Trefoil knots (agemaki), illustration to chapter 47 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:
Men play wind instruments [sho and transverse and end-blown flutes] in a boat festooned with red maple leaves. Niou's party comes to Uji, but he is unable to get away in order to visit Nakanokimi.

Iconclass

48C753
more than one musician with instrument
48C735
wind instruments

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Sho [4159]
Shakuhachi [4055]
Ryuteki [4042]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

The forty-seventh of a series of 54 painted album leaves mounted in an album with calligraphic excerpts. Muromachi period, 1392-1568.

RIdIM record id

5827