Focus on this artwork and discuss the Provenance.
The whole of the original Heiji Monogatari Emaki was kept for a long time at the Enryaku-ji on Mount Hiei, overlooking Kyoto, together with the emakimono, no longer extant, of The Tale of Hōgen. During the 15th and the 16th centuries, the original scrolls were separated, but their history at that time is lost to modern times. In the 19th century, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, won the first or Sanjō Palace fire scroll through Okakura Kakuzō. The third or Flight to Rokuhara Scroll was acquired by the Tokyo National Museum from the Matsudaira clan in around 1926. Finally, the second or Shinzei scroll was acquired by the wealthy Iwasaki family, whose collection is preserved by the Seikadō Foundation (now the Seikadō Bunko Art Museum).
Rokuhara Sanjō Mount Hiei Heiji Shinzei Seikadō Bunko The Tale of Hōgen Hiei Okakura Kakuzō Iwasaki Hōgen Matsudaira clan Matsudaira Enryaku-ji Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Tokyo National Museum emakimono Seikadō Bunko Art Museum