Attributed to Tawaraya Sotatsu (1570-1643), Chapter Thirteen, The Lady at Akashi, Edo period, early 17th century | 伝俵屋宗達　明石図（源氏物語図屏風断簡）江戸時代前期　17世紀前半

Fujii collection.

Yasuda Yukihiko (1884-1978).

Kochukyo Co., Ltd, Tokyo. 

Rimpa meihinten [Rimpa: The Debut of Essential Rimpa Masterpieces in the Okada Museum of Art Collection], Mitsukoshi (Nihonbashi), Tokyo, 2015, cat. no.7.

Kobayashi Tadashi ed., Masterpieces of the Okada Museum of Art, vol. 2, Tokyo, 2018, no. 59.

Formerly mounted as part of an eight-panel folding screen depicting eighteen chapters from the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari). Known as the 'Fujii family screen', it was signed Sotatsu hokkyo [Sotatsu of the Dharma Bridge] and sealed with the artist’s circular red Taiseikan mark. The screen was truncated and remounted as hanging scrolls or framed pictures and panels, such as this example. The scene here is from the thirteenth chapter of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), known as The Lady Akashi chapter. Genji, the Shining Prince and darling of the Kyoto aristocracy inconspicuously departs from a lover’s tryst, despite Lady Akashi’s father, the Akashi Priest, attempts to make ceremony of his nighttime visit and announce him as his son-in-law. Quietly, Genji leaves his lover by moonlight on horseback with only a small retinue in tow. 

來源

藤井家收藏

安田靫彦 （1884 - 1978年）

壺中居，東京

展覽

《琳派名品展》，三越（日本橋），東京，2015年，編號7

《美のスターたち-光琳・若冲・北斎・汝窯など名品ぞろい-》，岡田美術館，箱根，2018年，展覽編號445（沒載圖）

出版

小林忠等，《岡田美術館名品撰》，卷2，東京，2018年，編號59

此作原屬一套八曲屏風，描繪《源氏物語》十八帖章節，世稱「藤井家屏風」。作品署有「宗達法橋」款識，並鈐藝術家圓形朱文「對青軒」印。原屏風後經裁切，改裝為掛軸或鑲框畫板，本幅即為其中一例。畫面呈現《源氏物語》第十三帖〈明石〉之景：光源氏，這位京都貴族寵兒正悄然自情人幽會處離去。儘管明石入道（明石姬君之父）欲為其夜訪舉行正式儀式，宣告其為乘龍快婿。月色朦朧中，源氏僅率少數隨從，策馬默然辭別戀人。