Triptych: Nihon meijo hanashi
(Japan and Korea )
Following a disastrous battle at Uji River, the beautiful Tomoe Gozen, right, is among the handful of survivors of the Genji army, led by her lover Yoshinaka. But Yoshinaka (far left) will not allow Tomoe to continue to fight. "How ashamed I would be," he tells her, "if people said that Yoshinaka was accompanied by a woman in his last fight." Next to him is his foster brother Imai no Shiro Kanehira.
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Provenance
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C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.
Geographies
Japan, Tokyo (Place of Origin)
Measurements
each panel: 14 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. (35.88 x 23.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1991
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
95.623