Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace, from the Illustrated Scrolls of the Events of the Heiji Era (Heiji monogatari emaki) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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

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

平治物語絵巻　三条殿夜討巻

Japanese

Kamakura period

second half of the 13th century

Medium/Technique Handscroll; ink and color on paper

Dimensions Overall (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 Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection

Accession Number11.4000

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CollectionsAsia

ClassificationsPaintings

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)