A JAPANESE TOSA SCHOOL SIX-FOLD PAPER SCREEN

A JAPANESE TOSA SCHOOL SIX-FOLD PAPER SCREEN, BYOBU

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Decorated in ink and colour on a gold paper ground, painted with a continuous design of figures in a mountainous landscape, with courtiers dressed in Heian-style garments seated on a veranda observing horse riders jousting, signed Tosa Mitsubumi (1812-1879) and with a red seal mark, 172.5cm x 366cm.

See the National Gallery of Australia, access. no.NGA 2014.2699.A-B for another six-panel screen by Tosa Mitsubumi depicting cranes by the water's edge.