# Early Spring

- Date: c. 1630 - c. 1660
- Medium: paper, wood (plant material), gold leaf
- Classification: kamerscherm
- Dimensions: height 180 cm x width 370 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Leighton R. Longhi, Inc., Oriental Fine Art, 1994)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-1464-A--b83e44dd9feb44ddce48ab94cc616795)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/Prwro/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Japanese folding screens are traditionally ‘read’ from right to left. The right panel features snowy prunus branches already in blossom suggesting that spring is breaking, while in the left panel spring is in full swing. The rippling of the water is highly stylized, whereas the flowering plants are precisely rendered. The gold leaf creates the sense of a wide-open space.