6 Panel Japanese Byobu
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A Japanese screen. A six panel, Japanese Byobu screen depicting white birds perched in a pine tree and flying over a flowing river.
Paper, Pigment
6 Panel Japanese Byobu, Japan, Meiji/Taisho Period (Early 20th Century)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A six panel Japanese Byobu in gold and green, paint on paper and wood by an unknown artist from the Meigi or Taisho peiord.
Paint
Rare Set of Japanese Byōbu Screen Copper Holders, 19th Century
Located in Fukuoka, JP
A very rare and unusual set of Japanese byōbu (folding screen) holders, crafted in the elegant form of partially opened hand fans.
Copper
Pair of 2 Panel Japanese Byobu
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A landscape painting by an unknown Japanese artist.
Pigment
Kano School Japan Byôbu Screen “Wild Horses”, Kano School, Edo period
By Japanese Studio
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind Japanese folding screen, or byōbu, with six panels depicting a delicate and graceful scene of wild horses in a natural setting.
Brass
Vintage Japanese Byobu Four Panel Red Floral Gold Screen
Located in Locust Valley, NY
A vintage Japanese folding four panel screen showcases a serene hand-painted landscape set against a warm, gilded ground. Spanning multiple panels, the composition features gracefull...
Silk, Paint, Paper
Six Panel Japanese Byobu Scenic Gold and Peony Screen
Located in Locust Valley, NY
A six panel Japanese screen depicting a landscape scene peonies and sparrows against a gold backdrop of clouds and sky. The colors are vibrant with red and white peonies, green grass...
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Edo-Style Six-Panel Japanese Byobu Screen with Gold Paint Landscape
Located in Hamburg, PA
This Asian screen print is a stunning six-panel byobu (folding screen) featuring a traditional Japanese landscape.
Wood, Paint, Paper
Japanese Asian Large Six-Panel Folding Byobu Flower Cart Screen, 19th Century
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous six-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen. Listing as Meiji period but could very possibly Edo period.
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Japanese Asian Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Floral Flower Landscape Screen
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a nature scene/ floral landscape.
Wood, Paint, Paper
Golden 10 Panel Japanese Screen
Located in Dallas, TX
Historically, folding screens (in Japanese 'byōbu', literally 'wind wall) were used to direct air circulation and create privacy in the flexible, open floor plan common in the tradit...
Wood, Paint, Paper
Japanese Asian Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Screen Tale of Genji & Cherry Tree
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a scene from the Classic Japanese narrative "Tale of Genji" featuring various characters in a cherry blossom tree villag...
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Japanese Chinese Asian 4 Panel Folding Byobu Screen Red Crowned Crane Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese/Chinese/Asian Byobu folding screen depicting a landscape scene with a flock of playful red crown cranes (likely Manchurian cranes), a flowing river, an...
Wood, Paint, Paper
Japanese Asian Korean Chinese Signed 4-Panel Folding Byobu Cherry Blossom Screen
Located in Studio City, CA
It is possible that this screen could be Korean or Chinese done in the Japanese Byobu fashion but we aren't sure either way.
Wood, Paint, Paper
Japanese Asian Signed Large Four-Panel Byobu Screen Bamboo Cherry Blossoms Birds
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous large/tall four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a nature scene/landscape with playful yellow and orange birds frolicking in nature among the branches of a bl...
Silk
Japanese Asian Two Panel Meiiji Edo Folding Byobu Screen Landscape with Birds
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous two-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a nature landscape scene with a two wild birds frolicking along a riverbank/lakeside among a patch of blossoming flowers.
Wood, Paper
Japanese Asian Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Landcape Bridge with Iris Flowers
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous six-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a nature lake/landscape scene with a water walkway/angular bridge and blossoming iris flowers - perhaps an homage to the ...
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Japanese Asian Signed Four Panel Byobu Screen Cherry Blossom Tree With Flowers
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, quite riveting four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a natural landscape with a cherry blossom tree and array of blooming flowers It is quite a wonderful co...
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Japanese Asian Two Panel Meiji Edo Byobu Cherry Blossom Tree Folding Screen
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, large two-panel antique Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a nature landscape scene with a venerable cherry blossom tree and a running river with blooming flowers.
