When Shibusawa Keizo tried to found a museum of business history in the 1930s and 1940s, he collected many woodblock prints (nishiki-e) depicting the modernization and industrialization of society. Keizo also compiled an image index of things depicted in ancient picture scrolls. He called this index an ebiki, a sort of dictionary for images.

Following in Keizo's footsteps, the Resource Center is working on a nishiki-e image index  in order to increase public access to such documents and support research on the modernization era.