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Trivia

  • Chirashi-gaki
  • Sizes and types of paper
  • The birth of the pencil
  • Old-fashioned whiteout
  • Continuing a handwritten letter in the margin at the top
  • An early example of a portable writing kit
  • The days when letters were delivered by messengers rather than postman
  • The transition from writing brush to pen
  • When did postcards come into use?
  • Making copies before the invention of the copier
  • Carte de visite
  • The first commercial diaries
  • When did horizontal writing come into use?
  • Formatting of a letter in the old days
  • Part 1: Early modern times
    • Special Exhibition: HOSOKAWA Gracia
    • Chapter 1: The statesmen and their entourage
      1. Brains of the early Edo period
      2. The officials
      3. Yoshinobu and Nariaki
      4. Confucian advisers of Mito Domain
    • Chapter 2: Regarding literary works
      1. Scholars of Japanese classical literature
      2. Gesaku writers
    • Chapter 3: Eyes of science
      1. Achievements of traditional pharmacognosists and birth of Dutch studies
      2. Struggle with the Western languages
      3. People around Siebold
  • Part 2: Modern era
    • Chapter 1: People at the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration
      1. Chapter 1: People at the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration(1)
      2. Chapter 1: People at the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration(2)
    • Chapter 2: Past Prime Ministers
    • Chapter 3: Parliamentary politicians
    • Chapter 4: Military men in Russo-Japanese War
    • Chapter 5: Financial circles in Meiji era
    • Chapter 6: Educators
    • Chapter 7: Scholars
    • Chapter 8: Writers
      1. Chapter 8: Writers(1)
      2. Chapter 8: Writers(2)
    • Chapter 9: Artists
  • Part 3: Autograph collection
    • Chapter 1: Paintings
    • Chapter 2: Signatures
      1. Chapter 2: Signatures(1)
      2. Chapter 2: Signatures(2)
    • Chapter 3: Diaries
    • Chapter 4: Letters to families
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