HAM: Calligraphy (Bot)

This large, horizontally oriented, rectangular album leaf is inscribed with twenty columns of text, the columns with varying numbers of characters and thus of varying lengths. The text was inscribed on this album leaf by Fung Ming Chip (b. 1951; standa...

Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Time Script https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/336549

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

The Picture Contest (Eawase), Calligraphic Excerpt from Chapter 17 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/199942

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Twenty Nō Plays (Yōkyoku nijūban), 2nd of 20 Volumes https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/92970

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Calligraphy Album Leaf https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/48839

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Chinese Verse on a Horse (Sōma-kō), by Kan Ryūko https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/211269

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross

Title and colophons to a Portrait of a Chinese Military Official (1931.213.A) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/208704

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Acquired with a fund established by Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane for the purchase of Asian art

Waka Poem on Spring Presented to the Kasuga Shrine in Kyoto https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/200960

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer

Fragment of a Buddhist Sutra https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/94062

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer

Fragment of a Buddhist Sutra https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/94037

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Poem on Fan https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/211223

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Secret of Poetry (Waka hiden) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/211650

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Writing Practice (Tenarai), Calligraphic Excerpt from Chapter 53 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/199967

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer

Fragment of a Buddhist Sutra https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/94333

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Story of [the] Soga Brothers (Soga Monogatari), 9th of 12 Volumes https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/92960

This large, horizontally oriented, rectangular album leaf is inscribed with seven columns of text, the columns with varying numbers of characters. The calligraphy on this album leaf was inscribed by Fung Ming Chip (b. 1951; standard Mandarin transcript...

"Because of the void everything is possible. Without the void nothing is possible.", Written in Bold Black Script https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/336547

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa), 2nd of 2 Volumes https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/93644

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Scroll of Ancient Poems (Koshi-kan) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/211439

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. Donald F. Hyde

Anthology of Ancient and Modern Verse (Kokin wakashū) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/202626

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer

Fragment of a Buddhist Sutra https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/94337

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer

Fragment of a Buddhist Sutra https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/94336

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Twenty Nō Plays (Yōkyoku nijūban), 20th of 20 Volumes https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/92957

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Beneath the Autumn Leaves (Momiji no Ga), Chapter 7 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), 7th of 54 Volumes https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/93602

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Greater Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom (Daihannya-kyō; also known as Yakushiji-kyō), Vol. 499 https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/211421

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Sutra of Mayura (Kujaku-myōō-kyō), Volume 1 https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/211695

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Poem on a Winter Theme (Waka shikishi) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/211393

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial and promised gift of Walter C. Sedgwick in memory of Ellery Sedgwick Sr. and Ellery Sedgwick Jr.

One of Six Ordination Certificates (ninka) [mounted on a board] https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/362234

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Fragment: Japanese Syllabary in Poetry (Iroha-uta) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/211366

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

The Pink (Tokonatsu), Chapter 26 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), 26th of 54 Volumes https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/93406

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Calligraphy https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/211074

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia

Calligraphy Album Leaf https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/48284