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Isozaki
(detail)
Japan, Momoyama period, late 1500s
two handscrolls, ink, color, and gold on paper, 12 x 288
inches (30.4 x 731.5 cm)
Asian Art Department Acquisition
Fund
1970.12
Detail
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This
painting is from a pair of long, horizontal scrolls that depict
the medieval morality tale of the warrior Isozaki and his first
wife, who murders the second wife he had taken while absent from
his hometown. His first wife repents and becomes a nun, and Isozaki
realizes that he is to blame for the misfortune and also turns
to a life of religion. The detail here is from the first scroll
and shows the first wife, disguised as a demon, attacking the
second wife with a staff. The scrolls are of the Nara ehon
(Nara picture book) genre, illustrated works of Japanese prose
literature that were widely popular in medieval Japan.
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Japan
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