Parody of a scene from "The Pillow Book"

Pandora

Harvard Art Museums

Are you familiar with this cashemere? My goodness! ... The uncultured returns to the Pandour [soldier]., p. 125

Harvard Art Museums

Folio 20 from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array): Sudhana and a parrot (recto); Text (verso)

Cleveland Museum of Art

I hear a carriage. It's M. Chose [Thing] who comes to see his treasure. You mean his treasure-keeper, my dear., p. 107

Harvard Art Museums

A couple seated against two pillows engaged in sex, from an erotic series

Cleveland Museum of Art

Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page

Cleveland Museum of Art

The pious man’s son, now a king, reveals himself to his father; his nurse upbraids his unfaithful mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night

Cleveland Museum of Art

The pious man’s wife offers the seven-colored bird as food to her lover, but not finding its head, he breaks the pot and bowl in anger, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night

Cleveland Museum of Art

Here is a lot of money for Your Honor, Milord. Here is a lot of honor for your money, Sire., p. 141

Harvard Art Museums

The merchant hears of his wife’s unfaithfulness (above); the unfaithful wife performs penance by plucking her hair (below), from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): First Night

Cleveland Museum of Art

Sigh! And I really liked lobster!, p. 87

Harvard Art Museums

The deceitful wife persuades her husband to sleep in the same place where she had previously slept with her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Cleveland Museum of Art