Author: Itō Tōgai [Itō Nagatsugu 伊藤長胤] (1670-1736). Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: A history of ancient Korea by the Confucian scholar Itō Tōgai originally compiled in 1704.
Author: Arai Hakuseki [新井白石 (1657-1725). Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: An account of the Kingdom of Ryukyu originally compiled by Arai Hakuseki in 1711 for the Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu. Late Edo Period copy of a manuscript dated Kan'en 4 [1751].
Title slip on front cover: Kaikoku sōsetsu 嶰谷叢説. Title on two paper slips pasted onto last page of text:Kaikoku sōsetsu 嶰谷叢説 / Ezo no bu 蝦夷之部. Author: Fukui Yoshimaro 福居芳麿 (fl.1790-1830). Artist: Katei 柯亭. Date: c. 1800-1810. A description of Ezo [Hokkaidō] by FukuiYoshimaro 福居芳麿. The manusc...
Description: An anonymous, illustrated description of the inhabitants of Ezo (Hokkaido). Contains depictions of Ainu men and women, clothing and tools, caring for a bear cub and hunting. Date: c. 1800-1860