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Red Plum Blossoms (Kōbai), Calligraphic Excerpt from Chapter 43 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)
Sanjōnishi Sanetaka, Muromachi period, datable to 1509-1510
The forty-third of a series of 54 kotobagaki (calligraphic album leaves) mounted in an album with illustrations; ink and color on paper
16th centuryJapaneseCalligraphy
The Oak Tree (Kashiwagi), Chapter 36 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), 36th of 54 Volumes
Unknown Artist, 17th-18th century
36th of a set of 54 thread-bound books; ink on paper
17th-18th centuryJapaneseCalligraphy
Section of Love Poems from the Kokinshū Anthology (Kokin-waka-shū: Koi-uta)
Prince Munetaka, Kamakura period, circa 12th-14th century
Handscroll; ink, gold and silver pigments on paper
12th-14th centuryJapaneseCalligraphy
Twenty Nō Plays (Yōkyoku nijūban), 1st of 20 Volumes
Kanze Tadachika (Kokusetsu), Early Edo period, 1625 (11th month)
Twenty manuscript books; ink on paper, with cover paintings in gold pigment on indigo-dyed paper
17th centuryJapanese
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Stylized Ideograph Reading "Tree" or "Upright" ('Ju')
Morita Shiryū 森田子龍, 1973
Ink on paper
20th centuryJapaneseCalligraphy
Poems of the Retired Emperor Go-Toba and His Circle (Jisanka)
Shōkadō Shōjō, Early Edo period, circa 1620-1631
Manuscript book; ink on paper ornamented with silver and gold pigment
17th centuryJapaneseCalligraphy
Lotus Sutra, Jo-Bon no. 1 (small) (Hokke-kyō)
Unknown Artist, 17th-18th century
Handscroll; gold pigment on indigo-dyed paper
17th-18th centuryJapaneseCalligraphy
Two Poems on the Subject of the Moon, Man'yōshū, Book 7
Fujiwara no Yoshitsune, Kamakura period, circa 1250
Book fragment now mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and pale red ink on paper
13th centuryJapaneseCalligraphy
One of Five Ordination Certificates (ninka) [mounted on a board]
Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, datable to circa 1292
Ink on paper
13th centuryJapaneseCalligraphy
The Cicada Shell (Utsusemi), Chapter 3 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), 3rd of 54 Volumes
Unknown Artist, 17th-18th century
3rd of a set of 54 thread-bound books; ink on paper
17th-18th centuryJapaneseCalligraphy
Heart Sutra (Hannya-shin-gyō), from Kairyūō-ji in Nara
Unknown Artist, Late Nara period, circa 755
Handscroll; ink on paper
8th centuryJapaneseCalligraphy
Story of [the] Soga Brothers (Soga Monogatari) in 12 Volumes
Unknown Artist, 17th-18th century
Twelve manuscript books; thread-bound, ink on paper with covers, gold designs on blue paper
17th-18th centuryJapanese