# Minamoto no Nakakuni Visits Lady Kogō

- By: Kiyohara Yukinobu (Japanese, 1643–1682)
- Date: 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)
- Credit line: Bequest of Harley C. Lee and Elizabeth K. Lee
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.77)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1992.77/1992.77_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.