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Source Description
The former Empress Kenreimon-in has become a nun and is shown with two companions. The framework represents her rustic cottage at a convent in the hills of Kyoto, where the Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa pays her a visit. In 1185, at the battle of Dan-no-ura, the empress, foreseeing defeat, had jumped into the sea with her mother and son, the child emperor. The child and his grandmother drowned, but the empress was pulled from the water by an enemy soldier.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
1530
label
Nogaku zue
core
obj
dtoType
print
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
1530
sourceUrl
contentType
print
stage
normalized
title
Nogaku zue
description
The former Empress Kenreimon-in has become a nun and is shown with two companions. The framework represents her rustic cottage at a convent in the hills of Kyoto, where the Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa pays her a visit. In 1185, at the battle of Dan-no-ura, the empress, foreseeing defeat, had jumped into the sea with her mother and son, the child emperor. The child and his grandmother drowned, but the empress was pulled from the water by an enemy soldier.
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Snell, Jr. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1989, by gift.
date
1899 (Meiji)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Prints
color woodcuts
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
25
height
37.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 9 13/16 x W: 14 5/8 in. (25 x 37.2 cm)
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] Kogyo
med
pigments on mulberry paper
creator_ids
14996
6252
collection_ids
JPK
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
31f18d5db6f30110