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Book or Album
Dimensions
19.9 x 14.4 cm (7 13/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
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Non-Canonical Text Devoted to Jizō Bosatsu (Bussetsu Jizō Bosatsukyō)
Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, datable to circa 1292
Booklet manuscript; ink on paper; pages glued at binding, no hard cover
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Bakemono-ga
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Suikoden (Tales of the Water Margin)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, Edo period, 1829
Paper cord bound draft book; ink on paper
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Compilation of Waka Poems and Chinese Verses for Recitation (Shinsen rōeishū) by Fujiwara no Mototoshi (d. circa 1142)
Monk Jien, Kamakura period, mid 13th century
One of two handscrolls; ink on paper with vermillion marks
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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 38, The Bell Cricket (Suzumushi)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The thirty-eighth of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
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Inatomi School Method of Shooting a Gun (Inatomi-ryū teppō densho)
Unknown Artist, 17th-18th century
Accordion-fold book; ink and color on paper with gold and silver
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Daihannya-haramitta-kyō (Mahaprajnaparamita sutra), No. 267
Unknown Artist, 7th-8th century
Handscroll converted into an "orihon" (folded book); ink on paper with red marks
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Secrets of Judging Horses (Kyokutai uma no shidai)
Nagao Kagehiro, Early Edo period, 1623
Unmounted handscroll; ink and light color on paper
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Book or Album
Unknown Artist
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Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 53, Writing Practice (Tenarai)
Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, dated 1516
The fifty-third of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
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Bakemono-ga
Unknown Artist
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Pictures of kappa (kappa ga)
Unknown Artist
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