Lot Essay
No site in Japan is more famous for its thousands of cherry blossoms than the Yoshino mountains south of Nara. This screen is probably the right screen of a pair showing the blossoming hillsides with the Yoshino River in the lower left. For another pair of screens see Miyeko Murase, Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting (New York: George Braziller, 1990), no. 11.