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Subject Kanshi (Japanese poetry)

1. Or 14310

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14310
Title:
Yamagata Dekisho shoga kan 山縣適處書画巻
Scope & Content:
A series of kanshi (Chinese poems) and illustrations of famous sights in Japan by the poet Yamagata Dekisho 山縣適處 (1837-1906)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
明治35年 [1902]
Extent:
2 scrolls

2. 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

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 15553

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15553
Title:
Ryōkan shi 良寛詩
Scope & Content:
Chinese poem (kanshi) by the Japanese monk Ryōkan (1758-1831). Calligraphy in semi-cursive (gyōsho) style by Takada Kōha 高田香坡 (1934-) . Dated Heisei 9 [1997] on box. Text: 青陽二月初物色稍新鮮此時持鉢孟騰々入市廛児童忽見我欣然相将来要我寺門前携我歩 / 遅々放孟白石上掛嚢青松枝千批闘百艸千批打毬子我打渠且歌我歌渠打之打去又打来不知 / 時節移行人顧我問曷由其如斯低頭不應他道得亦何似要知箇中意元来祇這是.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:
Heisei 9 [1997]
Extent:
1 sheet.

5. Or 15555

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15555
Title:
Bankō midareokotte ware i o shiri 萬紅亂起吾知異 ; Senji fukikiete oni mo azakerazu 千紫吹消鬼不嘲
Scope & Content:
Pair of 7-character Chinese poems by Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) from his novel Meian 明暗. Calligraphy in clerical (reisho) style by Takenaka Seiko 竹中青琥 (1938-). Dated 戊寅 [Heisei 10 = 1998].
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Heisei 10 [1998]
Extent:
2 sheets

6. Or 15560

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15560
Title:
Seian de katta suzu no utsuwa ni Nihon no sake o mitashi sumi no hi de kan o shiyō Chōan ippen no tsuki no mukashi 西安で買った錫の器に日本の酒をみたし炭の火で燗をしよう長安一片の月の昔を偲ぼう
Scope & Content:
Poem by Kusano Shinpei 草野心平 (1903-1988) inspired by his memories of Xian. Mixed kanji/kana calligraphy by Yoshida Seidō 吉田成堂 (1931-). Inscription on box dated: 平成九年霜月[Heisei 9-nen shimotsuki = November 1997]
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
Heisei 9 [1997]
Extent:
1 sheet

7. Or 15634

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15634
Title:
Kameda Bōsai gasan-fuku [亀田鵬斎画賛幅] 別書名: 鵬斎先生画賛
Scope & Content:
Title on back of scroll: Bōsai sensei gasan 鵬斎先生画賛. A 7-character 4-line Chinese poem in cursive calligraphy by the scholar-painter Kameda Bōsai 亀田鵬斎 (1752-1826). Colour drawing by Bōsai in abbreviated Bunjin style beneath the poem shows figures playing go. Dated kanoto mi 辛巳 = Bunsei 4 [1821]...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:
1821
Extent:
1 scroll

8. Or 16054

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16054
Title:
Chinese poem on Spring by Sir Ernest Mason Satow
Scope & Content:
Chinese poem in 5-character quatrain form by the Tang dynasty poet Wang Bo 王勃 in the calligraphy of the diplomat and bibliophile Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929). Signed as Seizan 静山. Text reads: 山川両処晩 花柳一園春 還持千日酔 共作百年人. Manuscript note on reverse of scroll reads : 最珍 前駐日英国大使アーネスト･サトー氏筆春之詩...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:
1874-1884
Extent:
1 sheet