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Minamoto no Nakakuni Visits Lady Kogō
Also known as: The Poetess Kogo; Autumn Landscape; Spring Landscape
About the Artwork
An aristocrat rides up a path to a residence where a woman plays a koto, a stringed instrument. The central composition is flanked on the right by a day-lit spring scene, and on the left by a nocturnal autumnal scene. The triptych presents an episode from The Tale of the Heike in which Minamoto no Nakakuni is sent by the emperor to look for Lady Kogō.
Inscriptions
款記「清原氏女雪信筆」/「清原女」朱文八角印
Provenance
?–1992: Harley Lee, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1992–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Kiyohara Yukinobu (Japanese, 1643–1682)
- Date
- late 1600s
- Medium
- Triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 180 x 59.4 cm (70 7/8 x 23 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Harley C. Lee and Elizabeth K. Lee
- Accession no.
- 1992.77
More by Kiyohara Yukinobu in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009777
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