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.
1997
A Woman’s Weapon: Spirit Possession in “The Tale of Genji.” Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 83 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
[in last volume] Reverently inscribed by Shunshō of the humble-rank Yama[moto] family in the eleventh month of 1650.