Chinese reading : Shan hu wan sui sheng. ‘Mountains echoing the cries of ten thousand years’. Calligraphy in cursive (sōsho) style by Moritoki Taiyū 守時大融 (1920-).
Chinese reading: Bu jiao zhi jiao. ‘Teaching by not teaching’. Chinese saying. Calligraphy in cursive (sōsho) style by Nozaki Kakunan 野崎嶽南 (1925-2010). Dated: 丁丑年 [Heisei 9 = 1997].
Chinese poem in 5 syllable quatrains by the Qing Dynasty poet Wang Yuyang [Shizhen] 王魚洋[士禎] (1634-1711). Calligraphy in cursive (sōsho) style by Okada Keisetsu 岡田契雪 (1936-). Inscription on inside of box lid dated March 1998 [Heisei 10] : 平成十年三月岡田契雪自識
Chinese poem (kanshi) by the Japanese monk Ryōkan (1758-1831). Calligraphy in semi-cursive (gyōsho) style by Takada Kōha 高田香坡 (1934-) . Dated Heisei 9 [1997] on box. Text: 青陽二月初物色稍新鮮此時持鉢孟騰々入市廛児童忽見我欣然相将来要我寺門前携我歩 / 遅々放孟白石上掛嚢青松枝千批闘百艸千批打毬子我打渠且歌我歌渠打之打去又打来不知 / 時節移行人顧我問曷由其如斯低頭不應他道得亦何似要知箇中意元来祇這是.
Title on back of scroll: Bōsai sensei gasan 鵬斎先生画賛. A 7-character 4-line Chinese poem in cursive calligraphy by the scholar-painter Kameda Bōsai 亀田鵬斎 (1752-1826). Colour drawing by Bōsai in abbreviated Bunjin style beneath the poem shows figures playing go. Dated kanoto mi 辛巳 = Bunsei 4 [1821]...
Calligraphic piece in Chinese beginning: '天地一大劇場' 'The world is one great theatre' by Tsubouchi Shōyō 坪内逍遙 (1859-1935), playwright and Shakespeare scholar,
Chinese poem in 5-character quatrain form by the Tang dynasty poet Wang Bo 王勃 in the calligraphy of the diplomat and bibliophile Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929). Signed as Seizan 静山. Text reads: 山川両処晩 花柳一園春 還持千日酔 共作百年人. Manuscript note on reverse of scroll reads : 最珍 前駐日英国大使アーネスト･サトー氏筆春之詩...
Two draft illustrations intended for publication in the magazine Han yu kou yu《漢語口語》. The artist is Wei Qimei 韋啟美 (1923-2009). There are two notes in Chinese, which can be translated as: 1. These are the illustrations for <口語課本> [kou yu ke ben], which is the teaching material of the lang...
Four draft illustrations prepared for publication in Zhong wen Zhongguo fu nu magazine. The artist is Yao Youduo 姚有多 (1937-2001). On the verso of each illustration, there is a stamp indicating the issue in which that illustration will be published and the date of publication. Two illustrations ...