- Hie Sanno Sairei-Zu (one of a pair)
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The narrative of this pair of screens reads from right to left and depicts the Hie Sanno Matsuri festival. During the festival, which takes place every April, people celebrate a bountiful harvest by bringing mikoshi (large portable shrines) to the Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine outside of Kyoto.
After visiting the shrine, the mikoshi are loaded onto boats and taken back to their home villages. The upper part of the right screen depicts the Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine complex marked with a large red gate. In the left screen, villagers watch as the mikoshi are placed on boats before making their voyage home. Festival screens like this one appeared frequently during the Momoyama period (1573–1615) and often showed panoramic views of cities and their surrounding landscapes.
ProvenanceResearch Ongoing
Exhibition History"Art Unfolded: The Gift of Conservation from Japan," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 17–February 22, 2009.
"Treasures for the Future: The Story of Conservation in Japan," Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, July 26–August 28, 2011.
"Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art," The Cleveland Museum of Art, April 9–June 6, 2019.
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