Japanese (c. 1434 - c. 1525)
The Floating Bridge of Dreams (Yume no Ukihashi), Illustration to Chapter 54 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), Muromachi period, dateble to 1509-1510
Transliterated Title: Genji monogatari: Yume no Ukihashi
Painting
, Album Leaf
Japanese
, 16th century
Muromachi period, 1392-1568
Creation Place:
Kyôto, Kyôto Metropolitan Area, Japan
The fifty-fourth of a series of 54 painted album leaves mounted in an album with calligraphic excerpts; ink, color, and gold on paper
H. 24.0 cm x W. 18.0 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
, 1985.352.54.A
Department of Asian Art
, Description
Ukifune (now a nun) seated in the Bishop's house, hearing Kaoru's outrunners in the distance.
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. 38
Anne Rose Kitagawa, "Behind the Scenes of Harvard's Tale of Genji album", Apollo, Apollo Magazine Limited (London, England, November 2001), Vol. CLIV No. 477, p. 34 / Fig. 8 (left)
Aya Ryusawa, Kaiga de tsuzuru Genji monogatari [The Tale of Genji through Painting], exh. cat., The Tokugawa Art Museum (Nagoya, Japan, October 2005), p. 112 / Fig. 6
Le Dit du Genji de Murasaki-shikibu [The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu]: Illustré par la peinture traditionnelle japonaise du XII au XVII siècle [Illustrated by traditional Japanese painting of the 12th through 17th century], Editions Diane de Selliers (Paris, France, 2007 & 2008), Vol. 3 / p. 292 with detail on p. 395
Taguchi Eiichi, Sugu wakaru Genji monogatari no kaiga, (Tokyo, 2009), p. 147
Anne Rose Kitagawa, "Behind the Scenes of Harvard's Tale of Genji album", Apollo, Apollo Magazine Limited (London, England, November 2001), Vol. CLIV No. 477, p. 34 / Fig. 8 (left)
Aya Ryusawa, Kaiga de tsuzuru Genji monogatari [The Tale of Genji through Painting], exh. cat., The Tokugawa Art Museum (Nagoya, Japan, October 2005), p. 112 / Fig. 6
Le Dit du Genji de Murasaki-shikibu [The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu]: Illustré par la peinture traditionnelle japonaise du XII au XVII siècle [Illustrated by traditional Japanese painting of the 12th through 17th century], Editions Diane de Selliers (Paris, France, 2007 & 2008), Vol. 3 / p. 292 with detail on p. 395
Taguchi Eiichi, Sugu wakaru Genji monogatari no kaiga, (Tokyo, 2009), p. 147
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