Collection: Manuscripts, Documents, and Bible Leaves

Shiki kachō-zu zō (Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons), 1805-1848. A Lavishly Painted Emakimono Landscape Handscroll with Vibrantly Colored Birds, Flowers and Nature, Nearly Seven Meters Long

Hyakuba no zu Emaki (Hundred Horses Picture Scroll), Circa 1650-1750. A Kano School Emakimono Handscroll with Paintings of Various Landscapes and Scenes, Including Mount Fuji and Horses Frolicking

Shiki Sansui-zu Makimono (Four Seasons Landscape Scrolls), Circa 1640-1672. Two Handscrolls of Stunning Silk Landscape with Blooming Trees, Flowers, and Various Birds, all Illuminated with a Gold Background and Clouds

Ōeyama Shuten Oni Emaki Jōkan (Oeyama Shuten Oni Picture Scroll, Volume One of Two), Circa 1600-1700. A Sumptuously Produced Nara Emaki, with Thirteen Monumental and Beautifully Illuminated Paintings, of this Tale of the Oni King

Shuten-Doji Emaki (The Tale of Shuten Doji), Circa 1800-1850. A Disbound Emakimono Handscroll of The Killing of the Oni King, In Ten Paintings

Ōeyama Emaki (Oeyama Picture Scroll), Dated 1634. A Celebratory Parade Scene of the Victorious Minamoto no Raikō Returning with the Oni King’s Head. Numerous Ink Drawings

Hatano Zusetsu (An Illustrated Guide to Flags), Circa 1800-1850 (Late Edo Period). Illustrated Military Manuscript

A Rare, Handwritten and Painted Black Ship Scroll in Book Format, Inscribed Fall 1853. Commodore Perry’s First Expedition to Japan, Dated to the same Year. With 15 Large Paintings Depicting the Arrival of the Black Ship and More

Shiki Sansui-zu Makimono (Four Seasons Landscape Scroll), 1866. An Emakimono Handscroll Depicting a Breathtakingly Painted Landscape of Mountains, Rivers, and More on Silk, In the Shan Shui Style of Painting, with Vivid Colors

Sengu-Ji Volume 2 (On War Equipment), Circa 1800-1850 (Late Edo Period). Illustrated Military Manuscript, Part of a Larger Set on the Art of War

Yoshiie Ason Yoroi Chakuyō-zu (The Order of Wearing a Japanese Armor), Circa 1800-1850 (Late Edo Period). Illustrated and Hand Colored Manuscript on the Correct Procedure to Wear Armor

Yoroi Doku chaku-den Suzuki kaden (The Suzuki Family Tradition of Armor), Copied 1811. With 25 Beautiful Paintings of Donning Armor. A Contemporary Copy of a Young Daimyo’s Military Manual