土佐派絵師 源氏物語図色紙貼交屏風|Tale of Genji Screen (Genji monogatari zu shikishi harimaze byōbu)
The Met
Artist: Tosa School
Date: early 17th century
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions: Image: 31 1/8 in. × 9 ft. 1/4 in. (79 × 275 cm) Overall with mounting: 35 13/16 in. × 9 ft. 5 3/8 in. (91 × 288 cm)
Credit Line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2019
Visual Descriptions
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Brief Description
Six-panel screen with gold background, featuring rectangular inserts of landscapes and calligraphic text
Detailed Description
A six-panel screen, presented horizontally, features a predominantly gold background. The gold background is textured with a speckled appearance and includes undulating forms in darker gold and brown, suggesting clouds, mist, or distant mountains. Ten rectangular inserts are arranged across the six panels. These inserts vary in size and orientation, with some being taller vertical rectangles and others wider horizontal ones. Five of the inserts depict detailed landscape scenes. These scenes feature elements such as green pine trees, small human figures, architectural structures like buildings with tiled roofs, and bridges over water. The colors in these landscape panels are muted, including greens, browns, and some light blues. For example, in the leftmost panel, a vertical insert shows a building with a fence and trees. In the second panel from the left, a vertical insert shows figures among trees and structures. The other five inserts are solid blocks of color, either a muted red or a muted green, and contain visible calligraphic text. The text is written in vertical columns. For instance, in the leftmost panel, a green rectangular insert with text is positioned above a landscape scene, and a red rectangular insert with text is to its right. This pattern of alternating landscape and text panels, often with a red or green background, continues across the screen.
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