JapaneseAntiques Terasaki kogyo, Gold background, Bamboo and plum folding screen

Unfolded size: 3700 x 540 x 15 mm Foldable: 460 x 540 x 120 mm Box size: 640×510×300㎜　10㎏ A beautiful Japanese painting of birds and flowers made up of 8 panels. A set of 2 folding...

Silver folding screen, 6-panel half-pair, cranes and pine Size when unfolded: 3180 x 1530 x 17 mm Can be folded: 530 x 1530 x 100 mm. 8kg Estimated size after packaging (sandwiched...

Unfolded size: 1700 x 1700 x 20 mm Foldable: 850 x 1700 x 40 mm, 7kg Estimated size after packaging (sandwiched between 5 mm plywood): 13 CM x 95 CM x 185 CM Weight　20 KG A beauti...

Material: gold background paper, wooden frame One piece: W730 x H1760 mm, unfolded size: W4420 mm, 13 kg Folded size: W750 x H1760 x D100 mm Estimated packaging (sandwiched with 5 mm...

A fabulous landscape by Kogyo Terasaki 1866-1919 Japan painter. Akita prefecture production. Character is Tokusato, Soyama-Agaryunoki, beautiful poetry Yamabito, etc. to another is...

Japanese Six Panel Screen: Winter Scene of Pine, Plum, and Bamboo Under Crescent Moon. Pine, plum and bamboo are known as the three friends of winter, because they all thrive and bl...

Chinese Four-Fold Screen with Weeping Willow, Plum Blossoms, and Sparrows, 1963, "Creek Dwelling" Workshop Description: An authentic Chinese four-fold screen from the "Creek Dwell...

Three Friends of Winter Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871) Late Edo period, circa 1850 Ink and gold leaf on paper. This is a double-sided Japanese Furosaki or tea-ceremony screen from the mid 19th century; bamboo and plum on the front, young pines the back. It by Nakajima Raisho, a master painter of the Maruyama school in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. In this work Raisho combines exquisite ink brushwork with large open spaces of brilliant gold-leaf to inspire the viewers imagination. Rather than naturalism, he is searching for the phycological impression of the motifs, resulting in abstraction and stylization. His simplification of the motifs the result of looking to capture the inner nature of the objects. This art motif is known as Sho Chiku Bai, or the Three Friends of Winter. Evergreen pine connotes steadfastness, bamboo suggests both strength and flexibility, while plum blossoms unfurling on snow-laden branches imply hardiness. Combined, this trio is emblematic of Japanese new year. Chinese literati were the first to group the three plants together due to their noble characteristics. Like these resilient plants flowering so beautifully in winter, it was expected of the scholar-gentleman to cultivate a strong character with which he would be able to show the same degree of perseverance and steadfastness even during times of adverse conditions. The screen would have been placed near the hearth of a room used for the Japanese tea ceremony, shielding the fire from draughts and also forming a stimulating and decorative backdrop behind the tea utensils. It would have been used in the Hatsugama, or first tea-ceremony of the new year. Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871) originally studied under Watanabe Nangaku before entering the school of Maruyama Ozui. He was the highest ranking Maruyama school painter at the end of the Edo period and was known as one of the ‘Four Heian Families’ along with Kishi...