Orchids -- Illustration from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu), c. 1582 -1672
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
Orchid -- Illustration from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu), c. 1582 -1672
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
Orchids -- Illustration from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu), c. 1582 -1672
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
Orchids -- Illustration from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu), c. 1582 -1672
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
Orchids -- Illustration from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu), c. 1582 -1672
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
Orchids -- Illustration from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu), c. 1582 -1672
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
The courtesans Koi Murasaki and Hana Murasaki of the Kado Tama House 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
The courtesans Hanaōgi and Takigawa of the Ogi House 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
Imperial Treatise on Poetry (Yakumo mishō) originally compiled by Emperor Juntoku (1197-1242), 1285 - 1308
Attributed to Retired Emperor Go-Nijō
Susiddhikara-mahâ-tantra-sūtra (Soshitsujikara-kyō) one of the three secret sutras translated in 724 by Subhâkarasimha (Chinese: Shanwuwei; Japanese: Zemmui)
Japanese
Five Nō Plays (Yōgyoku goban) in 5 Volumes, 1558 - 1637
Attributed to Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦
Fifty Nō Plays, Illustrated (Yōkyoku gojū-ban) in 10 Volumes, 1617 - 1691
Signed by Tosa Mitsuoki 土佐光起
Book IV.13-15. Lucius Quinius, dictator, and Agrippa Minucius address the multitude regarding Maelius's death {Primae Decadis Liber Quartus p. XXXIII verso}
Anonymous Germany
Book XXIV.34-7. Heraclea, wife of Zoippus, who lived abroad in luxury, put to death with her children {Tertiae Decadis Liber Quartus p. CXXVIII}
Anonymous Italy (Venice) 1493
Book XXVII.51. Hasdrubal defeated by Marcus Livius and Cladius Nero; his head is thrown before African prisoners {Tertiae Decadis Liber Septimus p. CLVIII}
Anonymous Italy (Venice) 1493
Book XXXIV.52-3. Celebration under Titus Quintius Flaminius lasts three days, Temples are dedicated {Quarte Decadis Liber Quintus p. CCXI verso}
Anonymous Italy (Venice) 1493
Book IX.24. Roman army met by a deserter from Sora who informs them how to take the city {Primae Decadis Liber Nonus p. LXXIX}
Anonymous Italy (Venice) 1493
The Fourth Trumpet Call: An Angel Crying Woe; The Ffith Trumpet Call: The Plague of Locusts; The Sixth Trumpet Call: Angels Kill a Third of Mankind; The Angel with the Opened Book, c. 1560 - 1618
Adriaen Collaert
Double-sided wood printing block from Book on the Process of Woodblock Printing (Hanga shūsatsu junjo chō), with a design of Compared Poems of the Four Seasons (Shiki no kuawase), active about 1780 - 1801
Designed by Katsukawa Shunchō 勝川春潮
Double-sided wood printing block from Book on the Process of Woodblock Printing (Hanga shūsatsu junjo chō), with a design of Compared Poems of the Four Seasons (Shiki no kuawase), active about 1780 - 1801
Designed by Katsukawa Shunchō 勝川春潮