Description
Fifty-seven court nobles of various rank, beginning with Fujiwara Tadamichi (1097-1164) and extending to regents and ministers appointed up to 1252, are depicted in two rows. Thin and intricate lines, drawn in layers, show great detail to the facial features, displaying a traditional portrait-painting style. However, the unusual design of turnips and radishes painted on the formal court attire suggests that this scroll may have been intended as a preliminary sketch for an official portraiture.
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The scroll is said to have painted by Fujiwara Nobuzane. Considering the fine lined traditional portrait-painting style, the artist may very well have belonged to the portrait-painting school of Takanobu and Nobuzane. <P>
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National Institutes for Cultural Heritage
The National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (NICH) comprise four National Museums (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum, and Kyushu National Museum) and two National Research Institutes for Cultural Properties (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, and Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties), as well as the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) in Sakai City, for a total of seven institutions.
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July 20, 2026