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Poems about Neighbors, from Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing (Wakan rōeishū), one of the “Tatsuta Fragments” (Tatsuta-gire)
Minamoto Ienaga
13th century
Five Tanka Poems
Yosano Akiko 与謝野晶子
1933
Chinese Couplet by Bai Juyi and Waka by Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (partial) from “Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing” (Wakan rōeishū)
Konoe Sakihisa 近衛前久
late 16th–early 17th century
Couplet
Wang Jiqian (C. C. Wang)
late 1990s

Letters by Courtesans

Unidentified artist
late 18th or early 19th century
Tale of Genji Chapter Book: “Ephemerids” (Kagerō)
Japan
mid-13th century
A Youth in a Hammam Smoking a Pipe
first half of 18th century
Page from the Collection of Poems by Lady Ise (Ise shū)
Japan
early 12th century
Two Sample Letters on the Chinese Lantern Festival and a Poem about Plum Blossoms
Kojima Sōshin
1657
“Akebonoya” waka poem
Hon'ami Kōetsu
early 17th century
Lady Aoi, from Fifty Noh Plays, Illustrated (Yōkyoku gojū-ban, Aoi no Ue)
Tosa Mitsuoki
17th century
Thirty-six Pieces of Calligraphy
Japan
A Mirror of Gathered Seaweed (Mokagami)
Various calligraphers
8th–17th century

Page from Illustrations and Explanations of the Three Jewels (Sanbō e-kotoba), one of the “Tōdaiji Fragments” (Tōdaiji-gire)

Minamoto no Toshiyori
1120
Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji
Konoe Nobutada
17th century
Decorated end paper
Anonymous, German, late 17th to early 18th century
1780–1820
Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji
Tosa School
early 17th century
Two Pages from the Ishiyama-gire
Fujiwara no Sadanobu
ca. 1112
Tale of Genji Chapter Book: “Exile to Suma” (Suma)
Japan
mid-13th century
Page from The Poetic Memoirs of Murasaki Shikibu (Murasaki Shikibu shū-gire)
Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie)
first half of the 13th century