Suma, illustration to chapter 12 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)

Tosa Mitsunobu (active 1469-ca. 1525)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1509-1510

Height:

24.2 cm  (9 1/2 in.)

Width:

18.0 cm  (7 1/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

ink, color and gold on paper

Place of creation:

Kyōto (Nihon)

School:

Muromachi

Additional titles

Description

Description from museum website:
Genji (playing the koto) and two retainers sit in a rustic building in Suma (where Genji is in exiled). Two women in an elaborate boat in the foreground. [Figures in the boat in the foreground may be playing musical instruments--unclear.]

Iconclass

48C7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Koto [3668]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Album leaf datable to 1509-1510. The twelfth of a series of 54 painted album leaves mounted in an album with calligraphic excerpts. Muromachi period, 1392-1568.

RIdIM record id

5801