1985.352.1.C: Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 1, The Paulownia Pavilion (Kiritsubo)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1985.352.1.C
- Title
- Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 1, The Paulownia Pavilion (Kiritsubo)
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Genji monogatari gajō
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript
- Date
- Muromachi period, dated 1516
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Muromachi period, 1392-1568
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/190939
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- The first of a series of 54 backing sheets mounted in an album; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- H. 24.2 cm x W. 36.4 cm (9 1/2 x 14 5/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
- Accession Year
- 1985
- Object Number
- 1985.352.1.C
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Anne Rose Kitagawa, "Behind the Scenes of Harvard's Tale of Genji album", Apollo, Vol. CLIV No. 477, November 2001, p. 34 / Fig. 7
- Melissa McCormick, The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 2018)
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