A solicitation for donations towards the repair of the Tōji 東寺 Temple, Kyoto by the monk Yūhon 宥本. Dated Eishō 15 [1518]. Colophon at end of scroll: 永正一五九月 沙門宥本敬白. Dedication by Ninagawa Noritane at beginning of scroll: 明治一〇年九月英國ロンドン博物館へ之を納る 日本東京 蜷川式胤. British Museum note attached to beginni...
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...