The Burke Collection
Battle at Rokuhara (六波羅合戦), from Heiji monogatari emaki (平治物語絵巻)
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Catalogue information

Kamakura period, first quarter of 14th century

Handscroll fragment, mounted as hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

17.4 x 14.8 cm (6 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

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

Ex Coll.: Okamoto Ryōhei

Literature

Akiyama Terukazu 1952, pl. 9, fig. 10
Akiyama Terukazu
1952
“Heiji monogatari-e Rokuhara kassen no maki ni tsuite” (Fragments of a hitherto unknown scroll of Heiji monogatari). Yamato bunka, no. 7 (July): 1–11.

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Murase 1967, fig. 13
Murase, Miyeko
1967
“Japanese Screen Paintings of the Hōgen and Heiji Insurrections.” Artibus Asiae 29 (Spring): 193–228.

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Weber 1968, p. 193
Weber, Charles D.
1968
“Chinese Pictorial Bronze Vessels of the Late Chou Period: Part 4.” Artibus Asiae 30, nos. 2/3 (Spring): 145–236.

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Shimada Shūjirō 1969, vol. 1, pl. 14
Shimada Shūjirō
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.

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Matsushita Takaaki 1975, pl. 43
Matsushita Takaaki
1975
[Editor]. Heiji monogatari emaki; Mōko shūrai ekotoba (Illustrated Tale of the Heiji; Illustrated story of the Mongol invasions). Shinshū Nihon emakimono zenshū (Survey of Japanese handscroll paintings: New edition), 10. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten.

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Murase 1975, no. 23
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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Komatsu Shigemi 1977b, fig. 10
Komatsu Shigemi
1977b
[Editor]. Heiji monogatari ekotoba (Illustrated Tale of the Heiji). Nihon emaki taisei (Survey of Japanese handscroll paintings), 13. Tokyo: Chūōkōronsha.

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Akiyama Terukazu 1980a, no. 9
Akiyama Terukazu
1980a
[Editor]. Emakimono (Narrative scroll painting). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 2. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.

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Meech-Pekarik 1985, pl. vi
Meech-Pekarik, Julia
1985
“Death of a Samurai.” Apollo 121, no. 276 (February): 108–13.

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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 6
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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Avitabile 1990, no. 19
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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Murase 2000, no. 38
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. 22.
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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