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Folding Screen

2011

Black lacquer on wood with Kodaiji type maki-e ('sprinkled picture') decoration

Chrysanthemums, maples, clouds and paulownia crests

Shimode Maki-e Studio, Kyoto

 

Reproducing the decoration on the inside of one of the Buddhist shrines (zushi) in the Otamaya sanctuary in the Kodaiji temple in Kyoto.

 

Text taken from the V&A's labels

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