Paulownia box in which the Yuri Documents have been stored at the Kyoto Prefectural Museum of General Archives

The paulownia box in which the Lily documents have been stored. The decision on whether or not to register the document as a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of Japan Heritage site will be made in early October. At the Kyoto Prefectural Library and Archives. photo taken September 17, 2015. In 1685, Tsunanori Maeda, a lord of the Kaga Clan who had a strong interest in old documents, donated 100 paulownia boxes to the museum for the purpose of storing documents. The name "Yuri Documents" comes from the fact that Maeda Tsunanori, who was interested in old documents, donated 100 paulownia boxes to store them. The documents range from the 8th to 18th centuries, and include about 25,000 pieces of land deeds accumulated during the management of temples and manors, as well as minutes of meetings of temple and priest organizations. The Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, which submitted the application, evaluated that "the form of the documents, which are written in ink on Japanese paper and stored in a paulownia box, is extremely beneficial in terms of preservation.