ManuscriptsJapanese
Pictures of kappa (kappa ga)
Dimensions
18.4 x 16 cm (7 1/4 x 6 5/16 in.)
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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 18, Wind in the Pines (Matsukaze)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The eighteenth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
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Illustrated Scroll of Secrets on the Art of Spearhandling from the Saburi School (Saburi-ryū sōjutsu densho)
Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, 1682
Handscroll; ink and color on decorated paper with designs in gold
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Horsemanship of the ōtsubo school (ōtsubo-ryū uma no ezu)
Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, 1627
Accordion-fold book; ink, color and gold on paper
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Competition of Poems from Different Periods (Jidai fudō uta-awase) by Retired Emperor Go-Toba (1180-1239)
Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, circa 1250-1300
Folding manuscript book; ink on paper
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Classy Make-Believe Pictures (Furyu mitate moyo)
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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 10, The Green Branch (Sakaki)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The tenth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 37, The Flute (Yokobue)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The thirty-seventh of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 47, Trefoil Knots (Agemaki)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The forty-seventh of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
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Non-Canonical Sutra Booklet without Title Page (text begins "Kaku no gotoki")
Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, datable to circa 1292
Booklet manuscript; ink on paper; dark, gray-brown paper, pages glued at binding, no hard cover
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Compilation of Waka Poems and Chinese Verses for Recitation (Shinsen rōeishū) by Fujiwara no Mototoshi (d. circa 1142)
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One of two handscrolls; ink on paper with vermillion marks
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