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Japanese Asian Four Panel Folding Byobu Screen Cherry Blossom Tree Playful Birds
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a natural landscape cherry blossom tree branch scene with a two of playful flying birds.
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Japanese Asian Large Edo Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Landscape Monkeys Trees
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous, wonderfully composed six-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen/room divider depicting a family of playful monkeys among the blooming trees and mountainous lands...
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Japanese Asian Signed Four Panel Folding Byobu Screen Eternal Spring Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Showa Period Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a beautiful nature scene with a stunning piercing blue blossoming flowers placed along the waterway landsca...
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Japanese Asian Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Screen Tale of Genji & Cherry Tree
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a scene from the Classic Japanese narrative "Tale of Genji" (the beautifully clad woman in the flowing kimono could very...
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Japanese Chinese Asian Two-Panel Byobu Folding Screen Ancestral Immortal Figures
Located in Studio City, CA
We believe this is a Chinese screen done in the Japanese Byobu fashion but the reverse could also be true The painted detail and vivid colors make this quite exceptional.
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Japanese Asian Signed Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Genji Screen Lady Murasaki
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous and quite striking four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen featuring an elegantly clad Lady Murasaki, the Japanese novelist, (and famed author of the classic "Tale of Gen...
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Japanese Asian Signed Two Panel Meiji Edo Folding Byobu Landscape House Screen
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, large two-panel antique Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a nature landscape scene with a lone house, perhaps a tea house, hidden in the trees and foliage with dist...
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Japanese Asian Signed Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen of Playful Court Scene
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, quite fascinating hand-painted six-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a rather engaging androgynous or erotic court scene (it has been suggested to us that thi...
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Japanese Asian Signed Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Screen Hokusai Great Wave
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, absolutely stunning, thoroughly engaging four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen featuring a faithful recreation of renowned Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's woodbl...
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Late 19th century (Meiji period) painting depicting tiger
Located in Fukuoka, JP
This work was originally part of a Japanese byobu folding screen and can now be beautifully framed in a modern setting
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B88 Japanese Antiques Art, silver background Screen Byobu
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: Silver Paper, wooden frame One piece: W870×H1730mm×D17mm, Unfolded size: W1740mm Folded size: W870×H1730×D35mm, 5kg Estimate packing size: (sandwiched with 5-10mm plywood)...
Paper
Antique Japanese Taisho Period Byobu Four Panel Folding Screen
Located in New York, NY
Antique Byobu Four Panel Screen. Japan, late 19th to early 20th century.
Paper
B51 Old Japanese Antiques Silver folding screen, Byobu 2panel
Located in Niiza, JP
Unfolded size: 1700 x 1675 x 20 mm Foldable: 850 x 1675 x 40 mm, 7kg Estimated size after packaging (sandwiched between 9 mm plywood): 11 cm x 93 cm x 175 cm Weight 25KG An atmosp...
Fabric, Paper
B47 Japanese antique, cedar Byobu folding screen, room dividers
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: Cedar, wood 1 piece: Width 680 x Height 1690 x Depth 33 mm Expanded size: Width 1400 mm Folded size: Width 680 x Height 1690 x Depth 70 mm, weight 10 kg Packaging (4-5 mm t...
Wood, Cedar
B40 Japanese antique, cedar Byobu folding screen, room dividers
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: Cedar 1 piece: Width 680 x Height 1690 x Depth 33 mm Expanded size: Width 1400 mm Folded size: Width 680 x Height 1690 x Depth 70 mm, weight 10 kg Packaging (4-5 mm thick p...
Cedar, Wood
B90 Japanese antiques art Byobu screen Battle scene paper
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: Paper, wooden frame One piece: W480×H1260mm×D15mm, Unfolded size: W2920mm Folded size: W500×H1260×D100mm, 6kg Estimate packing size: (sandwiched with 5-10mm plywood): 16cm ...
