Japanese (1450 - 1526)
The Picture Contest (E-Awase), Calligraphic Excerpt from Chapter 17 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), Muromachi period, dateble to 1509-1510
Transliterated Title: Genji monogatari: E-Awase
Calligraphy
, Album Leaf
Japanese
, 16th century
Muromachi period, 1392-1568
Creation Place:
Kyôto, Kyôto Metropolitan Area, Japan
The seventeenth of a series of 54 kotobagaki (calligraphic album leaves) mounted in an album with illustrations; ink and color on paper
H. 24.3 cm x W. 18.4 cm (9 9/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
, 1985.352.17.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. 55
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. 28 / Fig. 1 (right)
Melissa McCormick, "Genji Goes West: The 1510 Genji Album and the Visualization of Court and Capital", Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America (New York, March 2003), LXXXV No. 1, p. 72 / Fig. 21 (right)
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., Harvard Art Museum Handbook, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2008), p. 65
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. 28 / Fig. 1 (right)
Melissa McCormick, "Genji Goes West: The 1510 Genji Album and the Visualization of Court and Capital", Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America (New York, March 2003), LXXXV No. 1, p. 72 / Fig. 21 (right)
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., Harvard Art Museum Handbook, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2008), p. 65
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