Creation Date:
probably done sometime between 1711 and 1716 Earliest:1711 Latest:1716
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Creation Place/Original Location: Kyoto
(Japan)
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Style/Period/Group/ Movement
Indexing Terms: Edo (Japanese period)
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Measurements
Dimensions Description: pair of six-panel
folding screens; each 179.1 x 371.5 cm (5 feet 1 1/2
inches x 12 feet 2 1/4 inches)
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Extent: each part
Value:179.1 Unit: cm Type:
height
Value:371.5 Unit: cm Type:
width
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Materials and Techniques
Description: ink, color, and gold-leaf
on paper, using tarashikomi (color blending technique)
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Material Names:
ink
Role: medium
paint
Role: medium
gold
leaf Role: medium
paper
Role: support Technique Name: tarashikomi
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Inscriptions/ Marks
Transcription or Description: ight
hand screen: Korin's signature with honorary title
"hokkyo"; round seals read "Masatoki"
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Subject Matter
Indexing Terms: landscape
bridge
irises
love longing
journeying
Ise
Monogatari (Japanese literature, poems)
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Descriptive Note
Text: Probably created when the artist
lived in Kyoto. Represents a popular episode in the
10th-century "Ise Monogatari" (The Tales
of Ise) series of poems on love and journeying; in
this episode, a young aristocrat comes to a place
called Eight Bridges (Yatsuhashi) where a river branched
into eight channels, each spanned by a bridge. He
writes a poem of five lines about irises growing there.
The poem expresses his longing for his wife left behind
in the capital city.
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Citation: Metropolitan Museum of Art
online Page: accessed 1 July 2005
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Current Location
Repository Name/Geographic Location:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York; New York, United
States) Repository Numbers:
53.7.1-2
