The Burke Collection
“Utsu no yama” (宇津の山), from episode 9 of Ise monogatari (伊勢物語)
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Artists

Tawaraya Sōtatsu

(俵屋宗達; d. ca. 1640)

Catalogue information

Edo period

Album leaf, mounted as hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper

24.4 x 20.8 cm (9 5/8 x 8 1/8 in.)

Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Ex Coll.: Masuda Takashi

Literature

Tanaka Shinbi 1932, pl. 10
Tanaka Shinbi
1932
Sōtatsu hitsu Ise monogatari (Paintings of the Tales of Ise by Sōtatsu). Tokyo: Shōkokai.

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Tanaka Kisaku 1941, pl. 23
Tanaka Kisaku
1941
Den Sōtatsu hitsu Ise monogatari zu (Paintings of the Tales of Ise attributed to Sōtatsu). Tokyo: Zōkei Geijutsusha.

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Tokyo National Museum 1952, no. 59
Tokyo National Museum
1952
Sōtatsu-Kōetsu ha zuroku (The art of the Sōtatsu-Kōetsu School). Exh. cat. Tokyo: Benridō.

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Yamane Yūzō 1962b, pl. 174
Yamane Yūzō
1962b
Sōtatsu. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.

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Tokyo National Museum 1972, pl. 99
Tokyo National Museum
1972
Rinpa: Sōritsu hyakunen kinen tokubetsu ten (Special 100-year anniversary exhibition). Exh. cat. Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum.

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Yamane Yūzō 1974, fig. 14
Yamane Yūzō
1974
“Den Sōtatsu hitsu Ise monogatari zu shikishi ni tsuite” (Study on the Ise Monogatari Shikishi attributed to Sōtatsu). Yamato bunka, no. 59 (March): 1–27.

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Murase 1975, no. 52
Murase, Miyeko
1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Shirahata Yoshi 1975, vol. 1, pl. 28
Shirahata Yoshi
1975
Rinpa kaiga senshū (A selection of Rinpa paintings). 3 vols. Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin.

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Yamane Yūzō 1975, p. 19
Yamane Yūzō
1975
“Tawaraya Sōtatsu to ihon Ise monogatari-e oyobi Shukongōshin engi-e: Shinshutsu no Ise monogatari zu byōbu o chūshin ni” (Tawaraya Sōtatsu and illustrated scrolls of Ise Monogatari and Shukongōshin Engi). Kokka, no. 977 (February): 11–33.

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Yamane Yūzō 1977–80, vol. 1 (1977), pl. 56
Yamane Yūzō
1977–80
[Editor]. Rinpa kaiga zenshū (Survey of Rinpa paintings). Vols. 1–2, Sōtatsu ha I–II. Vols. 3–4, Korin ha I–II. Vol. 5, Hōitsu ha. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.

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Yamane Yūzō 1979, no. 1
Yamane Yūzō
1979
[Editor]. Rinpa (Sōtatsu-Kōrin School). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 5. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.

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Kita Haruchiyo 1985, p. 81
Kita Haruchiyo
1985
“New York Burke Collection Nihon bijutsu meihin ten” (A selection of Japanese art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection). Kobijutsu, no. 75 (July): 79–85.

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Murase 1985, pl. v
Murase, Miyeko
1985
“Themes from Three Romantic Narratives of the Heian Period.” Apollo 121, no. 276 (February): 100–107.

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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 42
Tokyo National Museum
1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.

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Kobayashi Tadashi et al. 1990, p. 152, fig. 14
Kobayashi Tadashi, Murashige Yasushi, and Haino Akio [Kobayashi Tadashi et al.]
1990
Sōtatsu to Kōrin: Edo no kaiga 2, kōgei 1 (Sōtatsu and Kōrin: Painting in the Edo period, 2; Decorative art, 1). Nihon bijutsu zenshū (Survey of Japanese art), 18. Tokyo: Kōdansha.

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Avitabile 1990, no. 55
Avitabile, Gunhild
1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

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Murashige Yasushi 1991, pl. 1-4
Murashige Yasushi
1991
[Editor]. Rinpa. Vol. 4, Jinbutsu (Scenes from literature, people). Kyoto: Shikōsha.

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Murashige Yasushi 1993, pl. 63
Murashige Yasushi
1993
[Editor]. Sōtatsu, Kōrin, Hōitsu: Rinpa. Edo meisaku gajō zenshū (Survey of masterpieces of painted albums from the Edo period), 6. Tokyo: Shinshindō.

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Murase 2000, no. 86
Murase, Miyeko
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 90
Tsuji Nobuo et al.
2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.

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Carpenter 2012, no. 1
Carpenter, John T.
2012
Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Institute of Japanese Culture 2013, p. 41
Institute of Japanese Culture
2013
Sōtatsu Ise monogatari zu shikishi (Scenes from the Tale of Ise on shikishi, by Sōtatsu). Institute of Japanese Culture, Hagoromo University of International Studies. Kyoto: Shibunkaku.

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by Takeuchi Toshiharu

Beside Mount Utsu in Suruga, / I can see you neither in waking nor, / alas, even in my dreams.