Scene from The Tale of Genji | Yale University Art Gallery

1615–1868

Not on view

Medium: Two-panel folding screen, ink and color on gold paper
Dimensions: unframed: 28 9/16 × 32 11/16 in. (72.5 × 83 cm)
framed (Closed): 34 1/16 × 19 in. (86.5 × 48.3 cm)
framed (Open): 34 1/16 × 38 1/8 in. (86.5 × 96.8 cm)
Credit Line: Katharine Ordway Collection
Accession Number: 1980.13.21
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

Katharine Ordway (1899–1979) Collection, Weston, Conn.; bequest in 1980 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Lesley K. Baier, The Katharine Ordway Collection, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983), 116, no. 106

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Object/Work type

folding screens, human figures (visual works), landscapes (representations)

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