Artist
Tosa Mitsunori
(土佐光則; 1583–1638)
Catalogue information
Edo period, early 17th century
Two albums of thirty leaves each, with sixty scenes; ink, red pigment, and gold on paper
Each album leaf 13.4 x 12.9 cm (5 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Murase 1975, no. 59
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Murase 1983b
; 1983b
Iconography of “The Tale of Genji”: Genji monogatari ekotoba. New York: Weatherhill.
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 39
; 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.
Akiyama Ken and Taguchi Eiichi 1988, pp. 256–63
; 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. 68
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Murase 1992, p. 181
; 1992
Il Giappone. Storia universale dell’arte: La civiltà dell’Oriente. Turin: UTET.
Guth 1996, fig. 16
; 1996
Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City, 1615–1868. Perspectives. New York: Harry N. Abrams.
Murase 2000, no. 109
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
McCormick 2008, p. 120 and pl. 10
; 2008
“Monochromatic Genji: The Hakubyō Tradition and Female Commentarial Culture.” In Shirane 2008a, pp. 101–28.
Emura Tomoko 2011, pl. 13.
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
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 71 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
“Yūgao” and “Suzumushi” chapters
of Genji monogatari
Seal
Tosa Mitsunori