Catalogue information
Edo period, first half of 17th century
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper
Each screen 156.1 x 352.2 cm (61 1/2 in. x 11 ft. 6 5/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Narazaki Muneshige 1964, pp. 11–17
; 1964
“Kyō meisho fūzoku zu byōbu ni tsuite” (On a folding-screen picture of the famous places and the manners and customs of Kyoto). Kokka, no. 868 (July): 11–17.
Shimada Shūjirō 1969, vol. 2, no. 22
; 1969
[Editor]. Zaigai hihō: Ōbei shūzō Nihon kaiga shūsei (Japanese paintings in Western collections). Vol. 1, Bukkyō kaiga, yamato-e, suibokuga (Buddhist painting, yamato-e, and ink painting). Vol. 2, Shōbyōga, Rinpa, bunjinga (Screen paintings, rinpa, and literati painting). Vol. 3, Nikuhitsu ukiyoe (Hand-painted ukiyo-e). Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.
Murase 1975, no. 45
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Takeda Tsuneo 1978a, nos. 88, 89
; 1978a
[Editor]. Fūzokuga: Rakuchū-rakugai (Genre painting: Scenes in and around the capital). Nihon byōbu-e shūsei, 11. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
L. Cunningham 1984, no. 4
; 1984
The Spirit of Place: Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery.
Avitabile 1990, no. 49
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Ruch 1991
; 1991
Mō hitotsu no chūseizō: Bikuni, otogizōshi, raise (Another perspective on medieval Japan: Itinerant nuns, short prose narratives, and the afterlife). Kyoto: Shibunkaku.
McKelway 1997, pp. 48–57
; 1997
“The Partisan View: Rakuchū-rakugai screens in the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection.” Orientations 28, no. 2 (February): 48–57.
Murase 2000, no. 139
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Kimbrough 2001, p. 69 (detail)
; 2001
“Voices from the Feminine Margin: Izumi Shikibu and the Nuns of Kumano and Seiganji.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 12, no. 23: 59–78.
Murase 2003, no. 118
; 2003
[Editor]. Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 78
; 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.
Ishikawa Tomohiko 2006, p. 9 (detail), pl. 2
; 2007
“Kumano shinkō to bijutsu” (Kumano cult and art). In Hayashi Masahiko 2007.
Kimbrough 2008, p. 169, fig. 23.
2008
Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 62. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Screens by Unidentified Artists of the Momoyama and Edo Periods
- Screens
- Works of the Edo period
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 214 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.