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Habillemens de Leipsic ca. 1785-1786: twee vrouwen met waaier en wandelstok
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1785 – 1786
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: ernst ludwig riepenhausen
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1765 – 1840
Subjects: calendar, almanac, walking-stick, staff, cane (+ women's clothes), trousers, breeches (+ women's clothes), coat (+ women's clothes), head-gear: cap (+ women's clothes), fashion plates, dress, gown: robe à la polonaise

Twee staande vrouwen gekleed in een robe à la Polonaise met rok (links) en een japon met om het middel een sjerp met franjes (rechts). Kapsels versier met veren. Accessoires: waaier, wandelstok, chatelaine, schoenen met hakken. De prent maakt deel uit van de almanak Habillemens de Leipzig, ca. 1785-1786.
Tea canister
Object type: tea caddy
Date: 1715 – 1725
Materials: earthenware, glaze
Techniques: kiln, painted, polychromy
Location: delft
Subjects: ornaments ~ art, ornamental birds
Inscriptions: mark: ‘PAK(ineen)’

Rechthoekige theebus met deksel veelkleurig (blauw, rood, goud en zwart) beschilderd met een vogel in een ring, lambrequins en bloemtakken. Gemerkt in rood.
Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: letter
Date: 1897 – 1897
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: brussels
Artist: burggraaf de colleville
Artist role: burggraaf
Subjects: print maker, frédéric-auguste cazals, paris, paul verlaine, emile verhaeren, painter, draughtsman, philip zilcken, the hague
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Parrying Dagger
Object type: parrying dagger
Date: 1550 – 1575
Materials: brass, gold, steel, wood
Culture: italian
Location: italy

Designed to be used together with a rapier, this dagger is fitted with a side ring, recurved quillons, and a depression at the base of one side of the blade to accommodate the thumb and facilitate a firmer grip. The waves in the blade may be intended to act like "speed bumps" in breaking the impact of a blow from an opponent's blade. The piercing of the fullers (grooves) is a decorative motif.
Ceremonial Shield with Roman Battle Scene
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: board, ink, paper, wood
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Location: england
Artist: attributed to william burgess
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1749 – 1812
Sickle Insert
Object type: sickle, insert, denticulate, backed, bi truncated, blade, tool, element
Date: 1184 – 664
Materials: stone
Location: egypt

This small piece of flint was a key element to a successful agricultural season in ancient Egypt. Grain was a staple of the economy, as bread and beer made from grain were consumed daily. They also formed the foundation of eternal sustenance, as funerary offerings. Ancient Egyptians used sickles made from flint and wood to reap grain. Pieces of flint such as this one were shaped to fit into a wooden haft along with a number of other such inserts, and secured with an adhesive. The flint pieces provided a sharp edge to cut the grain stalks. With use, the flint would wear down and develop a shiny gloss. The flint inserts could be re-sharpened or replaced as needed. Flint, rather than copper alloy, was the primary material used to make sickles in Egypt until the first millennium B.C. when iron became more widely available. The reason for using flint was probably multifaceted and included considerations such as its abundance, its ease of manufacture compared to casting metal tools, flint’s proficiency at cutting grain, and the relationships between the people who made flint tools and the people who used them.
Portrait of a Girl
Object type: painting
Date: 1700 – 1700
Materials: canvas, oil, paint
Techniques: painting
Location: italy
Artist: francesco solimena
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1657 – 1747
Subjects: portraits: female subject, woman, portrait, girl, youth, portraits, headdresses, dresses
Heart Scarab with the Cartouche of Amenirdis
Object type: heart scarab, amenirdis i, kashta
Date: 760 – 747
Location: egypt and sudan
Upholstery panels for a side chair
Object type: upholstery panel
Date: 1763 – 1764
Materials: silk
Techniques: painting
Subjects: birds,butterflies,flowers

