1810s Paintings and Screens

An amazing pair of six-panel hinagata byôbu (doll festival folding screens) with a continuous painting on gold leaf showcasing flower carts (hana’guruma) at the edge of a winding river. Both laden with a large bamboo basket...

A pair of exquisite, large six-panel byôbu (room divider) featuring paintings in black ink of the iconic pairing of a tiger (tora) and a dragon (ryû). The screen on the left shows a...

A beautiful large six-panel byôbu (room divider) with a refined Rinpa-style painting of different types of chrysanthemums 菊 (kiku) with some pampas grasses 薄 (susuki) sticking out. T...

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...

Fascinating large six-panel byôbu (folding screen) with a detailed genre painting on goldish silver leaf with different scenes of people at work in a rural mountain village during th...

Remarkable and large six-panel byôbu (folding screen) with a detailed genre painting on gold leaf of different scenes of the town Yoshida, one of the Tôkaidô road stations. It shows ...

An elaborate, large six-panel byôbu (folding screen) featuring a detailed genre painting on gold leaf, capturing the vibrancy of festive scenes from the Edo period. Central to the p...

Antique Byobu Four Panel Screen. Japan, late 19th to early 20th century. Taisho period.

A Japanese Edo Period two panel folding screen with white and brown hawks of ink and color on paper.

Floral scene of a "Rimpa School" garden with polychrome chrysanthemum flowers. Six-panel screen painted with pigments on golden rice paper of good size and well preserved. Bold color...

A japenese folding screen with gold leaf circa 1940. Size is H 183 W 164 cm.

As you can see, this is a work in which a snow fence and a cold peony sparrow figure was drawn by Mt. In addition to the cold snow peony in the snowfall that makes you feel a myster...