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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15436/6
Title:: Senke tōryū hidensho chadō kakoi shōzashiki tanden shiki 千家當流秘傳書茶道圍小座敷炭傳式
Scope & Content:: An illustrated work on the layout of tea houses and their hearths. Dated Bunka 4 [1807].
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1807
Extent:: 1 volume (27 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15438
Title:: Map of Satsuma [ 佐津間図]
Scope & Content:: A coloured map of the area around Satsuma 佐津間 Castle in what is now Kamagaya City 鎌ヶ谷市 in Chiba Prefecture
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15512
Title:: Kokoro no sōshi こころのそうし
Scope & Content:: “Essay of the Heart”. A satire on the hypocrisy of human nature written by Matsudaira Sadanobu 松平定信 (1758-1829), author of the Kansei Reforms, following his fall from influence. Hand-coloured picture scroll containing illustrations by Takezawa Yōkei 竹沢養渓 (d. 1808) of courtiers, ministers etc. wit...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 享和3年 [1802]
Extent:: 1 scroll

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

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