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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15528
Title:: Kogyo ka ka kyū 枯魚過河泣
Scope & Content:: Alternative Japanese reading: Kogyo kawa o watarite naku; Chinese reading: Gu yu guo he qi. 'Crossing the river the dried fish sheds tears’. Chinese poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai (701-762). Calligraphy in semi-cursive (gyōsho) style by Ozaki Yūhō 尾崎邑鵬 (1924-).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: c 1997-1998
Extent:: 1 sheet.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15531
Title:: Rōryū mei, go mo ga 老龍鳴吾喪我
Scope & Content:: Chinese reading: Lao long ming, wu sang wo. ‘The cry of an old dragon, Losing oneself’. Quotations from the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi. Seal script style calligraphy by Bai Joteki 梅舒適 (1916-2008).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:: c 1997-1998
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15536
Title:: Chihaku shukoku 知白守黒
Scope & Content:: Chinese reading: Zhi bai shou hei. ‘Knowing the light, preserving the dark’. Quotation from chapter 28 of the 'Daodejing' by the Daoist philosopher Laozi. Calligraphy in clerical (reisho) style by Kogi Taihō 小木太法 (1923-2012).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:: 1996
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15543
Title:: Yama wa yobu manzei no koe 山呼萬歳声
Scope & Content:: 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-).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:: c 1998
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15547
Title:: Fukyō no kyō 不教之教
Scope & Content:: 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].
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:: Heisei 9 [1997]
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15548
Title:: Shin Ō Gyoyō gogon zekku 清王魚洋五言絶句
Scope & Content:: 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
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:: Heisei 10 [1998]
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15553
Title:: Ryōkan shi 良寛詩
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:: Heisei 9 [1997]
Extent:: 1 sheet.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15634
Title:: Kameda Bōsai gasan-fuku [亀田鵬斎画賛幅] 別書名: 鵬斎先生画賛
Scope & Content:: 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]...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:: 1821
Extent:: 1 scroll

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15636
Title:: Calligraphy by Tsubouchi Shōyō 坪内逍遙書幅
Scope & Content:: 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,
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:: 1920-1930
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15912
Title:: [道書雜抄] [Dao shu za chao] [Chinese Daoist manuscript]
Scope & Content:: One manuscript volume recording the rituals of Daoism. This manuscript could be written in 1895 or 1919 (已末年).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: before 1919
Extent:: 1 volume (33 folios).

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