Japanese Two Panel Screen: Garden Scene

Beautifully painted garden lanscape with red and white azalias, old wisteria vine in bloom with doves. Mineral pigments on silk with black lacquer trim and beautiful bronze hardware....

Tosa School painting depicting opposing samurai, Benkei and Yoshitsune, excellent detail, mineral pigments on gold leaf with gold dust.

Breathtaking Japanese two panels screen. Flowers and birds painted on paper and gold leafs. Hugely decorative as a screen or hanging on a wall. Unique piece.

A very colourful and captivating large six-panel byôbu (folding screen) with a refined continuous painting of a luscious flower garden filled with many different types of chrysanthemums (kiku), next to a winding river. This multi-coloured painting is set on a shiny gold-leaf background, and the chrysanthemum flowers are painted by using shell paste (gofun) in low relief. Several clutches with a great variety of chrysanthemum flowers are in full bloom and they each show their unique form and colour. Varying from white, red, yellow and pink. 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. The panels are surrounded by two silk borders, a thin black one, and a wide brown one. The screen is protected by a black and red negoro’nuri...