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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15540
Title:: Kyō wa moshi hito moya ware o omoi-izuru ware mo tsune yori hito no koishiki 今日はもし人もや我を思ひいづる我もつねより人の恋しき
Scope & Content:: A love poem from the 'Fūga wakashū 風雅和歌集' by Empress Eifukumon’in 永福門院 (1271-1342). Kana calligraphy by Masuda Fujiko 増田ふじ子 (1950-).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: c.1998
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15541
Title:: Taichi wa gu naru ga gotoshi 大智如愚
Scope & Content:: ‘Great wisdom looks like foolishness’. Calligraphy in cursive (sōsho) style by Minagawa Gashū 皆川雅舟 (1923-2011).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: c 1998
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15542
Title:: Maka hannya haramitta shingyō 摩訶般若波羅蜜多心経
Scope & Content:: Copy of the Mahayana Buddhist text the Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya or 'Heart Sutra'. Calligraphy in regular (kaisho) style by Miyamoto Chikkei 宮本竹逕 (1926-2002). Colophon dated Heisei 7 [1995]: 平成七年十二月三十日午后四時終.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: Heisei 7 [1995]
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15543
Title:: Yama wa yobu manzei no koe 山呼萬歳声
Scope & Content:: Chinese reading : Shan hu wan sui sheng. ‘Mountains echoing the cries of ten thousand years’. Calligraphy in cursive (sōsho) style by Moritoki Taiyū 守時大融 (1920-).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:: c 1998
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15544
Title:: Tabi ni yande yume wa kareno o kakemeguru 旅に病んで夢は枯野をかけめぐる
Scope & Content:: ‘Taken ill on a journey ill; my dream goes wandering over withered fields’. Haiku composed on his death-bed by Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694). Mixed kanji/kana calligraphy by Nakai Shirō 中井史朗 (1916-2009).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: c.1998
Extent:: 1 sheet.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15545
Title:: Haru tsuki o nurasu dotō ya Muroto misaki 春月を濡らす怒濤や室戸岬
Scope & Content:: Haiku by Matsumoto Takashi 松本たかし (1906-1956) inspired by rough waves on a spring night at Cape Muroto. Mixed kanji/kana calligraphy by Nakagawa Utei 中川雨亭 (1914-2001).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1991
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15546
Title:: Karamatsu 落葉松
Scope & Content:: ‘Larch trees’. Poem by Kitahara Hakushū 北原白秋 (1885-1942). Text: からまつの林を過ぎて、からまつをしみじみと見き、からまつはさびしかりけり、たびゆくはさびしかりけり. Mixed kanji/kana calligraphy by Nakano Hokumei 中野北冥 (1923-).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: c 1998
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15547
Title:: Fukyō no kyō 不教之教
Scope & Content:: Chinese reading: Bu jiao zhi jiao. ‘Teaching by not teaching’. Chinese saying. Calligraphy in cursive (sōsho) style by Nozaki Kakunan 野崎嶽南 (1925-2010). Dated: 丁丑年 [Heisei 9 = 1997].
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:: Heisei 9 [1997]
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15548
Title:: Shin Ō Gyoyō gogon zekku 清王魚洋五言絶句
Scope & Content:: Chinese poem in 5 syllable quatrains by the Qing Dynasty poet Wang Yuyang [Shizhen] 王魚洋[士禎] (1634-1711). Calligraphy in cursive (sōsho) style by Okada Keisetsu 岡田契雪 (1936-). Inscription on inside of box lid dated March 1998 [Heisei 10] : 平成十年三月岡田契雪自識
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:: Heisei 10 [1998]
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15549
Title:: Kiku 菊
Scope & Content:: ‘Chrysanthemum’. Calligraphy in semi-cursive (gyōsho) style by Onchi Shunyō 恩地春洋 (1929-). Inscription on lid: 一一九八年一月　春洋自署.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1998
Extent:: 1 sheet

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