id: 448033
accession number: 1961.202.b
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Shell of the Locust from Album of Illustrations for the Tale of Genji, 1600s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Painting in an accordion-style album; ink, light color, and gold on paper; each leaf: 26.3 x 22 cm (10 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.); painting only: 17 x 20.6 cm (6 11/16 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Vera Sterne in memory of her husband, Maurice Sterne 1961.202.b
title: Shell of the Locust from Album of Illustrations for the Tale of Genji
title in original language: 源氏絵画帖 空蝉
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creation date: 1600s
creation date earliest: 1600
creation date latest: 1699
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creditline: Gift of Vera Sterne in memory of her husband, Maurice Sterne
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culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique: painting in an accordion-style album; ink, light color, and gold on paper
department: Japanese Art
collection: Japanese Art
type: Bound Volume
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CREATORS
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measurements: Each leaf: 26.3 x 22 cm (10 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.); Painting only: 17 x 20.6 cm (6 11/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Mrs. Maurice [Vera Segal] Sterne [1904–c. 1965], Mount Kisco, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?–1961
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1961–
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fun fact:
The illustrations are identified by chapter title in cartouches to the upper right of the paintings.
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This album contains illustrations for the classic literary work the Tale of Genji, authored in the 1000s by Murasaki Shikibu, an aristocrat of the Heian period (794–1185) court. The scenes are painted in the “white drawing” (hakubyō) mode, in which a fine ink line is used to depict figures and spaces with great subtlety, punctuated only occasionally by traces of red pigment for a character’s lips, a detail of a garment, or a decorative element. These two scenes illustrate episodes from the chapters “Thin Veil of Cloud” (Usugumo) and “Barrier Gate” (Sekiya).
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