Catalogue information
Kamakura period, early 14th century
Handscroll fragments, mounted as two hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper
(a) 34.4 x 55.8 cm (13 1⁄2 x 22 in.); (b) 33.5 x 78 cm (13 1/8 x 30 3/4 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
(a): Shimada Shūjirō 1969, vol. 1, p. 88
; 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. 24
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Rosenfield and ten Grotenhuis 1979, no. 42
; 1979
Journey of the Three Jewels: Japanese Buddhist Paintings from Western Collections. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society.
Akiyama Terukazu 1980a, no. 87. (b): Akiyama Terukazu 1980b, p. 108
; 1980a
[Editor]. Emakimono (Narrative scroll painting). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 2. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.
Kaufman 1985, fig. 10
; 1985
“Practice and Piety: Buddhist Art in Use.” Apollo 121, no. 276 (February): 91–99.
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 8
; 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.
Avitabile 1990, no. 22
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Murase 2000, no. 27
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Proser 2010, no. 44.
2010
[Editor]. Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society; New Haven: Yale University Press.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 30a, b in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
a
Text
[30a, right to left] Gongen takes Shikigami as a guide; Gongen invokes a medium and makes a request; Gongen
[30b] Haraigawa