Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), in business 1769-1780
Wedgwood & Bentley
Seated Bodhisattva (Kongoho Bosatsu), from a notebook depicting the Diamond World Mandala (Kongōkai Mandara), active circa 1132 - 1174
Attributed to Takuma Tametō
Cover from a large accordion-fold printed book "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816
Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演
Cover from a large accordion-fold printed book "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816
Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演
Illustrated Anthology of Ancient and Modern Verse (Kokin wakashū) in Five Volumes
Japanese
Young Man Watching Woman Writing, detatched frontispiece from the Cuckoo's Verse Picturebook (Ehon haikai yabukodori), 1726 - 1792
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章
Preface by Ota Nampo ('Yomo Sanjin" or Yomo no Akara) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816
Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演
Guanyin Chapter from an Illustrated Lotus Sutra (Miaofa lianhua jing Guanshiyin pusa pumenpin)
Chinese
Seated Bodhisattva Vajrapuspâ (Kongōke Bosatsu), from a notebook depicting the Diamond World Mandala (Kongōkai Mandara), from a book once housed at Mount Kōya (Wakayama prefecture) and then later in the temple Ganjō-ji (Kumamoto prefecture), active circa 1132 - 1174
Attributed to Takuma Tametō
Collection of Designs and Crests for Various Art Objects
Japanese
Gaily Illustrated Story of Mid-Heian Court Life (Utsubo monogatari)
Japanese
Tale of the Pagoda Made of Sand, Text Fragment from the Illustrated "Tales of Three Jewels" (Sambō-ekotoba) from Tōdai-ji, Nara, 1055 - 1129
Traditionally attributed to Minamoto no Toshiyori
Poems Assembled (Kinrai waka), 1648 - 1722
Attributed to Konoe Motohiro
Burrhus Kneeling before Peron
Anonymous France 1840
Printed Preface to Lotus Sutra (Hokke gengijo)
Japanese
Poems Compiled by Yoshida Kenkō, 1283-1350 (Kenkō kashū)
Japanese
Landscapes of Taiping Prefecture ('Taiping shanshui tu'), 1596 - 1674
Xiao Yuncong 蕭雲從
Ishiyama-gire Page: Poems of Lady Ise, 1088 - 1156?
Traditionally attributed to Fujiwara Sadanobu
Coin of Constantine VIII, r. 1025 - 1028
Constantine VIII
Coin of Basil II, r. 976 - 1025
Basil II