The Burke Collection
“Aoi” (葵) chapter of Genji monogatari (源氏物語)
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63-1

Catalogue information

Muromachi period, 16th century

Handscroll; ink on paper

12 x 572 cm (4 3/4 in. x 18 ft. 9 1/8 in.)

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

Literature

Burke 1993, fig. 7, p. 24
Burke, Mary Griggs
1993
Japanese Art: Personal Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Delray Beach, Fla.: The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.

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;
Katagiri Yayoi 1996, pp. 69–86.
Katagiri Yayoi
1996
“Baaku Korekushon no Hakubyō Genji monogatari emaki nishu / Two Hakubyō Genji Monogatari Emaki in the Burke Collection.” Nihon Bunka Kenkyū, no. 8 (March): 69–86.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 63 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

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Tōkan Family Collection