Six-panel screen with banana plants

Folding screen with a landscape

Yano Sesso (1714-1777)

Mid Edo Period (1615-1867)

Six-fold screen
Ink, pigments and gofun on gold-leaf ground, 181x380 cm

Signed: Hôkyô Sessô hitsu

Artist's seals

A fine Japanese folding screen with a strong composition of banana plants, peonies and rocks with birds.

At the service of the Hosokawa clan, works from the Yano school painters are preserved in the Eisei-Bunko.

Japanese screen  for sale. Price on application. Please include item stock number: byo-670