
Letter in Kana Characters
Myōe Kōben (d. 1232)
early 13th century, probably 1220s · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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191 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
431 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
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Letter in Kana Characters
Myōe Kōben (d. 1232)
early 13th century, probably 1220s · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Kana Letter on Stamped Images of Amida Buddha
Unrecorded maker
early 13th century · Hanging scroll; brush written letter, ink on paper (front); stamped images, ink on paper (reverse)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Manuscript Illumination with the Virgin and Child in an Initial S, from an Antiphonary
Master of the Franciscan Breviary (d. 1460)
mid-15th century · Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment
Cleared · Public Domain
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Mary Magdalen Writing a Letter
Master of the Female Half-Lengths (d. 1550)
1550 · Oil on wood
Cleared · Public Domain
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Letter
Shōkadō Shōjō (d. 1639)
early 17th century · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a sepulchral monument with Mary Magdalen and Saint Jerome (recto); Sketch (counterproof) and writing exercises (verso)
Pieter Verbruggen the Younger (d. 1691)
late 17th–early 18th century · Pen and brown ink (recto); pen and brown ink, counterproof of a red chalk drawing (verso)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Courtesan Writing a Letter
Kaigetsudō Doshin (d. 1736)
ca. 1715 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Courtesan Reading a Letter
Ishikawa Toyonobu (d. 1785)
mid-18th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “The Lady of the Bridge” Design
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, and silver inlay on gold nashiji (“pear-skin”) ground
Cleared · Public Domain
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Letter
Rai San’yō 頼山陽 (d. 1832)
ca. 1820–28 · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
The Letter
Mary Cassatt (d. 1926)
1890–91 · Drypoint, printed in black ink from one plate; first state of four
In copyright
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The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
“Rubble of writing” (Moji gareki), a letter to Baron Maeda Masana
Tomioka Tessai (d. 1924)
1915 · Letter mounted as a hanging scroll: ink and color on paper
In copyright
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