The Burke Collection
“Yūgao” (夕顔) and “Suzumushi” (鈴虫) chapters of Genji monogatari (源氏物語)
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“Yūgao”
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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
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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Murase 1983b
Murase, Miyeko
1983b
Iconography of “The Tale of Genji”: Genji monogatari ekotoba. New York: Weatherhill.

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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 39
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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Akiyama Ken and Taguchi Eiichi 1988, pp. 256–63
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. 68
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 1992, p. 181
Murase, Miyeko
1992
Il Giappone. Storia universale dell’arte: La civiltà dell’Oriente. Turin: UTET.

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Guth 1996, fig. 16
Guth, Christine
1996
Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City, 1615–1868. Perspectives. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

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Murase 2000, no. 109
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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McCormick 2008, p. 120 and pl. 10
McCormick, Melissa
2008
“Monochromatic Genji: The Hakubyō Tradition and Female Commentarial Culture.” In Shirane 2008a, pp. 101–28.

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Emura Tomoko 2011, pl. 13.
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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Additional details

D71-1
D71-1

“Yūgao” and “Suzumushi” chapters
of Genji monogatari

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Tosa Mitsunori