DOI Heft:
No. 224 (November 1911)
DOI Artikel:Harada, Jirō: Old Japanese folding screens
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0136
Old Japanese Folding Screens
the street. Byobu have had their place among being described in the catalogue as decorated with
the indispensable articles on various ceremonial pictures, three with birds' feathers, one with paint-
occasions. It has been customary, for instance, at ings of birds, while sixty-five are specified as
the wedding ceremony to use silver or pure white being made of bark fibre fabric, and ten of ivy fibre
paper byobu with such felicitous designs as a stork fabric. Among them are also found some after
and turtle, or pine, bamboo and plum, since the the T5 style (that of the Chinese Tang dynasty,
time-honoured custom and traditions of our country 618-967), which seem to be of later production
have made the people look upon these things as and which have cord hinges in place of leather,
omens of happiness. Plain white screens were also An excellent example of this style may also be seen
used in celebrating the birth of a child or on the in the Seiryoden, one of the Emperor's palaces in
occasion of seppuku (self-despatch) by a samurai. Kyoto, and also at temples in Nara.
These screens were undecorated with painting The older screens were covered with silk or
or designs of any kind. The custom of inverting other fabric upon which pictures were painted or
screens at the time of a funeral is still practised pasted. Some authorities claim that the custom
by many people. It is recorded that the Shogun of mounting pictures on screens existed before the
Iyemitsu had the famous artist Matabei brought people took to making them into kakemono. There
to Yedo to paint byobu, makimono and the like, seem to have existed in Japan also screens 01
which were to be a part of his
daughter's dowry when she was
Although in olden times BjRy'*'^ * J^^^B fSH^fjk^ ^\'v^t|
screens were constructed on the ^Br^>* ' ^ ^^'^^^| BB^'^f ■ y^
heavier in const^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^M ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^M
treasures, one hundred folding
0 TWO PANELS OF A SIX-FOT.D SCREEN IN THE SHOSO-IN REPOSITORY
screens, twenty-one of them (From " Toyei Shiko" )
114
the street. Byobu have had their place among being described in the catalogue as decorated with
the indispensable articles on various ceremonial pictures, three with birds' feathers, one with paint-
occasions. It has been customary, for instance, at ings of birds, while sixty-five are specified as
the wedding ceremony to use silver or pure white being made of bark fibre fabric, and ten of ivy fibre
paper byobu with such felicitous designs as a stork fabric. Among them are also found some after
and turtle, or pine, bamboo and plum, since the the T5 style (that of the Chinese Tang dynasty,
time-honoured custom and traditions of our country 618-967), which seem to be of later production
have made the people look upon these things as and which have cord hinges in place of leather,
omens of happiness. Plain white screens were also An excellent example of this style may also be seen
used in celebrating the birth of a child or on the in the Seiryoden, one of the Emperor's palaces in
occasion of seppuku (self-despatch) by a samurai. Kyoto, and also at temples in Nara.
These screens were undecorated with painting The older screens were covered with silk or
or designs of any kind. The custom of inverting other fabric upon which pictures were painted or
screens at the time of a funeral is still practised pasted. Some authorities claim that the custom
by many people. It is recorded that the Shogun of mounting pictures on screens existed before the
Iyemitsu had the famous artist Matabei brought people took to making them into kakemono. There
to Yedo to paint byobu, makimono and the like, seem to have existed in Japan also screens 01
which were to be a part of his
daughter's dowry when she was
Although in olden times BjRy'*'^ * J^^^B fSH^fjk^ ^\'v^t|
screens were constructed on the ^Br^>* ' ^ ^^'^^^| BB^'^f ■ y^
heavier in const^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^M ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^M
treasures, one hundred folding
0 TWO PANELS OF A SIX-FOT.D SCREEN IN THE SHOSO-IN REPOSITORY
screens, twenty-one of them (From " Toyei Shiko" )
114