The Kuzushiji-49 dataset is an extension of the Kuzushiji-MNIST dataset, containing 270,912 images (28×28 grayscale) in 49 categories. The data has 48 Hiragana characters and 1 Hiragana iterative annotation class. The training set has 232,365 images and the test set has 38,547 images. This dataset can be used to study Japanese classical literature.

Citation

@online{clanuwat2018deep, author = {Tarin Clanuwat and Mikel Bober-Irizar and Asanobu Kitamoto and Alex Lamb and Kazuaki Yamamoto and David Ha}, title = {Deep Learning for Classical Japanese Literature}, date = {2018-12-03}, year = {2018}, eprintclass = {cs.CV}, eprinttype = {arXiv}, eprint = {cs.CV/1812.01718}, }