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

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

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

Unmounted ten-line calligraphic fragment; gold and silver inks on dyed paper with designs of birds, butterflies and flowers

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

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

Handscroll; ink on paper with sunago (gold and silver flakes); gold guide lines

Handscroll fragment; ink on paper with silver guidelines

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

Handscroll; ink, gold and silver pigments on paper

Unmounted handscroll fragment; ink on paper

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

Handscroll fragment mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper decorated with gold and silver leaf