# Screen with scattered fans 扇面散図屛風

- By: Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1900.24/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6c6f6bdc6760672f09cad74950bfe07d.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.