Artist
attributed to Tosa Mitsuyoshi
(土佐光吉; 1539–1613)
Catalogue information
Momoyama period
Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper
148 x 359 cm (58 1/4 in. x 11 ft. 9 3/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 30
; 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.
Miyajima Shin’ichi 1986, fig. 63 (detail)
; 1986
Tosa Mitsunobu to Tosa ha no keifu (Tosa Mitsunobu and the lineage of the Tosa School). Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 247. Tokyo: Shibundō.
Akiyama Ken and Taguchi Eiichi 1988, pp. 122–27
; 1988
Gōka “Genji-e” no sekai: Genji monogatari (Splendor in the world of “Genji” illustrations: The Tale of Genji). Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.
Avitabile 1990, no. 65
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Akiyima Ken 1998, pp. 56–57
; Murase 2000, no. 81
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 72
; 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.
Suzuki Hideo and Kitani Mariko 2006, pp. 112–13, no. 140
; 2006
[Editors]. Ōchō no miyabi: Genji monogatari no sekai (Courtly elegance: The world of The Tale of Genji). Bessatsu Taiyō, supplement: Nihon no kokoro (Spirit of Japan), 140. Tokyo: Heibonsha.
Shirane 2008b, fig. 1, pp. 32–33
; 2008b
“The Tale of Genji and the Dynamics of Cultural Production: Canonization and Popularization.” In Shirane 2008a, pp. 1–46.
Emura Tomoko 2011, pls. 5, 81. Honda Mitsuko 2013, p. 40, fig. 10.
2011
Tosa Mitsuyoshi to kinsei yamato-e no keifu (Tosa Mitsuyoshi and the history of Yamato-e in the early modern era). Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 543.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Illustrations of The Tale of Genji
- Screens
- Works of the Momoyama period
- Works by Tosa Mitsuyoshi
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 69 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.