id:			448033
accession number:	1961.202.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.202.b
updated:		2023-03-20 10:12:43.335000

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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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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wall description:
This album contains illustrations for the classic literary work the <em>Tale of Genji,</em> authored in the 1000s by Murasaki Shikibu, an aristocrat of the Heian period (794–1185) court. The scenes are painted in the “white drawing” (<em>hakubyō</em>) 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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IMAGES

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