Album of paintings and poems by eminent Nanga and Shijō school artists and poets in the Kyōto/Ōsaka region including Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 (1754-1799). One of the contributions bears the date Bunka 3 [1806].
Yoshida Seisai-ō juga no tame Ōkubo Shibutsu sensei hoka gojūmei shoga 為吉田静斎翁寿賀大窪詩佛先生外五拾名書画
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Handscroll compiled in celebration of the 80th birthday of Yoshida Seisai 吉田静斎 containing poems, calligraphy and drawings by 50 contributors including Ōkubo Shibutsu 大窪詩佛 (1767-1837).
Albums of paintings and poems by Shijō, Maruyama and Nanga artists from the Edo and Kyoto-Osaka areas. One illustration by Ki Hironari 紀広成 (1777-1839) is dated 1833 [Tenpō 4], another is signed by Hara Zaichū 原在中 (1750-1837) aged 84.
A manuscript copy of the work on Japan’s policy of national isolation by Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716). Translated into Japanese from the Dutch version published in 1729
A letter from the governor (bugyō) of Nagasaki Takahashi Mimasaka no Kami Kazunuki 高橋美作守和貫 to the British consul Charles Alexander Winchester (1820?-1883 ) regarding a robbery on a British ship. Dated 28th day 6th month of Bunkyū 2 [24th July 1862]. Note in English at the start of the scroll read...
“The fifty-three stages of the Tōkaidō highway in cartoons”. Inspired by the series of 55 woodblock prints by Hiroshige these scrolls contain cartoons by 18 artists of the Tōkyō Mangakai (Tokyo Cartoonists Association) including its founder Okamoto Ippei 岡本一平 (1886-1948). The first scroll contain...