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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 5, Young Murasaki (Wakamurasaki)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The fifth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
16th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Book
Unknown Artist
Japanese
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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 26, The Pink (Tokonatsu)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The twenty-sixth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
16th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Bakemono-ga
Unknown Artist
Japanese
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Account of My Hut (Hōjōki) by Kamo no Chōmei
Ichijō Kanera, Muromachi period, circa 1470-1480
One volume of single sheets; ink on paper
15th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 3, The Cicada Shell (Utsusemi)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The third of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
16th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 9, Heart-to-Heart (Aoi)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The ninth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
16th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Text of the Twenty-Fifth Chapter (Kanzeon Bosatsu Fumonbon) of the Lotus Sutra (Myōhō Rengekyō)
Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, datable to circa 1292
Manuscript booklet; ink on paper; heavy brown paper covers; pages incised with vertical guide lines
13th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Teisai's Ghost (Teisaiga: Bakemono gacho)
Unknown Artist
Japanese
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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 51, A Drifting Boat (Ukifune)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The fifty-first of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
16th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
Heart Sutra (Sanskrit: Prajnâpâramitâ-hrdaya-sūtra; Japanese: Hannya-shin-gyō), in running script (gyōsho)
Konoe Yorakuin Iehiro, Mid Edo period, dated 1713 (Shōtoku 3, 10th month, 17th day)
Handscroll; ink on paper
18th centuryJapaneseManuscripts
A Collection of Poems by Fujiwara no Yoshitsune, 1169-1206 (Akishino gesseishū)
Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, circa 1300
Manuscript book; ink on paper with marks (gatten) in vermillion
13th-14th centuryJapanese