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Five Poems from the Lady Ise Volume (Ise-shû) of the "Anthology of Thirty-Six Poets" ("Sanjûrokunin-shû") known as Ishiyama-gire
Five Poems from the Lady Ise Volume (Ise-shû) of the "Anthology of Thirty-Six Poets" ("Sanjûrokunin-shû") known as Ishiyama-gire

Five Poems from the Lady Ise Volume (Ise-shû) of the "Anthology of Thirty-Six Poets" ("Sanjûrokunin-shû") known as Ishiyama-gire

about 1112
Medium/TechniqueBook page mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and gold and silver pigments on dyed, collaged paper
DimensionsImage: 20.2 × 16 cm (7 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
Overall ((Including jiku and hanging braid)): 143.7 × 49 cm (56 9/16 × 19 5/16 in.)
Lender accessory (Box): 9 × 10.5 × 52.5 cm (3 9/16 × 4 1/8 × 20 11/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto
Accession number2014.1506
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ClassificationsCalligraphy
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Provenance1112, probably commissioned as a gift for the retired Emperor Shirakawa (b. 1053 - d. 1129); remained within the Imperial Household; 1549, presented as a gift by Emperor Gonara (b. 1495 - d. 1557) to the monk Shonyo (b. 1516 – d. 1554) of Hongan-ji Temple, Ishiyama; 1580, temple at Ishiyama destroyed and its volumes transferred, at an unknown date, to Nishi Hongan-ji temple, Kyoto; 1896, rediscovered in the storehouse of Nishi Hongan-ji, Kyoto; 1929, sold by the temple. October 27, 2004, sold by Shouun Oriental Art, Tokyo, to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA; 2014, gift of Sylvan Barnet and the estate of William Burto to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 29, 2014)