Image: Genji emaki azumaya

Description: A scene (AZUMA YA: East Wing) of Illustrated scroll of Tale of Genji (written by MURASAKI SHIKIBU (11th cent.). The multi-panel curtain at the center bottom of the image is a kichō. The decorated sliding door panels at the top of the image are fusuma. The scroll was made in about ca. 1130 ACE and is in the Tokugawa Museum in Nagoya, Japan.
Title: Genji emaki azumaya
Credit: Genji Monogatari Emaki published by the Tokugawa Museum in Nagoya, Japan, 1937.
Author: Imperial court in Kyoto
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