My husband's family was well known in Japan. His grandfather was a political journalist and a founding member of the Socialist Party in Japan around the turn of the last century. His mother was a very famous actress who worked for Toho Studios before the second world war and made a few films after the war. She was a real pack rat but like a pack rat not everything she kept was the real deal. When my father-in-law died she moved to Hawaii and took boxes and boxes of stuff with her.
And from what I can tell most of it is just stuff. My husband's sister-in-law is sending us all this old paper because her daughter is moving in to the house that my mother-in-law lived in prior to her death ten years ago. The first box has some old historical documents, a few nice pieces of calligraphy, and some odd reproductions of events in Japan's history. Some of it was elaborately produced with silk covers but all in all it seems to be mostly worthless, at least to the two of us.
I don't know if any other boxes will have a different variety of goods. What I do know is I have to buy a big plastic bin with a locking lid to keep the rodents and the other vermin from attacking the paper.
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