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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15513
Title:: Zoku fude no ayumi 続筆迺安由美 by Kariho Akinari 苅穂秋成
Scope & Content:: Travel diary covering famous sights of Ise, the Tōkaidō, Kiso, Harima and Kii.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 弘化2年 [1845]
Extent:: 5 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15514
Title:: Seisen hisshō taisei kōyō manga 聖戦必勝態勢昂揚漫画
Scope & Content:: ‘Cartoons on the victorious sacred war’. An album with humorous watercolour sketches on World War II, the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere etc which were exhibited in an exhibition organised by the New Japan Cartoonists Association 新日本漫画家協会. Artists include Okamoto Ippei 岡本一平 (1886-1948),...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: c 1942-1944
Extent:: 14 sheets.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15525
Title:: Shintoku 辰徳
Scope & Content:: Kanji calligraphy in epigraphic style by Arai Kōfū 新井光風 (1937-)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: c 1997-1998
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15527
Title:: Kan 観
Scope & Content:: ‘Observation’. Avant-garde work in archaic seal script by Fujiwara Seidō 藤原清洞 (1914-2002)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: c 1997-1998
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15529
Title:: Kiyomizu no ue kara idetari haru no tsuki 清水上から出たり春の月
Scope & Content:: Haiku on the spring moon rising over Kiyomizu by Morikawa Kyoroku 森川許六 (1656-1715). Kana calligraphy by Asai Sodō 浅井素堂 (1915-1999) .
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: c 1997-1998
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15530
Title:: Shichiō hattotsu 七凹八凸
Scope & Content:: ‘Unevenness’. Calligraphy in semi-cursive (gyōsho) style by Asayama Kazuhito 朝山一人 (1970-).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
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 15532
Title:: Mui tensei 無為天成
Scope & Content:: ‘Natural results from doing nothing'. Calligraphy by Fujioka Gekka 藤岡月華 (1934-). Date from inscription on box: 平成八年.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: Heisei 8 [1996]
Extent:: 1 sheet.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15533
Title:: Kantsubaki kibishiku ikishi hi no tooku by 寒椿厳しく生きし日の遠く
Scope & Content:: Haiku poem of reminiscences inspired by a winter camellia. Mixed kana/kanji calligraphy by Hōga Kōshū 法元康州. The manuscript is undated but the lid of its box bears an inscription dated Heisei 10 [1998].
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: Heisei 10 [1998]
Extent:: 1 sheet.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15534
Title:: Ogurayama fumoto no nobe no hana susuki honoka ni miyuru aki no yūgure おぐらやまふもとの々邊の者那すすき本の可耳見ゆる秋のゆうぐれ
Scope & Content:: Anonymous waka poem on an autumn evening at Mt. Ogura from the Shin Kokinshū (no.347). Kana calligraphy by Horie Tomohiko 堀江智彦 (1907-1988).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1983
Extent:: 1 sheet.

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