Chapter 40 - Prayer Offering - 御法
by Ebina Masao
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
by Ebina Masao
$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Ebina's prints are modestly priced and accessible to beginning collectors of Japanese creative prints.
"Prayer Offering" (Minorite / Minori) is Chapter 40 of The Tale of Genji, in which Murasaki — Genji's great love, the woman whose upbringing he oversaw and who became the center of his emotional life — dies after a long illness. The chapter is the emotional climax of the entire novel: Murasaki's death leaves Genji bereft in a way that nothing else could, and his response is to withdraw from the world and seek Buddhist salvation. Ebina's print distills this most moving chapter into a visual expression of the grief that pervades it.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Chapter 40 - Prayer Offering - 御法 was created by Ebina Masao (海老名正夫).
Chapter 40 - Prayer Offering - 御法 depicts figures, religious, and bijin-ga.
