Artworks

Shinsen rōeishū shō (Excerpts from the New Selection of Chinese and Japanese Poems)

Artwork · Emperor Go En’yū · 1372–1393 · handscroll · Tokugawa Art Museum

A scroll of poems copied by Go-En'yū (1358–1393), one of the last emperors of the northern court before the reunification of 1392, on paper mixed with blue and purple fibres and decorated in gold and silver: the craft of fine papermaking survived the wars. 1 Mason 2005, p. 182, fig. 211. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.