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Nagisa Palace from the Tales of Ise

『伊勢物語』「渚の院」図屏風

late 1800s

Shibata Zeshin 柴田 是真

(Japanese, 1807–1891)
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium
Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, lacquer, and gold on silk
Measurements
Image: 175.3 x 190.5 cm (69 x 75 in.); Each side: 162.8 x 88.6 cm (64 1/8 x 34 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1981.2
Public Domain
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Description

This screen depicts an episode from the Tales of Ise, a 10th-century collection of poems and associated narratives in which the main character composes the following poem while drinking sake and viewing cherry blossoms: If, in this world of ours / All the cherry blossoms / Disappeared / The heart of spring / Might find peace.

Our hero relaxes on a shoulder rest, gazing at the flowers, his sake dish before him on a lacquered stand. A plump boy attendant monitors the sake dishes, a ewer at the ready. An associate sits with paper, ink, and brush, poised to record poems.
A gold-leafed horizontal two-panel silk screen depicts figures in a landscape. To the left, a gnarled pine with green needles and white blossoms arches over a winding blue stream and mossy green rocks. On the right, three figures in green, blue, and red robes sit on a mat against the expansive gold background. Two wear tall black hats. Small lacquerware vessels sit between them, with a calligraphic signature at the bottom right.

Nagisa Palace from the Tales of Ise

late 1800s

Shibata Zeshin

(Japanese, 1807–1891)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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