The Burke Collection
“Suma” (須磨) and “Asagao” (朝顔) chapters of Genji monogatari (源氏物語)
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“Suma”
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Artist

Yamamoto Shunshō

(山本春正; 1610–1682)

Catalogue information

Edo period, 1650

Book in 24 volumes with printed text and illustrations in black ink

26.5–26.7 x 18.7–18.8 cm (approx. 10 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.)

Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Literature

Bargen 1997, pls. 1.2, 1.9.
Bargen, Doris G.
1997
A Woman’s Weapon: Spirit Possession in “The Tale of Genji.” Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

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Additional details

D83-1
D83-1

Text

[in last volume] Reverently inscribed by Shunshō of the humble-rank Yama[moto] family in the eleventh month of 1650.