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17.3 x 15.2 cm (6 13/16 x 6 in.)
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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō) Chapter 44: Bamboo River (Takekawa)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The forty-fourth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
16th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Secret Use of Spears and Halberd of [the] Muhen School (Muhen-ryū yari naginata densho), 1st of 5 Volumes
Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, 1678
Five handscrolls; sumi on bordered paper with gold
17th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Teisai's Ghost (Teisaiga: Bakemono gacho)
Unknown Artist
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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 centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 28, The Typhoon (Nowaki)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The twenty-eighth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
16th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Teisai's Ghost (Teisaiga: Bakemono gacho)
Unknown Artist
Japanese
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Illustrated Story of Monk Ikkyū (Ikkyū shokoku monogatari zue), 5th of 5 Volumes
Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century
Five thread-bound books; ink on paper
18th-19th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
The Mayfly (Kagerō), Chapter 52 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)
Monk Jien, mid 13th century
Thread-bound manuscript; ink on decorated paper
13th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Treatise on Archery, with Draft of an English Translation Inserted [also 'facsimile of surimono by Sadanobu inserted in book' (accession card)]
Unknown Artist, 17th-19th century
Manuscript; ink on paper
17th-19th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Prayer to go to Amitabha's Paradise (ōjōkōshiki ganmon)
Retired Emperor Fushimi, 12th-14th century
Handscroll; ink on paper with cloud-pattern in blue and purple for margins
12th-14th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Collection of Buddhist Verses for Chanting (Gyozan Taikai Shū)
Gyozan, Muromachi period, circa 1496
Three books mounted as one; ink on paper with cinnabar ink for notations
15th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
An Illustrated Popular Story by Shikitei Kosanba (Misao-Kurabe Yasa Gunpai), 1st of 3 volumes
Utagawa Sadahide, Late Edo period, dated 1836
First of three thread-bound books (kusazōshi); ink on paper
19th centuryJapanese