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• Title:[ Ogura hyakunin isshu.]
  [小倉百人一首.]
  [Hyakunin isshu karuta].
  [百人一首かるた].
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Graham, David M., 1945-2012, donor.
  
• Published/Created:[between 1650 and 1657]
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: Asian Rare-6 no.H10
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:200 cards in box
    
    
  • Links:David Mark Graham Memorial Fund and the Lastman Estate Bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Utagaruta (Game)--Specimens.
  
• Description:200 cards : illustrations ; 89 x 59 mm, in box 16 x 11 x 15 cm
  
• Summary:Set consists of 100 poems from the poetry anthology Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each) in hand-drawn characters, on 100 pairs of cards. The first card in the pair carries the first half of the poem, and the second card carries the second half. These cards are played as a traditional Japanese game known as uta-garuta. In this set, hand-written by 柳原方光 (1641-1657), Dainagon Yanagiwara Sukeyuki's son, the first card also carries the name of the poet and has the poetic theme illustrated in the background.
  
• Notes:Title devised by cataloguer.
  Housed in a wooden box with 2 compartments.
  "柳原方光筆, 絹本; 読札の下絵に、金泥にて歌絵が描かれる極めて珍しいもの; 絹本金泥下絵入料紙"--Vendor's description.