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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15578
Title:: Sengo fūzoku emaki 戦後風俗絵巻
Scope & Content:: Pictorial scroll by an anonymous artist depicting scenes in the immediate postwar period witnessed as he travelled from Shinjuku Station in Tokyo to the village of Ōshika 大鹿 in Nagano Prefecture.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1945-1947
Extent:: 1 scroll

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15585
Title:: [Kyōka emaki 狂歌絵巻]
Scope & Content:: Untitled picture scroll of kyōka poems with watercolour illustrations by the artist Yōkōken Chikkō 羊黄軒竹香. Postscript dated Kyōho 13 [1728].
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: Kyōho 13 [1728]
Extent:: 1 scroll

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15586
Title:: Igirisu torai ikken イギリス渡来一件
Scope & Content:: Collection of records copied by one Yoshihiro 能弘 relating to the arrival in Japan of English ships in 1818, 1822 and 1824 along with an account of the return of the castaway Magotarō in 1771. The vessel which arrived at Uraga in 1818 is probably 'The Brothers' - see also Or 14755.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: c 1825-1850
Extent:: 1 volume (29 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15587
Title:: Tsurezuregusa. 徒然草
Scope & Content:: Extracts from 'Essays in Idleness' by Yoshida Kenkō 吉田兼好 accompanied by 152 illustrations in Shijō style by one Rakutei 楽亭. Colophon on last page of volume 2: 徒然草全部畫併書六十九翁樂亭.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 2 volumes.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15622
Title:: Woodblock for Buddhist text
Scope & Content:: Large woodblock for printing a Buddhist amulet (ofuda) with a devotional text and an image of a boddhisattva riding a horse. Probably associated with Taga Shrine 多賀大社,Shiga Prefecture. The text was written by Tandai Zen-Daisōjō Gōjo 探題前大僧正豪恕 (1732-1824) aged 88 [i.e. 1819 kazoedoshi].
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1819
Extent:: 1 woodblock

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15623
Title:: Metal votive plaque
Scope & Content:: Votive plaque, made of brass or bronze, with a relief image of a seated buddha below a seal with the inscription 「長宜子孫」and on the reverse an 82-character inscription.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 plaque

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 15635
Title:: Hino Ashihei gasan kan 日野葦平画賛巻
Scope & Content:: Jottings and colour drawings about the Sino-Japanese War by the soldier/novelist Hino Ashihei 日野葦平 (1907-1960). Dated Hakata, 16 July 1940.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1940
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 15653
Title:: Kyūshū kakuchi ezu 九州各地絵図
Scope & Content:: Anonymous hand scroll containing topographical descriptions and illustrations of locations on the island of Kyūshū.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1830-1850
Extent:: 1 scroll

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