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Tennō Sekkan Daijin Eizukan

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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 holdings of the Archives and Mausolea Department of the Imperial Household Agency. It is traditionally attributed to Fujiwara no Tamenobu [fr] and Fujiwara no Gōshin [fr]. 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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Tennō Sekkan Daijin Eizukan, also known as Tenshi Sekkan Miei,[1] is an emakimono in three scrolls.[1] It includes portraits of emperors, regents and ministers of state arranged in roughly chronological order.

Authorship and date

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Tennō Sekkan Daijin Eizukan is traditionally attributed to Fujiwara no Tamenobu (藤原為信) and Fujiwara no Gōshin (藤原豪信).[1] It dates to the late Kamakura period.[1]

Textual tradition

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It is in the holdings of the Archives and Mausolea Department of the Imperial Household Agency.[1] According to Michio Yonemura [ja], 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 [ja], has many similarities to it, but the relationship remains unclear.[1]

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Yonemura 1983, p. 387.

Works cited

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  • Yonemura, Michio (1983). "Tennō Sekkan Daijin Eizukan". Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 4. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. p. 387. OCLC 11917421.