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Calligraphy2695/56

Square white cardboard with a black calligraphy character in the centre. Along one side are lines of small characters in black. In one corner is a red stamped square; in the opposite corner is a red stamped rectangle. All sides are edged with gold foil.

Culture
Japanese
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Calligraphy2695/55

Square black cardboard with a gold calligraphy character in the centre. Along opposite sides are small characters also in gold. All sides are edged with gold foil.

Culture
Japanese
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Calligraphy2695/54

Square cardboard with a red calligraphy character in the centre. Along opposite sides are small characters in black. In one corner is a red stamped square; in the opposite corner is a red stamped rectangle. All sides are edged with gold foil.

Culture
Japanese
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Calligraphy2695/53

Rectangular paper with a gold, flowered patterned border with a central image of a large Character in black paint surrounded by small gold flecks.

Culture
Japanese
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Calligraphy440/3

Calligraphy composed of a rectangular sheet of paper, red on the front face, and inscribed with four Chinese characters in black.

Culture
Chinese
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Calligraphy2636/2

Thin, white, handmade paper with seven Dongba pictographic script in black ink. Chinese characters appear down the left side with a red stamped seal. Images include the following from top down left to right: a profile of a horse head with a hoof and three circles intersected by a line; an elongated H-shape with a rectangle underneath the bar and a profile of a goat head; and a backwards double s-shape, a curve hook shape, and an oval that has two long upward curved protrusions. The paper is horizontally rectangular.

Culture
Naxi Dongba
Made in
Yunnan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Calligraphy2645/3

Calligraphy on the insides of two hinged sheets. The left image has lines of text which are outlined in thin black ink following the shape of the words. The lines of text are separated by blue lines. An English language upper case S is on a rectangular black background with flower motifs. The entire text is surrounded by green, then pink, borders. The background is dark blue with a painted design above the pink border. The right image is text with gold painted between the outlined text. Blue, gold, and red triangles are at opposing corners and on the sides. Green and pink borders surround the text with a background of dark blue. There is a translation of the text with the possible author at the outside front. The front and back have writing at the top right and left respectively.

Culture
Persian
Made in
Iran ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Calligraphy2645/1

Two hinged sheets with calligraphy. The left inside image is black ink calligraphy surrounded by a thin ink outline that is cloud-like in shape around the words. The background is gold paint which is divided by dark red-brown lines. A light pink border surrounds the gold background, and a dark blue border surrounds the pink one. These are on a large green background. There is writing above the blue border. Thin black lines follow the edges of each border and background. The writing in the right image is outlined in dark red-brown. There is a blue triangle in the upper right corner with red flowers. Writing appears above the blue border. There is a translation of the two texts on the front outside of the sheet which possibly contain the authors of those texts. Writing appears on the front lower left corner and on the back left corner.

Culture
Persian
Made in
Iran ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Zhenxian shiji (Episodic Vestiges of the Perfected Transcendent)1018/29

Daoist album leaf. Gold painted Chinese calligraphy in five columns on a piece of brown silk that has been mounted on off-white damask-patterned silk on paper. The text relates to Xu Xun and the depiction of the transcendent lasses bestowing swords.

Culture
Chinese
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Zhenxian shiji (Episodic Vestiges of the Perfected Transcendent)1018/1

Daoist album leaf. Gold painted Chinese calligraphy in six columns on a piece of brown silk that has been mounted on off-white damask-patterned silk on paper. The text relates to Xu Xun and the depiction of the lasting image of the perfected transcendent.

Culture
Chinese
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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