Story of [the] Soga Brothers (Soga Monogatari), 1st of 12 Volumes

Haji Noor deen Mi Guangjiang, 2004

Peace

Ink on paper

21st century

One of Four Sheets of Paper inscribed with Religious Texts, Poems, Charms [mounted on a board]

Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, datable to circa 1292

Ink on paper

13th centuryJapanese

Fragment of a Buddhist Sutra

Unknown Artist, 11th Century

Ink on paper

Chinese

One of Six Ordination Certificates (ninka) [mounted on a board]

Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, datable to circa 1292

Ink on paper

13th centuryJapanese

Bamboo River (Takekawa), Chapter 44 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), 44th of 54 Volumes

44th of a set of 54 thread-bound books; ink on paper

Calligraphy Album Leaf

Unknown Artist

Album leaf; ink on paper

Chinese

Lotus Sutra, Jo-Bon no. 1 (small) (Hokke-kyō)

Handscroll; gold pigment on indigo-dyed paper

The Picture Contest (E-Awase), Chapter 17 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), 17th of 54 Volumes

17th of a set of 54 thread-bound books; ink on paper

Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa), 1st of 2 Volumes

Ichijō Kaneteru, Early Edo period, circa 17th-18th century

Two thread-bound books; ink on paper decorated with designs of floral patterns in gold and silver

The Paulownia Pavilion (Kiritsubo), Chapter 1 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), 1st of 54 Volumes

1st of a set of 54 thread-bound books; ink on paper

Fourteen-Character Couplet in Clerical Script (Korean, 'Ye-sŏ'; Chinese, 'Lishu')

Sŏ Sŭng-po (also known by sobriquet ['ho']: Kyu-jŏng), probably 19th century

One of a pair of hanging scrolls now mounted as the ninth and tenth panels of a ten-panel folding screen; ink on medium-brown-tinted paper; with signature of the artist reading "Kyu-jŏng"; with three seals of the artist reading "Sŏ Sŭng Po In", "Kyu Jŏng", and "Chŏng Chŏng"

20th centuryKorean