Scenes from the Tales of Ise
1604
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a long, narrow scroll filled with tiny figures walking through mountains, rivers, and villages under a pale sky. This painting illustrates a 1,000-year-old story called *The Tales of Ise*. Each scene matches a poem about love, travel, and nature. The artist didn’t sign it, so we don’t know who made it or what paint they used—just that it was done in the 1600s. To see more art from this time, look up japan, edo period (1615–1868).
