Minamoto no Nakakuni Visits Lady Kogō
- Medium
- Triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 180 x 59.4 cm (70 7/8 x 23 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
About
An aristocrat rides up a path to a residence where a woman plays a koto, a stringed instrument. The central composition is flanked on the right by a day-lit spring scene, and on the left by a nocturnal autumnal scene. The triptych presents an episode from The Tale of the Heike in which Minamoto no Nakakuni is sent by the emperor to look for Lady Kogō.
