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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16988
Title:: Gokaikō Yokohama gaikokujin jūtaku no zu 御開港横濱外国人住宅ノ圖
Scope & Content:: Topographical view of the foreign settlement in Yokohama following the opening of the treaty ports in 1859, showing individual plots occupied by named British, American Dutch and Portuguese businesses and households. Undated but between 1861 when the cathedral was built and 1866 when the origi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1861-1866
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16991
Title:: O-ekagami
Scope & Content:: Japanese folding album containing 24 colour paintings. 12 illustrations represent the months of the year with poems on the theme of birds by Fujiwara Teika in the calligraphy of nobles and court officials.　The calligrapher's name and/or title is given on a paper slip alongside each painting. Sh...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1691-1693
Extent:: ^{1 volume (6 leaves)}

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 17019
Title:: Nōmenzu 能面図
Scope & Content:: 'Illustrations of Noh Masks'. Contains forty-five hand-coloured illustrations of masks for characters from Noh plays. Copied by Kensai 顕斎. Dated Tenpō 4 [1833]. Accompanied by a separate document (dated 1956) with descriptions for the various masks based on a reference work by Sanari Kentarō 佐成...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1833
Extent:: 1 scroll

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 17023
Title:: Food offerings for Gosekku 五節句
Scope & Content:: The manuscript comprises eleven illustrations of foodofferings for Gosekku 五節句, the five annual imperial court ceremonies, and twenty-twoillustrations of different decorations for room divider screens. Each illustration is aqccompanied by a short explanatory text. The five festivals are: Jinjit...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1775-1825
Extent:: 1 volume (18 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 17024
Title:: [Echigoya album of Japanese textile designs]
Scope & Content:: An untitled album of textile designs containing 35 water-colour illustrations depictingdifferent flower patterns. One design covers two pages and depicts phoenixesand flowers, sprinkled in gold. Hand-written captions in Japanese. The name Echigoya Magobē 越後屋孫兵衛 is written on theinside of the ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1750-1800
Extent:: 1 volume (18 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 17149
Title:: Ogata Gekkō gajō 尾形月耕画帖
Scope & Content:: An album of paintings by the artist Ogata Gekkō 尾形月耕 (1859-1920).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1890-1920
Extent:: 1 volume (14 leaves)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 17151
Title:: [Kujira monjo 鯨文書]
Scope & Content:: An illustrated report about a large whale which strayed into the Shinagawa ward of Edo in the 4th month of 1798 (Kansei 10) . According to the report, the whale was around 11.8 m long and 1.8m in height, with a blue and white-coloured body.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1798
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/82
Title:: Bonmōkyō bosatsu shinji-bon, maki jō 梵網經菩薩心地品巻上 [梵網経菩薩心地品巻上]
Scope & Content:: Variant title: Bonmō-kyō rushana bussetsu bosatsu shinji-bon dai jū 梵網經盧舎那佛説菩薩心地品第十 [梵網経盧舎那仏説菩薩心地品第十] Author/compiler: Illustrator: Kumārajīva (Chinese: Jiumaluoshi (姚秦) 鳩摩羅什), according to tradition, but probably by a Chinese translator of the Song period. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Fukkoku of th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1290
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/83
Title:: Shōsan jōdo busshōjukyō 稱讃浄土佛攝受經 [称讃浄土仏摂受経]
Scope & Content:: Variant title: Shōsan jōdokyō 稱讃浄土經 [称讃浄土経] Translator: Xuanzang (唐) 玄奘, 602-64. Imprint: N.p.. Shōkan 昌觀, Kōan 3 弘安三年, 1280. Kanki on last fold reads: 弘安三年庚辰六月十五日爲末代／弘通以本願御真筆所奉摸寫也／勸進西方行者昌觀. Description: 1 kan, 1 jō 帖 in 18 folds. First section missing. 25.5 x 8.5 cm. (average), each half...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1280
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/84
Title:: Zengen shosenshū 禪源諸詮集 [禅源諸詮集]
Scope & Content:: Variant title: Zengen shosenshū tojo 禪源諸詮集都序 [禅源諸詮集都序] Author/compiler: Zongmi 宗密, Chinese monk, 780-841. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Myōha 妙葩, Enbun 3, 1358] . Kango on last page (transcribed in manuscript) reads: 保壽尼寺檀越菩薩戒尼大友摠持／施財命工刊行此版伏願人人肅清／慧目个个開悟霊心恩有報資怨親／融接延文戊戌春雲居比丘妙葩題. Description: 2 ka...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1358
Extent:: 1 volume

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