| Maker(s): | Unknown
| | Culture: | Japanese
| | Title: | Tale of the Heike - Vol. 8
| | Date Made: | 1656?
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | Color woodblock print (woodcut) on paper
| | Place Made: | Asia; Japan
| | Measurements: | Sheet: 10 1/2 x 6 7/8 in; 26.7 x 17.5 cm; Image: 8 7/8 x 6 3/4 in; 22.5 x 17.1 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | TITLE: recto, upp. l. (black ink, margin): [Japanese character, Heike kan hachi]; INSCRIPTION: recto, lwr. l. (black ink, margin): [Japanese, [ill.] [ill.]].
| | Accession Number: | MH 1969.185.Q.RII
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Austin (Janet Evans, Class of 1925)
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
A illustration from the Tale of the Heike, the great epic about the rise and fall of the Taira clan. It is printed in sumi, or chinese black ink, and was then hand colored and sprinkled with powdered metal, probably brass. A vertical view of six men in various color robes sitting on a platform with three men sitting in the yard, facing left, with a tree by the side. Clouds above and below the scene.
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