Artworks in the collection

Funju (噴珠 / Sophisticated Eloquence)

Renga kaishi (連歌懐紙)

Ise monogatari (伊勢物語)

Poem by Saigyō (西行; 1118–1190), from Shin kokin wakashū (新古今和歌集)

Two poems from Shin kokin wakashū (新古今和歌集)

Triptych of calligraphies

Five poems dedicated to Umanosuke (右馬助), written by Seikyū (青丘), Tōmei (東溟), and Hakuroku (白麓)

Kansei (寒声 / Sound of Cold Air)

Two poems from Kokin wakashū (古今和歌集)

“Senjimon” (千字文 / Thousand-Character Classic)

Poem from Man’yōshū (万葉集)

Letter addressed to Shōemon (Yo Shōemon 餘庄右衛門, also known as Aoki Shukuya, 青木夙夜; d. 1789)

Letter addressed to Aoki Shukuya (青木夙夜; d. 1789)

Letter addressed to Itō Kakō (伊藤華岡; 1709–1776)

Paintings by Ike Taiga (池大雅; 1723–1776) and Colophons by Eight Calligraphers

Two Calligraphies

Hippō Rikugishō (筆法六義抄/ Commentary on Six Rules of Calligraphy)

Mu (無 / Nothingness)

Letter from Courtesan Sono (その)

Flower’s Fragrance

Folding Fans with Calligraphy

Cherry and Willow

Relief tile (senbutsu, 塼仏) with Buddha Triad

Amida Nyorai (阿弥陀如来)

Kannon Bosatsu (観音菩薩)

Jizō Bosatsu (地蔵菩薩)

Two hiten (飛天)

Jizō Bosatsu (地蔵菩薩)

Jizō Bosatsu (地蔵菩薩) stone stele in memory of a young girl of the Ohno family

Fudō Myōō (不動明王)

Bishamonten (毘沙門天)

Bishamonten (毘沙門天)

Tobatsu Bishamonten (兜跋毘沙門天)

Six of the Group of Twelve Guardians (Jūni Shinshō, 十二神将)

Guardian

Guardian

Kichijōten (吉祥天)

Zenmyō (善妙)

Haniwa of a Priestess (埴輪 巫女)

Shinto God and Goddess (男神、女神)