Lady from the “Visiting Kawachi” Episode of the Tales of Ise, second half 17th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Ink and color on paperexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.99
Not on Viewexpand_more
The body of a single female figure forms a dramatic S-shape against a blank background. With her right hand she raises her hem, providing us with a better view of the design motifs that adorn her robes: maple leaves, deer, and autumn flowers and grasses on a white outer robe, and chrysanthemums and cresting waves on her red inner robe. This combination of motifs alludes to a poem from “Visiting Kawachi,” a single episode of the tenth-century Tales of Ise, allowing her to be identified as the unnamed heroine of that episode.
Details
- Title
- Lady from the “Visiting Kawachi” Episode of the Tales of Ise
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.99
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 226
- Curator Approved
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