Japanese Two Panel Screen: Pomegranate Tree
Located in Hudson, NY
With various flowers, manderin ducks and garden stone accented with gold leaf on ground surface. Nagasaki School Painting.
Silver Leaf
Japanese Showa Four Panel Screen Fruiting Pomegranate Tree
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Exquisite mid-20th century Showa period four panel folding byobu screen featuring a fruiting pomegranate tree over a dramatic cream toned background. Vivid ink and natural pigment co...
Silk, Wood, Paper
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Magnolia Tree in Bloom
Located in Hudson, NY
Nicely painted magnolia tree and bamboo with chickadees. Mineral pigments on silk with black lacquer trim and period bronze mounts. Signature and sela read: Ichijo saku.
Bronze
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Trees in Floral Landscape
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Trees in Floral Landscape, Edo period painting (mid 19th century) of pine and other trees amongst flowers, with bamboo shoots on the right panel, and white...
Gold Leaf
Japanese Showa Two Panel Screen Blossoming Prunus Tree
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Serene Japanese Showa period two-panel folding byobu screen depicting a large spring blossoming prunus tree or plum tree.
Brass
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Gibbons in a Tree
Located in Hudson, NY
Ink painting on mulberry paper of gibbons in a tree with hints of gold in the sky.
Paper
Japanese Six Panel Screen: Matsushima (Pine Tree Island)
Located in Hudson, NY
Golden clouds encompass the islands of Matsushima, located in the north-east of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture in the Tohoku region. Beautifully painted with mineral pigments, gold leaf...
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Japanese Six Panel Screen: Matsushima (Pine Tree Island)
Located in Hudson, NY
Golden clouds encompass the islands of Matsushima, located in the north-east of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture in the Tohoku region. Beautifully painted with mineral pigments, gold leaf...
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Venerable Plum Tree in Winter
Located in Hudson, NY
Ink and mineral pigments on silver leaf with black lacquer trim. Signature reads: Kotan hitsu. Seal read: Kotan
Silver Leaf
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Hawk Perched in Pine Tree
Located in Hudson, NY
Hawks were a popular motif in artwork because Japanese falconry, or takagari, was a sport of aristocrats such as nobles and samurai. Hawks came to symbolize nobility and strength. Su...
Brocade, Silk, Paper
Japanese Style Showa Four-Panel Screen Cranes in Pine Trees
Located in Rio Vista, CA
A beautifully composed Japanese style four-panel Asian byōbu screen depicting a flock of red-crowned (Manchurian) cranes gathered among softly rendered pine trees.
Brass
Japanese Four Panel Screen: Japanese Tree Sparrows on Stacks of Bailed Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Sparrows ravish freshly harvested rice, drying on stakes, beyond wild chrysanthemum. Mineral pigments on silk. Signed in the lower left corner, signature reads: Soetsu. With a simple...
Silk, Wood, Lacquer
Japanese Two Panel Screen Aviary Shaded by A Maple Tree
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Aviary Shaded By A Maple Tree, Showa period (1926 - 1989) painting of an outdoor bird enclosure under a maple tree.
Silk, Wood, Paper
Antique Japanese Camellia Tree 4 Panel Folding Screen ~ Naga Gallery Provenance
Located in New York, NY
Antique four-panel Japanese screen featuring a painting of a Camellia tree dating to the Taisho period (1912-1926), executed with delicate brushwork and vibrant colors, characteristi...
Wood, Paper
B111 Japanese Antiques 2panels, paper, folding Screen ink painting pine tree
Located in Niiza, JP
*Please handle with care as the joints of the folding screen are easily weakened. It is a special technique in which the screen is connected with paper instead of hinges.
Fabric, Paper
B93 Old Japanese 6panels, Paper, Longtail bird & pine tree folding Screen
Located in Niiza, JP
Folding screen Material: Paper, wooden frame 1 piece: Width 580 x Height 1710 x Depth 20 mm Expanded size: Width 3500 mm Folded size: Width 600 x Height 1710 x Depth 105 mm, weight 1...
Paper
17th Century Japanese Screen. Ink Plum Tree & Birds by Kano Naonobu.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kano Naonobu (1607-1650) Plum Tree and Birds Six-fold Japanese Screen. Ink and slight color on paper.
Wood, Paper
Japanese Six Panel Screen Pine Trees and Boats at Water’s Edge
Located in Hudson, NY
Hamamatsu (Pine Tree Island). Kano School painting in mineral pigments on gold leaf and mulberry paper with brocade border.
