Collection: Manuscripts, Documents, and Bible Leaves

Hachikazuki (The Bowl-Bearer Princess), Circa 1600-1650. A Sumptuously Illuminated and Hand Painted Series of Sixteen Illuminated Yamato-E Paintings. An extremely Scarce Nara Ehon of this Otogi Zoshi Tale, a Japanese Cinderella

Folding Fan Painting, in the Style of Nara Ehon or Yamato-E Painting, Circa 1800-1850. A Scene from a Heian Period Tale, Lovestruck Nobles at Court, and a Female Attendant, Hand Painted and Bordered with Gold

Folding Fan Painting, in the Style of Nara Ehon or Yamato-E Painting, Circa 1800-1850. A Scene from a Heian Period Tale, Lovestruck Nobles at Court, Hand Painted and Bordered with Gold

Folding Fan Painting, in the Style of Nara Ehon or Yamato-E Painting, Circa 1800-1850. A Scene from a Heian Period Tale, a Noble Visiting his Love, Hand Painted and Bordered with Gold

Folding Fan Painting, in the Style of Nara Ehon or Yamato-E Painting, Circa 1800-1850. A Scene from a Heian Period Tale, Two Nobles and a Cherry Blossom Tree, Hand Painted and Bordered with Gold

A Set of Eight Folding Fan Paintings, in the Style of Nara Ehon or Yamato-E Painting, Circa 1750-1850. Scenes of a Heian Period Tale, Hand Painted and Bordered with Gold

Xiaoquan Xiao Suchi Jiao (Koizumi’s Filial Piety Education?), 1690. Two Illustrated Manuscript Handscrolls on House Rules and Arrangements for the Year, Etiquette, Cooking, and More, With Dozens of Hand Colored Illustrations

Jū ni-kagetsu Nenjū Gyōji Emakimono Eiichi chō (The Twelve Months of the Year Events Picture Scroll by Hanabusa Itchō), Circa 1680-1724. 12 Beautiful Paintings, Lavishly Decorated and Illuminated in the Style of a Nara Emaki. Over Six Meters Long

Kano Uyasunobu Emaki (Kano Yasunobu Picture Scroll), Circa 1660-1670. A Monumental Emakimono Handscroll with Fourteen Beautiful, and Large Ink Wash Paintings, totalling 12 Meters. Great Creatures, Landscapes, and More

Kanō-ha Emakimono (Kano School Emakimono), Circa 1635-1685. Twelve Beautiful Silk Paintings in the Style of an Early Head of the Kano School of Art, Seven Meters Long

Gan Hi No Ito Guchi (Wishing Thread), Circa 1810-1860. A Beautifully Hand Painted Emakimono Handscroll of Utamaro’s Originally Printed Shunga Work, With Ten Erotic Pairings

Emaki Tsuhi no Hinagata (Picture Scroll Models of Couples), After 1812. Two Scrolls of Black and White Ink Underdrawings of one of Hokusai’s Shunga Works, of Various Amorous Pairings