Artworks

Scenes from the Hatsune and Momijiagari chapters of the Tale of Genji

Artwork · Kanō Osanobu · 1826–1850 · byōbu · Hōnenji (Takamatsu)

A pair of screens by Kanō Osanobu (1796–1846), known as Seisenin, the best Kanō painter of the early nineteenth century, who drew on the Tosa school yamato-e: the dance of Genji and his rival Tō no Chūjō at the autumn excursion, and the New Year’s Day at Lady Murasaki’s spring palace, the plum trees and pines framed by clouds. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 312–313, fig. 363. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.