These upholstery panels were made for a chair that was part of a set (see 1974.356.114–.121) made for the Franckenstein Pavilion in the gardens of Seehof Castle near Bamberg, one of the three summer residences in Southern Germany used by Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim, prince bishop of Würzberg and Bamberg. A true garden enthusiast, it was under von Seinsheim that the gardens of Seehof were embellished, which must have resembled the still extant Rococo gardens completed by von Seinsheim at Veitshöchheim. His love for gardens and garden imagery also carried over into the interior decoration and furnishings of his castles, as the Seehof furniture demonstrates. A unique example of German Rococo furniture executed in a more flamboyant style than its French prototypes, the ensemble was designed specifically for the Garden Room in the Franckenstein Pavilion. Used as an audience room, it was referred to as the "Green Trellis Chamber" in the 1774 Seehof inventory and painted entirely with trompe l'oeil trellis and foliage. The garden room's furniture was made to match: the backs of the chairs and settees are richly carved in the form of garden trellis-work with colored flowers and foliage.
Rebecca, from The Wives of the Patriarchs
Object type: print
Date: 1597 – 1597
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: jacob matham
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: netherlandish
Artist dates: 1571 – 1631
Inscriptions: Lettered lower right: "HG. Inventor."; and below image: "Morigeram dum se ... signa suo. C. Schoneus."
Staande vrouw sprekend met man achter gordijn
Object type: drawing
Date: 1879 – 1879
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: lourens alma tadema
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1836 – 1912

Ontwerptekening voor prent in 'De Spectator'.
Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)
Object type: pair of sword grip ornament menuki
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: gold alloy, silver alloy, gold
Culture: japanese
Location: japan
Subjects: flowers
Neues Zierathen Buch
Object type: album leaf
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: nuremberg
Subjects: auricular ornament, lobe style ~ ornament

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Portret van Robert Blum
Object type: print
Date: 1848 – 1849
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: frankfurt am main
Subjects: adult man, historical persons, beard
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Settee
Object type: settee
Date: 1800 – 1800
Materials: wood
Culture: american
Location: united states
Designs for Two Beds
Object type: print
Date: 1565 – 1570
Techniques: etching
Artist: jacques androuet du cerceau
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1510 – 1585
Victorie!
Object type: newspaper
Date: 1908 – 1941
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing
Location: the hague
Subjects: netherlands
Inscriptions: date
Ubergang bei Rees! Feldstellung!
Object type: photograph
Date: 1940 – 1941
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: division of armed forces (+ artillery), firearms: cannon, pontoon bridge, netherlands
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Ubergang bei Rees! Feldstellung!’

Albumblad met twee foto's van een pontonbrug over de Rijn bij Rees en van een verdekte artilleriestelling. Onderdeel van het fotoalbum 'Kriegszeit in Holland' over de diensttijd in Nederland van Hans Heinemann van een Flak Regiment van de Luftverteidigungskommando van de Luftwaffe.
Miniature Square-Headed Brooch
Object type: brooch
Date: 501 – 550
Materials: gemstone, iron, silver gilt
Culture: anglo-saxon

The affinity of these brooches, found in France, with objects from Kent is evidence of the spread of artistic traditions through export or copying.
Poortereed
Object type: document
Date: 1805 – 1805
Materials: ink, skin
Techniques: printing, writing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: hieronymus baron van slingelandt
Artist role: baron, secretaris
Artist dates: 1762 – 1829
Subjects: h. takke
Inscriptions: date
A Flower Arrangement
Object type: surimono
Date: 1868 – 1912
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: japan
Subjects: arranging flowers

Een surimono is een luxe uitgevoerde prent waarop beeld met één of meerdere gedichten gecombineerd is. Bij het drukken van een surimono werd vaak gebruik gemaakt van dikker papier, blinddruk en metaal pigmenten, zoals koper- en zilverpoeder. De prenten werden vaak in opdracht van dichters gemaakt en als exclusief geschenk aan vrienden en relaties gegeven.
Drie reizigers aan de voet van een rots
Object type: print
Date: 1631 – 1675
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: allaert van everdingen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1621 – 1675
Subjects: rocks (+ landscape with figures, staffage)

Berglandschap met op de voorgrond drie personen onderaan een hoge rots. Op de achtergrond twee kerktorens.
Fotoreproductie van een prent van een vrouw en vijf genieën
Object type: page
Date: 1852 – 1857
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: salted paper print
Subjects: adult woman, child, genius
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘[medit.] col V. Sestich’
A Pair of Royal Earrings
Object type: wine ewer
Date: 100 – 1
Materials: gold
Culture: indian
Subjects: satavahana,elephants,lions

