Catalogue information
Momoyama period, 16th century
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold, and silver on gilded paper
Each screen 152 x 353.8 cm (59 7/8 in. x 11 ft. 7 1/4 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Shirahata Yoshi 1964, pp. 103–7
; 1964
“Saigyō monogatari byōbu” (Screens illustrating the biography of the priest Saigyō). Kobijutsu, no. 5 (August): 103–4.
Murase 1971, no. 21
; 1971
Byōbu: Japanese Screens from New York Collections. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society.
Yamane Yūzō et al. 1979, pls. 73, 74
; 1979
Jinbutsuga: Yamato-e kei jinbutsu (Figure painting: Yamato-e figure paintings). Nihon byōbu-e shūsei (Survey of Japanese screen paintings), 5. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
Takeda Tsuneo 1980, no. 95
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[Editor]. Shōheiga (Screen painting). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 4. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.
L. Cunningham 1984, no. 2
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The Spirit of Place: Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery.
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 28
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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.
Murase 2000, no. 79
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Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 74
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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.
Proser 2010, no. 26.
2010
[Editor]. Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society; New Haven: Yale University Press.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Screens by Unidentified Artists of the Momoyama and Edo Periods
- Screens
- Works of the Momoyama period
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 206 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.