Date: c. 1624-1644 [Kan'ei Era]. Description: The historical novel also known as Imakagami 今鏡 ( "The New Mirror"). Each volume has a postscript dated Kan'ei 19 [1642]. 〕
Author: Tamamushi Sadayū 玉虫左太夫 (1823-1869). Date c.1860 [Man'en 1]. Description: An account of the author's trip to the United States in 1860 as part of the Japanese delegation, led by Shinmi Masaoki 新見正興, sent to sign the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between the United Stat...
'The Record of Yoshitsune' . An illustrated 'gunki monogatari' (war tale) of unknown authorship composed during the Muromachi Period and recounting the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune 源義経, younger brother of Shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝. The manuscript is undated but probably dates from the e...
Title on spine: 'Homeand foreign news'. A digest of foreign events and news, principallyrelating to Russia,.during the period 1782-1794. Possibly compiled byKatsuragawa Hoshū (Kuniakira) 桂川 甫周 (国瑞) (1751-1809)whose name appears at the end of the text.
Compiler: Ōtsuki Gentaku 大槻玄沢 (1757-1827). Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: An account by Ōtsuki Gentaku of the experiences of Tsudayū (1744-1814), a sailor who was shipwrecked on Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands in 1794 and who subsequently circumnavigated the globe with Nikolai Rezanov's e...
Author: Arai Hakuseki 新井白石 (1657-1725); revised by Yamamura Saisuke [Masanaga Shimei] 山村才助 [昌永 子明] (1770-1807). Date: c. 1800-1830. Description: A work on world geography originally compiled by Yamamura Saisuke (1770-1807) in 1802, a revised and enlarged version of Sairan igen 采覽異言by Arai Haku...
Authors: Kubota Kentatsu 久保田見達 (d. 1812) and Niira Kansō 新樂 閑叟 (1764-1827). Date: c. 1810-1868. Description: Contains the text of two works relating to Ezo [Hokkaidō]: Hokuchi nikki 北地日記 by Kubota Kentatsu 久保田見達 and Hokusa shōroku 北槎小録 by Aikan Shujin 愛間主人 (Niira Kansō 新楽閑叟) dated 1810.