On one side Narihira and the pilgrim; on the other, chrysanthemums and a brook
late 17th- early 18th century
- Medium
- Ink, color and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.6 × 22.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-124985
On one side of this circular fan is a painting illustrating a passage from the Tales of Ise, a work of narratives and poems probably composed in the tenth century by an unknown author. In this passage, travelers encounter a dark pass through the mountains. They sense the desolate remoteness from their familiar world in Kyoto and express this feeling in a poem:
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- late 17th- early 18th century — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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