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Minamoto no Nakakuni Visits Lady Kogō
Kiyohara Yukinobu (Japanese, 1643–1682)
late 1600s
- Medium
- Triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 180 x 59.4 cm (70 7/8 x 23 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Harley C. Lee and Elizabeth K. Lee
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
