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Subject Calligraphy, Japanese--History--20th century

1. Or 13052

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13052
Title:
Calligraphy by Ueda Sōkyū
Scope & Content:
Four pieces of calligraphy by Ueda Sōkyū 上田桑鳩 (1899-1968) written at a demonstration at the Japan Information Centre, London, on 20th Oct 1966.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1966
Extent:

4 sheets

2. Or 15525

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15525
Title:
Shintoku 辰徳
Scope & Content:
Kanji calligraphy in epigraphic style by Arai Kōfū 新井光風 (1937-)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
c 1997-1998
Extent:
1 sheet

3. Or 15526

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15526
Title:
Gin’an hakuba tō shunpū 銀鞍白馬渡春風
Scope & Content:
Chinese reading: Yin’an baima du chunfeng. ‘On the silver saddle of a white horse riding the spring wind’. From a Chinese poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai 李白 (701-762). Calligraphy in semi-cursive (gyōsho) style by Naruse Eizan 成瀬映山 (1920-2007).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
c 1997-1998
Extent:
1 sheet.

4. Or 15527

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15527
Title:
Kan 観
Scope & Content:
‘Observation’. Avant-garde work in archaic seal script by Fujiwara Seidō 藤原清洞 (1914-2002)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
c 1997-1998
Extent:
1 sheet

5. Or 15528

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15528
Title:
Kogyo ka ka kyū 枯魚過河泣
Scope & Content:
Alternative Japanese reading: Kogyo kawa o watarite naku; Chinese reading: Gu yu guo he qi. 'Crossing the river the dried fish sheds tears’. Chinese poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai (701-762). Calligraphy in semi-cursive (gyōsho) style by Ozaki Yūhō 尾崎邑鵬 (1924-).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
c 1997-1998
Extent:
1 sheet.

6. Or 15529

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15529
Title:
Kiyomizu no ue kara idetari haru no tsuki 清水上から出たり春の月
Scope & Content:
Haiku on the spring moon rising over Kiyomizu by Morikawa Kyoroku 森川許六 (1656-1715). Kana calligraphy by Asai Sodō 浅井素堂 (1915-1999) .
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
c 1997-1998
Extent:
1 sheet

7. Or 15530

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15530
Title:
Shichiō hattotsu 七凹八凸
Scope & Content:
‘Unevenness’. Calligraphy in semi-cursive (gyōsho) style by Asayama Kazuhito 朝山一人 (1970-).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
c 1997-1998
Extent:
1 sheet

8. Or 15531

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15531
Title:
Rōryū mei, go mo ga 老龍鳴 吾喪我
Scope & Content:
Chinese reading: Lao long ming, wu sang wo. ‘The cry of an old dragon, Losing oneself’. Quotations from the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi. Seal script style calligraphy by Bai Joteki 梅舒適 (1916-2008).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:
c 1997-1998
Extent:
1 sheet

9. Or 15532

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15532
Title:
Mui tensei 無為天成
Scope & Content:
‘Natural results from doing nothing'. Calligraphy by Fujioka Gekka 藤岡月華 (1934-). Date from inscription on box: 平成八年.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Heisei 8 [1996]
Extent:
1 sheet.

10. Or 15533

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15533
Title:
Kantsubaki kibishiku ikishi hi no tooku by 寒椿厳しく生きし日の遠く
Scope & Content:
Haiku poem of reminiscences inspired by a winter camellia. Mixed kana/kanji calligraphy by Hōga Kōshū 法元康州. The manuscript is undated but the lid of its box bears an inscription dated Heisei 10 [1998].
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Heisei 10 [1998]
Extent:
1 sheet.