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111. Or 14480/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14480/4
Title:
Deyaparuma [Diapalma]
Scope & Content:
A description of the effects of a diapalma plaster, a European treatment favoured by Engelbert Kaempfer for the treatment of burns. Annotated on reverse: "Some obervations on lucky & unlucky days. Examined by Chetqua, 4 Jan 1771".
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1690-1692
Extent:
1 sheet

112. Or 14480/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14480/5
Title:
Practice sheet of Japanese characters
Scope & Content:
A practice sheet of Kanji with corrections and pronunications added. A later English annotation (possibly by Sir Hans Sloane) reads “A vocabulary”. Undated but acquired by Engelbert Kaempfer in Japan 1690-1692.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1690-1692
Extent:
1 sheet

113. Or 14480/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14480/6
Title:
List of Japanese government officials
Scope & Content:
List of names of various officials of the Tokugawa Bakufu with annotations by Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716). Undated but acquired by Kaempfer in Japan 1690-1692. Annotated on reverse: "Not understood by Chetqua, 4 Jan 1771".
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1690-1692
Extent:
1 sheet.

114. Or 14480/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14480/7
Title:
List of Japanese government officials
Scope & Content:
List of names of officials of the Tokugawa Bakufu with annotations by Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716). Undated but acquired by Kaempfer in Japan 1690-1692.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1690-1692
Extent:
1 sheet.

115. Or 14871

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14871
Title:
Kaikikan 瑰琦観
Scope & Content:
Album of paintings and poems by eminent Nanga and Shijō school artists and poets in the Kyōto/Ōsaka region including Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 (1754-1799). One of the contributions bears the date Bunka 3 [1806].
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1800-1810
Extent:
1 volume (35 leaves)

116. Or 16453

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16453
Title:
[Arrival of Commodore Perry's squadron in Japan]
Scope & Content:
An untitled scroll depicting the arrival of the squadron of ships under the command Commodore Matthew Perry at Uraga Bay, Japan in July 1853. The coloured illustrations include the personnel, equipment and ships, the composition of the naval procession, official ceremonies at Kurihama and a view ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1scroll

117. Or 16922

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16922
Title:
Album of Japanese textile fragments
Scope & Content:
Album of the type known in Japanese as Kirechō 裂帖 containing 472 pieces of textiles (mainly Japanese but with a few Chinese examples) arranged on 77 leaves. Album has worn brocade covers and brass corner pieces. No text and no indication of former owners but probably assembled by a collector in ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
1 volume

118. Or 16988

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

119. Or 16991

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)

120. Or 17019

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