Category:Illustrated Handscroll of The Tale of Genji (Tokugawa Art Museum)

**Illustrated Handscroll of The Tale of Genji**
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Instance of	painting;
Part of	Genji Monogatari Emaki;
Location	Tokugawa Art Museum, Tokugawachō, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Street address	愛知県名古屋市東区徳川町1017;
Country of origin	Japan;
Owned by	Tokugawa Reimeikai;
Collection	Tokugawa Art Museum;
Heritage designation	Important Cultural Property of Japan (–1952); National Treasure of Japan (1952–);
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	35° 11′ 01.97″ N, 136° 55′ 59.16″ E
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English: The twelfth century Illustrated Handscroll of The Tale of Genji ranks as a masterpiece in Japanese art and the most famous object in The Tokugawa Art Museum collection. Only sections from three of the scrolls handed down in the Owari branch of the Tokugawa family and from one scroll long held by the Hachisuka family (now in the Gotoh Museum) survive today. These are the earliest known paintings, and in fact earliest extant text, of The Tale of Genji. This National Treasure is too vulnerable to light and air to be continuously on display.