The Tale of Sumiyoshi (Sumiyoshi monogatari), Kamakura period (1185–1333), late 13th century, Japan, Fragments of a handscroll mounted as two hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper, Image (a): 11 3/4 × 28 1/16 in. (29.8 × 71.3 cm), Paintings, Anonymously authored in the mid-tenth century, The Tale of Sumiyoshi is one of Japan’s earliest romantic novels, predating The Tale of Genji by a half century. This story of two lovers who, after a long separation, are reunited at Sumiyoshi, a fishing village near present-day Osaka, represents a genre of “Cinderella” stories popular in the Heian and Kamakura periods that features a maiden with an evil stepmother
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Tale, Sumiyoshi, Sumiyoshi monogatari, Kamakura period, 1185–1333, late 13th century, Japan, Fragments, handscroll mounted, two hanging scrolls, ink, color, paper, Image, 11 3/4, 28 1/16, 29.8, 71.3 cm, Paintings, Anonymously authored, mid-tenth, earliest, romantic, novels, predating, Genji, half story, lovers, long separation, reunited, fishing village, present-day Osaka, represents, genre, Cinderella, stories, popular, Heian, periods, features, maiden, evil stepmother
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