- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1985.352.A
- Title
- The "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō), Part 1
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Genji monogatari gajō
- Classification
- Paintings with Calligraphy
- Work Type
- album
- Date
- Muromachi period, remounted in 17th c. and again in 1998-99
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Kyoto Metropolitan Area, Kyōto
- Period
- Muromachi period, 1392-1568
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/324809
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- First of two albums, each containing twenty-seven paired paintings & calligraphic excerpts, this one mounted with a later frontispiece at the beginning
- Dimensions
- Closed: H. 34.1 x W. 44.9 x D. 14.7 cm (13 7/16 x 17 11/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
- Provenance
- Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA (by 1985), bequest; to Harvard University Museums, 1985.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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.A
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Melissa McCormick, The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 2018)
- Exhibition History
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Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan, 15th-19th Centuries, Japan Society, New York, 10/17/2002 - 12/31/2002
The Millennium of the Tale of Genji, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, 04/26/2008 - 06/08/2008
32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/31/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/04/2015 - 11/29/2015
The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03/05/2019 - 06/16/2019
- Subjects and Contexts
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Google Art Project
- Related Works
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