‘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),...
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).
Kantsubaki kibishiku ikishi hi no tooku by 寒椿厳しく生きし日の遠く
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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].