The Burke Collection

Japanese calligraphy

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Poem from Tsurayukishū I (貫之集上), in album entitled Mokagami (藻鏡)
Daihōkōbutsu kegonkyō (大方廣仏華厳経)
Three poems from Kokin wakashū (古今和歌集)
Page from Tsurayukishū II (貫之集下)
Page from Iseshū (伊勢集)
Three poems from Gosen wakashū (後選和歌集)
Three poems from Gosen wakashū (後選和歌集)
Three poems from Kokin wakashū (古今和歌集)
Sanbō ekotoba (三宝絵詞)
Two poems from Zoku kokin wakashū (続古今和歌集)
Three poems from Kokin wakashū (古今和歌集)
Kanjō yōshukuji (灌頂曜宿事 / Ordination and Star Signs)
Shin kokin wakashū (新古今和歌集)
Couplet from the poem “Grass” by Haku Kyoi (Ch. Bai Juyi, 白居易; 772–846)
Eikataigai (詠歌大概)
Wakuraba (老葉)
Page from Teikin Ōrai (庭訓往来)
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
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