Books and Manuscripts

Question 1

折本

Answer 1

おりほん - Accordion book, composed of a continuous folded sheet of paper and often enclosed between two covers

Question 2

後漢書

Answer 2

ほうはんしょ - Book of the Later Han, one of the 24 Histories and covers Han dynasty from 6-189 CE

Question 3

朝鮮本

Answer 3

ちょうせんぼん - book printed in Korean Peninsula

Question 4

題簽

Answer 4

だいせん - title slips

Question 5

断簡

Answer 5

だんかん - fragmentary pieces of writing

Question 6

合巻

Answer 6

ごうかん - bound book

Question 7

漢詩

Answer 7

かんし - poems in Chinese, including Chinese poetry and poetry written in Chinese by Japanese poets. Popular during early Heian Period among Japanese aristocrats

Question 8

古筆

Answer 8

こひつ - ancient calligraphy

Question 9

下絵

Answer 9

したえ - under-pictures - decorative painted motifs below the written text

Question 10

短冊

Answer 10

たんざく - strips of hard paper on which poets would inscribe the poems that they composed

Question 11

和歌

Answer 11

わか - a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature composed in Japanese

Question 12

焼き絵

Answer 12

やきえ - branded pictures