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Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: Edo, Sudō Gonbē, Genroku 9, 1696. Kanki on last folio verso reads: 元禄九丙子歳卯月吉祥日 / 江戸橋中通川瀬石町山口屋 / 須藤權兵衞開版. Description: 2 kan, 2 satsu, in a buckram chitsu case. 26.9 x 18.5 cm. Fukurotoji. Renewed (18th century ?) mid-blue covers, decorated with a painted des...
Chinese concertina album with 12 illustrations of theatre masks on a silk background. The item appears to be not completed: the front of the folios are blank, as well as the title space.
A kami fumi-e 紙踏絵, or paper image made to be trampled on, supposedly used in the systemic persecution of Christians stemming from Tokugawa Ieyasu’s 1614 anti-Christian edict. The central image is of a severed head mounted on a cross. The head has curly hair drawn in red ink. Above the image i...
Thirteen scenes from the Vessantara Jataka, the last Birth Tale of the Buddha, depicted in a phrabot painting in the Thai Rattanakosin style by Irving Chan Johnson, Lim Su Qi and Rungnapa Kitiarsa, National University of Singapore. Illustrations: 1 กัณฑ์ทศพร (Kan Thosaphorn): Indra instructs P...