A Pavilion

"A Pavilion" depicts one of the many garden or estate structures that appear throughout The Tale of Genji as settings for romantic encounters, poetic exchanges, and the elaborate social rituals of Heian court life. Pavilions in Genji are charged spaces — their screens and curtains maintaining social propriety while allowing the orchestrated glimpse that Heian decorum required. Ebina's rendering likely captures the atmosphere of such a space: the elegant architectural form, perhaps the suggestion of a figure within, the surrounding garden in a particular season.