Private collection, United States
A pair of six-fold paper screens depicting the engawa (verandah) of a grand mansion with shoji and painted fusuma (sliding doors) beside an internal garden with trees and flowers.
Transition of the four seasons from spring to winter is depicted via the motifs: spring and summer represented by sakura (cherry blossoms) and vibrant green pine and other verdant plants in the garden; autumn and winter represented by asagao (morning glory) and chidori (plover) flying over drying fishing nets painted on the fusuma doors respectively.
Ink, colour, gold, silver and gold leaf on paper; details in moriage (raised design).
Hasegawa School, Japan 17th century, Edo period.
Screens
An eight-fold screen depicting flowers of the four seasons
A pair of six-fold screens depicting ‘One Hundred Boys'
A pair of six-fold screens depicting the maritime routes of the Seto Inland Sea and of the north of Kyushu Island
Tanomura Chokunyu - screen painted in ink on a silver ground with a rock, bamboo and calligraphy
A pair of six-fold paper with sweetfish
A pair of six-fold screens with clematis
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
Four fusuma by Nagasawa Rosetsu
A six-fold screen with autumn flowers and grasses
A paper screen with the Uji river and its bridge
A pair of six-fold screens with scattered fans
A two-fold screen with a river landscape
A two-fold screen with court ladies
A pair of six-fold screens with poem slips from the 17th century
A two-fold screen with the Uji River and its bridge
A six-fold paper screen with the Plains at Musashino
A six-fold paper screen with poem slips
