SUB-DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 57 



Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings. 



/. — Arrangement and Cataloguing, &c. 



Early in the year the transference of the collections to the 

 extension building was completed ; and the Chinese and 

 Japanese paintings which had been on exhibition in the King's 

 Library were removed. 



An exhibition was prepared, and opened to the public in 

 May, of Chinese and Japanese pictures selected from the 

 Morrison Collection, together with a selection of Oriental 

 paintings intended for permanent exhibition. 



An exhibition of the more important of the paintings, 

 drawings and woodcuts in the Stein Collection, from Chinese 

 Turkestan, was prepared, and was opened to the public at the 

 same time. 



Guides to both of these exhibitions have been written, 

 printed, and put on sale. 



The cases in the department containing, or destined to 

 contain. Oriental paintings or prints have been newly 

 numbered as a separate series. 



The collections have been largely re-arranged. The 

 Chinese pictures from the Anderson, Wegener, Franks, and 

 Morrison Collections have been brought together, and the 

 Japanese pictures from the Morrison Collection have been 

 arranged in the large cabinet containing the rest of the 

 Japanese pictures in the department. 



Twenty Chinese paintings, and six Japanese paintings, 

 recently acquired, have been catalogued. 



The final revision, preparation for press, and printing of 

 the Catalogue of Japanese Woodcuts have been continued. 

 Sheets L — U have been printed off. Sheets X — Z and 2 A — 

 2 B have been printed, and the proofs corrected. The revision 

 of the catalogue of prints by Hiroshige has been begun. 



All paintings in the Stein Collection bearing dates or 

 inscriptions have been studied and annotated in connection 

 with Chinese MS. rolls in the same collection, 1,310 of which 

 have been sorted and listed. 



The preparation of an index of the Oriental Artists 

 represented in the collection has been continued ; the Chinese 

 section of the index has been completed, and considerable 

 progress has been made with the Japanese section. 



A subject-index has been made for Tajima's " Selected 

 Relics of Japanese Art." 



An index has been made of the Buddhist images in the 

 work called Butsu-zo-zui ; the Buddhist paintings in the 

 Anderson Collection have heen examined, and the catalogue, 

 where necessary, corrected. 



