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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.412
People
Attributed to Fujiwara Tameie, Japanese (1198 - 1275)
Title
The Poets Fujiwara no Shigeie and Taira no Sadabumi, from Competition of Poems from Different Periods (Jidai fudō uta-awase)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
hanging scroll, painting
Date
circa 1250
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Kamakura period, 1185-1333
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/211706

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Handscroll fragment mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
painting proper: H. 29.8 × W. 49.4 cm (11 3/4 × 19 7/16 in.)
overall mounting, including roller ends and suspension cord: H. 119.4 × W. 69.9 cm (47 × 27 1/2 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
1985.412
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. 52 / pp. 162-164
  • John M. Rosenfield, The Japanese Courtier: Painting, Calligraphy, and Poetry from the Fogg Art Museum, the Philip Hofer Collection (With a Complementary Selection of Lacquers and Other Arts of Japan from the Collection of F. Bailey Vanderhoef, Jr.), exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA, 1980), Cat. No. 01 / pp. 6-7 (not illustrated)
  • Yoshiaki Shimizu and John M. Rosenfield, Masters of Japanese Calligraphy, 8th-19th Century, exh. cat., Asia Society Galleries (New York, NY, 1984), Cat. No. 035 / pp. 99-103
  • John T Carpenter and Melissa McCormick, The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2019), pp. 147-148, cat. 26

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 03/18/2018
  • The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03/05/2019 - 06/16/2019

Verification Level

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