Cards & Journals Gifts & Fragrance

Kabuki actors, Noh dancers and painted opera masks, folded to fit an envelope. Archival note cards and journals here are printed from the gallery’s own collection of Japanese woodblock prints, Indian paintings, Chinese opera masks and contemporary art. Japanese series include Noh Drama, Actors and Kabuki, Ghosts of the Yurei and One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, along with Ikeda Zuigetsu’s Ranka-Fu orchids. Indian cards show Rama and Sita, Ganesh and Jahangir’s Dream.

Chinese opera mask cards carry names like The Bat and Red Wings, and a boxed set covers the Cultural Revolution. Tantra, the Nine Phases of Love, the Edo-period farting contests of the Hegassen scroll and work by Michael Pantuso and Robert Fleischman keep the range wide. Hegassen journals are bound in handmade cotton paper. Prop a card on a bookshelf, frame a set for a powder room, or actually mail one. A letter still arrives better dressed than a text.