Live Auction 2266Japanese and Korean Art
Anonymous (17th-18th Century)
Lot 53 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

Anonymous (17th-18th Century)

Scenes from The Tale of Genji

Closed17 March 2009

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Anonymous (17th-18th Century)
Scenes from The Tale of Genji
Six-panel screen; ink, color, gold and gold leaf on paper
37 1/8 x 106½in. (94.2 x 270.5cm.)

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Three chapters of the eleventh-century Tale of Genji appear on this screen. From right to left they are Ch. 1 The Paulownia Court (Kiritsubo), Ch. 7 An Autumn Excursion (Momiji no Ga) and Ch. 14 Channel Buoys (Miotsukushi).