Tale of the Pagoda Made of Sand, Text Fragment from the Illustrated "Tales of Three Jewels" (Sambō-ekotoba) from Tōdai-ji, Nara

Handscroll; pale blue and purple clouds on paper; gold and silver frontispiece

Fragment of a book mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and vermillion marks on paper

Handscroll fragment; ink on paper with silver guidelines

Unmounted handscroll fragment; ink on paper

Handscroll; ink, gold and silver pigments on paper

First of three handscrolls; ink on paper; punctuation: light red dots; reciting: dark red

Handscroll; ink on paper with gold and silver flakes and cut-gold guidelines

Book page now mounted as an album leaf in "shikishi" (poem-slip) format

Tanzaku (long, slender poem slip) mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on indigo-dyed paper with cloud pattern

Handscroll fragment mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on dyed paper decorated with ink, color, silver pigment, scattered gold- and silver-leaf, and cut-gold ruled lines

Handscroll; ink on paper with silver and gold-flecked top and bottom margins

Framed handscroll fragment; ink and color on paper