Category:Chapters from the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) MET 2015.300.28

"Akashi", "Channel Buoys" ("Miotsukushi"), "The Wormwood Patch" ("Yomogiu"), "Gatehouse" ("Sekiya"), and "Picture Contest" ("E-awase") chapters from the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) 

painting by anonymous painter
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Instance of	painting (Handscroll)
Depicts	man and woman
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York, New York
Country of origin	Japan
Creator	unknown value (anonymous)
Maintained by	Asian Art
Location of creation	Japan
Collection	Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015–)
Inventory number	2015.300.28 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Inception	2nd millennium (before 1573, after 1392)
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Period: Muromachi period (1392–1573)

The Tale of Genji, Japan’s most famous work of literature, has been the subject of painting since its creation, in the early 11th century, by Murasaki Shikibu. The life and loves of the handsome, sensitive Prince Genji made him an ideal hero to members of court society. Numerous illustrations of the tale exist, some sumptuous and colorful, but this example, which contains poems and prose notes from five chapters, is similar in style to a number of Muromachi-period Genji scrolls painted in a rather ingenuous, simplified version of the classic monochrome hakubyō (white drawing) style. These images, rendered with a touch of naiveté and lively, sometimes crowded compositions, resemble other Muromachi hakubyō handscrolls in their small size; at less than 20 centimeters in height they can be called ko-e, literally “small pictures.” This type of narrative painting was popular among amateur painters—including women—of the courtier class. MET