Nagisa Palace from the Tales of Ise
late 1800s
- Medium
- Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, lacquer, and gold on silk
- Dimensions
- 175.3 × 190.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-115219
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.
Provenance
and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1981.2
Registry history
- late 1800s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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