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Section of an Illustrated Tale of Genji Poetry Contest
1400s
(1392–1573)
Image: 14.4 x 39.9 cm (5 11/16 x 15 11/16 in.); Mounted with knobs: 91.2 x 56.9 cm (35 7/8 x 22 3/8 in.)
Location: not on view
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General Blackbeard laments having smelly ash poured upon him by his angry wife in one of the poems.Description
This hanging scroll was once part of a handscroll depicting a waka (thirty-one syllable verse) poetry contest between characters from the 11th-century literary classic Tale of Genji. In this section, a woman known informally as Kumoi no kari, or “Goose in Fog,” after a lovelorn line she hums in the novel, is pitted against Higekuro no taishō, or “General Blackbeard.” Three of his poems, numbered 46 to 48, from “The Handsome Pillar” chapter appear over his image. The subsequent three poems inscribed above Kumoi no kari are presented as her “responses,” and come from "The Plum Tree Branch", “New Wisteria Leaves”, and "Evening Mist" chapters.- ?–1989Leighton R. and Rosemarie Longhi, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1989–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review: Selections 1989.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 77, no. 2, 1990, pp. 38–79. Reproduced: no. 229, p. 54, Mentioned: p. 79 25160106
- Stories in Japanese Art (Japanese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 8, 2021-April 3, 2022).The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.119