The place of these earrings in the history of Indian art is assured, not only for their intrinsic beauty but also because of the light they shed on the superb quality of goldsmithing early in this region. Early Indian statues of both male and female figures were usually portrayed wearing elaborate jewelry that sometimes seemed fanciful, since very little comparable jewelry from that period survives. The discovery of this pair of earrings provided the first tangible evidence that the jewelry depicted by sculptors was in fact based on real models, for a very similar pair is shown on a first century B.C. relief portrait of a "Universal Ruler" (chakravartin), from Jaggayapeta. These earrings, judging from their material worth, excellence of craftsmanship, and use of royal emblems (a winged lion and an elephant) as part of their design, were most probably made as royal commissions. Each earring is composed of two rectangular, budlike forms growing outward from a central, double-stemmed tendril. The elephant and the lion of repoussé gold are consummately detailed, using granules, snippets of wire and sheet, and individually forged and hammered pieces of gold. The two pieces are not exactly identical: on the underside they are both decorated with a classical early Indian design of a vase containing three palmettes, but the patterning of the fronds differentiates them. They are so large and heavy that they must have distended the earlobes and rested on the shoulders of the wearer, like the pair worn by the "Universal Ruler."
Vergulde lijst met pâte-ornamenten in neo-classicistische stijl
Object type: frame
Date: 1850 – 1899
Materials: wood
Techniques: oil gilded, gilding
Inscriptions: plate, label: ‘728’

Van buiten naar binnen is de lijst als volgt opgebouwd: een buitenrand met daarop een vlechtband loopt over in een holle rug. Het hoogste punt van de lijst wordt gevormd door laurierstokken, met in het midden en op de verstekken gekruiste linten. Aan weerzijden van de laurierstokken bevindt zich een koofje. Vervolgens een holle keel met bladornamenten, die wordt gevolgd door een hoog bandje en aangrenzend een vlak profieldeel, waarop zich een getorst lint bevindt. Hierop volgt een tweede holle keel met bladornamenten, een koofje en een schuin bandje met daarop een kralenrandje. De kraaltjes zijn met elkaar verbonden middels een touwtje. De binnenste, ornamentloze, holle keel wordt gevolgd door een hoog bandje, twee vlakke profieldelen, een koofje en een vlakke binnenlijst die eindigt in een koofje.
De eenheid van de anti-liberalen in de 2e Kamer!
Object type: print
Date: 1876 – 1876
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: arnhem

Spotprent . Plaat verschenen bij het weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, nr. 50, 1876.
Japanese Drawing
Object type: drawing
Date: 1801 – 1833
Materials: paper
Culture: japanese
Subjects: human figures,trees

Drawing of a courtier and boy attendant
Tears of Repentance /  Cabinet In's and Out's. No. 4
Object type: cartoon
Date: 1827 – 1827
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, hand coloring
Location: london
Subjects: london, politician, walmer castle, arthur wellesley of wellington, personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc., weeping, political caricatures and satires

Spotprent op de Hertog van Wellington en de Lord Chancellor (John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon) die een houten emmer vol huilen met hun tranen. Rechts bij de deur John Bull met een takkenbos. Op de achtergrond meerdere huilende mensen.
Landschap met bomen
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1881 – 1883
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: south holland
Artist: george hendrik breitner
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1923
Subjects: trees, landscapes
Inscriptions: kleurnotitie, handgeschreven

Landschap met bomen. Pagina 75 uit een schetsboek met 43 bladen.
Gezicht op de Markt en de Sint-Christoffelkathedraal, Roermond
Object type: cabinet photograph
Date: 1870 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: roermond
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: church (exterior), village square, place
Inscriptions: number: ‘1’
Ramesseum, Thebes (201. Thèbes. 1844. 202 Rhamséion.)
Object type: photograph
Date: 1844 – 1844
Techniques: daguerreotype
Artist: joseph-philibert girault de prangey
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1804 – 1892
Subjects: architecture,ruins

