Illustrated Story of Yuriwaka (Yuriwaka Daijin) in 3 Volumes

Illustrated Story of Yuriwaka (Yuriwaka Daijin), 1st of 3 Volumes

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, circa 17th century

Thread-bound painted books (three); ink, color and gold on paper

Fifty Nō Plays, Illustrated (Yōkyoku gojū-ban), 4th of 10 Volumes

Set of ten thread-bound books; ink and color on decorated paper with designs in gold

Beneath the Autumn Leaves (Momiji no Ga), Illustration and Calligraphic Excerpt to Chapter 7 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)

Tosa Mitsuyoshi, 17th century

Album leaf mounted as a hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper

17th-19th centuryJapanese

Fifty Nō Plays, Illustrated (Yōkyoku gojū-ban), 8th of 10 Volumes

Set of ten thread-bound books; ink and color on decorated paper with designs in gold

The Former Deeds of King Wondrous Splendor: Lotus Sutra (Hokke-kyō) Chapter 27, with Frontispiece commissioned by Retired Emperor Gomizunoo (1596-1680) in memory of the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tosa Mitsuoki 土佐光起, Early Edo period, c. 1668

Handscroll; gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper

Fifty Nō Plays, Illustrated (Yōkyoku gojū-ban), 7th of 10 Volumes

Set of ten thread-bound books; ink and color on decorated paper with designs in gold

"The Bodhisattva of Wondrous Sound," Chapter 24 of the Lotus Sutra (Hokke-kyō) with Frontispiece, commissioned by Retired Emperor Gomizuno-o (1605-1680) in memory of the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tosa Mitsuoki 土佐光起, Early Edo period, circa 1667

Handscroll; gold and silver pigments on indigo-dyed paper; frontispiece painted in gold, silver, ink, and color on paper

Fifty Nō Plays, Illustrated (Yōkyoku gojū-ban), 5th of 10 Volumes

Set of ten thread-bound books; ink and color on decorated paper with designs in gold

Portrait of Minamoto no Shitago (911-983) inscribed with one of his "Waka" Poems, Calligraphy attributed to Konoe Nobuhiro (1599-1649)

Shōkadō Shōjō, Early Edo period, first half 17th century

Hanging scroll; ink on paper, with a red, calabash-shaped intaglio seal reading "Seiseio".

Fifty Nō Plays, Illustrated (Yōkyoku gojū-ban), 3rd of 10 Volumes

Set of ten thread-bound books; ink and color on decorated paper with designs in gold

Fifty Nō Plays, Illustrated (Yōkyoku gojū-ban), 2nd of 10 Volumes

Set of ten thread-bound books; ink and color on decorated paper with designs in gold

Fifty Nō Plays, Illustrated (Yōkyoku gojū-ban) in 10 Volumes

Set of ten thread-bound books; ink and color on decorated paper with designs in gold