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281. Or 14948

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14948
Title:
Nagasaki Eiryōjikan kyūzō komonjo makimono 長崎英領事館旧蔵古文書巻物
Scope & Content:
A letter from the governor (bugyō) of Nagasaki Takahashi Mimasaka no Kami Kazunuki 高橋美作守和貫 to the British consul Charles Alexander Winchester (1820?-1883 ) regarding a robbery on a British ship. Dated 28th day 6th month of Bunkyū 2 [24th July 1862]. Note in English at the start of the scroll read...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Bunkyū 2 文久2 [1862]
Extent:
1 scroll

282. Or 14962

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14962
Title:
Shohaijin shūshochō 諸俳人蒐書帳
Scope & Content:
“Friendship album” of calligraphy and drawings by noted haiku poets and Nanga/Shijō artists including Tani Bunchō 谷文晁 (1763-1840).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1st half of the 19th century
Extent:
63 folios.

283. Or 15028

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15028
Title:
Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi manga emaki 東海道五十三次漫画絵巻
Scope & Content:
“The fifty-three stages of the Tōkaidō highway in cartoons”. Inspired by the series of 55 woodblock prints by Hiroshige these scrolls contain cartoons by 18 artists of the Tōkyō Mangakai (Tokyo Cartoonists Association) including its founder Okamoto Ippei 岡本一平 (1886-1948). The first scroll contain...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
大正9年 [1920]
Extent:

2 scrolls

284. Or 15169

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15169
Title:
Haiku album
Scope & Content:
Untitled album of haiku poems with contributions from artists and poets chiefly of the Kansai region
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
71 folios

285. Or 15170

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15170
Title:
Album of drawings of butterflies
Scope & Content:
Untitled album of drawings of butterflies by various artists
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
c 1905
Extent:
1 volume (14 folios)

286. Or 15171

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15171
Title:
Haikai gunsen no zu 俳諧群僊の図
Scope & Content:
Coloured portraits of the haiku poet Matsuo Bashō 松尾芭蕉 and his disciples by Yokoi Kinkoku 横井琴谷 (1761-1832), each with an example of his/her poetry
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
10 sheets (2 joined together)

287. Or 15219

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15219
Title:
Tsukishima つきしま（築島）
Scope & Content:
A kōwakamai or ‘story told in dance’ in Nara ehon style based on an episode in the 6th chapter of 'The Tale of the Heike' recounting the foundation of a harbour by the Taira family.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Early to mid 17th century
Extent:
20 folios

288. Or 15375

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15375
Title:
Myōhōrengekyō Kanzeon bosatsu fumonbon 妙法蓮華経観世音菩薩普門品
Scope & Content:
Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra. Title on box reads 'Ichiji sanrei Kannonkyō' 一字三禮観音経
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
元禄元年 [1688]
Extent:
1 scroll

289. Or 15386

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15386
Title:
Chōjō kikan 暢情寄感
Scope & Content:
A scroll of paintings and Chinese poems by Rai San’yō 頼三陽 (1780-1832) and his literati circle completed at a farewell party for Naitō Seishū 内藤静修 (1757-1834) on the occasion of his departure from Kyoto to Chōshū
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:
文政5年 [1822]
Extent:
1 scroll

290. Or 15393

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15393
Title:
Meisho jūgoshu waka emaki 名所十五首和歌絵巻
Scope & Content:
A hand scroll containing 15 poems on famous sights in Japan from the anthology Kenpō meisho hyakushu 建保名所百首 of 1215 copied by high-ranking courtiers including Dōkō Hōshinnō 道晃法親王 (1612-1678), brother of Emperoro Go-Mizunoo 後水尾天皇, and Ryōshō Hōshinnō 良尚法親王 (nephew of Emperoro Go-Yōzei 後陽成. Poems i...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
寛文5年 [1665]
Extent:
1 scroll