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JAPON XVIE - XVIIE SIÈCLE

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JAPON XVIE - XVIIE SIÈCLE

Small emaki-e painting, in color and gold leaves on paper, representing, in a bird's eye view, two scenes from the Genji Monogatari, showing in the foreground the prince playing the flute near a pavilion, in which a young woman is sheltering behind a bamboo curtain| in the background, the prince playing the zither near two women arranging a vase under the moon.



Dim. at sight : 23,5 x 20,5 cm

(Framed under glass)



N.B.

In April 1997, the painting was attributed by Janette Ostier to Tosa Mitsuyoshi (1539 - 1613). Illustrated in the catalog "Peinture de cour dans le

Japon du XVIe siècle", J. Ostier, 1977.