Paper
B110 Japanese art Silver Byobu, 2panels, folding Screen, Irregular type
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: Paper, wooden frame 1 piece: Width 830 x Height 350 x Depth 17 mm Expanded size: Width 1660 mm Folded size: Width 830 x Height 350 x Depth 35 mm, weight 2 kg Estimate Packa...
Paper
B43 Japanese antique, pine, cedar Byobu folding screen, room dividers
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: Pine & cedar etc 1 piece: Width 900 x Height 1740 x Depth 30 mm Expanded size: Width 1800 mm Folded size: Width 900 x Height 1740 x Depth 60 mm, weight 14 kg Packaging (4-5...
Cedar, Pine
B87 Japanese Antiques Art, Chrysanthemum and silver background Screen Byobu
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: whitewash, Paper, wooden frame One piece: W710×H1510mm×D17mm, Unfolded size: W1420mm Folded size: W710×H1510×D35mm, 15kg Estimate packing size: (sandwiched with 5-10mm ply...
Paper
B50 Old Japanese Antiques a folding screen, Byobu 2panel, Peacock
Located in Niiza, JP
Unfolded size: 1700 x 1720 x 18 mm Foldable: 855 x 1720 x 36 mm, 6kg Estimated size after packaging (sandwiched between 9 mm plywood): 8 cm x 92 cm x 180 cm Weight 25KG This paint...
Wood, Paper
B86 Japanese Painting Art, Hawk, Gold Screen Byobu, 2-panels
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: Gold Paper on wooden frame One piece: W900×H1760mm×D20mm, Unfolded size: W1800mm Folded size: W900×H1760×D40mm, 6kg Estimate packing size: (sandwiched with 5-10mm plywood):...
Paper
Japanese Chinese Asian Large Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Mythical Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, strangely beautiful, unusually engaging, and alluring hand-painted large six-panel Japanese/Asian Byobu folding screen depicting an almost magical/ mythical nature scene ...
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$6,000Sale Price|25% Off
Antique 19th Century Japanese Four Panel Screen Byobu, Maruyama-Shijo School
Located in London, GB
Antique 19th Century Japanese Four Panel folding Byobu Late Edo Period C.1800 Maruyama-Shijo School A high quality commissioned example, painted in ink and mineral pigments on paper...
Silk, Paper
Japanese Chinese Asian Four Panel Folding Byobu Screen Samurai Warriors Battle
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful four-panel Japanese (or Chinese) Byobu folding screen featuring a battlefield landscape with warring samurai warriors engaged in a fierce fight.
Wood, Paint, Paper
B116 Japanese Antiques Kano School, 6panel folding screen, crane&plants, Byobu
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: Paper, Wooden Frame Single: W600×H1770mm Unfolded Size: W3640mm Folded Size: W620×H1770×D90mm 12kg Estimated packaging (sandwiched with 5-10mm plywood): 16cm x 69cm x 185...
Paper
B89 Japanese Painting Art, Mount Fuji Goldback Screen Byobu, 2-panels
Located in Niiza, JP
One piece: W690×H1500mm×D20mm, Unfolded size: W1380mm Folded size: W690×H1500×D35mm, 5kg Estimate packing size: (sandwiched with 5-10mm plywood): 10cm x 75cm x 157cm, 19kg Painted b...
Paper
Beautiful Japanese folding screen/Byôbu, six panels, Taishô /early 20th century.
Located in Stockholm, SE
An equisite decorative and functional six panel folding screen / buôby, perfect as a room divider or large wall painting. In the style of Kanô Eigaku. The hand-painted screen depicts...
Wood, Paper
Japanese Asian Chinese Four Panel Folding Byobu Sumi Ink Screen Buddhist Monk
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful four-panel Japanese (or perhaps Chinese) Byobu folding screen featuring an elderly Buddhist Zen monk and young novice boy crossing a lake/river/waterway by slow skiff boa...
Paint, Paper
B121 Old Japanese 6panels Byobu, Paper, folding Screen with Flower＆bird painting
Located in Niiza, JP
Flower and bird painting Material: Paper on wooden frame, colored, fabric One piece: W640×H1825mm×D20mm, Unfolded size: W3880mm Folded size: W660×H1825×D110mm 16kg Packaging (sandwic...
