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Chapter Forty-Four “Bamboo River” from The Tale of Genji
Tosa Mitsuyoshi 土佐光吉, attributed to, 1539–1613
Japanese
Momoyama period, 1573–1615
y1951-52
The Tale of Genji is a fictional account of life at the Imperial Court of Kyoto during its heyday in the tenth century. These album leaves were painted some six centuries after Genji was written, in a style of painting known as yamato-e (literally “Japanese painting”). This style had its origin in the blue-green landscape mode developed in China but transformed into a distinctly Japanese mode characterized by bands of clouds to divide space and the use of thick mineral pigments to describe low, rolling ground that signifies the setting as the area in or nearby Kyoto.
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Title
Chapter Forty-Four “Bamboo River” from The Tale of Genji
Maker
Tosa Mitsuyoshi 土佐光吉 , attributed to
Medium
Album leaf; gold and colors on paper
Dimensions
image: 22 x 19.7 cm. (8 11/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
sheet: 27.3 x 24.8 cm. (10 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)
mat: 39.4 x 36.2 cm. (15 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund
Object Number
y1951-52
Place Made
Asia, Japan
Signatures
Signed in black center, verso
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