Name: Six-Panel Screen, Festival Procession at the Hiyoshi Shrine
Brand: Tosa School

Six-Panel Screen, Festival Procession at the Hiyoshi Shrine

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About the Item

Six-panel folding screen; ink, mineral colors, gold, and gold leaf on paper This lively depiction of mikoshi (festival floats) being carried in procession represents an important Sub-category of the well-known genre of Rakuchu Rakugai zu byobu (Screens of scenes in and around Kyoto). Here the focus shifts to the Hiyoshi Taisha (Hiyoshi Grand Shrine) on the shores of Lake Biwa in Otsu, some 14 miles northeast of the old capital, where a lively festival, held on both land and water, has been celebrated each spring for more than 1,200 years. The Hiyoshi Shrine, depicted here at the top of the third panel from the right, with its torii (entrance archway) at the foot of the second panel, is defined by a great branch of the sacred evergreen sakaki tree (Cleyera japonica) lying on its side in a roofed pavilion with open sides. The sando (ceremonial entranceway) is crammed with three large floats, each weighing more than a ton, being carried from the Shrine by boisterous teams of loincloth-clad young men, just as one can see in Japan today, while to the left on the fourth and fifth panels two further floats make their way toward the Lake. The rest of the screen's teeming composition is filled with other shrine and temple buildings and pine-clad hills, separated by gold clouds in the Classic Tosa-school manner. Painting scholar Kano Hiroyuki, introducing a similar screen in Kyoto's Konchi-in Temple, suggests that the style of the clouds, together with the painters' conscientious attention to detail, not just in the depiction of the festival's main activities but also in the many other scenes, points to a date in the mid-17th century.

Creator:
Tosa School (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 53.71 in (136.4 cm)Width: 121.97 in (309.8 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Paper,Hand-Painted
Place of Origin:
Japan
Period:
18th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1615-1868
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: T-36951stDibs: LU898811384281

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