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A scene from The Pillow Book, depicting Sei Shōnagon unrolling a blind
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Details
- Series
- The Pillow Book
- Associated place
- Date
- probably 1800 - 1814
- Artist/maker
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Itaya Hironaga (1760 - 1814) (artist)Sumiyoshi School (1662 - 19th century)
- Associated people
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Sei Shōnagon (c. AD 966 - c. AD 1025) (subject)
- Material and technique
- ink, colour, and silver leaf on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 36.2 x 55 cm (height x width)
painting 24.5 x 52 cm (height x width)
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- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Dr Michael Harari, from the collection of his father, Ralph Harari, 1981.
- Accession no.
- EAX.5378
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Further reading
Katz, Janice, Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with an introductory essay by Oliver Impey (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003), no. 46 on pp. 164-165, p. 152, illus. pp. 164-165
Hillier, J., The Harari Collection of Japanese Paintings and Drawings, copyright owned by Michael Harari, 3 vols (London: Lund Humphries, 1973), no. 297 on p. 532, illus. p. 533 fig. 297
Location
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- currently in research collection
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