This screen depicts the lively parade of yamaboko floats during the Gion Festival. In the center of the painting are traces of door pulls, indicating that the work was originally mounted on three fusuma (sliding doors). The Museum fur Ostasiastische Kunst in Cologne and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York also have paintings of the Gion Festival which were remounted from (in this case, two) fusuma and are now two-panel screens. The style of the painting strongly suggests that they were part of the same group as this work. It is believed that the original composition was quite extensive, stretching over a large number of fusuma.