Reference · The Cleveland Museum of Art Shibata Zeshin, Nagisa Palace from the Tales of Ise, two-panel folding screen, The Cleveland Museum of Art 1981.2. CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access). Source ↗
I · Maker & date
Maker: Shibata Zeshin (1807–1891) · 柴田是真
Date: late 1800s
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art 1981.2
II · Technique
Two-panel folding screen; ink, colour, lacquer and gold on silk, per the museum. The screen shows the episode in the Tales of Ise in which the hero composes a poem while drinking sake and viewing cherry blossoms.
III · Exhibition & provenance
Chester Dale Carter; Sotheby’s New York, 18 December 1980, lot 131, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art (per the museum). Exhibited at Cleveland: The Year in Review for 1981 (1982); Byōbu: The Art of the Japanese Screen (1984); Unfolding Beauty (2001); Rinpa (2021). Published in The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 2 (1982) and 71, no. 7 (1984).
IV · Marks
Signed “Tairyuko Zeshin sei”; sealed “Furumitsu” (as transcribed by the museum).
Sources: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.2 ↗ · Imperial Household Artist list, Japanese Wikipedia ↗
Cite this record
Flying Cranes, “Nagisa Palace from the Tales of Ise”, archive record FC-0021 (formerly N09), research as of 20 October 2026. https://flyingcranesantiques.com/archive/shibata-zeshin-nagisa-palace-screen/
The record ID FC-0021 is stable. Earlier versions of this site used the code N09.
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