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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1288
Title:: Biyō Ōkō manroku 尾蠅歐行漫録 [尾蝿欧行漫録]
Scope & Content:: Author: Ichikawa Seiryū [Akira/Wataru] 市川清流 [皞/渡] (1822-1879). Date: 1862 [Bunkyū 2]. Description: An account of the author's trip to Europe as part of the Japanese delegation led by Takenouchi Yasunori 竹内保徳 in 1862 [Bunkyū 2].
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1862
Extent:: 6 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1289
Title:: Heihōikyō 兵法彙教
Scope & Content:: Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: A work on military matters
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1850-1860]
Extent:: 10 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1290
Title:: Seichi bubishō 聖智武備抄
Scope & Content:: Author: Okamoto Ryōryō 岡本良梁. Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: A military treatise.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1850-1860]
Extent:: 3 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1310
Title:: Shūkozu furoku 集古図附録
Scope & Content:: A work on the design of official seals by Fujiwara Sadamoto 藤原貞幹 (1732-1797), copied by Ninagawa Noritane 蜷川式胤 (1835-1882). Colophon signed by Ninagawa Noritane and dated Ansei 6 [1859].
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1859
Extent:: 1 volume (19 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1311
Title:: Mitsubachi densho [蜜蜂傳書] [蜜蜂伝書]
Scope & Content:: Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: A treatise on bees and beekeeping.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1850-1860]
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1312
Title:: Chūjū zui [虫獸圖彙] [虫獣図彙]
Scope & Content:: Date: 1851 [Kaei 4]. Description: Illustrations of animals and insects. Copied from a manuscript in the possession of the naturalist Sabase Hyōsaburō Yoshiyori 佐橋兵三郎佳依 [=Shikien 四季園] (fl. 1830-1840). Colophon at end of text reads: 嘉永四亥歳七月五日四季園先生所蔵借来而寫之八日而成.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1851
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1395
Title:: Sanjūrokkasen 三十六歌仙
Scope & Content:: An anthology of poetry by the 'Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry'. The right-hand side of each opening has a poem by one of the 36 poets written on a sheet of decorated paper ( shikishi) in the calligraphy of a prince or court noble. The name and title of the calligrapher is indicated on a paper sl...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1675-1676
Extent:: 1 volume (17 leaves)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1440
Title:: Izu kaitō fudoki 伊豆海島風土記 [伊豆海島風土記]
Scope & Content:: Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: An account of the Izu Islands.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1850-1860]
Extent:: 3 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1602
Title:: Kikke meigen shidai 橘家鳴弦次第
Scope & Content:: Date: 1825? Translated title: 'Sounding bowstrings of the Tachibana family'. Description: A guide to the performance of the Shinto ritual 'Meigen no gi' in which bowstrings are sounded to ward off evil. The cyclical date 乙酉四月 occurs at the end of volume 1 and may equate to Bunsei 8 [1825].
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1818-1830]
Extent:: 3 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1603
Title:: Rikiyō bukan 利器要武鑑
Scope & Content:: Description: A military directory. The manuscript contains volumes 1 to 12. Or 1604 contains volumes 14-22 of the same work.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1682
Extent:: 12 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

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