"Kog?" and "The Imperial Procession to ?hara", from The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari) early 17th century Japan These screens depict two iconic scenes from The Tale of the Heike, a fourteenth-century account of late twelfth-century clashes between the rival Taira and Minamoto clans. The right screen represents the story’s “Kog?” chapter, which centers on Lady Kog?, a renowned beauty and accomplished koto player who finds herself banished after being caught in a love triangle involving Emperor Takakura and the leader of the Taira clan. Here, Minamoto no Nakakuni—the repeated figure wearin
"Kog?" and "The Imperial Procession to ?hara", from The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari) early 17th century Japan These screens depict two iconic scenes from The Tale of the Heike, a fourteenth-century account of late twelfth-century clashes between the rival Taira and Minamoto clans. The right screen represents the story’s “Kog?” chapter, which centers on Lady Kog?, a renowned beauty and accomplished koto player who finds herself banished after being caught in a love triangle involving Emperor Takakura and the leader of the Taira clan. Here, Minamoto no Nakakuni—the repeated figure wearing a red robe—searches for Lady Kog? on a moonlit night at the behest of the emperor. Following the sound of her koto, a type of zither, he tracks her to a dwellingin the Saga Plain of western Kyoto, pictured at far right. The left screen depicts the elaborate procession of Emperor Go-Shirakawa to ?hara, in the hills north of Kyoto, in order to visit the former empress Kenreimon’in. Now living in a convent, Kenreimon’in is shown in the third panel from the left, seated on a veranda wearing a white "Kog?" and "The Imperial Procession to ?hara", from The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari). Japan. early 17th century. Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold and gold leaf on paper. Edo period (1615–1868). Screens
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