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Calligraphy
Wen Zhongyi
mid-16th century

Letter to Yamagishi Hanzan
Matsuo Bashō 松尾芭蕉
dated 1685 (Jōkyō 2)

Excerpt from Xie Huilian’s Prose Poem “On Snow”
Dong Qichang

Bestowing the Buddhist Name “Fumyō”
Ichidon Shōzui
1425

Letter Addressed to Itō Kakō
Ike no Taiga
1759

Climbing the Eastern Marchmount
Deng Shiru
1790

Pictures with Letters
Iwasa Matabei
17th century

Poem for Xie Zhiliu's Fiftieth Birthday
Pan Boying
dated 1959

Letter to Shunkin
Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudō 浦上玉堂
late 18th–early 19th century

Poems about Cherry Blossoms, one of the “Murasame Fragments” (Murasame-gire)
Nijō Tameyo
early 14th century

Hokku poem “On a withered branch”
Matsuo Bashō 松尾芭蕉
probably 1680s

One Round from a Poetry Contest
Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie)
late 12th century

The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
Xu Bing
1999

A Poem of Lament, one of the “Uzura Fragments” (Uzura-gire)
Fujiwara Akisuke
13th century

Odes to the Red Cliff
Inukai Bokudō
1919

Model Calligraphies from the “Hall of Three Rarities” (Sanxitang) and the "Collected Treasures of the Stony Moat” (Shiqu Baoji)
Various artists
second half of 18th century

“Tokachi Plain” haiku
Kawahigashi Hekigotō
mid- to late 1910s

Copy of an Inscription on a Bronze Mirror
Huang Boxu
20th century

Couplet in Seven-character Meter
Zhang Ruitu

A Gatha (Contemplative Verse) by Fu Daishi (497–569)
Bankei Yōtaku (Eitaku)
late 17th century

Tale of Genji Chapter Book: “Ephemerids” (Kagerō)
Japan
mid-13th century

Section of the Dream Diary with a Sketch of Mountains
Myōe Kōben 明恵高弁
ca. 1203–10

Couplet from Song Zhiwen’s poem “Ascending the Pavilion at the Monastery of Meditative Concentration”
Mi Wanzhong
late 16th or early 17th century

Calligraphy with Dedication to Xie Zhiliu
Pan Boying
undated, 20th century

Four anecdotes from the life of Wang Xizhi
Zhao Mengfu
1310s

“Spring” Waka
Nijō Tametada
mid-14th century

On Reclusion
Sesson Yūbai 雪村友梅
first half 14th century

Valentine, lettersheet

ca. 1850