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Teisai's Ghost (Teisaiga: Bakemono gacho)
Dimensions
17.7 x 17.5 cm (6 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 17, The Picture Contest (Eawase)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The seventeenth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
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Dedicatory Address to Arhats for Their Ritual Memorial Service (Rakan gusai-mon)
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Printed Sanskrit (Darani-kyō) Text over Drawing of a Seated Youth
Sakuramachi, 18th-19th century
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Legend of Blue Morning Glory (Katarigusa ruri no asagao), from a kabuki play
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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 5, Young Murasaki (Wakamurasaki)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The fifth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
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Various Diseases of Horses and Their Treatments (Ba-isho), 1st of 2 Volumes
Unknown Artist, 14th-16th century
Two books; ink and light color on paper
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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
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Bakemono-cho
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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 49, The Ivy (Yadorigi)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The forty-ninth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
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Illustrated Story about late-17th-century Nouveaux Riches (Ogon suidaijin sakazuki by Tamenaga Shunsui II, 1823-1886), second of two manuscript volumes
Yamada Kunijirō (Ichiyūsai II; Kuniteru), Late Edo period, circa 1853
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