"Kog" and "The Imperial Procession to hara", from The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari) early 17th century Japan These screens depict two iconic scenes from The Tale of the Heike, a fourteenth-century account of late twelfth-century clashes between the rival Taira and Minamoto clans. The right screen represents the story’s “Kog” chapter, which centers on Lady Kog, a renowned beauty and accomplished koto player who finds herself banished after being caught in a love triangle involving Emperor Takakura and the leader of the Taira clan. Here, Minamoto no Nakakuni—the repeated figure wearing a red robe—searches for Lady Kog on a moonlit night at the behest of the emperor. Following the sound of her koto, a type of zither, he tracks her to a dwellingin the Saga Plain of western Kyoto, pictured at far right. The left screen depicts the elaborate procession of Emperor Go-Shirakawa to hara, in the hills north of Kyoto, in order to visit the former empress Kenreimon’in. Now living in a

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"Kog" and "The Imperial Procession to hara", from The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari) early 17th century Japan These screens depict two iconic scenes from The Tale of the Heike, a fourteenth-century account of late twelfth-century clashes between the rival Taira and Minamoto clans. The right screen represents the story’s “Kog” chapter, which centers on Lady Kog, a renowned beauty and accomplished koto player who finds herself banished after being caught in a love triangle involving Emperor Takakura and the leader of the Taira clan. Here, Minamoto no Nakakuni—the repeated figure wearing a red robe—searches for Lady Kog on a moonlit night at the behest of the emperor. Following the sound of her koto, a type of zither, he tracks her to a dwellingin the Saga Plain of western Kyoto, pictured at far right. The left screen depicts the elaborate procession of Emperor Go-Shirakawa to hara, in the hills north of Kyoto, in order to visit the former empress Kenreimon’in. Now living in a

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