sources related to Otani Ko Central Asian expeditions Imre Galambos (British BelowaretwogroupsofdocumentsrelatedtothehistoryoftheO thelifeofOtaniKozui.Inbothcasesthesourcesarelocatedou thisisthereasonwhytheyhavenotbeenutilizedbyJapanesesc purposehereistodrawattentiontothismaterial,aslimitati in-depthexaminationorthephoto-reproductionofthereleva 1 The Archives of the Royal Geographical Society ( related to the Otani expeditions, which can help to 2nd and 3rd trips. First, there is a nine-page types Q l'''1 A I e A o during his 1908-09 trip, accompanied by a letter w secretary of the RGS.1 The typescript is a rudimen ° ° T I I J A (t l results of the expedition. Stein's letter (dated Ju were attached describes how he had gone through t ° complete editing would have meant ∝rewriting a grea t ° paper he found so crude that he did not see the po ° ° -26-