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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.352.17.A
People
Tosa Mitsunobu, Japanese (active c. 1469-1522)
Title
The Picture Contest (Eawase), Illustration to Chapter 17 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Genji monogatari: Eawase
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
album leaf, painting
Date
Muromachi period, datable to 1509-1510
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Kyoto Metropolitan Area, Kyōto
Period
Muromachi period, 1392-1568
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/199866

Physical Descriptions

Medium
The seventeenth of a series of 54 painted album leaves mounted in an album with calligraphic excerpts; ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions
H. 24.3 cm x W. 18.1 cm (9 9/16 x 7 1/8 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
1985.352.17.A
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 5 / Plate 1 & p. 29
  • Anne Rose Kitagawa, "Behind the Scenes of Harvard's Tale of Genji album", Apollo, Vol. CLIV No. 477, November 2001, p. 28 / Fig. 1 (left) & cover (detail)
  • 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 (left)
  • 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. 2 / p. 12 with detail on p. 16
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 65
  • Akira Nagoya and Yuko Isazawa, ed., The Illustrated Handscroll of the Tale of Genji, exh. cat., The Gotoh Museum (2010), p. 221, Fig. 7.
  • Muromachi jidai, suibokuga to yamatoe, Shogakukan Inc. (Tokyo, 2014), no. 134, pp. 270, 289
  • Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane, ed., Reading the Tale of Genji: Sources from the First Millennium, Columbia University Press (New York, 2015), Cover image
  • Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, Folio Society (2016), vol. 1, ill. opp. p. 343
  • Melissa McCormick, The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 2018)
  • Takahiro Tsuchiya, Motto shiritai yamato-e, Tokyo Bijutsu Inc (Tokyo, 2023), p. 50, ill.

Subjects and Contexts

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