Spring and Summer Palace Gardens, from The Tale of Genji

Spring and Summer Palace Gardens, from The Tale of Genji, 17th century

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)

City of Detroit Purchase

27.541

Department

Asian Art

Paper (fiber product)

Ink

Paint

Figures (representations)

Palace

Garden

Stream

Painting (visual work)

(Yamanaka and Co., Ltd., New York, New York, USA)

1927-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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).

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.