Japanese (1456 - 1532)
A Drifting Boat (Ukifune), Calligraphic Excerpt from Chapter 51 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), Muromachi period, dateble to 1509-1510
Transliterated Title: Genji monogatari: Ukifune
Calligraphy
, Album Leaf
Japanese
, 16th century
Muromachi period, 1392-1568
Creation Place:
Kyôto, Kyôto Metropolitan Area, Japan
The fifty-first of a series of 54 kotobagaki (calligraphic album leaves) mounted in an album with illustrations; ink and color on paper
H. 24.2 cm x W. 18.4 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
, 1985.352.51.B
Department of Asian Art
, Bibliography
Kaori Chino, ""Tokushû: Genji monogatari gajô - Hâvâdo Daigaku Bijutsukan zô" [Special Issue: The Tale of Genji Album in the Collection of Harvard University Art Museums]", (Tokyo, Japan, 1997), p. 57
Melissa McCormick, Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan, University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA, 2009), p. 135 / Fig. 67 (right)
Melissa McCormick, Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan, University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA, 2009), p. 135 / Fig. 67 (right)
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