A pair of six-fold paper screens painted in ink and colour on a gold ground of with byobu no byobu (screens on screens). The right-hand screen shows a small Rimpa style screen with autumn grasses and bush clover. Behind this is a large version with scenes from the Tale of Genji and on the central panels is a screen folded in a most unusual manner with images from the Battle of Heike, next is a six-fold with a Nanga style landscape behind which other screens are partially open and some are even stacked against one another in the top left corner.
As one continues on to the left-hand screen we see a pair of six-folds with fans amongst autumn grasses and the mates to the screens with scenes from The Tale of Genji and a Nanga landscape depicted on the right hand screen. To the far left are two two-fold screens, one with bamboo and the other with carp swimming amongst reeds.
Japan, Edo period, 18th century.
Screens
A two-fold screen with the Uji River and its bridge
An eight-fold screen depicting flowers of the four seasons
A six-fold screen with a cherry tree
A two-fold screen with a river landscape
A six-fold screen with a covey of uzura and chicks
A six-fold screen with grape vines
A two-fold screen with chrysanthemums
A pair of six-fold paper screens with the Plains at Musashino
A pair of four-fold screens with kuri flowers
A two-fold screen with court ladies
Four fusuma by Nagasawa Rosetsu
A six-fold screen with autumn flowers and grasses
A six-fold paper screen with poem slips
A pair of six-fold screens with scattered fans
A paper screen with the Uji river and its bridge
A pair of six-fold screens with poem slips from the 17th century
A two-fold lacquer screen with a persimmon tree
A six-fold paper screen with the Plains at Musashino
