Catalogue information
Momoyama period, early 17th century
Three handscrolls; ink and color on paper
Scroll I: 24 x 1020.2 cm (9 1/2 in. x 33 ft. 5 5/8 in.)
Scroll II: 24 x 615.5 cm (9 1/2 in. x 20 ft. 2 3/8 in.)
Scroll III (detail, above) 24 x 421 cm (9 1/2 in. x 13 ft. 9 3/4 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Ruch 1979, nos. 6–8
; 1979
[Editor]. Kaigai shozō Nara ehon (Nara Ehon from outstanding foreign collections). Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1979.
Zaigai Nara Ehon 1981, no. 25
; 1981
Barbara Ruch, editor. Zaigai Nara Ehon /Nara Ehon Abroad: Illustrated Literature from Medieval and Early Modern Japan. Proceedings, International Research Conference on Nara Ehon, London, Dublin, and New York, 1978; Tokyo and Kyoto, 1979. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten.
Miya Tsugio et al. 1995, pp. 111–13
; 1995
[Editors]. Kadokawa emakimono sōran (Kadokawa comprehensive survey of illustrated handscrolls). Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten.
Proser 2010, no. 68.
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 41 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
Minabe; Tanabe; Ichinose; Jūjō no Taki; Jūjō no Taki no sue; Takahara; Yu no Mine; Busshin mon; Hongū; Shingū; Nachisan