MURASAKI COLOR SERIES

A Fan Suggesting a Dispersed Storm (Sensu no seiran) from the series “Eight Fashionable Scenes of the Parlor (Furyu zashiki hakkei)”, c.Ise watching a flock of geese, from an untitled series of court ladies, c.Visiting (Kayoi), from the series “Floating World Versions of the Seven Komachi (Ukiyo Nana Komachi)”, c.A Fan Suggesting a Dispersed Storm (Sensu no seiran) from the series “Eight Scenes of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)”, c.The One-Page Preface and Colophon from the illustrated book “Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)”, 1787.Visiting the Shrine of Enmei Jizo, from the series “Eight Precincts of Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan hakkei)”, c.The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV as Kuzunoha, Ichikawa Yaozo III as Yakanpei, and Ichikawa Ebizo IV as Abe no Doji, in the play “Ashiya Doman Ouchi Kagami,” performed at the Nakamura Theater in the ninth month, 1784, 1784.An Actors’ Boating Party on the Sumida River, c.

Information about image downloads and licensing is available here. To help improve this record, please email. Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. Status Currently Off View Department Arts of Asia Artist Torii Kiyonaga Title Murasaki Shikibu Origin Japan Date 1779–1789 Medium Color woodblock print oban Dimensions 36.1 × 24.5 cm Credit Line Clarence Buckingham Collection Reference Number 1925.2642 IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Writing materials are upon a low tabl e before her and she holds a brush in her hand. Buddhist temple on a rocky hillside overlooking Lake Biwa where she is said to have written that classic romance.

The famous author of the “Genji Monogatari” is depicted seated on the engawa of one of the buildings of Ishiyama.

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