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Pair of six-fold screens
Color on paper
138.0x312.0 each
Muromachi period
This pair of screens shows two different festivals. The right-hand screen depicts a scene from the Hie Sanno Festival in the Province of Omi. On Lake Biwa, people row boats carrying seven miniature shrines; they are racing to reach the goku-sen ship waiting off the coast of Karasaki. The left-hand screen shows a scene from the Gion Festival in Kyoto. The parading of floats and the carrying of miniature shrines are rituals conducted on different dates, but they are pictured together as if taking place simultaneously. Exquisitely executed brush strokes animate the crowds of men and women. Judging from the innovative birds-eye view and the method of painting figures, these screens were presumably done by a painter associated with Tosa Mitsushige.