Kusushiji Kanji is one of the three Kuzushiji-MNIST datasets(Kuzushiji-MNIST, Kuzushiji-49, and Kuzushiji-Kanji) created by the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL)and curated by Center for Open Data in the Humanities (CODH). A bounding box was created for each character during the transcription process, but literature scholars did not think they were worth sharing. From the perspective of machine learning, CODH suggested to make a separate dataset for bounding boxes on a page. This is because that can be used as the basis for many machine learning challenges and working towards automated transcription. This resulted in the full release of the Kuzushiji dataset in November 2016. The dataset contains 3,999 character types along with 403,242 characters