The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Rectangular Tray with Scene from the Tale of Genji

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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts

Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Haruo Shirane, the Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Rectangular Tray with Scene from the Tale of Genji

Period:: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date:: early 17th century
Culture:: Japan
Medium:: Gold maki-e on black lacquer, inlaid with mother-of-pearl
Dimensions:: W. 16 in. (40.6 cm); L. 30 in. (76.2 cm)
Classification:: Lacquer
Credit Line:: Purchase, Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation Gift, 2002
Accession Number:: 2002.2

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