On a pair of large six-fold screens, two pairs of phoenixes face each other. Pictured with them are their offspring, paulownia trees, and streams. From ancient times, the phoenix has represented good fortune, and thus, these screens must have been used for wedding ceremonies and at other auspicious occasions. The cast metal fittings show crests of hollyhock. Each screen is signed "Tan'yu Hogen" and has the red gourd-shaped seal "Morinobu". This is one of the masterpieces of Kano Tan'yu (1602-1674), a painter for the inner court of the shogunate government, made during his hogen period(1632-1662).