The pillars of the thirteenth-century B.C. funerary temple of the pharaoh Rameses II, pictured here, incorporate figures of Osiris, the Egyptian god of death and resurrection. Before gilding the image, Girault purposefully swiped and erased the fragile image surface on all four sides, creating a handmade frame.
Fatigue Dress, Private, 47th Regiment, New York State Militia, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: kinney brothers tobacco company
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1869 – 2011
Subjects: military,firearms,men,profiles

Trade cards from the "MIlitary Series" (N224), issued in 1888 by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.
Deksel van schildpad met hertekop van zilver (serie van 28 stuks A t/m BB)
Object type: service
Date: 1700 – 1799
Materials: silver, shell
Location: indonesia
Artist: Anonymous

Deksel van schildpad met hertekop van zilver (serie van 28 stuks A t/m BB), Indonesië, 18de eeuw?
Zittende man met hoed
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1881 – 1883
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: north brabant
Artist: george hendrik breitner
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1923
Subjects: sitting on an elevation (+ sideview, profile), adult man, chair

Voor hem een blad papier of boek. Mogelijk schrijft of tekent hij. Pagina 63 uit een schetsboek met 42 bladen.
Strook kloskant met driehoeken
Object type: strip
Date: 1850 – 1899
Materials: linen
Techniques: lace
Location: germany
Artist: Anonymous

Strook naturelkleurige kloskant. Er is gewerkt met dikke draden. Het zeer open patroon bestaat uit drie rijen aaneengeschakelde driehoeken. De schuine lijnen van de driehoeken zijn gemaakt van lintjes in dichtgewerkte linnenslag. De horizontale lijnen zijn gemaakt met drie gevlochten lijnen. Op elk hoekpunt zijn de driehoeken met elkaar verbonden door maasgrond, dat hier een min of meer stervormig veldje vormt. Langs de boven- en onderzijde van de strook loopt een randje met vierkante mazen.
Portret van Roemer Visscher
Object type: print
Date: 1827 – 1828
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Artist: a. heyd
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: roemer visscher, historical persons, portrait of a writer
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III
Object type: ring, amenhotep iii, nebmaatre
Date: 1390 – 1352
Materials: faience
Location: egypt
Subjects: hieroglyphs
Staande vrouw met een kruik in de hand
Object type: print
Date: 1850 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: willem linnig (i)
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1819 – 1885
Subjects: adult woman
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Nec timede, nec tumide
Object type: bookplate
Date: 1700 – 1799
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: austria
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: dragon, armorial bearing, heraldry
Owen F. "Spider" Clark, Catcher, Washington Nationals, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Object type: baseball card, photograph
Date: 1889 – 1889
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: men,portraits,baseball,athletes

The "Old Judge" series of baseball cards (N172) was issued by Goodwin & Company from 1887 to 1890 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes.
Viennese Café: In the Little Café (Wiener Café: Im Tschecherl)
Object type: print
Date: 1911 – 1911
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: moriz jung
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: austrian
Artist dates: 1885 – 1915
Subjects: men,women
Groep mensen voor een molen, mogelijk een scène uit een toneelstuk
Object type: print
Date: 1714 – 1714
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions, theatre, theatrical performance, windmill
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 240
Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: letter
Date: 1908 – 1908
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, printing, writing
Location: paris
Artist: p. alfana
Subjects: paris, draughtsman, eugène delacroix, camille corot, print maker, gustave courbet, jean françois millet, official, jules comte, venice, painter, martín rico ortega, the hague, philip zilcken, photography, cinematography
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’, watermark
Man te paard in rijkostuum met driekantige steek
Object type: drawing
Date: 1700 – 1799
Materials: chalk, paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman, clothes, costume

Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Zeden en Gewoonten in Engeren Zin, De Kleeding, Kleederdrachten (tijdvakken), De 18de eeuw (de pruikentijd). Mannen en vrouwen.
Portret van een onbekende man
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1872 – 1880
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: stockholm
Artist: gösta florman
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1831 – 1900
Subjects: adult man, historical persons
Inscriptions: address: ‘Regeringsgatan 28.A.’
Drie zeetongen op het strand
Object type: print
Date: 1664 – 1664
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: france
Subjects: fishes
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Paste paper with purple, yellow, and green patterns
Object type: print
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: paper, paste
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
S. Ananie, S. Azarie et S. Misaël (St. Ananias, St. Azarius, and St. Misael), December 16th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)
Object type: print
Date: 1636 – 1636
Techniques: etching
Artist: jacques callot
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1592 – 1635
Subjects: men,fire,saints

