The Burke Collection
“Kochō” (胡蝶) chapter of Genji monogatari (源氏物語)
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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
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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Miyajima Shin’ichi 1986, fig. 63 (detail)
Miyajima Shin’ichi
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.

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Akiyama Ken and Taguchi Eiichi 1988, pp. 122–27
Akiyama Ken and Taguchi Eiichi
1988
Gōka “Genji-e” no sekai: Genji monogatari (Splendor in the world of “Genji” illustrations: The Tale of Genji). Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.

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Avitabile 1990, no. 65
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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Akiyima Ken 1998, pp. 56–57
Akiyama Ken
1998
Genji no ishō (Genji design). Shōtō Museum. Tokyo: Shōgakkan.

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Murase 2000, no. 81
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. 72
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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Suzuki Hideo and Kitani Mariko 2006, pp. 112–13, no. 140
Suzuki Hideo and Kitani Mariko
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.

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Shirane 2008b, fig. 1, pp. 32–33
Shirane, Haruo
2008b
The Tale of Genji and the Dynamics of Cultural Production: Canonization and Popularization.” In Shirane 2008a, pp. 1–46.

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Emura Tomoko 2011, pls. 5, 81. Honda Mitsuko 2013, p. 40, fig. 10.
Emura Tomoko
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.

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