The Burke Collection
Fifty-four scenes from Genji monogatari (源氏物語)
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72-combined
72-1
72-2
72-3
72-4

Artist

attributed to Tosa Mitsuoki

(土佐光起; 1617–1691)

Catalogue information

Edo period, late 17th century

Pair of six-panel folding screens, with fifty-four shikishi of painting and fifty-four shikishi of text, pasted on gilded paper

Painting: ink and color on paper; text: ink on paper

Each screen 124.4 x 356.8 cm (49 in. x 11 ft. 8 1/2 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Literature

Avitabile 1990, no. 64 (right screen only).
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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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 72 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

Text

[on left screen] Usugumo [chapter] // The little girl clung to his trousers and seemed prepared to go with him. . . . [He looked] down at her with fondness.