源氏物語図屏風, Fifty-four Scenes from The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), Edo period (1615?1868), late 17th century, Japan, Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold, and gold leaf on paper, Each: 66 15/16 in. ? 12 ft. 5 3/16 in. (170 ? 379 cm), Screens, The Tale of Genji, authored by the female writer Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, relates the life and loves of the ?Shining Prince? Genji and is set in the golden age of the Heian court a couple of generations before Murasaki?s lifetime