Tennō Sekkan Daijin Eizukan
Japanese emakimono in three scrolls
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Tennō Sekkan Daijin Eizukan (天皇摂関大臣影図巻) is a Japanese emakimono in three scrolls. It is in the collection of the Museum of the Imperial Collections.[1] It is traditionally attributed to Fujiwara no Tamenobu and Fujiwara no Gōshin. It is also known as Tenshi Sekkan Miei (天子摂関御影). It dates to the late Kamakura period. It is a series of picture scrolls of portraits of emperors, regents and ministers of state arranged in roughly chronological order.
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Authorship and date
Tennō Sekkan Daijin Eizukan is traditionally attributed to Fujiwara no Tamenobu (藤原為信) and Fujiwara no Gōshin (藤原豪信).[2] It dates to the late Kamakura period.[2] The scroll exemplifies the nise-e portraiture tradition established within the Fujiwara lineage: the work of Tamenobu (1261–1306) and his nephew Goshin (1319–1348) can be observed here, and the roll has since served as a comparative reference for identifying the otherwise unlabeled courtiers depicted in the related Kuge Retsuei Zu. [3]
Textual tradition
The painting was presented to the emperor from Manshu-in in 1878, where it became part of the holdings of the Archives and Mausolea Department of the Imperial Household Agency.[2] It is now placed in the Museum of the Imperial Collections.[1]
According to Michio Yonemura, in his article on the work for the Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten, another work, the two-volume Tennō Sekkan Miei (天皇摂関御影) in the holdings of the Tokugawa Reimeikai, has many similarities to it, but the relationship remains unclear.[2]