- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1973.72
- People
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Attributed to Tosa Mitsuyoshi, Japanese (1539 - 1613)
- Title
- Beneath the Autumn Leaves (Momiji no Ga), Illustration and Calligraphic Excerpt to Chapter 7 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Genji monogatari: Momiji no ga
- Classification
- Paintings with Calligraphy
- Work Type
- album leaf, painting with calligraphy
- Date
- Early Edo period
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/202632
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Two album leaves mounted as hanging scrolls; ink, color and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- painting: H. 24.7 x W. 21.4 cm (9 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.)
calligraphy: H. 24.5 x W. 21.3 cm (9 5/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Hofer Collection of the Printed and Graphic Arts of Asia in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Paine
- Accession Year
- 1973
- Object Number
- 1973.72
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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John T Carpenter and Melissa McCormick, The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2019), p. 182, cat. 42
- Related Works
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