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Reference (shelfmark):: ORB30/305
Title:: Kyōgenki 狂言記
Scope & Content:: Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: [Kyōto ?] , Hata Seizaemon, Manji 3, 1660. Kanki following batsu on fol. 45b of maki 5 reads: 萬治三暦庚子三月吉日／畑清左衛門板行. Description: 3 kan (of 5), 3 satsu, in a buckram chitsu case. Incomplete copy, comprising maki 1, 4 and 5 only. (Maki 1) ff. [1] (mokuroku 目録),...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1660
Extent:: 3 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/306
Title:: Sanjūrokkasen 三十六歌仙
Scope & Content:: Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: Edo, Sudō Gonbē, Genroku 9, 1696. Kanki on last folio verso reads: 元禄九丙子歳卯月吉祥日／江戸橋中通川瀬石町山口屋／須藤權兵衞開版. Description: 2 kan, 2 satsu, in a buckram chitsu case. 26.9 x 18.5 cm. Fukurotoji. Renewed (18th century ?) mid-blue covers, decorated with a painted des...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1696
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/308
Title:: Chūgasan 註畫讃 [註画讃]
Scope & Content:: Variant title: E-iri nichiren ichidaiki 繪入日蓮一代記 [絵入日蓮一代記] Variant title: Nichiren shōnin chūgasan 日蓮上人註畫讃 [日蓮上人註画讃] Author/compiler: Nitchō 日澄, Nichiren priest, 1441-1510. Imprint: Edo, Urokogataya, Kanbun 11, 1671. Kanki on fol. 42b reads: 寛文十一辛亥九月吉辰／江戸大傳馬三町目／鱗形屋板. Description: 5 kan, 3...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1671
Extent:: 3 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/3282
Title:: Yūkun sekai kore otohime 遊君世界是男度比女
Scope & Content:: Author: Korewasai 是和齋 ; artist: Shunrō 春朗 [= Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北齋]. Title on hanshin: Otohime おとひめ Colophon on last page of volume 2: 是和齋戯作 / 春朗畫. Date Tenmei 4 [1784]. Description: 2 kan. vol.1: ff. 5, vol.2: ff. 5. Blockprint. Colophon on last page of text: 画作謙好. Manuscript notes on ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1784
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/3283
Title:: Shitennō daitsū jitate 四天王大通仕達
Scope & Content:: Author: Korewasai 是和齋 ; artist: Shunrō 春朗 [= Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北齋]. Title on hanshin: Rashōmon らしやう門 Colophon on last page of volume 2: 是和齋戯作 / 春朗畫. Date Tenmei 2 [1804]. Description: 2 kan. vol.1: ff. 5, vol.2: ff. 5. Blockprint. Manuscript notes on front cover: 北斎画 / 天明二壬寅年. Contents...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1782
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/3293
Title:: Chō chidori hiiki no datemon 蝶千鳥贔屓達門
Scope & Content:: Artist : Kashū 華州. Title on hanshin: Soga そが. Imprint: [Edo : Murataya Jirōbē 村田屋治郎兵衛], Kansei 2 [1790]. Description: 3 kan. vol.1: ff. 5, vol.2: ff. 5, vol.3: ff. 5. Blockprint. Manuscript notes on front cover: 華州画 / 寛政二年. Contents: A kibyōshi novel.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1790
Extent:: 3 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 40/1061
Title:: Kami fumi-e
Scope & Content:: A kami fumi-e 紙踏絵, or paper image made to be trampled on, supposedly used in the systemic persecution of Christians stemming from Tokugawa Ieyasu’s 1614 anti-Christian edict. The central image is of a severed head mounted on a cross. The head has curly hair drawn in red ink. Above the image i...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1688-1704
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 4872
Title:
Scope & Content:: POSTAL HISTORY. Covers of 2 letters from Jamaica, 1892, 1908; early Japanese entire letter from Deshima to Botavis, 1806; early illustrated envelopes, 1840,1841,1844; India 4 annas 1854, first printing (12 stamps on cover) Creation dates: 1806 - 1908
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Japanese
Date Range:: 7 Nov 1991
Extent:: 13 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane 4090/1
Title:: Gojōmoku 御條目
Scope & Content:: Five regulations issued by the Tokugawa government concerning the conduct of Dutch merchants in Japan. Read out to the Captain of the Dutch trading factory at his annual audience with the Shogun, the regulations prohibit: collaboration with the Portuguese, smuggling, propagation of Christianit...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1690-1692
Extent:: 1 sheet

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