"Small album in a wooden and cardboard box tied with a blue and dark pink ribbed silk ribbon.\nThe album itself opens concertina-wise and the back and front boards are covered with blue self-patterned silk. Inside the album are pasted 29 very small fragments of embroidered, woven and resist-dyed silk from the Horyuji (a temple in Nara Prefecture).\nIn the lid of the wooden box is a painted Japanese inscription and this has been translated on a typewritten slip of paper as: \u2018These textile fragments were purchased by my revered father at the Horyuji Temple in Meiji 20 (1887) and treasured by him. They are inherited by myself. Kenkichi Tomimoto.\u2019\nWritten on the same slip in Bernard Leach\u2019s handwriting is: \u2018Very early Japanese fine weaving. These 8th cent. fragments were given to me 13.VI.71 as Tomimoto V. old friend from Ishida\u2019. A handwritten label on the bottom of the box reads: \u2018From Ishida (Tomimoto\u2019s mistress)\u2019 and then \u2018G. Wingfield Digby\u2019 in pencil."@en . . . .