Nishi Honganji Sanju rokunin Kashu

Nishi Honganji Sanju-rokunin Kashu (Nishi Honganji 36 Poets Collection). The Nishi Honganji Sanju-rokunin Kashu (Nishi Honganji 36 Poets Collection) is a set of illuminated manuscript codeces mostly in ACE1112 (thought), containing a collection of Waka poetry by 36 leading poets (Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry), which are selected by Fujiwara no Kintō. It is the oldest manuscript that contains the collection of the 36 poets and is designated as a National Treasure.Nishi Honganji temple in Kyoto, Japan stores it.

The set contains 39 volumes. The 32 volumes are original ACE1112 works. One (collected poems of Fujiwara no Kanesuke) was altered to another late Heian period manuscript. Four volumes are ACE1660s (Edo period) manuscripts. Two volumes are replicas by Tanaka Shinbi (1875–1975) in about ACE1920s (before ACE1929). The original two volumes were separated and sold to collectors as illuminated manuscript leaves in 1929. They are deccho-bound, that is bound without any thread but only with paste. The size is 20cm height, 16cm wide(32cm as 2pages). Silver, Gold, Colour, and ink on ornamented papers.