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Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace, from the Illustrated Scrolls of the Events of the Heiji Era (Heiji monogatari emaki)

Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace, from the Illustrated Scrolls of the Events of the Heiji Era (Heiji monogatari emaki)

second half of the 13th century
Medium/TechniqueHandscroll; ink and color on paper
DimensionsOverall (including endpapers and jiku): 45.9 × 774.5 × 7.6 cm (18 1/16 × 304 15/16 × 3 in.)
Image: 41.3 × 700.3 cm (16 1/4 × 275 11/16 in.)
Credit LineFenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession number11.4000
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ClassificationsPaintings
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ProvenanceBefore 1878, Honda family, Japan. Between about 1878 and 1886, acquired in Japan by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (b. 1853 - d. 1908), Salem, MA; 1886, sold with the Fenollosa collection to Charles Goddard Weld (b. 1857 - d. 1911), Brookline, MA; 1911, bequest of Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)