Minamoto no Nakakuni Visits Lady Kogō
late 1600s
- Medium
- Triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 180 × 59.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-114324
An aristocrat rides up a path to a residence where a woman plays a koto, a stringed instrument. The central composition is flanked on the right by a day-lit spring scene, and on the left by a nocturnal autumnal scene. The triptych presents an episode from The Tale of the Heike in which Minamoto no Nakakuni is sent by the emperor to look for Lady Kogō.
Provenance
Lee, 1992.77
Registry history
- late 1600s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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