The Imperial Visit to Ōhara from The Tale of the Heike
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作者ITAYA Hironaga
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制作年 Late Edo period(18−19th century)
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- オオハラゴコウズ
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- 37.5×47.2
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- Colour on silk
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- Century Akao Collection
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- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001957-0000
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- CC BY Images license
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慶應義塾（センチュリー赤尾コレクション）
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This painting depicts a scene from The Tale of the Heike that takes place after the Heike clan has been defeated. One year after the Battle of Dan-no-ura (1185), Emperor Go-shirakawa (1127–92) visits TAIRA no Tokushi (1155–1213), now known as the nun Kenreimon-in at Jakkō-in, a solitary temple surrounded by trees in Ōhara, Kyoto. Kenreimon-in is away picking wildflowers, so the emperor decides to wait for her at the hermitage in the lower left corner. Due to the emperor’s high status, he is only depicted with the hem of his robe, suggesting his presence. A nunmonk by the emperor’s side who has spotted Kenreimon-in, points at two nuns emerging from the mountains in the upper right corner. Eventually, the emperor and Kenreimon-in reunite and talk about their past. She compares her life to the Buddhist Six Realms of Existence, and laments the rise and downfall of her clan, and the loss of her beloved child, Emperor Antoku (1178–85), who jumped into the sea and drowned himself when all was lost at the Battle of Dan-no-Ura.
The artist, ITAYA Hironaga (1760–1814), was an official painter for the Edo shogunate, and a second-generation artist of the Itaya School, which was a branch of the Sumiyoshi school of yamato-e painters, who continued to serve the shogunate until the end of the Edo period (1603–1868). The hollyhock crests of the Tokugawa clan appear on the painting’s mounting.
Description from the exhibition Catalogue "Letter-scape: Century Akao Collection, A World of Letters and Figures", Keio Museum Commons, April 2021
板谷広長〈1760-1814〉は幕府御用絵師広当（慶舟〈1729-97〉）の子。住吉広守の門人であった父の業を継いで、画を能くした。初号は慶意、薙髪して桂意という。この作品は『平家物語』の終曲に近い「大原御幸」の段を図したもの。後白河法皇が大原の草深い閑居を訪ねられたところ、背後の山から尼姿の女院と近侍の女房・大納言佐が戻ってきたという場面を描出している。土佐・住吉派の画風を踏襲した伝統的やまと絵である。
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- The Imperial Visit to Ōhara from The Tale of the Heike
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Quantity 1幅
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- 太巻／外箱（二重箱）
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