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“Usugumo,” “Asagao,” “Otome,” “Tamakazura,” “Hatsune,” “Kochō,” “Hotaru,” and “Tokonatsu” (薄雲、朝顔、少女、玉鬘、初音、胡蝶、蛍、常夏) chapters of Genji monogatari (源氏物語)

By Tawaraya Sōtatsu

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Artist

Tawaraya Sōtatsu

(俵屋宗達; d. ca. 1640)

Catalogue information

Edo period, early 17th century

Eight-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper

81 x 327 cm (31 7/8 in. x 10 ft. 8 3/4 in.)

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

Ex Coll.: Yoshioka Tajūrō, Kanazawa Prefecture

Literature

Tanaka Kisaku 1933, pp. 366–67, 369–70

Tanaka Kisaku

1933

“Sōtatsu zakkō” (Studies on Sōtatsu, a Japanese painter of the seventeenth century). Bijutsu kenkyū, no. 20 (August): 362–73.

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Yamane Yūzō 1962b, pls. 42, 43

Yamane Yūzō

1962b

Sōtatsu. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.

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Murase 1971, no. 1

Murase, Miyeko

1971

Byōbu: Japanese Screens from New York Collections. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society.

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Murase 1975, no. 51

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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Yamane Yūzō 1975, fig. 71

Yamane Yūzō

1975

“Tawaraya Sōtatsu to ihon Ise monogatari-e oyobi Shukongōshin engi-e: Shinshutsu no Ise monogatari zu byōbu o chūshin ni” (Tawaraya Sōtatsu and illustrated scrolls of Ise Monogatari and Shukongōshin Engi). Kokka, no. 977 (February): 11–33.

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Akiyama Terukazu 1976, figs. 14, 141

Akiyama Terukazu

1976

Genji-e (Genji pictures). Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 119. Tokyo: Shibundō.

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Yamane Yūzō 1977–80, vol. 1 (1977), pls. 17–19

Yamane Yūzō

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[Editor]. Rinpa kaiga zenshū (Survey of Rinpa paintings). Vols. 1–2, Sōtatsu ha I–II. Vols. 3–4, Korin ha I–II. Vol. 5, Hōitsu ha. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.

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Akiyama Ken et al. 1978, no. 129

Akiyama Ken, Akiyama Terukazu, and Tsuchida Naoshige [Akiyama Ken et al.]

1978

Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji). Zusetsu Nihon no koten (Illustrated analyses of Japanese classics), 7. Tokyo: Shūeisha.

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Yamane Yūzō 1979, no. 51

Yamane Yūzō

1979

[Editor]. Rinpa (Sōtatsu-Kōrin School). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 5. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.

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Yamane Yūzō et al. 1979, pl. 12

Yamane Yūzō et al.

1979

Jinbutsuga: Yamato-e kei jinbutsu (Figure painting: Yamato-e figure paintings). Nihon byōbu-e shūsei (Survey of Japanese screen paintings), 5. Tokyo: Kōdansha.

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Murase 1985, pp. 102–3, figs. 4, 5, 7 (detail)

Murase, Miyeko

1985

“Themes from Three Romantic Narratives of the Heian Period.” Apollo 121, no. 276 (February): 100–107.

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Akiyama Ken and Taguchi Eiichi 1988, pp. 160–68

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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Murase 2000, no. 87

Murase, Miyeko

2000

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Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 89

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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Carpenter 2012, no. 3.

Carpenter, John T.

2012

Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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