Japanese Two Panel Screen Nihonga Style Painting of Children in Western Dress

Japanese two panel screen: Mother and Child at Bedtime. Showa period (1926 - 1989) painting by Hideo Naishou who was born in Kobe in 1918. Lovely scene of a mother putting her baby t...

Children at play in a Chinese palace garden, a favorite subject of Japanese painters. Kano School painting in mineral pigments on mulberry paper with si...

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Late Nineteenth Century Kimono Fabric Mounted on Early Twentieth Century Screen. In the Heian period (eighth century to the twelfth century), noblemen wou...

Beautiful 19th century shibori (pin dyed) fabric in kimono form mounted on a simple ground of mulberry paper. Black lacquer trim with beautifully designed bronze mounts. The fabric ...

Delightful late 18th century/early 19th century Japanese Edo period two panel byobu screen depicting children at play near a riverbank and catching fish. Painted in the Maruyama-Shij...

Japanese two-panel screen, study of an Okinawan mother and child, Taisho period early 20th century, dating from the 1920's. Signed by Matsumura Baiso, (1884-1935). Baiso was a studen...

Anonymous Kano school artist 17th century "Karako Asobi: Chinese Children at Play" A two-panel Japanese Furosaki screen. Ink, pigment, gofun and gold-leaf on paper. This small Japanese Karako folding screen vividly depicts various games played by children wearing wearing elaborate Chinese T'ang dynasty costumes. They are dressed in plumed and tasseled hats, ornate jackets, baggy pants, and cloth slippers typical of T'ang period Chinese court dress. The children are depicted pulling a younger child along in a cart, carrying another child as if an important official, riding a wooden horse, leading a puppy and carrying a tethered bird. Executed in fine-quality pigments on gold leaf, the detail, variety and size of the figures is noteworthy. Also notable is the size of this screen itself, which denotes it as a Furosaki screen. A Furosaki screen is part of the equipment used for the Japanese tea-ceremony. It is traditionally placed on tatami mats behind the brazier highlighting the utensils and providing a focal point. Karako is a Japanese term used in art with the depiction of Chinese children playing...

Description - Hanging scroll with quite a surreal scene of the music and dance performance with two seated samurais and a child actor on a go-game-board who plays a role of dancing s...