Artworks

Portrait of Minamoto no Yoritomo

Artwork · traditionally attributed to Fujiwara no Takanobu · 1179 · kakemono · Jingo-ji Temple

One of three surviving portraits from a set of five commemorating the retired emperor Emperor Go-Shirakawa, who restored Jingoji, and four of his most trusted advisers, kept in the Sentōin, the hall built in his honour. Traditionally attributed to Fujiwara no Takanobu (c. 1146–c. 1206) and dated 1179, when all the sitters were alive; the paintings are now thought to be copies of the early thirteenth century. The figure identified as Minamoto no Yoritomo, thirty-two in 1179, wears formal court costume and sits on three layers of tatami holding a shaku — among the earliest secular portraits in the yamato-e style. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 168–169, fig. 201. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.