Brocade, Paper
Early 20th Century Japanese Screen Pair - Ink Pine Trees on Gold
Located in Kyoto, JP
Imao Keisho (1902-1993) Pine Trees Early 20th Century, Circa 1930 Pair of six-panel Japanese screens.
Gold Leaf
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...
Silver Leaf
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.
Silver Leaf
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.
Silver Leaf
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...
Gold Leaf
Japanese Six Panel Screen: Ink Painting of a Weathered Pine Tree
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period (1868 - 1912) sumi-e (or ink painting) on paper of a venerable pine tree with limbs stretching out over a bluff. Beautiful signature and seal read: Biei. Ink on paper ...
Brocade, Silk, Paper
Early 20th Century Pair of Japanese Folding Screens, Deer Under Maple Trees
Located in Kyoto, JP
Deer under maples Late Taisho period, circa 1925-1930 Pair of two-panel screens. Ink and pigment on silk. Signature: Goho Seal: Goho A pair of two-fold Japanese silk s...
Wood, Paper, Silk
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...
Gold Leaf
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...
Gold Leaf
Japanese Two-Panel Screen with Snow Cranes on a Willow Tree, 19th C
Located in New York, NY
This great masterpiece is one of the most amazing screen paintings we have seen, each snow crane is painted with its own personality and attitude, using the finest pigments and Gofun...
Brocade, Wood
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair by Soga Nichokuan, Hawks on Pine & Plum Trees
Located in Kyoto, JP
This pair of screens feature hawks on plum and pine trees, referencing winter and summer.
Wood, Paper
Japanese Hanging Scroll – Samurai under Blossoming Tree
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Japanese Hanging Scroll – Samurai under Blossoming Tree Japan, 20th century Painting: 41.5 × 114 cm Mounting: 54 × 185 cm Box: 7.5 × 8 × 63 cm A beautifully hand-painted scroll depi...
Wood, Paper
18th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Plum & Young Pines. Kano School.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Dimensions (Each screen): H. 176 cm x W. 378 cm (69’’ x 149’’) This pair of Japanese folding screens depict blossoming plum trees amongst young pines.
Gold Leaf
A pair of six-panel folding screens depicting two pine trees (matsu)
Located in Milano, IT
A pair of six-panel folding screens from the Kano school, painted in ink and pigments on paper. The naturalistic composition is dominated by two lush green pine trees extending from ...
Paper
Circa 1700 Japanese Sliding Door (Fusuma) Set. Pine Trees on the Seashore.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Dimensions (total display size - 4 doors): H. 173 cm x 385 cm (68” x 151.5”) Japanese screens and sliding doors adorned with windswept pine trees scattered across sandy beaches, sep...
Gold Leaf
Lovely 20th Araki Jippo Scroll Paintings Japan Artist Bird and Tree Painted
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
"Araki jippo" Japan painter. Nagasaki prefecture production. First issue is Kinko. Name Teijiro. Tokyo to study under Kanpo Araki, later it will be the Yoshishi. You good at flow...
Silk
Blossom and Tree Scene Meiji Period Scroll Japan 19c Artist Araki Kanpo
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
If it is good enough for the Japanese emperor :) The painting's inscription says that it was painted in the artist's 82nd year, which would be 1913. In the early Meiji Period fol...
Silk
Early 20th Century Japanese 6-Panel Gouache and Gold Leaf Painted Table Screen
Located in Morristown, NJ
., Showa period gouache and gold leaf Japanese screen. Depicting plum tree blossoms on a riverbank across 6 panels.
Gold Leaf
Lovely 20th Yūki Somei Scroll Paintings Japan Artist Bird and tree Painted
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
"Somei Yuki" 1875 (1875) - 1957 (1957) Tokyo living, Japan painter. Real name Sadamatsu, maiden name Morita. Tamazusa Kawabata disciple, Tokyo art school graduation. Empire Art ...
Silk
Lovely 20th Century Scroll Paintings Japan Artist Signed Tree in Ink Waterfall
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Hanging scroll "waterfall" silk true work Zaimei (Taishan) Condition is good Size: Axis, vertical 198.5 cm horizontal 68.8 cm Picture, vertical 129 cm horizontal 55 cm.