Fabric, Paper
B120 Old Japanese 6panels Byobu, Paper, folding Screen with Flower＆bird painting
Located in Niiza, JP
Flower and bird painting Material: Paper on wooden frame, colored One piece: W640×H1825mm×D20mm, Unfolded size: W3880mm Folded size: W660×H1825×D110mm 16kg Packaging (sandwiched wi...
Fabric, Paper
Japanese Chinese Asian 4 Panel Folding Byobu Screen Playful Birds Cherry Blossom
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese/Chinese/Asian Byobu folding screen depicting a landscape cherry blossom tree branch scene with a flock of playful birds and blooming Spring flowers.
Wood, Paint, Paper
Japanese Asian Pair of Large Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screens Mythical Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, alluring, wonderfully composed and engaging hand-painted large pair of six-panel Japanese/Asian Byobu folding screens depicting an almost magical/ mythical village scene...
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$12,001Sale Price|35% Off
Antique Japanese Meiji Period Silk Embroidered Screen Room Divider Byobu C.1900
Located in London, GB
Antique Japanese Meiji period silk embroidered screen /room divider Byobu C.1900 Kyoto, Japan.
Silk, Lacquer
B99 Old Japanese 6panels, gold byobu, ink bamboo painting, right, folding Screen
Located in Niiza, JP
Folding screen Material: Paper, wooden frame, etc 1 piece: Width 610 x Height 1740 x Depth 20 mm Expanded size: Width 3700 mm Folded size: Width 630 x Height 1740 x Depth 110 mm, wei...
Paper
B100 Old Japanese 6panels, gold byobu, ink bamboo painting, left, folding Screen
Located in Niiza, JP
Folding screen Material: Paper, wooden frame, etc 1 piece: Width 610 x Height 1740 x Depth 20 mm Expanded size: Width 3700 mm Folded size: Width 630 x Height 1740 x Depth 110 mm, wei...
Paper
Japanese Six-Panel Byōbu Screen with Pine, Late 18th–Early 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
A large and beautiful late 18th-early 19th century Japanese screen, painted in mineral pigments on a gold leaf ground. The composition reads as a single continuous landscape, cente...
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Japanese Six-Panel Screen Byobu With Chrysanthemums And Autumn Grass and Flower
Located in Torino, IT
The 19th Century Six-Panel Japanese folding screen "Byōbu" usually used in the most important Japanese house to stop wind and also to separate different space of the same big room de...
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Large Japanese 6-panel byôbu 屏風 (folding screen) with chrysanthemum garden
Located in Amsterdam, NL
The flowers bloom all around and on different kinds of bamboo fences and trellises. In Japan chrysanthemums are believed to represent happiness, love, longevity and joy.
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Traditional Asian paintings were often created on scrolls and folding screens. Artisans made screens that could be folded up or spread out by connecting several panels using hinges. Today, antique Asian folding screens and paintings are sophisticated decorative accents that can serve as makeshift partitions to ensure privacy.
The original folding screens were created by Chinese artists. The earliest record of screens comes from the 2nd century B.C., and surviving examples date back to the Ming dynasty. Chinese painting utilizes many of the same tools as calligraphy — these screens were crafted from wood with painted panels featuring striking art or calligraphy that told cultural stories or represented nature and life in the area.
The practice was introduced to Japan, where paintings for screens were made on paper and silk, in the 8th century. These paintings frequently feature subjects such as landscapes, animals, flowers and Buddhist religious themes. Along with screens for tea ceremonies and dance backgrounds, there were screens for use in Shinto and Buddhist temples.
In the 17th century, screens began to be imported to Europe where their popularity grew. Coco Chanel famously collected Coromandel folding screens.
Traditional Asian paintings can make a tasteful addition to any wall, and screens can be used as decoration or, in the case of larger iterations, as an aesthetic way to divide a large room. Browse the selection of antique Asian paintings and screens from a variety of styles and eras on 1stDibs.
Decorated with white cranes and the sought-after thousand-butterflies motif, the Meiji-period vessel offers both a celebration of traditional aesthetics and a clear reflection of the era’s appetite for exquisite export pieces.
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