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The British Museum's collection of Japanese coins is one of the best outside Japan. Many of the coins were originally in the collection of Japan's renowned numismatist and collector, Kutsuki Masatsuna (1750-1802), and were acquired by the British Museum in the 1880s.

Twelve papers by leading international scholars on the theme of the cultural, regional and personal identity of the Etruscans.

After the 1870s there was an explosion in print production via non-woodblock media in Japan.

The text published here, for the first time, with translation and commentary, is a work attributed to Shenoute, the 4th-5th century abbot of the White Monastery in Upper Egypt. The work is based on the theme `God never turns his face from those who truly worship him`, and contains six distinctive miraculous episodes.