This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval scenes on a plate in the series.
Ex libris van het Milo Gifford Kellogg Fund
Object type: bookplate
Date: 1915 – 1915
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: north and central america
Artist: lawrence kennedy
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: university, book, villa, armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Lawrence Kennedy sc./ second state’
Salome met het hoofd van Johannes de Doper
Object type: print
Date: 1631 – 1631
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: frankfurt am main
Subjects: salome gives the head of john the baptist to her mother
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Salome geeft de schotel met het hoofd van Johannes de Doper aan haar moeder Herodias. In de marge een onderschrift in het Latijn.
Foto met tien reproducties van schepen in het Suezkanaal
Object type: photograph
Date: 1869 – 1875
Materials: paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: suez canal
Subjects: suezkanaal
Inscriptions: number: ‘20’, number: ‘R14/7 [doorgestrepen]’, inscription: ‘Suez’, signature: ‘A.J.B.’, number: ‘BD. 124 [doorgestrepen]’
The Holy Family with the infant Saint John the Baptist
Object type: print
Date: 1775 – 1775
Techniques: etching
Artist: giuseppe canale
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1725 – 1802
Kaart van de provincie Utrecht en de Veluwe
Object type: map
Date: 1679 – 1682
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: engraving, etching, pen
Location: utrecht
Subjects: coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.), maps of separate countries or regions
Inscriptions: inscription

Boven in het midden een cartouche met de titel en twee schaalstokken: Twee uren gaans; Twee gemene Duytsche mylen van 15 in een graad. Daaromheen het wapen van de provincie Utrecht en putti. Gradenverdeling langs de randen. Binnen en buiten de plaatrand zijn verschillende handgeschreven schaalstokken toegevoegd.
Dominorum fossa de speculorum via vergens / ad fossam leydensem amstellodamensis
Object type: print
Date: 1800 – 1899
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, hand coloring
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', canal, bridge in city across river, canal, etc., two-wheeled vehicle drawn by two animals, street
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Legaat Joh. M. Coffeng, 1966’, collector's mark: ‘8,90’ Lugt 1641b

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Haarlemmerplein, Halvemaansteeg, Handboogstraat, Handelskade, Haringpakkerij, Hartenstraat, Hasseltsteeg (Dirk van), Heerengracht.
Bronze statuette of bull
Object type: statuette of a bull
Date: 1 – 200
Materials: bronze
Culture: roman
Subjects: bulls

Statuette of a bull; missing its forelegs.
Twee mannen bij een boothuis
Object type: print
Date: 1798 – 1837
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: ernst willem jan bagelaar
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1775 – 1837
Subjects: landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) (+ landscape with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Portret van een vrouw in bloemenkrans
Object type: print
Date: 1688 – 1698
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing, lithography
Location: netherlands
Subjects: flowers, adult woman
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Portret van een vrouw gevat in een ovale bloemenkrans.
Page from Illustrations and Explanations of the Three Jewels (Sanbō e-kotoba), one of the “Tōdaiji Fragments” (Tōdaiji-gire)
Object type: hanging scroll
Date: 1120 – 1120
Materials: ink, paper
Culture: japanese
Artist: minamoto no toshiyori
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1055 – 1129

Illustrations and Explanations of the Three Jewels was originally compiled in 984 by the courtier-poet Minamoto no Tamenori as an introductory guide to Buddhism. The “Three Jewels” of Buddhism comprise the Buddha, the Teachings, and the Clergy, and the book was correspondingly created in three volumes. It was commissioned for the imperial princess Sonshi Naishinnō, who had recently taken vows as a Buddhist nun. Since it was compiled specifically for a young woman, Tamenori wrote it in vernacular Japanese (using mostly kana, the Japanese syllabary) and had illustrations commissioned, which are now long lost. Inscribed on deluxe mica-printed decorated paper, the calligraphy shows how kana can be elegantly melded in flowing columns in the so-called wayō, or Japanese-style, calligraphy.