“Lodge in the Bamboo Grove,” a Poem by Wang Wei

Poem by Wang Wei

Poems by Wang Wei in Cursive Script

Poem by Wang Gui in Cursive Script

Poem by Wei Yingwu in Cursive Script

Chikusai Tokusho (A Study in a Bamboo Grove)

Chinese Poem: “There is a bamboo grove around my house”

Poem inspired by Su Shih's Poem Nine Flowers in a Vase

Calligraphy in the Style of a Letter by Wang Xizhi

Seven Sages in a Bamboo Grove (Formerly on the sliding doors in the Nagashima household)

Reading by the Window in the Style of Wang Meng

A Chapter from the Volume of Liang Hui Wang by Mencius

A Poem by Wang Changling: The Night is Still and a Hundred Flowers are Fragrant in the Western Palace…

Calligraphy in One Line: Through the Path Overgrown with Bamboo, to a Secluded Place

The Actor Nakamura Noshio II, in Female Role, Holding a Shakuhachi (Bamboo Flute)

Openwork Tsuba (Sword Guard) with Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (Signed “Made by Sōheishi Nyūdō Munenori living in Hikone, Gōshū”)

Actor in the Role of Wankyū, from an untitled series of actors with a poem

Inro (Small Nested Caddy) with Bamboo, Willow, and Hermitage Design in Makie; Netsuke Toggle in the Form of a Walnut and Snail (by Zen’ichi)

"A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man" written by Sei Ito. Trains run in the central area of Otaru city

Calligraphy by Nakamura Baigyoku III on the Stage during a Performance of Kuzu no ha

Part of Record of a Poetry Contest Held by Imperial Princess Tokushi at the Guardhouse (Poetry Contests in Twenty Volumes)

The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo as the Fudo Myo'o at Meguro with Ichikawa Danjuro and Nakamura Denkuro as His Attendants in the Play Arigata Shunzei Genji

Ancient History 22: The baptism of Achilles. Just as you temper a weapon of war, / Thetis, wanting to make of her brat a hero, / Steeped him in the Styx until he saw the light; / Which proves that baths are good for all purposes (On the Influence of baths, Poem by Mr. Vigier)

NEWS 99: IMPRESSIONS OF A JOURNEY BY A GREAT POET: “One of the curiosities of Frankfurt that will soon disappear, I fear, is the butcher's shop. it [sic] is impossible to see a more splendid pile of fresh flesh. The bloody butchers and pink butchers’ wives chat gracefully under garlands of legs of mutton. A red stream, its colour barely altered by two gushing fountains, runs and smokes in the middle of the street!” (The Rhine by Victor Hugo Volume 2 page 357)

JOURNEY TO CHINA 6: CHINESE PROPRIETY. In this country they have a singular idea of propriety!... the most chaste young girl, the most upstanding woman do not blush, by a prodigious exaggeration of forms, to call attention to a certain quarter to which they give the appearance of a veritable air-balloon... they call that a bustle..