Japanese gold-leaf screen: courtly scenes with palaces and clouds

Six-panel folding screen in ink, color and gold on paper, showing courtly figures in small scenes divided by gold clouds. Palace pavilions, a carriage with riders on horseback, and a group on a bridge cross pine-covered hills and a winding blue river beneath the clouds.

Artist

Kano Mitsunobu (ca. 1565-1608)

Date

late 16th-early 17th century

Medium

Ink, color and gold on paper

Source

Smithsonian (National Museum of Asian Art)

Size

4000 × 1825 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art