Scenes from Japanese narrative literature

This screen illustrates an episode, most likely from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) by an anonymous writer in the Heian period (794-1185). The Tales of Ise consisted of 125 love stories and episodes involving aristocratic men and women.
The screen depicts a remote countryside with only a few houses and boats anchored near bushes. The three nobles shown must have made an excursion.