Artist Unknown A Tosa-School Album-Leaf Illustration to Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji), Chapter 27: Kagaribi (Flares) Momoyama period (1573-1615), early 17th century
Artist Unknown A Tosa-School Album-Leaf Illustration to Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji), Chapter 27: Kagaribi (Flares)
Momoyama period (1573-1615), early 17th centuryInk, colours, gold and lacquer on paper, framed and glazed. Overall: 56.8cm x 45.8cm (22 3/8in x 18in); Image: 30.2cm x 25.5cm (11 7/8in x 10in)
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In this, one of the shortest chapters of the Tale, two poems make an analogy between the sputtering flares in the garden and Genji's passion for Tamakazura, daughter of his friend Tō no Chūjō. At the top a courtly servant attends to the flares, while the lovers can be seen at lower left. See Seidensticker 1976, pp.454-454.