A COLLECTION OF SHOWY OLD SHELLS. 
(A set of ten boxes, two folders and a picture-roll) 
This collection has been preserved with great care as one of their treasures in a certain famous old family of 
Omi Province, In the boxes, are several interesting contrivances and designs such as waves, flowers, diamond 
shapes, etc, Each section has an elegant name which is, however, almost insignificant to foreigners, 
The picture-roll is a very unique book, an illustration of a sea-shore strewn with numerous, beautiful, colored 
shells; of which the names are respectively indicated, 
The writing above the roll is a folder illustrating the Bay of Futami. Brilliant colored shells are painted 
below, and above are written short Japanese poems on the shells below. 
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WA. BHA. bYA.+OAEBA. BH. BOW. FASORRL AZALI L. HHET HL. 
ICA OPAL “AL SMT AEC LC. FC ARO BA gS EC — 2 AK Ze Me U . LIC RUT: 
BARE DL BAD [BIC ERD BE (0 fi ARAL L— 7 EM eGLA CE SBRIEY. 
