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The fifty-third of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 48, Bracken Shoots (Sawarabi)

The forty-eighth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 16, At the Pass (Sekiya)

The sixteenth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

Various Diseases of Horses and Their Treatments (Ba-isho), 1st of 2 Volumes

Unknown Artist, 14th-16th century

Two books; ink and light color on paper

14th-16th centuryJapanese

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 3, The Cicada Shell (Utsusemi)

The third of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

Annotations of Sangō-shiki, Vol. 5 (Sangō-shiki Kanchū Shō)

Fujiwara Atsumitsu, Kamakura period, mid 13th century

Folding manuscript book; ink on paper

13th centuryJapanese

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 17, The Picture Contest (Eawase)

The seventeenth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

Illustrated Story about late-17th-century Nouveaux Riches (Ogon suidaijin sakazuki by Tamenaga Shunsui II, 1823-1886), second of two manuscript volumes

Yamada Kunijirō (Ichiyūsai II; Kuniteru), Late Edo period, circa 1853

Thread-bound book (manuscript for printed version); ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 31, The Handsome Pillar (Makibashira)

The thirty-first of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 35, Spring Shoots II (Wakana: ge)

The thirty-fifth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper