From the Momoyama period into the early Edo, a great number of screens depicting genre subjects like merry-making under the cherry trees or cherry-blossom viewing were produced. The right screen of this pair shows a lively group of revelers at Higashiyama in Kyoto, while the left provides a sumptuous view of cherry-blossom viewing at Yoshino in Nara, both scenes rendered in bird's-eye view perspective. The distinctive depiction of the trees and figures in the left screen have led to the conclusion that the painting is the work of a prominent artist of the Hasegawa School. In addition, a comparison with other paintings of certain scenes in the right screen, including the Kabuki stage at Shijo Kawara and the performance on the theme of "ochaya asobi" (teahouse entertainments), indicates that the screens were produced between the end of the Keicho and the beginning of the Genna era.
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