Folding Screen with Painted Poem Cards

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Folding Screen with Painted Poem Cards

Alternate Title: Shikishi harimaze byōbu
mid-19th century
Paintings; screens
Six-panel folding screen; fifteen (15) individual ink and color on silk paintings applied to gold silk ground
unfolded: 71 1/2 × 104 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (181.61 × 264.8 × 3.18 cm) folded: 71 1/2 × 17 3/8 × 4 3/8 in. (181.61 × 44.13 × 11.11 cm)
Gift of Cecil and Martha Brown (M.2020.70)
Not currently on public view