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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS, 255
No. 593.
Painted in black on a green paper label, decorated with
gold, upon a shomotsu, the last volume of a set of twelve.
The work illustrates the historical tale of the Soga family,
and comprises 128 pages of illuminated paintings, accom-
panied by manuscripts relating the complete story of the
sons of Soga, one of Yoritomo’s generals, who was murdered
by another general they were infants at the time of the
;
murder of their father, and were trained to avenge his
death, and on reaching manhood fulfilled their mission. The
paintings are executed in the highest style of the Tosa
school, and the date of the work is probably the middle of
the 17th century. The inscriptions on the opposite page
are copied from different volumes, and have all precisely
the same meaning So-ga mono-ga-ta-ri. The tales of the
:
Soga family. The above mark is copied from the last volume,
and reads : Soga monogatari. maki no dai juni. Owari.
The tales of the Soga family. Volume Number 12. Last volume.