Silk
Unavailable|$79,000
Exceptionally Large Japanese Screen with Pine Tree & Peonies
Located in Seattle, WA
An exceptionally large and finely painted Japanese six-panel folding screen (byobu) depicting an ancient, snow laden, gnarled pine tree on gold leaf ground.
Gold Leaf
Unavailable|$48,000
Japanese 6-Panel Screen of Cranes Amidst Pine Trees by Water
Located in New York, NY
A Japanese 6-panel screen of Cranes Amidst pine trees by Water Edo period, 18th century This spatially complex screen is also striking in its portrait of movement with roiling wate...
Paint
Unavailable
Gingko Tree and Seasonal Flowers
By Rimpa School
Located in New York, NY
Six-panel folding screen with a gingko tree and seasonal flowers by a meandering stream.
Painting in ink, mineral colors and gofun (ground sea shell powder) on paper with gold...
Gold, Silver Leaf
Unavailable
Turkeys by Bamboo and Blooming Tree Painting
By Tomita Hankei
Located in New York, NY
Turkeys by bamboo and blooming tree painting. Two-panel folding screen.
Unavailable
Pine Tree by the Rising Sun
By Matsumoto Kozan 1
Located in New York, NY
Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk. The inscription reads: Daiju no kage ya Hinode matsu 大樹の影や日の出まつ (“Shelter of a big tree”: A pine at sunrise) This is a reference to t...
Unavailable|$10,800
Handpainted Screen by Gracie - Gold Leaf, Peonies and Peacocks
By Gracie
Located in New York, NY
A hand-painted screen, with design inspired by a Japanese screen design.
Paper
Unavailable|$32,000
Early 19th, Japanese Folding Screen with Birds and Plum Trees, Edo period
Located in Central Hong-Kong, HK
Kare-e (Chinese style painting) has a profound influence on Japanese screen painting. Here in this early 19th century screen, tiny birds, ducks, and plum trees depicted with acute ob...
Wood, Paper
Late 16th Century, Japanese Folding Screen, Hawk on Oak tree, Momoyama Period
Located in Central Hong-Kong, HK
Inherited the painting style of Kano School, the screen depicts a hawk perching on the branches of the oak tree and lurking on its prey in brilliant monochrome ink and strong lines a...
Wood, Paper
Unavailable
Two-Panel Screen, Birds and Autumn Trees
By Takeo Kimura
Located in New York, NY
Two-panel folding screen; ink and mineral colors on paper. Signed and sealed: Takeo.
Paper
Unavailable
Pair of Six-Panel Screens, Sheep by Trees
By Furuya Itcho
Located in New York, NY
The screen is made from ink, mineral colors, gofun (powdered calcified shell) and gold wash on paper and dated (Showa era (1926–1989)). In this tranquil fall scene, a flock of she...
Paper
Sold|$35,000
Japanese Screen, "Plum Tree in Snow"
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Screen – Plum Tree in Snow Pair of Fusuma panels (sliding doors) with plum tree in snow design.
Sold|$17,000
Japanese Four-Panel Screen Pine Tree
Located in Hudson, NY
Ink painting (sumi-e) on paper dated 1971. Signed: Shinazumi George in Katakana; a Japanese American artist who lived in Japan.
Wood, Paper
Sold|$17,825
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Kumquat Tree
Located in Hudson, NY
Mineral pigments on white washed ground on paper, with natural wood trim.
Wood, Paper
Sold|$9,500
Japanese Four Panel Screen, Monkeys in Tree
Located in Hudson, NY
Ink on paper, signature and seal read RYO.
Japanese Four Panel Screen Flowering Prunus Tree
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive Japanese four panel screen depicting ancient flowering prunus tree with spring blossoms.
Brass
Japanese Two-Panel Screen: Japanese Red Pine Tree with Birds
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese tit in red pine with lichen, mineral pigments on silk, signature reads: Bisho (seal illegible)
Japanese Four-Panel Screen Prunus Tree with Nandina
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Colorful Japanese four-panel screen depicting a prunus tree with a songbird perched in a red fruiting Nandina or sacred bamboo.
Wood, Paper
Sold|$28,000
Japanese Screen: Two Panel, Hawk and Pine Tree.
Located in Hudson, NY
Hawk and Pine Tree. Early 18th century (circa 1720). Mineral pigments on gold leaf.
Sold|$14,375
Japanese Two Panel Screen Painting of Plum Tree
Located in Hudson, NY
Ink on silver and gold mix. Signature reads: Moshun, Seal reads: Sodai.
Paint
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.
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