Bakemono gacho

The tenth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

Secret Use of Spears and Halberd of [the] Muhen School (Muhen-ryū yari naginata densho), 4th of 5 Volumes

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, 1678

Five handscrolls; sumi on bordered paper with gold

17th centuryJapanese

Elegant Mitate Designs (Fūryū mitate moyō)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Printed book (7 sheets) in yellow paper binding; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Secrets of Judging Horses (Kyokutai uma no shidai)

Nagao Kagehiro, Early Edo period, 1623

Unmounted handscroll; ink and light color on paper

17th centuryJapanese

Copy of the Book of Medicinal Herbs (Materia Medica) by Ken'i Ajari (active 1072-1145) (Yakushushō)

Unknown Artist, Late Heian period, mid 12th century

Manuscript book; ink (and red ink for collator's marks) on paper

12th centuryJapanese

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 51, A Drifting Boat (Ukifune)

The fifty-first of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

Illustrated Story of Monk Ikkyū (Ikkyū shokoku monogatari zue), 3rd of 5 Volumes

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Five thread-bound books; ink on paper

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 34, Spring Shoots I (Wakana: jō)

The thirty-fourth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paperr

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 23, The Warbler’s First Song (Hatsune)

The twenty-third of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

Daihannya-kyō Vol. 314 (Tōdai-ji Hachimangū-kyō)

Unknown Artist, 12th-14th century

Handscroll; ink on paper

12th-14th centuryJapanese