Scenes from the Tales of Ise

Date

mid-1600s

Medium

One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color and gold on paper

Origin

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Nearest in the field

• Horse Race at the Kamo Shrine
• Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons
• Court Ladies in the Imperial Palace
• The Shika Teahouse
  Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769–1825)
• Fishing at Iwaya on Enoshima
  Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
• Festival Scenes
• Arrival of the "Southern Barbarians"

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