Six poem sheets (shikishi) with verses from the Wakan roeishu

(Y. Shimizu, 1982) [^j^] Along the upper right margin of sheet A is pasted a label (h: 13.3 cm x w: 1.9 cm) with an inscription which reads: "Kono'e nobutada ko shikishi jumai" or "Poem sheets by Lord Kono'e Nobutada, ten sheets." On the lower section of the label is a rectangular relief seal imprint which reads "Masanobu." The inscription and the seal indicate the label is an authentication label (see folder sheet).

A second label (h: 5.5 cm x w: 1.8 cm), which appears to be of a more recent vintage, is pasted on the upper left of the reverse side of panel 1, which says "Sanmyaku-in furosaki," which can be translated "Low screen used for tea by Sanmyaku-in." Sanmyaku-in is the posthumous Buddhist title of Kono'e Nobutada (see biographical notes in folder sheet).

The first label on panel 1 identifies the calligrapher as Kono'e Nobutada (1565-1614). The label may have been written by Kubo Masanobu or Kubo Kyunosuke, who was one of the members of the Kubo family of the 17th century, who were employed by the Tokugawa Government as yuhitsu official calligraphers and connoisseurs (see Komatsu Shigemi, Nihon shoryu zenhsi, vol. 1, pp. 605-607). If the seal imprint "Masanobu" can be identified as that of Kubo Masanobu, the label must have been written sometime between 1636 and 1682 when Kubo Masanobu was most active. Apart from references found in Komatsu's study on the Kobu family members, there is, however, nothing that corroborates the identity of either the authorship of the inscription or the seal itself on the Freer screen as those of Kubo Masanobu.