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Flowering Cherry and Autumn Maples with Poem Slips

Tosa School 土佐派

Color painting formed from a pair of screens arranged horizontally side-by-side, each with six, narrow vertical panels, of two trees, one with white blossoming flowers on the right and one with red autumn leaves on on the left, against a hazy golden background. Long strips of differently colored papers hang from the branches, inscribed with vertically oriented cursive Japanese script. A thin rectangular border of golden textile surrounds each screen on all sides. — Pair of six-panel screens; ink, color, gold and silver on silk; 56 3/4 × 112 5/8 in (each). Public Domain

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Tosa School

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Artistic Techniques

Artistic Techniques
Text and Image Tarashikomi Gold, Gold Leaf

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