Tenshi Sekkan Miei

It is also known as Tenshi Sekkan Miei (天子摂関御影). It dates to the late Kamakura period. It is a series of picture scrolls of portraits of emperors, regents and ministers of state arranged in roughly chronological order.

It is recorded as the work of Fujiwara no Tamenobu and Fujiwara no Gōshin. It is associated with Japan. The record gives 1340 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Recorded genres are nise-e. It is recorded in the collection of Museum of the Imperial Collections.

Tennō Sekkan Daijin Eizukan, also known as Tenshi Sekkan Miei, is an emakimono in three scrolls. It includes portraits of emperors, regents and ministers of state arranged in roughly chronological order. • Illustration — Emperor Sutoku • Illustration — Emperor Go-Shirakawa • Illustration — Emperor Nijō • Illustration — Emperor Go-Fukakusa • Illustration — Emperor Go-Daigo

Tennō Sekkan Daijin Eizukan is traditionally attributed to Fujiwara no Tamenobu (藤原為信) and Fujiwara no Gōshin (藤原豪信). It dates to the late Kamakura period. The scroll exemplifies the nise-e portraiture tradition established within the Fujiwara lineage: the work of Tamenobu (1261–1306) and his nephew Goshin (1319–1348) can be observed here, and the roll has since served as a comparative reference for identifying the otherwise unlabeled courtiers depicted in the related Kuge Retsuei Zu.

The painting was presented to the emperor from Manshu-in in 1878, where it became part of the holdings of the Archives and Mausolea Department of the Imperial Household Agency. It is now placed in the Museum of the Imperial Collections. According to Michio Yonemura, in his article on the work for the Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten, another work, the two-volume Tennō Sekkan Miei (天皇摂関御影) in the holdings of the Tokugawa Reimeikai, has many similarities to it, but the relationship remains unclear.