The Tale of Sumiyoshi (Sumiyoshi monogatari); Kamakura period (1185-1333); late 13th century; Japan; Fragments of a handscroll mounted as two hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper; Image (a): 11 3/4 x 28 1/16 in. (29.8 x 71.3 cm); Paintings; Anonymously authored in the mid-tenth century; The Tale of Sumiyoshi is one of Japan's earliest romantic novels; predating The Tale of Genji by a half century. This story of two lovers who; after a long separation; are reunited at Sumiyoshi; a fishing village near present-day Osaka; represents a genre of "Cinderella" stories popular in the Heian and Kamakura periods that features a maiden with an evil stepmother