Genji Monogatari Emaki
The word "emaki" stems from the word "emakimono" meaning "picture scrolls". The emakimono picture scrolls consisted of two designs: Pictures that were painted on a scroll with text added to the same scroll or a number of paintings that accompanied passages of text and were joined together in a scroll. The first known picture scroll was produced in Japan during the late ninth or tenth century. The "Genji Monogatari" picture scroll, however, was produced in the early twelfth century. Not only is the "Genji Monogatari Emaki" the oldest surviving monogatari scroll but it is also the oldest surviving non-Buddhist scroll in Japan. There is no exact date to the scroll, but it is estimated to being sometime between 1120 and 1140, in which case it was created just a little over a century after Murasaki Shikibu wrote "The Tale of Genji".
Huai Su's Autobiography
"Huai Su's" "Autobiography" (懷素自叙帖) is a representative Chinese calligraphy work written by the renowned Tang Dynasty Chinese calligrapher Huai Su in 777 AD. It is often considered today to be one of the best written cursive script (草書) works in Chinese calligraphy. The work measures 28.3 cm by 755 cm and is currently kept in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. However, recent studies on this particular piece kept in the National Palace Museum revealed that it was likely a Northern Song Dynasty modelling replica (映寫) of the original; note also that there are also other replica versions of Huai Su's Autobiography.