Rakuchū-rakugai-zu (Scenes In and Around Kyoto)

Panoramic folding screens capturing the seasonal beauty, grand festivals, and vibrant street life of Kyoto (Rakuchū) and its surroundings (Rakugai). Compare three distinct masterpieces in horizontal scroll.

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A National Treasure in the Tokyo National Museum, known as the Funaki version after the Funaki family of Shiga who once owned it.

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A pair of six-panel folding screens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (formerly Mary and Jackson Burke Collection).

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A pair of six-panel folding screens (Important Cultural Property, formerly in the Kuroda family collection) depicting the cityscape and suburbs of Kyoto during the Momoyama to early Edo period (around the mid-Keicho era), attributed to Kano Takanobu.