Scene from the Tale of Prince Genji (Genji Monogatari), Japan, Edo period, album leave with brocade mounting, framed under glass, 33,5 x 44 cm, ink and colors on silkThe famous novel tells of the adventures of Prince Genji and was written by Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century. It consists of 54 chapters and shows very detailed the life of the aristocracy at the Japanese court at that time - Property from an old German private collection, mostly assembled in the 1970's - Minor damages due to age, wear