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Screen with scattered fans 扇面散図屛風
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)
early 17th century
- Medium
- Color, gold, and silver over gold on paper
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 154.5 × 362 cm (60 13/16 × 142 1/2 in)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
After fans were painted, they were usually mounted to framework made of wood or bamboo that the owner could fold compactly when the fan was not in use. Occasionally, fans were pasted to folding screens such as this one. Here the fan framework is painted on the gold leaf to resemble bamboo or lacquered wood.
