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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.536
People
Attributed to Karasumaru Mitsuhiro, Japanese (Kyoto 1579 - 1638)
Title
Text of the Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Ise monogatari
Classification
Calligraphy
Work Type
calligraphy
Date
Early Edo period, circa 1630
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/210603

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Manuscript in thread-bound book form: ink on tinted paper decorated with gold and silver underdrawings
Dimensions
22.6 x 17.3 cm (8 7/8 x 6 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Mitsuhiro

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
1985.536
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John M. Rosenfield, Fumiko Cranston, and Edwin A. Cranston, The Courtly Tradition in Japanese Art and Literature: Selections from the Hofer and Hyde Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), Cat. No. 76 / pp. 230-231
  • Elizabeth Lillehoj, "From Kyoto to Edo and Back: Karasumaru Misuhiro as a Seventeenth-Century Diplomatic and Cultural Emissary", Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods, ed. Morgan Pitelka and Alica Y. Tseng, Routledge / Taylor & Francis (New York, 2016), pp. 36-64

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