DOI issue:
No. 224 (November 1911)
DOI article:Harada, Jirō: Old Japanese folding screens
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0142
Old Japanese Folding Screens
as the Torige Tachi-onna no byobu (screen with Calendar. Our illustration shows another example
figures of ladies standing ; design worked out in the collection—one with Chinese seal characters
with birds' feathers). The catalogue describes worked in birds'feathers (p. 115). The square cha-
it thus: "One byobu of ladies, full-length racters and the decorative designs are painted in
figures; six panels: 4 feet 7 J inches high, each white, the other parts being in "spatter" of yellowish
panel 1 foot n|- inches wide; pictures bordered grey and green on alternate panels. The screen,
with scarlet silk gauze ; frame of wood edged according to an authentic record, was repaired and
with marked bamboo ; nails black lacquered ; somewhat altered during the Genroku period (a.d.
green sarcenet back; scarlet bark fibre hinges; 1688-1703). Six small bosses, about the size of a
case of figured linen." This byobu is known to coin, are found on the edge of each panel. It has
have been presented to the great image of Vairo- been customary to put small pieces of wood or
cana Buddha by the Imperial consort of Emperor ivory on the edge of each panel in order that the
Shomu, on the twenty-first day of the sixth month paintings may not rub against each other when
of the eighteenth year of Tempyo Shoho, which folded.
corresponds to July 22, 756 a.d. in the Western Students of Japanese pictorial art are familiar
FOUR-PANEI. SCREEN ATTRIBUTED TO IWASA MATABEI (1573-1650)
f Owned by Messrs. Yamanaka and Co.)
SIX-PANEL SCREEN: " PINE-TREES" PAINTED BY KANO TERUNOBU (1717-1763)
( Owned by Count Mizoguchi)
as the Torige Tachi-onna no byobu (screen with Calendar. Our illustration shows another example
figures of ladies standing ; design worked out in the collection—one with Chinese seal characters
with birds' feathers). The catalogue describes worked in birds'feathers (p. 115). The square cha-
it thus: "One byobu of ladies, full-length racters and the decorative designs are painted in
figures; six panels: 4 feet 7 J inches high, each white, the other parts being in "spatter" of yellowish
panel 1 foot n|- inches wide; pictures bordered grey and green on alternate panels. The screen,
with scarlet silk gauze ; frame of wood edged according to an authentic record, was repaired and
with marked bamboo ; nails black lacquered ; somewhat altered during the Genroku period (a.d.
green sarcenet back; scarlet bark fibre hinges; 1688-1703). Six small bosses, about the size of a
case of figured linen." This byobu is known to coin, are found on the edge of each panel. It has
have been presented to the great image of Vairo- been customary to put small pieces of wood or
cana Buddha by the Imperial consort of Emperor ivory on the edge of each panel in order that the
Shomu, on the twenty-first day of the sixth month paintings may not rub against each other when
of the eighteenth year of Tempyo Shoho, which folded.
corresponds to July 22, 756 a.d. in the Western Students of Japanese pictorial art are familiar
FOUR-PANEI. SCREEN ATTRIBUTED TO IWASA MATABEI (1573-1650)
f Owned by Messrs. Yamanaka and Co.)
SIX-PANEL SCREEN: " PINE-TREES" PAINTED BY KANO TERUNOBU (1717-1763)
( Owned by Count Mizoguchi)