A PAIR OF HALF-EIGHT EIGHT PANEL SCREENS, INK, COLOURS AND GOLD ON PAPER

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ANONYMOUS, EARLY EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
A pair of half-eight eight panel screens, ink, colours and gold on paper
One screen with many-peopled scenes in and around Osaka including pleasure boats and picnic parties along a river, a variety of craft shops and fast-food outlets, a taikobashi [hump-backed bridge] leading over a canal to a shrine (probably the Sumiyoshi Shrine, the other screen with similar scenes including pleasure boats in Wakanoura Bay with its characteristic spit of pine-clad land jutting into the sea; to the left the Kimiidera Temple, and further to the left a daimyo processioin with a norimono [palanquin] arriving at a castle, probably Wakayama Castle, some old water damage and repainting
Each panel 22¼ x 14 7/8 in. (56.5 x 37.7cm.) (2)

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Lot Essay

The scene depicted in the screen first described above is probably the festival centred on the Araniko no obarae or Great Exorcism, performed on the last day of the sixth lunar month at Shinto shrines. For the same subject, see Takeda Tsuneo et. al. (ed.), Nihon byobu-e shusei 13: Fuzokuga: Sairei, Kabuki [Survey of Japanese screens 13: Genre - Festivals, Kabuki] (Tokyo, Kodansha, 1978), cat. nos. 52-3, a pair of screens in the Takatsu Kobunka Kaikan

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