About the Artwork
Spring and Summer Palace Gardens, from The Tale of Genji
17th century
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Japanese
Japanese
Six-panel folding screen; ink, color paint, and gold on paper
Overall (fully open): 67 × 141 inches (170.2 cm × 3 m 58.1 cm) Installed (with 40" wide angles.): 67 × 121 3/4 × 14 1/4 inches (170.2 × 309.2 × 36.2 cm)
Paintings
Asian Art
City of Detroit Purchase
27.541
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Yamanaka and Co., Ltd., New York, New York, USA)
1927-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 44, no. 3 (1965): pp. 55-57 (ill.).
Nihon Byobu-e Shuseil 5. Tokyo, 1980, no. 137 (color ill.).
Abe, Akio, Ken Akiyama, Gene Imai, Hideo Suzuki, eds. Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji), Japanese Classics. Tokyo, 1985, foreword (ill.).
DIA Picture Book: The Art of India, China, and Japan. Detroit, 1946, p. 28
Watanabe, Masako. “The Samurai and Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji).” Bulletin of the DIA 88, no. 1/4 (2014): pp. 56, 64, 67-68 (fig. 10).
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Japanese, Spring and Summer Palace Gardens, from The Tale of Genji, 17th century, six-panel folding screen; ink, color paint, and gold on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 27.541.
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