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1141. Or 15562

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15562
Title:
Riō busshoku zusetsu 驪黄物色図説 by Kurosawa Sekisai 黒澤石齋 (1622-1678)
Scope & Content:
‘An illustrated explanation of the selection of strong horses and cows’. An album depicting 97 horses and 14 cows, some with anatomical annotations, by Kurosawa Sekisai 黒澤石齋 (1622-1678), an expert adviser on horses to the Tokugawa Shogunate. Preface dated Shōhō 4 [1647] but possibly 18th copy.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Shōhō 4 [1647]
Extent:
1 volume (25 double leaves)

1142. Or 15565

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15565
Title:
Moshio yaku ama no iso ya no yū keburi tatsu na mo kurushi omoi taenade もしほやくあまのいそやのゆふけぶりたつなもくるし思たえなで
Scope & Content:
Waka poem on 'love in the evening' by Fujiwara Hideyoshi (Hidetō) 藤原秀能 (1184-1240) (Shinkokinshū. XII. no. 1116). Calligraphy in cursive (sōsho) style attributed to Nakamura Kyūetsu 中村久越 (died.c.1673-80).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1650-1680
Extent:
1 sheet

1143. Or 15566

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15566
Title:
Karukaya かるかや [Woodblock]
Scope & Content:
Woodblock carved in relief on both sides, each side to be used for printing 2 pages of an unidentified Japanese work based on the sekkyōbushi story 'Karukaya' 刈萱 . The running title (hashiragaki) on the block reads 'Karukaya' かるかや and contains the numbers 3 and 4 indicating the folios.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1750-1850
Extent:
1 woodblock

1144. Or 15577

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15577
Title:
Shizu no Oda maki 賎のをだ巻
Scope & Content:
Illustrated collection of jottings on manners and customs of the late Edo period with emphasis on costume. Original text written by Moriyama Takamori 森山孝盛 (preface dated Kyōwa 2 [1802]), copied by Saitō Gesshin 斉藤月岑 in 1848 [Kaei 1]. Colophon at end of text: 右友人豊芥子の蔵本をもて嘉永元年戊申九月　斉藤月岑子.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Kaei 1 [1848]
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

1145. Or 15578

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15578
Title:
Sengo fūzoku emaki 戦後風俗絵巻
Scope & Content:
Pictorial scroll by an anonymous artist depicting scenes in the immediate postwar period witnessed as he travelled from Shinjuku Station in Tokyo to the village of Ōshika 大鹿 in Nagano Prefecture.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1945-1947
Extent:
1 scroll

1146. Or 15585

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15585
Title:
[Kyōka emaki 狂歌絵巻]
Scope & Content:
Untitled picture scroll of kyōka poems with watercolour illustrations by the artist Yōkōken Chikkō 羊黄軒竹香. Postscript dated Kyōho 13 [1728].
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Kyōho 13 [1728]
Extent:
1 scroll

1147. Or 15586

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15586
Title:
Igirisu torai ikken イギリス渡来一件
Scope & Content:
Collection of records copied by one Yoshihiro 能弘 relating to the arrival in Japan of English ships in 1818, 1822 and 1824 along with an account of the return of the castaway Magotarō in 1771. The vessel which arrived at Uraga in 1818 is probably 'The Brothers' - see also Or 14755.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
c 1825-1850
Extent:
1 volume (29 folios)

1148. Or 15587

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15587
Title:
Tsurezuregusa. 徒然草
Scope & Content:
Extracts from 'Essays in Idleness' by Yoshida Kenkō 吉田兼好 accompanied by 152 illustrations in Shijō style by one Rakutei 楽亭. Colophon on last page of volume 2: 徒然草全部畫併書 六十九翁樂亭.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
2 volumes.

1149. Or 15622

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15622
Title:
Woodblock for Buddhist text
Scope & Content:
Large woodblock for printing a Buddhist amulet (ofuda) with a devotional text and an image of a boddhisattva riding a horse. Probably associated with Taga Shrine 多賀大社,Shiga Prefecture. The text was written by Tandai Zen-Daisōjō Gōjo 探題前大僧正豪恕 (1732-1824) aged 88 [i.e. 1819 kazoedoshi].
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1819
Extent:
1 woodblock

1150. Or 15623

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15623
Title:
Metal votive plaque
Scope & Content:
Votive plaque, made of brass or bronze, with a relief image of a seated buddha below a seal with the inscription 「長宜子孫」and on the reverse an 82-character inscription.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:

1 plaque

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