The Plum Tree Branch (Umegae), Illustration to Chapter 32 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)

Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper

The thirty-fifth of a series of 54 painted album leaves mounted in an album with calligraphic excerpts; ink, color, and gold on paper

One of twelve album leaves; ink, color and gold on paper

The thirty-fourth of a series of 54 painted album leaves mounted in an album with calligraphic excerpts; ink, color, and gold on paper

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The twenty-third of a series of 54 painted album leaves mounted in an album with calligraphic excerpts; ink, color, and gold on paper

The twenty-first of a series of 54 painted album leaves mounted in an album with calligraphic excerpts; ink, color, and gold on paper

The twenty-fourth of a series of 54 painted album leaves mounted in an album with calligraphic excerpts; ink, color, and gold on paper

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The thirty-second of a series of 54 painted album leaves mounted in an album with calligraphic excerpts; ink, color, and gold on paper