'The Girl with the Bowl on her Head', an illustrated otogizōshi story of the 'mamakomono 継子物' ('stepchild stories' or 'wicked stepmother stories') category. Of unknown authorship the tale was composed during the Muromachi Period (1333-1573). It tells of a girl whose dying mother places a bowl on...
A legal document dated 1298 AH (1880-81 CE), once used as a wrapper for Chinese and Uighur fragments; with two similar documents on the verso, dated 1286 AH (1869-70 CE) and 1305 AH (1887-88 CE). The texts were produced at Khotan.
'The Girl with the Bowl on her Head', an illustrated otogizōshi story of the 'mamakomono 継子物' ('stepchild stories' or 'wicked stepmother stories') category. Of unknown authorship the tale was composed during the Muromachi Period (1333-1573). It tells of a girl whose dying mother places a bowl on...
Collection of extracts from works on Korean history. Compiled 1857-1858 according to a postscript by the son of the unknown compiler written at Changdongchang in the 9th month 1884 (folios 761-764). Title page: Tongsa kangyo / Kapshin kyech'u / Changdongchang ch'aek 東史綱要 / 甲申季秋 / 倉洞粧冊.
Lontar fragments, in Balinese. Including: (a, f. 1) 1 palm-leaf, 600 x 40 mm, no holes, knotted at right end; a Panji fragment. (b, ff. 2-4) 3 palm-leaves, 450 x 40 mm; in which Ki Amad is mentioned. (c, ff. 5-6) 2 palm-leaves, 680 x 35 mm, f. 6 cut diagonally at the end; another Ki Amad f...
Title from cover. Set of genealogies of Korean families. Vol 1: Yi 李. Vol. 2 [乙]: Yi 李, Kim 金, Pak 朴, Yun 尹, Sim 沈, Cho 趙, Han 韓, Min 閔. Vol. 3 [丙]: Kwŏn 權, Chŏng 鄭, Sin 申, Hong 洪, Sŏ 徐, Nam 南, Yu 兪, Hwang 黄, Cho 曺, Ch’oe 崔. Vol. 4 [丁]: Ryu 柳, Song 宋, Im 任, An 安, Chang 張, Kang 姜, Ku 具, O ...
‘The Great Embroidered Cap’. Title on title slip: たいしよくわん A kōwakamai (recitative dance) of unknown authorship composed during the Muromachi Period (1333-1573). The text tells the story of Kōhakunyo, the daughter of Fujiwara Kamatari, a powerful noble of the 7th century and the only individual ...