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Five Tanka Poems
Yosano Akiko 与謝野晶子
1933

Wang Jiqian (C. C. Wang)

late 1990s

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

Page from Illustrations and Explanations of the Three Jewels (Sanbō e-kotoba), one of the “Tōdaiji Fragments” (Tōdaiji-gire)
Minamoto no Toshiyori
1120

Page from The Poetic Memoirs of Murasaki Shikibu (Murasaki Shikibu shū-gire)
Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie)
first half of the 13th century

A Mirror of Gathered Seaweed (Mokagami)
Various calligraphers
8th–17th century

Tale of Genji Chapter Book: “Exile to Suma” (Suma)
Japan
mid-13th century

Page from the Collection of Poems by Lady Ise (Ise shū)
Japan
early 12th century

A Youth in a Hammam Smoking a Pipe
first half of 18th century

Lady Aoi, from Fifty Noh Plays, Illustrated (Yōkyoku gojū-ban, Aoi no Ue)
Tosa Mitsuoki
17th century

Poems about Neighbors, from Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing (Wakan rōeishū), one of the “Tatsuta Fragments” (Tatsuta-gire)
Minamoto Ienaga
13th century

Letters by Courtesans
Unidentified artist
late 18th or early 19th century

Decorated end paper

Anonymous, German, late 17th to early 18th century

1780–1820

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

“Akebonoya” waka poem
Hon'ami Kōetsu
early 17th century

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

Two Sample Letters on the Chinese Lantern Festival and a Poem about Plum Blossoms
Kojima Sōshin
1657

Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji
Konoe Nobutada
17th century

Thirty-six Pieces of Calligraphy

Japan