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Japanese ikebana manuscript

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    Album of Japanese zoological drawings

    Manuscripts

    Brush and ink drawings, with watercolor, of a variety of Japanese fauna (approximately 70 drawings). Individual images on laid paper cut out and pasted onto Japanese paper. Several of the images have contemporary notes of zoological information such as species names, size, where caught, habits, and comments about when and where drawn. The animals include fish and crustaceans, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, owls, and insects. Several are dated 1804 and 1807.

    mssHM 83976

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    [Single sheet manuscript in Japanese]

    Manuscripts

    Simple sheet in Japanese: content unidentified; looks like some kind of letter and/or diary type entry; written on rectangular sheet; printed on paper with landscape design; given the language and script style, date seems to be approximately late 19th c. (i.e. Meiji).

    mssHM 81208

  • Japanese smallpox manuscript volume, approximately 1860

    Japanese smallpox manuscript volume, approximately 1860

    Manuscripts

    Handwritten and illustrated book in Japanese on smallpox. The 29 double pages are mounted to an accordion-style book with stiff pages, and contain 27 hand-colored illustrations, many of which show the disease in three-dimension. The Kanbun text is handwritten. The book is covered in satin brocade with a paper title slip. Housed in a silk folding sleeve, also with paper title slip.

    mssHM 82443

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    Kōmō Chayuhō : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    Recipes, intake methods (i.e. oral, skin, etc.), and commentary on various teas and oils from areas such as Holland, Sweden, etc.; many names of the incredients, techniques, etc., written in phoneticization of original title into Japanese kana script; some illustrations in latter sections depicting instruments used in process of distillation; 33 pages; medicines divided generally between water-based and oil-based recipes; title on box reads: "Japanese Medicinal Distilling"

    mssHM 81220

  • One Japanese pattern book, circa 1898

    One Japanese pattern book, circa 1898

    Visual Materials

    One Japanese pattern book, circa 1898. The book is labeled (or titled) in Japanese on the cover; it contains approximately 200 pages in length, and is comprised of labeled (in Japanese) nature scenes, including those of waterfalls, birds, flowers and trees. "Compliments of Arthur W. Dow, 1898", is written, in ms., in ink, at the top of the first page. The item is bound in orange paper overlaying thick paper. Title supplied by cataloger.

    ephKAEE

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    Fascinating features of fair Japan

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    An album with 50 hand-tinted photographs of Japan showing gardens, shrines, temples, palaces, parks, resorts, scenic landscapes, and traditional Japanese arts and occupations, such as Ikebana, Sumo wrestling, No theater, and rice planting. The images include "Three Views of Japan": the islands at Matsushima, the shrine at Itsukushima, and the sandbar at Ama no Hashidate. There are photographs of various sites in Tokyo, Kyoto, Kyushu, and Nikko.

    photCL 60