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Reference (shelfmark):: ORB30/305
Title:: Kyōgenki 狂言記
Scope & Content:: Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: [Kyōto ?] , Hata Seizaemon, Manji 3, 1660. Kanki following batsu on fol. 45b of maki 5 reads: 萬治三暦庚子三月吉日／畑清左衛門板行. Description: 3 kan (of 5), 3 satsu, in a buckram chitsu case. Incomplete copy, comprising maki 1, 4 and 5 only. (Maki 1) ff. [1] (mokuroku 目録),...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1660
Extent:: 3 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/306
Title:: Sanjūrokkasen 三十六歌仙
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1696
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/308
Title:: Chūgasan 註畫讃 [註画讃]
Scope & Content:: Variant title: E-iri nichiren ichidaiki 繪入日蓮一代記 [絵入日蓮一代記] Variant title: Nichiren shōnin chūgasan 日蓮上人註畫讃 [日蓮上人註画讃] Author/compiler: Nitchō 日澄, Nichiren priest, 1441-1510. Imprint: Edo, Urokogataya, Kanbun 11, 1671. Kanki on fol. 42b reads: 寛文十一辛亥九月吉辰／江戸大傳馬三町目／鱗形屋板. Description: 5 kan, 3...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1671
Extent:: 3 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/3282
Title:: Yūkun sekai kore otohime 遊君世界是男度比女
Scope & Content:: Author: Korewasai 是和齋 ; artist: Shunrō 春朗 [= Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北齋]. Title on hanshin: Otohime おとひめ Colophon on last page of volume 2: 是和齋戯作 / 春朗畫. Date Tenmei 4 [1784]. Description: 2 kan. vol.1: ff. 5, vol.2: ff. 5. Blockprint. Colophon on last page of text: 画作謙好. Manuscript notes on ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1784
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/3283
Title:: Shitennō daitsū jitate 四天王大通仕達
Scope & Content:: Author: Korewasai 是和齋 ; artist: Shunrō 春朗 [= Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北齋]. Title on hanshin: Rashōmon らしやう門 Colophon on last page of volume 2: 是和齋戯作 / 春朗畫. Date Tenmei 2 [1804]. Description: 2 kan. vol.1: ff. 5, vol.2: ff. 5. Blockprint. Manuscript notes on front cover: 北斎画 / 天明二壬寅年. Contents...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1782
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/3293
Title:: Chō chidori hiiki no datemon 蝶千鳥贔屓達門
Scope & Content:: Artist : Kashū 華州. Title on hanshin: Soga そが. Imprint: [Edo : Murataya Jirōbē 村田屋治郎兵衛], Kansei 2 [1790]. Description: 3 kan. vol.1: ff. 5, vol.2: ff. 5, vol.3: ff. 5. Blockprint. Manuscript notes on front cover: 華州画 / 寛政二年. Contents: A kibyōshi novel.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1790
Extent:: 3 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 40/1061
Title:: Kami fumi-e
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1688-1704
Extent:: 1 sheet

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